I Am Devloper

just your friendly neighbourhood printer fixer

the friday email:

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Everyone thinks they are a 10x engineer.

Forty questions will tell you what you actually are.

https://t.co/jGzjPJqU5t

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I just started coding with PHP this morning, anything I should look out for?

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just learned about bikeshedding.
i do think we should be calling it something else though.

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this whole vibe-coded newsletter debacle feels like a backstage WWE storyline

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Go. harder than it looks.

https://t.co/eNQnKPAORW

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war room: nine people in the call, one reading the logs. fixed in forty minutes, post-mortem takes five weeks.

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I'm gonna tell my grandkids this is who Claude was

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[in a client meeting]
sales: we need someone from engineering in this
the engineer:

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as my final act of failure I will convert my codebase to Rust

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just read about the planning fallacy.
should take me about an hour to fully understand it.

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today's JavaScript one. no googling.

https://t.co/c0YD8Ty8bB

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just learned about survivorship bias.

every successful startup i've looked at does this.

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things that arrive the second you set your Slack status to "focusing":

a DM asking if you're free
a meeting invite for right now
a gif
another DM asking if you saw the first DM
the meeting moved to tomorrow anyway

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Deleting Instagram did NOTHING to improve my productivity. I now doomscroll on Jira.

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new Python one up.

https://t.co/mJJmyjn5K8

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full stack used to mean two things. the job ad now lists nine and calls it a startup.

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micromanagers be like:

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The history of programming:

1.Grunting
2.Language
3.Computers
4.Assembly
5.C
6.Python
7.English
8."no not like that"

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2020:
-work from anywhere, we trust you

2024:
-return to office, we trust the badge reader

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Go. one line changes everything.

https://t.co/UVrEZvQX6N

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your site isn't slow. it's just in virginia.