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I am getting tired of web development after a couple decades. Anyone work in an interesting software development area that you'd recommend?

I'm on the cusp of going back to a job I really enjoyed that paid pretty well, but I was lured away by my current, high-paying job (for the money, prestige, etc.). I'm getting cold feet because of the money, but I'm…

I work at a Big Tech company and in my part of the org I can't help but feel like the EM role here adds more of an inefficiency than anything else. Our EM has 10 backend engineers under him. There are about five other…

My job is pretty terrible aside from the pay. What that means is, in this market, it's been basically impossible to land any job interviews for positions equal to or greater than my current pay (or honestly even close).…

I am noticing a trend, perhaps a "do more with less" thing, where frontend job postings are starting to ask for frontend engineers who can also act as designers and even UX researchers. Is anyone else finding this? Is…

I really like the website https://tosdr.org to find out a privacy grade for sites and apps. Is there anything similar that tells you how to change settings for these various services to improve privacy but minimally…

I'm 40, almost 20 years of software eng experience, some of it in big tech. Have two small kids. I just don't want to do the leet code anymore. Too tired for that stuff. Happy to pair program on practical coding…

I know this depends quite a bit on the application, but is there a general stack you use that you know you can knock out something quickly and deploy on the cheap?

Find myself resenting my big tech job and wondering if it is worth it to look at doing more noble work like non-profit or even government services. Is the grass just greener?

I'm not much of a Wordpress fan, but I can appreciate how resilient it has been as the top CMS out there. How has it been able to keep being so dominant in the space?

I created a toy web app locally that does single-use e2e encryption. It uses browser subtle crypto (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto). Essentially the idea is that you land on the page and…

For me, I usually ask what the development process is like from identification of a bug or feature through delivery. I've had 5 jobs and my liking of the answer to that question has correlated with my liking of the job…

Hey all, senior eng here transitioning into a technical lead role (driving the technical work rather than being a people manager). I'm interested in studying the subject outside of just getting my hands dirty at work.…