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Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Re: Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Post by jedberg »

Bender wrote: post #30

"Movie Hacker" should perhaps include nmap and sshnuke [1] despite being a real command and a real skiddie exploit [2]. When that that first played in the movies (The Matrix) people in the bay area theaters were standing up and cheering. People not familiar with the tools were very confused as to what was going on. [1] - https://nmap.org/movies/ [2] - https://blog.doyensec.com/2025/03/04/exploitable-sshd.html

And they even bumped the version number so it would be “in the future”. I remember watching it in the Bay Area and having the same reaction.

Re: Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Post by malux85 »

Typing speed only really matters for juniors and going into intermediate developers, after that point thinking methodology - abstraction design, data structures, system design, complexity isolation, matter way, WAY more.

50% because by the time you get to this your typing speed has crossed a threshold of no longer being the bottleneck and 50% because you are experienced enough not to make all the silly little mistakes and your unit of work is larger and more complex

Re: Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Post by lucb1e »

mashlol wrote: post #34
hronecviktor wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's on a VM running behind caddy + bog-standard Let's Encrypt DV cert. It apparently works for nearly everyone, but I did have one user in the past that reported that *.0s.is domain doesnt work in his browser. Could not get enough info about what his setup was, if you could share what OS/Browser + versions you got that would be much appreciated

For me, Firefox on desktop (Windows) and mobile (Android) both give the SSL warning. Although mine appears a bit different than the parent comment: An error occurred during a connection to haxxorwpm.0s.is. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

No issues here with Firefox on Linux or Android 11 (installed from F-Droid in case that matters). Strange. I wonder if it's a network difference rather than the workstation setup

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Post by jdiff »

lucb1e wrote: post #9
hronecviktor wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, if you have any specific ideas about the UI, I would love to hear them

Switching categories does not restore scroll position to top, so you start to type what shows as being on top and the whole list changes to "you've got the first command wrong and here is a completely new list to type". I didn't understand what had happened at first The scroll position of the whole page (including the field where I'm typing) changes when you press enter with the first three commands, until until the…

> The highscores don't show the run's duration, aka the error margin

Different durations have different high score lists.

Re: Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Post by Yiin »

JohnMakin wrote: post #39
jascha_eng wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It used to be that DevOps was the movement of merging Ops leftwards so that Devs own the Operation of their software.

and devs almost universally end up not wanting to do that

in the age of agents I found myself loving frontend again, loving devops again, loving email servers again, you name it, I suspect in most cases those roles will merge into one (excluding the ones needing extreme competency and trust).

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Post by LtWorf »

jghn wrote: post #31
abhaynayar wrote: post #10

Something I realized with the new LLM tools is that learning how to type plain English words fast i.e. without capitalization or punctuation, and even typos is not that big of a problem anymore. And so it follows that code-specific typing is even less important if you can just type in normal words fast and then just check it's output. Although yes for stuff this small i.e. super small terminal commands I feel there d…

I'm not sure. And to be honest, typing speed was never that big a deal. By the time I got out of college a few decades ago I was in the 110-120wpm range. However as I progressed in my career as a developer what I found is that both my "working" WPM and then my "normal" WPM dropped over time. Once I moved out of truly junior, pure code grinding roles, I spent more and more time thinking, talking to people, etc than I…

I'm pretty sure that also people who write novels aren't held back by how fast they can type.
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