Chris Vannoy

I need to find a new therapist after spending the last five years with the same one (she’s closing her practice).

Doing intro chats with a bunch of possible therapists this week, and it’s exhausting to think through restarting this sort of relationship.

Dave Poe, long-time sports editor, dies at 71 PARKERSBURG — Dave Poe, a long-time sports editor for The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, passed away on Sunday. Poe, 71, covered sports and news for nearly four decades before retiring in November 201...

My first boss. Probably my best boss. And the finest sports writer I ever knew.

Rest in Peace, Dave.

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“That’s When I Reach For My Revolver” - Mission of Burma

Pretty Hate Machine - Broken - The Downward Spiral

OK Computer - Kid A - Amnesiac

Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Peppers

Document - Green - Out of Time

(And if you can swap Broken for The Fragile if you want to ignore EPs)

Growing up: The Little Kanawha River (by way of Spring Creek)

These days: The White River

The healthcare marketplace is so weird, that it was more cost effective to explore other options.

And now, to get health insurance, I’m a part-time “research assistant” (fill out a few surveys a year?) for some data company.

So I can get on their insurance plan …

So damn weird.

Penn State Head Coach Neal Brown

Yup! Go you!

A red and white work by Alma Thomas

An Alma Thomas work with a black circle surrounded by bands of color representing a solar eclipse

Newfields (aka The Indianapolis Museum of Art) had a retrospective of her work recently.

Two of my favorites.

I can only imagine.

Hang in there.

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This Sonder collapse is the sort of stuff my fledgling little business helps head off.

There was likely some very over-their-heads product and engineering folks involved in this and I feel for them.

Wish I could have helped.

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Grey sky. Grey field. Welcome to EMU.

Reporting live: The field matches the sky almost perfectly.

Halftime at #TheFactory

Falcons up 14-10.

Shame I want to get back to Indy before too late tonight - this has been fun!

The water tower at Western Kentucky University. Featuring their mascot - whatever that thing is.

Beer can showing an oddly shaped water tower.

I _think_ I saw that on the drive in.

Based on the branded beer.

Still more fond of WKU’s water tower, tho.

The author wearing a green EMU hat with the press box behind him

Flag bearers for the EMU band saying EEEEEEEEE

Wide view of Cosby Field at EMU.

Hiya from Ypsilanti for Stop 43 in my quest to see a game at every FBS college.

Will try to channel my inner @sickoscommittee.org and last longer than a quarter.

First: The Grass Roots
Best: The Hives
Last: Aimee Mann / Jonathan Coulton

I wrote about this bullshit once already and I don’t feel like editing it to say that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, either.

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Probably!

So far today:

- Meal planned and groceries
- Replaced the flow valve in the kids’ toilet (daughter helped)
- Making sheet pan pizza
- Been vibe coding a new version of an app I built nearly a decade ago

Been a fun day.

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Results: Highly effective at discovering how well someone works in a team. My hiring mistakes came from overruling this step for "impressive" work history.
Code is worthless if it can't be understood and explained. People are always the hard part. 🧵

Tradeoffs: Works best with folks who have code to show (side projects, open source). Less effective for people stuck in closed-source/NDA situations. It's "squishy" - no clear pass/fail like traditional tests.

This lets you check for understanding, decision-making rationale, and how they react to feedback. I've successfully done this with whole teams - great for seeing collaboration skills in action.

You can standardize with rubrics or go with vibes. Both work.

My solution: "Show and Tell" interviews.

Step 1: Ask candidates to bring code to the interview - code they love, hate, or have lying around. Even AI-generated code if they want.

Step 2: Talk about that code.

There is no Step 3.

Instead, let's screen for the HARD parts of software engineering:

- Can you understand and explain code?
- Can you defend your choices (without being an asshole)?
- Can you translate business context into code?
- Can you take feedback?
- Can you work through ambiguity?

The real challenge: candidates are already using AI to fake their way through coding interviews. Some tools are designed specifically for this. We're testing the wrong thing entirely.

I'm a self-taught dev with 20 years in software (IPOs, acquisitions, consulting). Taught at a coding bootcamp for 2 years. Watched people go from "what's a variable?" to landing engineering jobs. Anyone can write code - especially now with AI.

🧵 Writing code has always been the easy part of software engineering. With AI tools transforming the field, traditional coding challenges (LeetCode, whiteboard tests) are becoming even more useless than before. Time for a better approach to vetting engineers.

Handy, ain’t it? I once built an installable Mac “app” that was just Automator under the hood.

It managed email signatures in Mac Outlook.

Idosyncrasy.

US Congress quorum is a simple majority.

Some state legislatures - such as Texas and Indiana - require 2/3 attendance as quorum.