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Tech influencers out here with 200k followers and their GitHub is a barely started 100 days of code and a create react app scaffold
Holy fuck I just realized that with AI/ML, those fucking “ideas” guys are gonna be the only ones with jobs
“So it says here you’ve maintained steady employment for 15 years as senior software engineer. Alright cool, we’re just gonna have you solve some algorithm stuff that you, and honesty we, have never actually used at work”
Can you imagine if the next wave of tech collectively decided to occupy dead malls, and became a distributed suburban force countrywide
Does leetcode make anyone else feel like a fucking idiot or is it just me?
You know it, I know it, we don’t wanna admit it, but it’s JavaScript
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Which programming language is the language of future
Imagine being dhh and being reduced to “author of viral tweet” 😂
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If you ever want me in an office again, it’ll be driving a used Honda 15m from my house to an office park where I enter my cubicle decorated with posters and perpetual motion toys and work an undisturbed gentlemanly 8 hours with a packed lunch.
Walking into a javascript interview but the water bottle is a healthy knowledge of .reduce()
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This is honestly one of the hardest albums of all time. And they made this shit in GarageBand.
They’re actually paying you to provide business value. Not to write idiomatic code.
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Quote tweet this with something you wish more people knew about coding
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Meanwhile legit genius motherfuckers have 200 followers and they say something and people are like shut the fuck up brian
This is psychopath shit
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More and more people are buying a MacBook Pro without a screen to use as a Mac mini. Not only does it have a trackpad and keyboard, but it also has better speakers, and the main price is particularly affordable.
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Whoah nowww, I just had a bottle of red last night and was talking shit and just woke up to all this BUT, it’s incredible how many of you let 2-3 movies completely socially condition you into thinking having a huge private personal space at work is “soulless” and “depressing”.
They should lie and say they have react experience and then get proficient in a weekend
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If this is an elaborate ploy to get me to like this guy, congratulations, you’ve succeeded
Flight attendant: Is there a UI Developer on this flight?
Dad: *nudging me*
> Raises hand
Flight attendant: The WiFi is all fucked up can you come take a look at it
Bun is the most exciting thing in JS in a very fucking long time
So years ago, I made slick carousel (which I’m not even allowed to work on anymore). It was egregiously successful. Tbh, I was embarrassed being the jquery carousel guy. I spent years trying to make more complex things to prove myself as a real engineer. That was a mistake.
Instead of asking chatgpt to do some complex thing, I asked it to write bash scripts that scaffold shit out, and it’s so good at that it’s fucking unreal
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I want to be clear, I've worked pretty much fully remote for 10 years, so everyone saying home is better, duh. However, if you are in my replies talking about bs values of collaboration, you are with certainty the reason for the walls.
Self taught/No degree squad, would you ever get a comp sci degree now?
I thought about it, and decided no. If I was gonna get a degree, I’d probably get it in something else
A commercial office building typed this
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Those working from home full-time are 18% less productive than those in the office, per Bloomberg.
Twitter makes it easy to feel like programming is cool but this is literally what everyone else thinks about you
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Yeah I’m not going to mastodon lol. If this app shuts down I’ll probably enter a personal golden age.
Agile: give me an estimate Ken
Me: is this feature fully scoped
Agile: yes
Me: so what happens if you do [thing]
Agile: <under breath> fuck, he’s onto us
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Euro: heh, I take train 400 keelomiters for 45 euro, have fun with healthcare
When will twitter be ready to hear that PHP and jQuery is actually the best stack
Wife: 8yo doesn’t want fluoride at the dentist bc of YouTube
Me: I’ll go talk to her
> walk into room
“Ur based as fuck fr”
Holy shit lmfao
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If I was 20 now I’d become an electrician
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if i was 20 now i’d drop everything and jump into AI. i feel a great deal of FOMO tbh but also hesitant about abandoning all the context i already have in my field. not sure what to do.
Hey, not every idea turns into a Facebook or a Google. What matters is that you tried.
Hi I’m a UI Developer. You may know me from hits like “idk it’s probably the backend”, “design delivered the assets late” or my all time greatest “what the fuck does docker actually do”
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Hi, I'm a data analyst! You might be familiar with my hits "correlation is not causation", "this sample is too small to be meaningful" or my all-time greatest hit "data can't answer that question, you have to ask the users what they're doing". twitter.com/MinaMarkham/st…
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I got out my colored pencils and sketched up what a modern take might look like. Imagine the office busybody starts walking up and you’re like “cube! Frost the glass!” NOT TODAY STEVEN
When are you fucking idiots gonna realize this guy could buy the whole store, he’s commenting on the inflation that’s affecting YOU
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React class components were awesome
Do you ever feel like, an a UI engineer, it doesn’t matter, or it’s not as impactful as data science or systems?
I do. All the time. But it’s bullshit. We’re the primary interaction point for any system. The industrial designers of digital.
So I went to teach a buddy web dev from scratch. We started with html, making some Craigslist looking website, then got into css, and then JavaScript to addEventListener to a button, each in their own files. Then I said fuck this, and taught him React with Tailwind lol
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you need to learn JavaScript to pay off your loans.
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When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads. twitter.com/dustint314/sta…
Let me say it again for the folks in the back: this website is free
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Every 10xer i've ever met eventually burns out and then tweets about getting into farming or art
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It’s so weird to me how common this sentiment is. We usually have no problem understanding that some people are significantly better at things than most other people: Serena, Kobe, Stephen Hawking.
Why do we feel the need to pretend that’s not true with tech? twitter.com/jherr/status/1…
I just wanna let it be known that I tried to learn docker last night, and had a really hard time with google search results and official docs, and ChatGPT just lit a Marlboro red and taught me that shit like big bro
Recruiter: Were looking for someone with 5 years experience in Swift UI
> blows on fingertips
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Until an Apple Watch lasts a week, it’s a non starter. I’m not charging a fucking watch every night.
Wife: what the fuck are you doing down there
“I’m paying bills, I’ll be right up”
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I want to take responsibility. I want everyone to know that Tatiana never directly accused me of anything.
That first refactor after removing typescript
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Me to wife: At breakfast each day let’s share our goals for the day, and hold one another accountable. What are your goals for the day?
Wife: Fuck You
Me: Ah a shared goal, splendid
Yo I’m about to post the full source of my brand new, accessible, high performance carousel plugin:
overflow-x: scroll;
Don’t forget to tip your waitstaff
Most apps want to help you find the best. The best person to date, the best contractor, the best restaurant with the best chef. But what if you wanted the worst? The absolute worst people on the planet.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Facebook Marketplace
Heard there was some shit talk about front end developers. You better hope we never get onto your platform, because we’ve been building your apps replacement in the equivalent of MS Word VBScript like Macgyver on meth for the last 5 years.
Remember when John wick got excommunicado and all the assassins checked their phone like oh fuq let’s go? That, but for recruiters.
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: Self-taught
: 9 years
: software engineer
: UK (US based company)
: £100k ($130k) base twitter.com/NikkitaFTW/sta…Twitter has like 100 million users but it feels like there’s just the same 100 people arguing about dumb shit all day long
I call it web4, a wildly revolutionary paradigm where we go outside and talk to each other and have local communities where we know and trust each other, and we develop specialized skills that we exchange for the specialized skills of others.
> someone replies snarkily to one of my posts
<tap call button>
brrrrr brrrrr brrrrr
“Hey, you, yeah you, fuck you”
Me: man am I glad to be writing python, no more weird npm dependency bullshit
Pip:
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