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Our team just got a new (senior) team member. He's nice and he knows a lot. Our codebase is not the best codebase out there (we know that), and we do mix certain best practices from here and there (clean code,…

I'm in the last stage of an interview and they have handed me over an offer later where it states that I can work remotely but on certain occasions I will have to travel to the office. These occasions are: important…

For the ones who are members, is it worth it? I always had in mind that the ACM and IEEE were for "professionals, for real engineers/computer scientists who are pushing the industry forward". I'm just a developer who…

I work currently as a "senior" swe and my duties cover a wide range of technologies and non-tech related stuff: Elixir, Go, nginx, mysql, Docker, debezium, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, HTTP APIs, a bit of Angular,…

It's crazy, but this seems to be accurate from my limited experience: 1. Senior backend developer (~10 years of experience) trying to find a 100K Euro/year job in Western Europe: quite hard if all you want to be is a…

I have been looking for a job (as a software engineer) in the last weeks and almost all the companies out there try to differentiate from others by highlighting their "culture" (some call them their "principles", and…

A few months ago I got a new job as a senior software engineer and my engineer manager has asked me to talk about my long-term goals regarding my career. Now, I'm 30 years old, and my long-term goals (and even my…

For normal/regular developers (including myself) who push their "invert binary tree algorithm", "hackerrank solutions", "home-made static site generator" to GitHub/GitLab: why are you doing it? With all the fuzz that…

With the recent incident of NewsBlur (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27613217), I was wondering how do you guys secure a server on the internet immediately after it boots. I usually do this: 1. terrafom to…

So, I am working on a side project and the way I deploy my (golang) application is basically: - build binary - copy binary, config files and static assets to the production server - do blue green deployment (with nginx)…

So, this is one is easy. In the future (let's say in 50 years) one would be able to buy brand-new old-model products. For example: - I would be able to buy a brand-new iPod Classic 1st generation from Apple itself (and…

I've been using DigitalOcean's VPC feature which is quite handy. Now, I have to setup my infrastructure using Hetzner... but they do not offer VPCs, although they offer subnets. The setup is very similar in both cases:…

Based on https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98742, it seems that Virtualbox will not work on an ARM host computer, no plans to port it. Since I heavily rely on the pack Vagrant + Virtualbox to do…

What: Increase software developer salaries in Western Europe How: Whenever you get an offer (e.g., via Linkedin) you are not interested in, reply with a "Sorry, but I'm not looking for something new unless the salary…

According to GDPR (https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers/data-protection/data-protection-gdpr/index_en.htm) > Data transfer outside the EU When personal data is transferred outside the EU, the…

For the ones who rent: Will you keep paying the rent even after you retire? In your 80s? Or perhaps will you inherit a house/apartment? For the ones who pay a mortgage: Do you try to minimize the period needed for…

We all know the most popular books for software engineers. One could just google it (e.g., Clean Code, DDIA, SICP, TAOCP, K&R books, Steven's books, etc.). What are the not-so-popular-but-still-good books in computer…

We all know the popular ones, but I would like to hear about the not-so-popular ones that are still worth reading. I'll start: - The Art of SQL by Stéphane Faroult That's it. It's a bit hard to come up with more, so I…