Google famously passed on the guy who invented Homebrew, so at least you're in good company. As others have said, the interview process selects for (wait for it) ... people who are good at the interview process. It's kind of like the SAT and college. If you want to get in, you get good at the SAT, regardless of its relevance.
Instead, maybe seek out the companies that go bonkers for your OS project and can't wait to turn you loose inside their company. They're out there and I suspect it would be more enjoyable to work for them. Good luck and don't despair!
I actually hope that some of the ideas get picked up. Might be naive.
Getting visibility / traction for a new OS project is intense these days, especially in case it is "disruptive". Might be too far ahead.
"They're out there and I suspect it would be more enjoyable to work for them". Probably, but hard to find. Most job requests are like "Would you like to help us with Angular, React or Vue?".
My apologies for not realizing that point you were making. I agree that it might be difficult to find a company that wants you to build their product using your OS project. I meant that there are probably companies out there that would evaluate your abilities on the strength of your OS project and then hire you to build whatever it was they needed.
If you want to make your side project your day job, that's a different story, but maybe it would be possible to build a startup on it. Easy to say, I know. The internet is full of well-meaning but effectively useless advice like mine. :)
We're very much focused on on-boarding smaller writers and the content is most often evergreen, with some news, but the type that doesn't expire the next day.
Only because no one has mentioned it yet, "When We Were Kings". About The Rumble in the Jungle. We forget that, at the time, people were worried that Foreman, the hardest hitter who ever lived, might _kill_ Ali in the ring.
The savvy of Ali's "rope a dope" strategy, combined with the way he got in Foreman's head, whispering in his ear in the clinches, was genius. IMO, you can't watch this film and not agree -- GOAT.
Amen to every word except this sentence. "Better choices should be made by web developers to not ship this bullshit in the first place."
No developer I know, web or otherwise, wants to do any of this, and all of them are religious in their use of ad blockers and autoplay stoppers.
This is the kind of stuff developers are forced to do with guns to their heads by the PMs and marketing teams that actually determine the user experience.
I agree with all of this and just want to add that, for every developer who will speak out and crusade against "webpage pollution", there are about a dozen who will not and are viciously seeking employment. I'm often terrified of this.
