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Recently fat tweeted about the tech industry’s failure to evaluate computer science students for internships. To summarize: it’s a shitshow. Jacob, better known as fat, is the co-founder of a podcasting app, co-created bootstrap the 2nd most popular open-source project on Github, lead teams at Medium and Twitter, and has spoken at international tech conferences. Jacob recently took an internship test anonymously and failed. If one of the best can’t get into the tech industry? Who can?

As the year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting a lot on my career, the future, the past, and the present (2016…

A while back, someone told me the origin of the Google self-driving car. Employees at Google were tasked to brainstorm ways to serve more ads. They realized people spend a lot of time in cars, and aside from the shotgun approach of taxicab ads, the radio, and billboards, there’s no way to directly serve a targeted ad to passengers. So they decided to build a car, where they would have complete control of the environment, and have new surfaces to serve ads.

I doubt the story is true, as Google would have many obvious and more leveraging reasons to get…

It’s early-evening Thursday. I sit down at the bar counter to the left of my pal. We’re both done with work for the day and meet for a beer. I order an IPA. We share a side of grilled brussels sprouts.

Our conversation weaves through software engineering, his upcoming travel plans, the iPhone app I’m working on, and the number of Pokémon Go players we’ve seen around the city. We talk about the tech industry and our careers. My pal then shares a perspective:

“If we’re all equal, why are we going out of our way to hire a specific…

Eleven years ago, I joined a small design agency. I was 20, and it was my first full-time design job. I spent the first few years at the agency focused on visual design. Can I make this texture more realistic? Would this website look better if the light-source was from a different angle? How could I get my buttons to be even glossier? It was common to hear a client pitch an idea, followed by myself asking a few questions, opening Photoshop and starting to design. Days later I would present the client with one or two visual directions, get…

I re-watched the Art of Rap last week and was reminded again (not that I forgot) how beautiful of an art form rap is. It’s some of the most genuine music out there, a direct window into the artists’ lives (at least, old rap was, now-a-days it mostly comes from marketing machines.) David Foster Wallace sums it up so well in his book Signifying Rappers:

“On the importance of gangsta rap: “Public Enemy and N.W.A, Ice-T and Schoolly D discomfit us, our friends, the critics we read and cornered, because the Hard rappers’ lyrics are conscientious about being of/for the…

Growing up I was lucky to have a family who prioritized and was financially able to provide homemade, healthy meals. We wouldn’t eat prosciutto wrapped figs with goat cheese, but we would eat well-cooked meats, vegetables, and salads. All substance, no filler. Some Fridays, my family would order take-out as a treat. There was a little mom-and-pop joint called Darlings Pizza which was a family favorite.

As a kid I started to notice eating healthy meals prepared from individual ingredients was not common amongst my friends. Some of my friends would eat Tater Tots and Mac ‘n Cheese for dinner…

It’s been a few weeks since I launched Wallcat for Mac. Thank you to everyone who downloaded it, shared it with friends, posted it on the social medias, and took in the beautiful imagery ❤

I’m happy to announce that I launched Wallcat for Chrome. Go get it on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/wallcat-for-chrome it’ll replace your new tab view with a gorgeous, daily image.

As always, please send feedback and catnip to wallcat@dustinsenos.com

Enjoy your day,
Dustin

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