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Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by duiker101 »

balfirevic wrote: post #24
duiker101 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am really not the best person to answer this because I am still very unexperienced. But I had the luck of writing one blog post that got a lot of traction and to have a website that can generate a bit of traffic to the blog. The actual writing was really the hard part for me. Putting my knowledge to words is tricky. I struggle with finding topics and how to express them. What worked for now was more of a "whatever,…

> I am really not the best person to answer this because I am still very unexperienced. Nah, that is exactly why I asked you, and I mean that in a positive way. Someone very experienced might have very well forgotten how it was when they started, or they might have started when online writing landscape was quite different. Or, worse, they might say "well, I just sent an email to my 5000-member email list, how else wo…

I put it under the main website, blog.hackertyper.net

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by Traster »

phalangion wrote: post #9
moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

I wish we could stop complaints about Medium from showing up on every post from Medium. It's a distraction from the content, and off topic, and yet the complaint shows up with remarkable regularity.

Ok. I'm going to do it. The (m/M)edium is the message. It's relevant whether you're delivering your message on twitter or medium or god forbid facebook.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by AnonsLadder »

moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

I don't mind, but i'd love to see more people create blogs on their own webspace. I enjoy looking at others' portfolio/ self-made blogs, it makes me more willing to tip

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by Traster »

donretag wrote: post #3

I am a good developer, and even better communicator. That said, I have no interest in social media. It just seems so forced.

Let's face it, it's not much to do with being a good communicator. People don't go on twitter because they want to be more effective at communicating, they go on twitter because that's where the audience is despite it being a terrible place for communicating complex issues. (Here, let me link you to that 27 tweet thread, which, inexplicably, is 27 separate posts instead of a single post because we're insane).

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by drewcoo »

phalangion wrote: post #9
moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

I wish we could stop complaints about Medium from showing up on every post from Medium. It's a distraction from the content, and off topic, and yet the complaint shows up with remarkable regularity.

I have a solution for both you and the gp who doesn't want medium posts . . . HN could stop doing medium posts. Win-win!

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by kubanczyk »

apeescape wrote: post #13

As Homer Simpson noted^, jealousy and envy mean different things. If you're jealous, you're worried someone will take something away from you, whereas an envious person just wants to get other people's success for themself. ^ https://youtu.be/Tmx1jpqv3RA

Well, the New Oxford doesn't agree with Homer Simpson then.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by jfk13 »

apeescape wrote: post #13

As Homer Simpson noted^, jealousy and envy mean different things. If you're jealous, you're worried someone will take something away from you, whereas an envious person just wants to get other people's success for themself. ^ https://youtu.be/Tmx1jpqv3RA

That's only one of several meanings of "jealousy".

Excerpted from the OED:

> 3. Solicitude or anxiety for the preservation or well-being of something; vigilance in guarding a possession from loss or damage.

> 4. The state of mind arising from the suspicion, apprehension, or knowledge of rivalry:

> b. in respect of success or advantage: Fear of losing some good through the rivalry of another; resentment or ill-will towards another on account of advantage or superiority, possible or actual, on his part; envy, grudge.

You're focusing on definition (3), but ignoring other aspects found in (4.b).

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by ZinZirconium »

> They stream themselves coding at the same time each week without fail.

Nope. Anybody who streams themselves coding is not a real coder. Coding is not rapid fire typing memorized boilerplate code to techno background music. Real life is not Mr Robot. When they do it at the same time each week that's the reddest of red flags that they're performing an act. It's all staged. As staged as professional wrestling is kayfabe.

Real coding doesn't happen on a strict schedule. There's research, design, and testing to be done and mistakes to be made and corrected. Typing out the code is the least important part of coding and by far the least interesting. But real work doesn't hold the attention of techbro posers long enough to sell ads now does it.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by duiker101 »

ZinZirconium wrote: post #38

> They stream themselves coding at the same time each week without fail. Nope. Anybody who streams themselves coding is not a real coder. Coding is not rapid fire typing memorized boilerplate code to techno background music. Real life is not Mr Robot. When they do it at the same time each week that's the reddest of red flags that they're performing an act. It's all staged. As staged as professional wrestling is kayfa…

No. This is gatekeeping at it's finest. You can say that while they stream they are working on their social media presence more than the codebase, but streaming per-se doesn't stop them from being "real coders".

Everyone codes however they want. What works for you might be different for someone else. And wanting to do it while interacting with an audience or streaming themselves creating something they already know how to do are all completely fine things.

Re: I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

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Post by [deleted] »

phalangion wrote: post #9
moritonal wrote: post #5

Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content. It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.

I wish we could stop complaints about Medium from showing up on every post from Medium. It's a distraction from the content, and off topic, and yet the complaint shows up with remarkable regularity.

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