When will the job market stop sucking?

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Stetson Blake
October 25, 2024

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this week’s newsletter is a little different format.

You can call it me being lazy cause our regular writer is out or you can say we’re trying new, innovative things and breaking the mold. 👨‍🍳🤌✨ 

Announcement: ITSG Who’s Hiring / Who Wants to be Hired

If you’ve been living under a rock recently: The job market kinda sucks right now. Layoffs are constant, seekers can’t find jobs, interest rates are high, the problems go on.

Last night, I made a simple site on notion for those in the IT Support Group Community Who either Work at a company that is hiring or for those of you who want to be hired.

Hit the link if you’re looking to hire someone or if you want to work in Carlsbad, CA, Springfield, OH or Lafayette IN. I know those are very specific, but our job pipeline ain’t full yet. Sorry. We’ll get there.

The site is online right here and you can reply to this email to get your details added.

Claude Drops Computer Use Service

In other news this week, Anthropic, makers of the Claude LLM, showed off their computer use service. This service allows an LLM to control a computer and navigate around the web. I used it to try to book a haircut and order pizza. It was expensive, slow and buggy but it still blew my mind. One day it will be cheap, fast and reliable. Keep an eye out.

Professional Services Automation in a Race Car

Earlier this week, I had a discussion with Tim-Barton Wines + Jason Murphy about PSAs. Tim-Barton Wines works for Halo PSA. I had no idea prior to our call, but their logo is on the McLaren F1 this season. We learned what PSAs did and Tim was about to tell some crazy stories about F1 and Gordon Ramsey. Be sure to check it out.

If you don’t have time to watch it and want a tl;dr:

  • PSAs are like an ITSM platform, but they do all this other crazy business process stuff like:

    • Sales and CRM

    • Time tracking

    • Contract and Billing

    • Analytics

HaloPSA even has this crazy AI integration with N-Able that does all this crazy stuff like auto-fixing issues and updating tickets.

They’re pretty forward thinking, plus, they sponsored a frickin’ F1 Car. 🏎️

Work Continues on Shell Samurai

I thought to myself last year:

What if you could learn Linux in a web browser? When you type commands correctly, confetti could shoot across the screen.

This year I’m making it a reality. On November 15th, I’m launching an interactive website that guides someone who has never touched a Linux command-line through the basics, zero-to-hero style.

I think it’s pretty cool, I’m building it with Ruby on Rails along with some containerization.

Here’s like 5 links from the internet I think are interesting:

Bonus: check this out, I just saw that Switzerland unveiled a Bitcoin statue. Very Hacker. Very demure. (is that how that word is used?)

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Bye

That’s it for this week.

If you’ve got comments or suggestions, just reply back to this email. I’ll read it.

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✌️

Stetson

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