I kinda have the print edition of the Onion to thank for my career.
Back in 2000, I had a "100% travel" tech consulting job. My favorite part of the week was finally getting back home to Chicago, grabbing a sub at a sandwich shop, and casually reading that week's edition cover to cover Saturday afternoon.
One particular week, there was an ad for a local tech company (ThoughtWorks). I don't remember there being many tech job ads in the Onion at the time, so it stood out. I remember the ad copy being something like "Does your life suck, or just your job? Work here instead." I immediately applied, interviewed, eventually got an offer, quit my other job, and started at ThoughtWorks. It was a massive upgrade.
A few years later, I got to lead an internal dev team, and a spin-off project (Selenium) came out of that.
Long story long: No Onion, no job at ThoughtWorks, no Selenium.
Glad a new generation gets to enjoy leisurely reading fake news and seeing where it takes them in life.
So the onion is, by distant proxy, responsible for that time my school blocked all non-chrome browsers on their gradebook, messing up all the teachers who use edge. Have you ever tried Helium? (https://helium.readthedocs.io/)
The grading situation sucked (disconnects between services), i was using selenium with the firefox driver to create a 3rd party service with data normalization, i think the auditor that was looking at logs was unhappy with the github codespace ip i was using and decided that chrome is superior.
localy the equivilant would be if The Coast came back to print.Phones suck for staying in touch with the local sceen.I have noticed a significant increase in postering for events, music and a few more local only type retail stores,and millenials leaning in on traditional trades, craftwork, art, etc. I mean nothing beats a good meme or wacked video on tictok etall, but then it's like time to do something, and the algorythim isn't set up for that.
I wrote so many sophisticated, nearly magical Selenium helpers in PHP for massive test suites for a fairly prominent website in the early 2000s. I remember simultaneously having a sense of great accomplishment and deep shame and frustration, haha. It was so hard to build good testing tools. I think we did alright, though.
These days I write automated UI tests with barely a second thought. It has gotten so much easier.
It turns out it came out in 2004. I had no idea I was working with cutting edge testing software at the time. That also explains why it was so rough on the edges and there were so few resources to draw on to get it working better in edge cases. Although it was kind of brutal, I think selenium taught me a ton about asynchronicity and concurrency. That was probably good for my career
Back in 2000, I had a "100% travel" tech consulting job. My favorite part of the week was finally getting back home to Chicago, grabbing a sub at a sandwich shop, and casually reading that week's edition cover to cover Saturday afternoon.
One particular week, there was an ad for a local tech company (ThoughtWorks). I don't remember there being many tech job ads in the Onion at the time, so it stood out. I remember the ad copy being something like "Does your life suck, or just your job? Work here instead." I immediately applied, interviewed, eventually got an offer, quit my other job, and started at ThoughtWorks. It was a massive upgrade.
A few years later, I got to lead an internal dev team, and a spin-off project (Selenium) came out of that.
Long story long: No Onion, no job at ThoughtWorks, no Selenium.
Glad a new generation gets to enjoy leisurely reading fake news and seeing where it takes them in life.