What not to do in a remote job interview

Wear a t-shirt
Not wearing pants even if you are not standing up
Show up with messy hair
Be sick and not mention it
Close the door behind you
Make sure the lighting is good
Join late for the call
Making sure the mic is working
Saying “like” and “um” more than once a minute
Pronounce the name wrong
Know nothing about the company
Know nothing about the position
Play with your phone – Unless it’s your mom from the hospital
Forget to mute your phone and notifications – Stop the buzz
Pick your nose – either one would do
Not knowing the basics (like the difference between abstract class and interfaces)
Spout bullshit – You will be surprised how many people can detect that
Lie
Talk too much – especially when it’s not related
Going off on a tangent – talking about bitcoins when asked about the weather
Show magic tricks
Brag about materials
Talk about how you hacked into (read copy pasted/ stolen code/data) from someone

How to survive remote work?

I am a people person. I love being around new people. I love mingling, talking to strangers, saying hi, and nodding to passersby. But I have missed that since I started working remotely from my home office.

Here are some things I do to keep myself sane.

Keep my video on when having meetings.
Whenever I have a question, rather than asking in a chat message I book a 10 minutes call. I spend three minutes talking about random things, and the other seven about work.
Move my office around the house, I have one room as my regular office, but I have a smaller desk in my living room, another in my basement and my kitchen dining table is my fourth office location.
Do groceries more often.
Go for coffee with friends after work if life allows.
Take long drives on weekends and get out of the house.
I take regular breaks, go to my backyard, and check my mailbox once or twice a day during work just to see my neighbors and get some sun.

~ Don’t work for someone else. Work to make money for yourself. ~

Download Images from PixelSet.com

PixelSet.com has a nice feature of downloading pictures from a gallery one at a time.

but I needed to bulk download all or some pictures.

Found these Chrome extensions to be useful.

Here is another nifty trick, on the developer tool console

Type in $(‘.gamma-description-wrapper’).siblings(‘img’)[0].src

This will give you the url, which you can then open in new tab and download that image.

Enjoy…

~ Life is not fair. You have to make it so. ~

How to survive the era of CORONA

Keep calm and don’t freak
Drink water, increase the intake of vitamins and minerals and boost the immune system.
Stay home. Work from home.
If you have to go to work, be careful.
Call, video chat with your people.
Reduce unnecessary travel, visits, and gatherings.
Keep 5 feet between you are everyone else.
Be mindful of what you touch.
Always keep your hands clean.
Be passionate.
Don’t get sick.

That’s it. We can do this.

We can get better and get back to normal.

~ Keep calm and live on. ~

Blue Gmail icon

You may have noticed the blue Gmail icon by now, otherwise, you would not end up on here.

Google just changed the favicon for all the business accounts to differentiate between personal and work. Which I like very much.

Funny thing that I installed Flux the same day this change came in and I thought it was a very cool trick on the color of the icon that’s making it blue cause or blue light reduction. But as soon as I opened my personal email at work I was going crazy. How could there be blue in the color red? I was switching monitors, cleaning my glasses, rubbing my eyes.

But then I opened up the dev tools and found the favicon on my work email tab.