- I took a few interviews this week. One candidate was amazing and one was pretty good. A rare week with two good interviews! Interviewing is hard and I am becoming more and more sympathetic towards interviewers.
- I grew up in North India. Compared to candidates from there, South Indian candidates almost never lie during interviews — with or without a straight face. I also find them to be better co-workers. There have been a few notable exceptions on both sides though.
- I got a new color printer with ink tank this time. It is from Brother, which has pretty good Linux support. I downloaded script from their support page, ran it and it set up the printer without any fuss. Previous one was a HP with cartridges and refilling them was always a pain. Also,
hplipis not always up to date. It is nice to take a printout of an important document such as resume and read with attention they deserve. Many candidates spent days on them! - I was looking for a general database migration tool for PHP. Found Phinx and quite like it. Codeigniter inbuilt database migration wasn’t usable because I moved my project from FastAPI and earlier migration were handled by https://github.com/sqlalchemy/alembic. If you don’t setup your database with CI4, it’s not easy to use it for migrations!
- No matter how well you plan your database, there will always be need for migration since business requirements keeps changing. Alembic is great if you are in Python world!
- I totally understand if someone get the temptation of using No-SQL in the beginning of a project and later continued with it!
- I finished a few courses at Coursera. Most of them are related to “soft skills”. You don’t have to spend hours doing assignments in these courses.
With that little time investment, I got a lot of insightful tips and knowledge. Do not discount “easy courses”. Many things sound easy once there are told and this fact should not reduce their value. I wouldn’t even think of these titbits and tips otherwise. - We went out for dinner last night. It was for Anzal’s farewell (at https://maps.app.goo.gl/uun78ux8QCDEnKKS9.). A dog friendly place, they have food for them on the menu. But Kaalu was spooked by a giant rat in bushes and spend most of her time on high-alert. She definitely did not enjoy it. Ookie, on the other hand, had a good time.
- Kaalu The Fifth limping has gotten a little better. Fish oil and omega fatty acids are helping, and it looks like she is having https://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/musculoskeletal/osteoarthritis-in-dogs
- I read a few interesting articles
- Nobody has a personality anymore hit me hard and matches some of my experiences.
- Rust web frameworks have subpar error reporting | Luca Palmieri is a nice article. Rust has the most amazing error handling, and manually translating them to HTTP responses doesn’t feel “rusty” enough. It’s nice that people are actively solving DX problems.
- I am active on LinkedIn again. I deleted my LinkedIn profile twice, more recently last January. Perhaps third time a charm?!
July 12, 2025: Weekly Note 2025/04
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