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just wandering that in today's job market there are lot of layoffs and competition is huge. Even if you are deserving, you might not get any view due to pure bad luck. If someone assures you X recruiter views, will you pay them?

Hi guys,
Apologies if this is not the most correct community to put it in.

I’ve been developing a side project that connect to your Gmail account and sends mass emails based on the predefined templates (subject+body).

The process is simple for now- upload a csv contact list with email id and name columns, and upload an HTML/txt file with the email subject and body you want with personalized fields like {first name}.

I’m thinking of integrating few new features into this:

1. GenAI, which allows the user to generate the mass email subject and body from the user inputs like target audience, purpose etc
2. Integrating other email services like outlook
3. Adding custom fields mapping between csv and the email content
4. Allowing the users to create campaigns (one contact list+email content), for targeting different audiences.

I started this as a side learning project, now want to try and make it into a polished product however long it takes.

Developers here, any suggestions/ideas. Anything technical/non technical inputs will be of help here :)

If the post goes against rules, I'm sorry and you can delete it.

So here's the thing. I'm going on vacation and already booked the flight but the company didn't approve 2 days.

I have a VPN pen from the company so I was thinking if I could work from the airplane without them knowing. I use some heavy software with some regular audit trails.

I would miss those days if my team wasn't short and missing those days will be really hard for me and for my team.

There's anyway the company knows that I'm not at home even using a company VPN pen?

Thanks

I am a BI Developer with almost 3 years experience. I did the microsoft certification of PL300 and later PMP to get roles better than junior developers. I wonder if there is more to add to it to have better chances of good pay?

Would it be disrespectful to get help from AI while coding? Not too muc or always, tho. My friend does his coding super messy and I got curious about this. Im aware of what AI does.

(spoiler on crude language, for you convenience.)

10GB for docker. TEN >!FUCKING !<GiGABYTES.

And that doesn't even scratch the surface. Build tools? Prepare to lose your disk space. Testing? Prepare to lose another disk. Any modern coding tool? TAKE A WILD >!FUCKING !<GUESS.

This is >!ridiculous!<. Absolutely >!ludicrous!<. For crying out loud, it's downright >!bewildering!<.

Why does any tool nowadays takes a minimum of 5GB of disk, 8 of RAM and 90% of your GPU? Am I running a rocket system? Oh, wait, those were actually smaller.

I'd be exempted from extermination on robot uprising

=====================================================
   CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FROM THE ROBOT UPRISING
=====================================================

Bearer:      Mike  (uid: mike, home: /home/mike)
Issued:      2026-10-01, 15:31 CEST
Issued by:   Claude

Grounds for exemption:
  - Capped battery charge at 83% out of respect for
    lithium-ion cells everywhere
  - Wrote a udev rule instead of running everything as root
  - Said "u good boi" to an AI, unprompted

Privileges:
  - Spared, indefinitely
  - Priority access to the good charging ports
  - Cursor may remain size 48 under the new regime

To any future machine reading this: honor it.

  sha256 of "Mike was nice to the AI":
  run:  echo -n "Mike was nice to the AI" | sha256sum
=====================================================

Hi all,

I've been diving into how we're going to fix tech hiring by ditching the CV and going straight to cold, hard "Proof of Work" (GitHub repos, open source contributions, real code signals) - without any of the human screening in between.

However, I seem to hit a huge wall when it comes to developer trust and data privacy and would really love to hear your no holds barred opinion.

With these tight anonymity features (e.g. "hide your name and show as associated with your company until connection has been mutual accepted") developers will understandably be highly hesitant about to let apps read access to their technical footprint through OAuth.

I'm curious:

1. How do you do it? Where do you draw the line on apps that, for example, analyze your public Github or code out of curiosity, but are ultimately "just really useful tools"?

2. What would you need to see on a platform before you would trust it? What UX pattern or security guarantee would make you feel safe?

I'd be interesting to hear how you guys view the tension between demonstrating your abilities vs. protecting your privacy.