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Many of the ones I know end up at other companies that had troubles finding good employees before. And a bunch of others started their own companies, and they are/will hire their o…

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 ha…

I was working on my own project. Medium-sized, a full-stack web application that I'll release somewhere this year. It's a Next.js front-end, I did all my own CSS and optimisations,…

I'd imagine that, as people in poorer regions in the world get access to laptops, we'll see a big increase in free operating systems. Sure, you could crack Windows, but why would y…

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 commen…

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 …

I hate Tailwind with the passion of a million suns. It's loved by novices and those who don't know what they're doing, almost exclusively. They claim they know CSS, but will fail a…

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 wou…

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 b…

I still can't buy the PS5 in my country. To me, Sony is dead. I've had every Playstation console from the start and have bought one within months of release, it has been almost TWO…

They wrote you can be agile if you move to the cloud. Did you try that? I jest. But that's kind of the point. SAP is terrible by the nature of the beast. It's a closed off system w…

"We don't know how fire comes to life, and we will never know." "We don't know how to defend ourselves against beasts, and we'll never know." "We don't know how disease spreads, le…

I'm just wondering why these services need centralised hosting to begin with. Peer-to-peer networking isn't new, Blockchain as a tech could take care of decentralised but shared in…

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…

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 i…

Most people who aren't rich are poor because they showboat.

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 back…

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 …

If that `color:hover` issue is the problem, then we should have pseudo classes like that change their syntax by using a double colon: color::hover { ... } Or maybe class names can'…

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 …

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, an…

"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 J…

I hate it. Being forced to document crap in a pile of tens of thousands of documented things is insanity. Nobody reads that stuff, but because it's documented, you can always say: …

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. Whe…