Author: Shawn Jackson
I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.
Microsoft has long made my keyboard of choice, the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. It’s not the greatest keyboard ever by any stretch of the imagination, it’s large, clunky, has a lot of useless keys and the keys themselves are not particular enjoyable to press compared to a Cherry based key. Now, I type a
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Recently I started running into a pretty nasty case of visual artifacting. This would happen when in quite a few cases and would also impact all the other Electron based applications on my system, i.e. the Twitch app, so it wasn’t just a Visual Studio Code issue. It could be minor, slight flashing or full
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ActivationBlizzard made record profits for the fiscal year 2018 and then promptly laid off 8% of their global workforce. 775 people, lost their jobs not because a company was in a dire financial situation, not because they were closing down a line of the business, but because they didn’t see the value of keeping them
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