Every AHK I've made has gone rogue because I want it to do things and it does it well but without guard rails i overwhelm my target every time. Thankfully the target is usually my local and I just mostly reboot
You'd think I'd learn but my scripts usually start small for with one specific use and i enlarge it Unsafely once I think of another use for it
Loops are my danger zone. After a few crashes the first guardrail I end up adding to a script is a stop key combo interrupt. Then figure out what bounds to put only after every mistake. I don't have the foresight to prevent "rogue" behavior
I use it in Mac as part of my job duties. So far it mostly works in the place I need it most which is web forms on chrome. Some applications I wish it worked on do not recognize it such as notes app.
I'll have to figure it out on Mac since ahk was my go to when I had pc
Decommissioned lookout Bunker stations here in the cliffs over looking the sf golden gate have extremely deeply sunken thick concrete buried barracks. we turned off the flash lights and it's the darkest I've been in and absolutely quiet with a group of 30+ kids and chaperones. Had better ears back then so no ringing ears. And sunken structures have the benefit of about 65° stable temperature compared to the cold outside air
I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember. I kind of like the sound of the ringing. Reminds me of tibet singing bowls or a buddhist bell. The sound of my life.
I'm on the socially insular side as well and find my time learning instead of shared viewerships like sports. I'm checked out on up to date sports even if I do participate in kick boxing. There's tons of technique breakdown videos that's more interesting than watching every fight. But for those training up, seeing full definition replays of fights from amateur to high paid professionals at your fingertips as well as full breakdowns and other professionals in the comments is just building up tons of people to finesse their skills deeply in their crafts.
OTOH
I have a family member who is into those "shallow" videos but she is tuning her social media posts to be more interactive and her posts are "very extra". Many of these vloggers do a lot of behind the scenes in depth trade secret videos once in awhile and she seems to find out video trends. Her hobby is content creation, selfies, and making homevideos that other people watch.
Reminds me of my dads and uncles lugging around cameras at every social function and upgrading to digital but she's now at the level of compressing it to something quick and watchable and a slideshow of what happened rather than a full recording like it was a documentary. She's gotten the engagement factor dialed in.
It's nice to have her taking and editing videos as that's something of worth. Taking boring events (get together) where a straight video or group photos is the usual and making them personalized and basically something people want to add and to share on their wall if they were at those locations.
Otherwise she's been watching a ton of home-based businesses walkthroughs and interviews with small business entrepreneurs. Those are big in niche communities and these shows are in our mothertongue.
She does bounce ideas off me a ton for business ideas. She's more interested in retail ideas and wanted to advertise using social media than is interested in selling her services as a social media person.
She's in her 60s. I'm in my 30s. She's more tech literate than me in regards to social media use even if I work at one. She's also more in tune with what people my age range are interested in and willing to pay for.
If she does go into business I don't mind funding her, lol. She has a way of breaking into trends before mainstream moves into those trends.
Science and math and other cool stuff might help round out young people but I don't push that stuff to my older family members. I'm the "youth" and none of my generation as kids yet. I don't see a reason to push the older folks into those subjects on YouTube. I might send them gardening tips, ideas, and a boring lectures or someone building out some fancy yard feature but I doubt they sit through it. I did send some tree planting advice and they fell asleep to it.
Very opposing to what people push to youth. But there's still value in "wasting time" I think
Old black hat SEO. Was never in that industry too seriously, but I did keep looped in my tech news as a kid as it gave me another perspective on the growth of the internet
Exactly. You think that developers are paid to stop and think about the outcomes of what they do? They're all too busy running sprints and meeting OKRs and performance metrics and hustling design and code reviews and playing internal politics to worry about the effect of what they are doing on their users and ordinary people. Besides, even if they did have an end user in mind, it's not the "users". They're motivated by the customers - advertisers.
Very Jr role. Hiring manager had a very specific role that the recruiter got me on. Rejected, but during the interview pushed me to the next round of a lesser role in his team.
Recruiter was pretty amazed at the turn around since it closed so quickly.
It's a hard job and everyone at my level is a skill a notch or two up and much younger. But we do what we can to stay fit in the industry when peers are much more experienced and sharp. I got my foot in the door. It will take a lot of effort to shake off the sunk cost of training and replacement of me so I am here to get paid to learn and soak up what I can. Definitely high work load and high turnover either upwards or outwards for better opportunities
So if they have a budget, especially if they are a vendor with a paying client who needs a minimum level assigned consultant headcount type of metrics, I am good enough and my soft skills push me through.
Previous job (hired 5-6 years ago) I actually asked to be considered for the level above the one I originally applied to as they pulled me in for interviews. They hired me that week for the tech role as they likely had worse matches until I showed up.
You can't have a full strategy around it. But when you see a possible opportunity you snipe for it. Take the minimum amount of effort and just enough to set you apart and it might just be enough. It's a draw attention to yourself and make it feel like they won't find a better candidate. Play the fog of uncertainty every desperate employer has. Desperation can come from Recruiter delaying the first round because busy with a more important leadership fill, or low recruiter count in general, bad recruiter giving bad leads, etc.
Similar opportunities to me is sometimes just being the first result in a employer's search. engine.
