On twitter, 9/10 devs I see are (primarily) JS/frontend devs.
In my life/career, it's more like 1/10
Of course, both scenarios have heavily skewed population samples but I should try to rebalance my TL a bit.
If you're *NOT* a JS/frontend dev, sound off 👇
😂
@VicVijayakumar
Lots of "rate limit" responses here but I don't think that's the best route here. These are async jobs. Assuming I get paid/job and i my server can handle writing 15k jobs to db, do it. Worker pools exist for a reason. Bonus points for per account pools to prevent noisy neighbors
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@DThompsonDev
Go to your manager. Tell them you've placed some destructive code somewhere in production with a pseudorandom generated trigger time. Tell them they have two options; they can fire you and have it go off some time in the future or they can swap salaries with you and you'll fix it
@VicVijayakumar
I (a Go developer) was so close to giving Ruby on Rails a shot, until [pick one of the many weird things DHH has done/said over the past couple years] happened and I didn't want to be associated with it.
That and magic methods sound scary.
Folks think I'm terrible at frontend dev. I'm not. I'm terrible at design and knowing what looks good 😅
Given mocks, I can code it up, make it responsive, a11y compliant, etc. Easy peasy. Code is easy. Design is hard (For me).
Much respect to all the UI/UX designers out there ✊🏾
@GergelyOrosz
Microsoft training vids were a highlight of the yr. Top tier production quality and it was like seasons in a show. Every yr a new season with evolving storylines but the same message at the core.
*chef's kiss*
@terrajobst
@Google
You don't control over what people do to you, but you have complete control over how you respond. You chose to blast this on social media with none of their details redacted. Your point could've been made without the PII. You didn't have to be harmful...
If this is how you think and report news, you're part of the problem. Investing in black-owned ventures isn't philanthropy. Investors expect a return just as they would with any other venture.
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Welcome. I'm a software engineer who talks about tech/life. I mainly tweet about the tech ecosystem outside frontend web dev. Other languages, security, networking, trends, engineering practices...
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One of the only companies that could pull me from Google, and the only one I spoke to at AfroTech... the head of recruiting is Jamaican.
I think this is a sign 😂
🤫 I'm hiring soon for a Senior Software Engineer 🤫
- GraphQL
- Platform
- Infrastructure
- JavaScript
Pro: you get to work with an amazing team
Con: I'll be your manager and no, you don't get free Netflix
Whenever I do end up leaving Google, I think the top things I'll miss:
- being able to plan trips around all the different offices worldwide
- bidets with heated seats
- being at companies large enough to have a 🇯🇲 ERG (unless I go back to msft, i guess)
All software engineers are self-taught. The only difference is what your launchpad looks like. You can jump a lot faster and higher with that foundational knowledge.
Senior yr, when i looked at apps and realized I didn't know any of the tech mentioned, I was livid at my college.
This happens all the time. Universities very literally are not training you for a job as a software engineer.
They are training you in the academic field of the science of computing.
My programming language journey:
1. Pascal (I think this is a great intro to encourage good programming habits, but I understand that it's outdated 😅)
2. C ❤️
3. Python👐
4. C++😒
5. C#🧐
6. Node/JS🤢
7. Forgot C++ 😂
8. Go😍💕
9. Forgot C#😟
10. Java😭
Please don't lie in your resume about your experience with a language. If you don't know how python dicts and for loops work, don't (yet) list it as a skill and maybe don't ask for the interview to be in that language. 🥺
Case in point, I detest Java much more than I dislike react. But 1/3 of the code I write daily is Java because that's what *my* role/field required right now. Do the thing that gets you paid and mess around with whatever else you want.
It's been amazing to see all the companies at
#AfroTech22
that are still actively hiring and running onsite interviews. For entry level roles and internships too!
So happy to see my people secure their bag! 😤
3 years ago, I did the damn thing.
For everyone else graduating this season, congrats 🎉! Take a moment to just breathe and recognize your accomplishments.
For those leaving with a CS degree and going into tech... Feel free to forget whatever you learned. It doesn't matter 😅🥲
Thanks for those checking in on me. I'm good. I wasn't impacted.
Just woke up so don't have a full handle on all that's happened as yet. I only know 1 person affected so far but I'll be checking on my network of Googlers.
If you're not working multiple remote jobs with chatGPT you're leaving money on the table.
I just finished setting up my home office to work 10 different remote engineering jobs.
I'm personally not worried about AI taking my job.
My most embarrassing render moment...
Me, talking to
@r_marked
about vtubers without knowing it
Me: yeah, I only know about them cuz there's this guy
@t3dotgg
who's big on Twitter and yt and started this company called Ping-
Mark: yeah, I'm his CTO
Me: oohh you're that Mark! Hi!
Breaking news: The OpenAI drama is real.
We checked our data and last night, SF saw a spike in low-quality sleep. There was a 27% increase in people getting under 5 hours of sleep. We need to fix this.
Source:
@eightsleep
data
I guess this is as good a time as any to debut the domain I bought for my bday last yr. If you're over on bluesky, connect with me. And then do domain verification cuz it's so quick and nice!
Well, I'm officially no longer a Tesla owner. Thus ends the chapter of the most joyous and expensive purchase I've ever made. Till we meet again ♥️
Anyway, on we go
A bad thing about being in a massive company is your presence can seem insignificant.
A great thing about being at a massive company is your absence can be insignificant.
I've been drained for the past 2 weeks with moving and have basically got nothing done. Hasn't mattered.
I'll let y'all in on a secret. As an engineer you realize the code is the least important part. That's just implementation details. The bulk of my time is spent designing the thing, writing docs and getting it reviewed.
Show me those Google docs/markdown skills 😂
So my team has an ongoing thread trying to solve an obscure bug. In the 3rd comment I suggest doing something that I thought might be risky. No one responds to it. 5 comments later in the same thread a TL suggested the same thing and everyone's like, "that's a great idea"... 🙄
Then this morning I went to work, plugged in my car for free charging, went to get some free breakfast, looked at this week's paycheck and thought, "Let's not get carried away... I'm well compensated for 'bad days'."
Then I proceeded to have another bad day 😭
You'd think this situation is unique but it's not! I once saw a stat that 60+% googlers had never used vscode. 30+% never heard of it. Many senior engs have never used git, much less the deluge of tools tech twitter argues about. But they're some of the smartest & highest paid 😅
- visited 7 countries, 20+ cites, 1 new continent
- dropped 20 lbs
- bought my dad a vehicle
- made more than last yr
- spent more than last yr
- made more than I spent
- lost and regained motivation by pivoting my job role
My TL keeps tryna get me to talk about my work and present to leadership more often 😅
Don't worry, I'll start the show 6 months before I plan to go for the next promo 🤣
Appreciate TLs who look out for their teams 💖
@VicVijayakumar
Huh... I've seen staff eng that do nothing except add themselves as reviewers on PRs and design docs. And staff engs that steal work from each other based on perceived potential impact. Rarely, if ever, I've seen this ideal staff+ that sees/anticipates problems and fixes them
What. The. Actual. Fk!! Google is selling its domains business to squarespace!?! Why??!
I hate it here. I no longer want to be associated with this circus 😭
I just tried
@sourcegraph
for the first time and I'm in tears. It's so good!!! Amazing search across public repos. Intuitive/powerful search features (filtering, regex). Great go-to-def, find impl, find refs. Lovely file UI (file symbols, commit history, etc).
@zenhorace
@sparkythehuman
@sourcegraph
Not a Xoogler, but yes, that is the aim. It's essentially at feature parity on code search and navigation. Also, our Batch Changes ~= Rosie, and we have Code Insights (nice time-series charts of code trends over time).
Mentality matters so much. I find that whenever I switch my thinking from, "Can I solve this problem?" to, "I'm gonna solve this problem... Let's see how", it feels like a world of possibilities opens up.
So Google officially giving Juneteenth as a holiday off. I still maintain the most pro-black thing they've done is having lotion as one of the amenities in each bathroom.
#ashbegone
This is the problem with this platform. The dude had 150 followers, been posting some barely funny memes, getting no traction.
He posts a misogynistic meme, it blows up. It shows how this platform selects for controversy.
Do better.
Companies like them (and Microsoft) publish yearly diversity reports. They love touting their pay equality in these reports. But they only report base salaries, for which they keep tight limits. But that's literally only half our compensation. The gap persists with equity & bonus
Leaked Google pay data reveals pay gaps by level, location, race, and gender. On average, Black Google employees earn $20K less than their white peers, with lower bonuses and equity.
💯
DSA can be a grind. And unless you're happy knowing that the preparation for the interview is almost completely divorced from the prep needed on the job, you'll have a miserable time studying DSA.
Unpopular opinion maybe, and I know you don't hear this in courses on technical interviewing but...
...you don't need to do data structures and algorithms (DS&A) interviews to be successful in tech.
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@codedbyval
It may by misogyny in your case, but not always. Ask, if possible. When persons have said that to me, they've meant that my communication skills, social cues etc are better than what they think of for a stereotypical coder... I still take offense but could be worse I guess 😒
@davidfowl
@doxla
I think this needs to be appended to the original tweet.
I find modern laptops more than capable. But being a developer doesn't automatically make you a power user.
If one can easily afford both, sure. But something like the surface laptop studio meets majority use cases.
I helped someone with their CS homework and I miss that time. The certainty of scope. Completeness of requirements. You start the project knowing exactly what is needed. Ah... Why can't life be like that 😂
Most folks think about leaving their jobs after their stock vests or bonus is paid.
For me, it's right before my on-call shift. 😤
I know it's gonna be bad but I'm never prepared because it's always horrible in a new way 😭
@davidfowl
@doxla
Mhm. But how many devs are running OBS and VS?
Not saying the performance is on par. Just that a good laptop meets most workloads.
Heck, I have a maxed out gaming laptop and I'm looking to downsize. All i need are ports, tons of browser tabs and vscode with remote dev/rdp 🤷🏾♂️
Yay! I just got a bonus for landing some work that bumped part of our service from 2 and a half nines to 4 and a half nines.
Random/unexpected recognition is nice 😅
My gosh ATL is the worst airport to fly out of 😭
I got there earlier that I've got to an airport in years and still almost missed my flight. They had to reopen the doors for me 💀