This is less of a rant and more some observations I’ve noticed. In the past year I’ve had the opportunity to talk to people who are hiring and people who are seeking jobs. Often, each group would be frustrated with the other.

A term you’ll hear a lot in modern dating is ghosting. For those who aren’t familiar, ghosting is defined as “the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication”.¹ However, it’s clear that the practice of ghosting isn’t limited to modern dating. It’s becoming more common for employees and employers alike to practice ghosting.

Background

I recently capped off about two weeks of nasty computer trouble with being unable to get KDE Neon to boot on it’s own. GRUB would boot into it’s recovery shell, and I would have to use pesky command line trickery¹ to get my system running.

Now, normally this is a quick fix. A little GRUB housekeeping and update-grub should do the trick. However, the strangest things were happening. No matter my changes, nothing was taking. Always back to the recovery shell for me. I scrapped every inch of my file system, tried all the forum posts, but nothing was working.

Background

Let’s Encrypt is a service known for how easy it is to enable SSL on websites (which you must know if you’re reading this article about renewing!). Earlier this year Let’s Encrypt added support for wildcard certificates, and with the added complexity of supporting multiple subdomains on one certificate came added complexity to renew these certificates.

The other day I encountered what looks like a common error when trying to renew one of my wildcard certificates. On running certbot renew I got this error:

Sometimes (rarely) I run across a problem I’m able to fix myself. When I encounter one of these you better believe I’ll publish it here.

Also, I just need to make sure Jekyll is working with GitLab Pages properly. shakes fist at sky