I don’t know about other programmers, but I find myself in two stages quite randomly. 1 – I love programming. It’s the stage where I feel like the world can change with my lines of code. The stage where I say, “Wow, this is cool, I can automate this because I know programming, let me...
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TechGeekWork LifeProgramare#work#fun
I have another post with my trial experience from last year, you might have to read that first, this one will be a little different. Read it here. So… if you read my blog you might know that last year I trialed for a job at Automattic. Even if their canned rejection message on Slack...
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Family & Personal#job
It’s been 3 (almost 4) months now since I moved on to my next contract and it’s been quite a nice ride until now. I noticed that even though I planned on writing more stuff on this blog, I’ve been kind of inactive and I hate that. So here I am making a retrospective of...
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Work Life#personal#frontend
Since when I signed the contract with the current company I am working with now, I never actively searched for another offer or contract. I’ve kept refusing offers because I don’t like being unstable and moving every three months or so for 50 euros extra. I’ve kept refusing until I got an offer from Automattic...
One year later after this post was written, in 2022 I tried again to get hired at Automattic and failed again. Read the new article here, a more transparent and sad post about the hiring process. Just the closest friends of mine might know this, but over the past ~2 months I’ve been offered a...
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Family & Personal#job#personal
We started timidly, with low hopes but confident that if it's God's will, one day we will move to the United States of America.
We participated in the visa lottery for 4 consecutive years and on May 4th,
2024 we found out that we were selected for a possible immigrant visa in 🇺🇸.
We owe everything to God, He will help us until the end.
DV-2022 -
🔴 Did not win
DV-2023 -
❌ No luck
DV-2024 -
🚨 Nope
DV-2025 -
✅ We were amongst the 1% selected
🕧 Interview ETA
- 🕧 Left:
days,hours,minutes,and seconds
🏥Medical
👮🏻Interview
✈ Flight
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Slaaaab
Same Guy :)
You have really presented this well. Are you going to let Xarthisius publish this on his website?
Hello Filip, Sorry for not replying earlier My number is 2024OC22xx.
Nice. I like the breakdown format that you have done here. Really informative. Are you going to be allowing Xarthisius…
reserved. Do whatever you want, it's a free country.
Guess it's obvious, but the theme is created by myself with Tailwind CSS. You can find the source code here.
I still use WordPress 🧡. The theme is custom Laravel though 😎.
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