Rinze Wind

Well, this blog is still alive! Have you ever downloaded an EPUB file too many megabytes too large? The reason is, quite probably, that the images in the file come in high resolution. As an .epub is nothing more than a .zip with a certain structure, it's possible to uncompress it, reduce the image size and leave everything as it was before1. I've been doing this by hand for a few months but in the end I've decided to save time in the long term. Behold this technological wonder. You're welcome.

Credit bureaus are known for their sloppiness and incompetence, but you're forced to deal with them1. Recently, a family member tried to freeze her credit score but she was having problems with it. I had recently found again this wonderful link that explains how to write proper complaint letters, so I decided it was a good opportunity to put this in practice. It's a good idea to always deal with these companies in writing so that there's a record.

Yesterday, I ran my script to check how many comments on the monthly Hacker News post mention a remote option. Remote jobs reached a level of 75 % - 80 % and stayed there (it doesn't look like that's going to change soon), but what's striking is the drop in the number of comments. There is no comment system. If you want to tell me something about this article, you can do so via e-mail or Mastodon.

Nunca tuvo muchos suscriptores, pero para los que siguen al pie del cañón: el archivo shared.xml ya no funciona. Dado que ahora ando trasteando con Mastodon, será ahí donde comparta enlaces a artículos interesantes que vaya encontrándome por ahí. Mi cuenta está aquí, y si quieren seguirme por RSS, aquí está el feed. : he visto un par de personas algo confundidas por el anuncio. Esto afecta únicamente al archivo que usaba para compartir enlaces de cuando en cuando.

It never had too many subscribers, but for those of you that are still there, please beware that the feed at shared.xml has stopped updating. As I started a Mastodon account not long ago, I'll share interesting links and articles there instead. Here's my account, and if you prefer RSS access, we have you covered. This only affects the XML file I was using to share articles from time to time. This blog is still running and its feed is still where it always was. There is no comment system.

The entire plot is generated by an R script that you can found here. Any suggestions (you can find my e-mail address on the "about" page) are welcome. There's a secondary plot here that displays the raw number of postings (total and remote). Caveats, and why this is just an approximation: The script works by retrieving all first-level comments in the monthly Who's hiring post and assumes that every one is a job offer. That might not be the case.