I Am Devloper✓

Everyone thinks they are a 10x engineer. Forty questions will tell you what you actually are.

Go today. read it twice.

daily JavaScript puzzle. reply with your answer, no cheating.

this week's digest is out. the good ones, plus whatever i said this week in 2014.

Your Jira ticket says 'in progress'. It has said that since March. Nobody involved remembers what the progress was.

Python. harder than it looks.

signs you've become the senior dev: you're the only one who understands the deploy script you're the only one who remembers why it's cursed you wrote the deploy script you're now too afraid to touch the deploy script you added a comment instead, saying 'do not touch'

today's Go one. no googling.

index.php had no tests, no types, and 100% uptime. we don't talk about that.

2015: -senior dev means you've shipped five systems 2025: -senior dev means you're the only one left who remembers why none of them can be shipped again

who's worst at estimating time, software engineers or washing machines?

new JavaScript one up.

Manager: we need someone senior. Me: what's the salary. Manager: junior, obviously. Me: so someone senior who'll work for junior money. Manager: we prefer to call it a growth opportunity.

Python. one line changes everything.

You can track my rage at a bug through the git history. processData processDataProperly processDataForRealThisTime fixProcessDataOhGodWhy

today's puzzle. you have six guesses.

just read about scope creep. while i'm in here i'm also going to add dark mode.

JavaScript today. read it twice.

just found out about the second-system effect. anyway, rewriting it properly this time.

"I see you've stepped away for a few minutes to make coffee, would be an awful shame if I announced that to your whole company and showed them you're not working" - MS Teams

judging someone's GitHub contribution activity graph has always felt like a weird hiring metric to me "how much extra job do you do when you're not jobbing"