Hazel is still disabled in a pandemic
@phazel.bsky.social
The name stays for as long as it's true. Urban hermit, queer crip, knitter, tech ghost, career changer, postgrad student, ND, parent, gay married, any pronouns.
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Previously @phazelic on Twitter.
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Previously @phazelic on Twitter.
That's the kind of role I'd apply for, have a call with the recruiter, and get rejected for not being specialised enough. I'd have the skills to do it but the assumption would get made that I couldn't.
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
That's the kind of role I'd apply for, have a call with the recruiter, and get rejected for not being specialised enough. I'd have the skills to do it but the assumption would get made that I couldn't.
Like this was a tech company you've definitely heard of. A big Australian tech company starting with A. You know it. This is who they've got on payroll as an engineer, while my wife and I are having one meal a day to ration food.
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Like this was a tech company you've definitely heard of. A big Australian tech company starting with A. You know it. This is who they've got on payroll as an engineer, while my wife and I are having one meal a day to ration food.
Also are you still hiring? We're about to lose our home.
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Also are you still hiring? We're about to lose our home.
I keep hearing this, yet I've been actively interviewing for the last year. I keep getting to final stages and then rejected, so it's not like the people making the hiring decisions aren't seeing me. What's going on here? Are real people getting evaluated as bots?
December 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I keep hearing this, yet I've been actively interviewing for the last year. I keep getting to final stages and then rejected, so it's not like the people making the hiring decisions aren't seeing me. What's going on here? Are real people getting evaluated as bots?
Literally going back to university to start a new career to avoid being forced to use LLMs working in tech, because writing code properly is exactly the same as this. It's by learning the system that you figure out how best to alter it. We're "faster" now but my job isn't to be fast, it's to be good
December 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Literally going back to university to start a new career to avoid being forced to use LLMs working in tech, because writing code properly is exactly the same as this. It's by learning the system that you figure out how best to alter it. We're "faster" now but my job isn't to be fast, it's to be good
The miracle of a human mind is forming and growing and learning in front of us. I simply cannot relate to people who see that and their first and only impulse is to stop it from happening.
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The miracle of a human mind is forming and growing and learning in front of us. I simply cannot relate to people who see that and their first and only impulse is to stop it from happening.
He thinks it's funny not because he's evil but because he's still learning what is and isn't funny. He's experimenting. He's literally doing small scale behavioural science on us in real time to figure out what it means to be a person, and we're supposed to what? Punish him?
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
He thinks it's funny not because he's evil but because he's still learning what is and isn't funny. He's experimenting. He's literally doing small scale behavioural science on us in real time to figure out what it means to be a person, and we're supposed to what? Punish him?
Our 18 month old throws the thing on the floor or touches the fan when we told him not to or slaps us in the mouth or pinches us and when we get frustrated he gives us this big shiteating grin... Because he is an 18 month old.
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our 18 month old throws the thing on the floor or touches the fan when we told him not to or slaps us in the mouth or pinches us and when we get frustrated he gives us this big shiteating grin... Because he is an 18 month old.
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The only thing you have to do is…nothing. Don’t use their shitty chatbots. Don’t let anyone else peer pressure you into using their shitty chatbots. It’s really simple.
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The only thing you have to do is…nothing. Don’t use their shitty chatbots. Don’t let anyone else peer pressure you into using their shitty chatbots. It’s really simple.
I’m genuinely convinced at this point that technical interviews are now being conducted by non-technical people using AI in another tab. I’ve had multiple similarly bizarre experiences this year.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I’m genuinely convinced at this point that technical interviews are now being conducted by non-technical people using AI in another tab. I’ve had multiple similarly bizarre experiences this year.
I reiterated that I was talking about Typescript and Ruby. He clarified that he’d meant that Typescript doesn’t have data structures. Right.
This was an engineer working for a major tech company. Someone considered skilled and knowledgeable enough to be doing interviews.
This was an engineer working for a major tech company. Someone considered skilled and knowledgeable enough to be doing interviews.
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I reiterated that I was talking about Typescript and Ruby. He clarified that he’d meant that Typescript doesn’t have data structures. Right.
This was an engineer working for a major tech company. Someone considered skilled and knowledgeable enough to be doing interviews.
This was an engineer working for a major tech company. Someone considered skilled and knowledgeable enough to be doing interviews.
Drain those brains, tech. I'm outta here.
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Drain those brains, tech. I'm outta here.
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—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
We talk about this like it’s only something people do at the top of society. There are neighbourhoods that function this way. There are families that function this way. We need to stop thinking of this as the exception.
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
We talk about this like it’s only something people do at the top of society. There are neighbourhoods that function this way. There are families that function this way. We need to stop thinking of this as the exception.
What I need to find is somewhere I'm allowed to play. Tech described itself as a place that could happen, 10-20 years ago. Now it's just a place that hurts you as punishment for existing. I can't play there. I want to play.
December 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
What I need to find is somewhere I'm allowed to play. Tech described itself as a place that could happen, 10-20 years ago. Now it's just a place that hurts you as punishment for existing. I can't play there. I want to play.
When I take myself out of the context of tech, I suddenly go from being a dull lifeless failure to feeling like I'm a smarter and wiser person than I've ever been in my life. My mind is still good. I'm still good. I can make things, help people, solve problems, untangle knots, grasp difficult ideas.
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
When I take myself out of the context of tech, I suddenly go from being a dull lifeless failure to feeling like I'm a smarter and wiser person than I've ever been in my life. My mind is still good. I'm still good. I can make things, help people, solve problems, untangle knots, grasp difficult ideas.
I need to focus my attention and energy on where my curiosity is taking me. That's what smart people do. And when you've spent 13 years having your curiosity punished in a specific area, it's hardly surprising that it stops being directed there. They don't want me. They don't want my mind.
December 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I need to focus my attention and energy on where my curiosity is taking me. That's what smart people do. And when you've spent 13 years having your curiosity punished in a specific area, it's hardly surprising that it stops being directed there. They don't want me. They don't want my mind.
I still need to pay the bills. But I can't fool myself anymore that the lack of approval and acceptance from the tech industry means anything about me. I've bashed myself against this brick wall for long enough. I don't want in anymore. It looks kind of shit in that club, tbh.
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I still need to pay the bills. But I can't fool myself anymore that the lack of approval and acceptance from the tech industry means anything about me. I've bashed myself against this brick wall for long enough. I don't want in anymore. It looks kind of shit in that club, tbh.
It's an industry that took in the curiosity, energy, passion, desire to build, and intellectual skill of a generation, and said "this is worthless." Their opinion of me and my potential means less than nothing. The only thing I've failed to do is participate in that. I want to do the work instead.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's an industry that took in the curiosity, energy, passion, desire to build, and intellectual skill of a generation, and said "this is worthless." Their opinion of me and my potential means less than nothing. The only thing I've failed to do is participate in that. I want to do the work instead.
Cop shit
December 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Cop shit