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This may sound a little bit ridiculous, but if you’re really into computers: Grab a 6502, build a computer yourself - the chips are cheap and overall availability is good. Try writ…

I start to think most people in Software don’t care at all. Before LLMs they were forced to at least pretend and they had been guarded by more and more style guiding, architecture,…

It doesn’t make any sense. If you can build a business purely with LLMs, then it’s even easier to copy it. Producing much output fast was never valuable, but those Valley guys seem…

Why would anyone want to do that? Why not automate these tasks and let Claude handle everything on its own? If the maintenance and implementation can be done by an LLM, I see no lo…

There is much beauty in the C-code of the compiler.

don'hurt me…

Most job postings are fake / ghost jobs. Some are used for companies to evaluate the talent pool and find the lowest possible wages. Others are made to collect and even sell your d…

For any production ready software you plan a budget around the cost of a new car. Mostly even a lot more. Just finishing a software project takes at least 80% of time and money bes…

It depends on many factors. No policy fits every team or situation. If feedback times - weather due to pipeline or personal/reviews - are long, I would also push larger PRs. Also r…

The author seems to try to enforce programming constraints in order to fix one problem they identified, to fix all related problems that may occur in future. It is obvious that he …

You can try voluntary work. Working in animal shelters, or as you mentioned red cross / caritas could offer such opportunities. See, whatever you do, it will teach you required ski…

When I did game dev I often went for an even driven approach or messaging based systems combined with oop and state machines to prevent eventual consistency locally. It works great…

I had a client that enforced writing every customer facing software in C++14. In 2024 they suddenly need to support various web technologies and modern web infrastructure. They sti…

I assume you mean information density? If so programming languages basic information density is set by their amount of keywords and symbols used for parsing. But there also is impl…

In Germany I often come across MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, Angular and Node.JS. Also Java Spring, ASP.net and MySQL is still in use heavily here. Agencies and E-Commerce mostly hav…

A decompressed 4k texture uses ~80-90MB of VRAM. Your development tools index millions of lines of code. Not sure what your terminal does tho. But finally it’s mostly the massive a…

I would recommend to not use a framework at all. I usually maintain legacy projects and modernize them for my clients. Whatever you feel is the latest shiny thing will be the legac…

Never work for free! Either cash or equity. You should expect an equity relative to your amount of work multiplied by the median freelancer hourly rate in your region. For example:…

In 2021 and 2022 companies hired developers in masses. Low interest rates and a boom mentality lead to an extraordinary number of projects being started even if not profitable. In …

Hey friend ;) Freelancer from Germany here. While I don’t know much about the markets outside of the EU I hope I might still have some helpful advice. First things first: make sure…

You can of course hire a contractor and tax them as usual business costs. But for a permanent position the employee needs a European Social ID, a Tax ID, health care account and a …

What makes you think that developers from Brazil, Vietnam, Canada, Egypt or the US would demand so much lower wages? I helped companies onboarding people from all over the globe, a…

Many managers I got to know have a hard time expressing themselves in English properly. They fear miscommunication and the administrative work connected to non-German employees.

Freelance developer from Germany here. There is a significant drop in projects and a slowdown in permanent offerings, but no layoff wave like in the US. Demand is still high but du…

Does a 10x artist exist? Or a 10x football player? How about a 10x manager? While outstanding talent does exist, it is extremely rare and often can only thrive in specific environm…