apptracker: Job Hunting Without the Spreadsheet

mrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp) — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700

Job hunting is a state management problem

Nobody tells you this part. The interviews are the hard bit emotionally, but the thing that actually grinds you down is the bookkeeping — who you applied to, when, through what channel, which recruiter said what, who you owe a follow-up, which of the four roles at the same company you’re actually in the pipeline for.

Most people do it in a spreadsheet. I did too, for a while.

annoybots: eggdrop Energy, Modern Stack

mrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0700

The bot in the corner of every channel

If you were on IRC in the early 2000s, you remember the bots. Eggdrop sat in the channel keeping ops straight and rejoining when somebody kicked it. BMotion babbled semi-coherent nonsense assembled from whatever the channel had been saying for the last hour, and occasionally it landed a line so perfect everyone assumed a human typed it.

Both still exist. Both are also a TCL stack, and I am not spending my weekends maintaining TCL in 2026.

Go on IamMrCupp

apptracker: Job Hunting Without the Spreadsheet

Job hunting is a state management problem

annoybots: eggdrop Energy, Modern Stack

The bot in the corner of every channel