Fun fact: so are Rolex watches and so many other luxury nonsense products with a high price. Wear one on each arm. Travel via airplanes across borders. Sell the watches. Now you have a lot of untraceable cash. Fly back…
I compare it all to using Github Copilot in my daily work. Before, I needed to Google many problems to find answers, curate the answers, scroll down websites, read downvoted comments on StackOverflow, copy/paste code,…
The same trick is applied to trick potential customers into going through a sales funnel and convert to a paying customer. "There are 42 people watching this hotel right now! Only 3 rooms available for your dates! We'll…
I completely agree with this article, but it never bothers me in particular. But I'm a developer, so I'm an outlier. That said, I do wish that the error message I see every day would be simpler. <looks at TypeScript>
I sometimes miss the days of XSLT and XML. They were very performant and easy-to-use client-side templating technologies that had a lot of power. I still think there was a lot to be gained by combining XSLT and…
TypeScript has come a long way, but one of its biggest issues is the complete lack of FORCED sensible naming conventions. Generics are the worst offender, with people often using a single letter to represent something…
Back in 2001, I started work as a web-developer right out of high school at the age of 17. My high school diploma wasn't good enough to get into a software engineering university in my country (the Netherlands), so I…
Thanks for clarifying that. I stand corrected. It all makes sense from just the financial point of view. So that means it isn't going away any time soon, unless there's a huge backlash from consumers. Perhaps the best…
Touch screens are just their 60+ year old fossils deciding "that's hip, that's what kids want!" and probably their testing audiences responding more positively to images of flashy touch screens and shiny lights. Driving…
I've worked at an agency like that for a loooong time in my past. It's shocking that a website that looks like a cookie-cutter template that you could buy for $50 on websites like WrapBootstrap could cost a THOUSAND…
Out of touch billionaire realises that he has to sell quite a lot of stocks in his companies in order to buy a dying social media platform that's mostly gamed by PR firms, bots, and the occasional actual user who…
"I really love your strategic approach, and I think we should seamlessly impact our intrepid cloud-ready technology with another meeting to go more in depth. I would like you, or John Smith from Marketing, to restore…
Eh, I can make a nice and similar argument against "full-stack" developers. I'm one of those, but I specialise in the front-end. Because that's what I'm really, really good at. When I see "full-stack" engineers do their…
Eh. I'd be okay with making all the software in the world open-source. It's only a matter of time before we have computers powerful enough to reverse-engineer everything in a split second anyway.
Well, true. But that's the point, it saves you from having to do all the work. Copilot saves me from leaving my IDE for a large amount of situations. It saves me from opening a new tab (tab #1003) and Googling my…
It has saved me a lot of time writing trivial shit that I usually have to copy/paste from the internet anyway. Is it worth $10 per month? I dunno. But they get me a kick-ass IDE, I get to store my project (privately)…
20+ Years of experience, most chairs are budget, most screens are budget Dell, most keyboards came packaged with the Dell offer. It's unimpressive 9 times out of 10. In the rare case you do find a good setup you tend to…
I started out web-development in 2001 (recently worked for Apple as a senior front-end engineer), and to me the 4 eras of JavaScript are: 1. Form alerts and confirms 2. Ajax, jQuery, and plugins 3. Frameworks, from…
> And that is extremely arrogant. I would end interview right now. I don't care who you are and how much experience you have, I believe in "no asshole" rule. I'm not being an asshole, the interview goes both ways. I…
My experience with problems that can't be solved with a Google search is limited. I tend to use existing technologies and I stick with an architecture that has been around for long enough to have proper support online.…
And Booking, now also twice. What can I say, Apple was fun. Stayed for 12 months and then I left. > If someone ever responded like you say you do at the start of an interview my notes would read something like "lots of…
~250 Candidates? Sure mate, I'd be surprised if at the end of your application process 5 of them remain and are still available. Companies are having a very hard time finding software engineers. For the first time in…
Nowadays, with 20+ years of experience as a software developer behind me, having worked for Apple, First American, Bloomberg, AT&T, Booking, Amazon, many startups, etc. my job interviews have never been easier. Before I…
A Reddit post from a few years ago explains pretty well why PHP has such a terrible reputation: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/5tqoqa/web_devs_wha... PHP should have chosen to undergo a rebranding a few years…
I'm a seasoned front-end engineer (20+ years of experience, working closely with UI and UX designers, worked for the big names, etc.) and I recently had to enter an invoice into a system and I couldn't figure out how it…
Fun fact: so are Rolex watches and so many other luxury nonsense products with a high price. Wear one on each arm. Travel via airplanes across borders. Sell the watches. Now you have a lot of untraceable cash. Fly back…
I compare it all to using Github Copilot in my daily work. Before, I needed to Google many problems to find answers, curate the answers, scroll down websites, read downvoted comments on StackOverflow, copy/paste code,…
The same trick is applied to trick potential customers into going through a sales funnel and convert to a paying customer. "There are 42 people watching this hotel right now! Only 3 rooms available for your dates! We'll…
I completely agree with this article, but it never bothers me in particular. But I'm a developer, so I'm an outlier. That said, I do wish that the error message I see every day would be simpler. <looks at TypeScript>
I sometimes miss the days of XSLT and XML. They were very performant and easy-to-use client-side templating technologies that had a lot of power. I still think there was a lot to be gained by combining XSLT and…
TypeScript has come a long way, but one of its biggest issues is the complete lack of FORCED sensible naming conventions. Generics are the worst offender, with people often using a single letter to represent something…
Back in 2001, I started work as a web-developer right out of high school at the age of 17. My high school diploma wasn't good enough to get into a software engineering university in my country (the Netherlands), so I…
Thanks for clarifying that. I stand corrected. It all makes sense from just the financial point of view. So that means it isn't going away any time soon, unless there's a huge backlash from consumers. Perhaps the best…
Touch screens are just their 60+ year old fossils deciding "that's hip, that's what kids want!" and probably their testing audiences responding more positively to images of flashy touch screens and shiny lights. Driving…
I've worked at an agency like that for a loooong time in my past. It's shocking that a website that looks like a cookie-cutter template that you could buy for $50 on websites like WrapBootstrap could cost a THOUSAND…
Out of touch billionaire realises that he has to sell quite a lot of stocks in his companies in order to buy a dying social media platform that's mostly gamed by PR firms, bots, and the occasional actual user who…
"I really love your strategic approach, and I think we should seamlessly impact our intrepid cloud-ready technology with another meeting to go more in depth. I would like you, or John Smith from Marketing, to restore…
Eh, I can make a nice and similar argument against "full-stack" developers. I'm one of those, but I specialise in the front-end. Because that's what I'm really, really good at. When I see "full-stack" engineers do their…
Eh. I'd be okay with making all the software in the world open-source. It's only a matter of time before we have computers powerful enough to reverse-engineer everything in a split second anyway.
Well, true. But that's the point, it saves you from having to do all the work. Copilot saves me from leaving my IDE for a large amount of situations. It saves me from opening a new tab (tab #1003) and Googling my…
It has saved me a lot of time writing trivial shit that I usually have to copy/paste from the internet anyway. Is it worth $10 per month? I dunno. But they get me a kick-ass IDE, I get to store my project (privately)…
20+ Years of experience, most chairs are budget, most screens are budget Dell, most keyboards came packaged with the Dell offer. It's unimpressive 9 times out of 10. In the rare case you do find a good setup you tend to…
I started out web-development in 2001 (recently worked for Apple as a senior front-end engineer), and to me the 4 eras of JavaScript are: 1. Form alerts and confirms 2. Ajax, jQuery, and plugins 3. Frameworks, from…
> And that is extremely arrogant. I would end interview right now. I don't care who you are and how much experience you have, I believe in "no asshole" rule. I'm not being an asshole, the interview goes both ways. I…
My experience with problems that can't be solved with a Google search is limited. I tend to use existing technologies and I stick with an architecture that has been around for long enough to have proper support online.…
And Booking, now also twice. What can I say, Apple was fun. Stayed for 12 months and then I left. > If someone ever responded like you say you do at the start of an interview my notes would read something like "lots of…
~250 Candidates? Sure mate, I'd be surprised if at the end of your application process 5 of them remain and are still available. Companies are having a very hard time finding software engineers. For the first time in…
Nowadays, with 20+ years of experience as a software developer behind me, having worked for Apple, First American, Bloomberg, AT&T, Booking, Amazon, many startups, etc. my job interviews have never been easier. Before I…
A Reddit post from a few years ago explains pretty well why PHP has such a terrible reputation: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/5tqoqa/web_devs_wha... PHP should have chosen to undergo a rebranding a few years…
I'm a seasoned front-end engineer (20+ years of experience, working closely with UI and UX designers, worked for the big names, etc.) and I recently had to enter an invoice into a system and I couldn't figure out how it…