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It annoys me so much that a web browser became the best PDF viewer app

Today I submitted my resignation at Netflix. They rejected it. Apparently, you can’t resign from a company you don’t work at.

Amazing things are happening on LinkedIn

I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years. Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust. Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot. Anyway, this is my desktop now.

Computers have insanely better CPUs and much more RAM nowadays, yet they feel slower than 20 years ago. I used to think it happens because computers do more useful work. Turns out, better hardware is more forgiving to crappy coding practices.

Software Engineers are not paid for writing code. They’re paid for solving problems. The faster you accept this, the better your life and career will be.

Day in the Life of a Senior SWE at Bloomberg

You won't believe how much my life has changed in the last 24 hours after publishing this clip

Strong men create C++ C++ creates good times Good times create weak men Weak men create Python Python creates hard times Hard times create strong men

A gifted kid who won a math competition now writes JIRA tickets for a living

A Senior Engineer in Europe earns less than a Junior Engineer in the US

I’m on a Zoom call with a developer. They decide it’s better to show the code to explain their point. They open Emacs with the default theme and no syntax highlighting. It was at this moment I realised that I’m talking to a tech wizard.

Duplicating code is fine

It's crazy how after 23 years, devs haven't created anything better than JSON for the human-readable serialisation/config format

After working as an SWE for 10 years, I learned that irreplaceable engineers do exist. What I also learned is that companies are perfectly fine letting irreplaceable engineers go.

Docker is stupid. “Sorry, we can’t deploy a single statically linked executable of size 10 MB, so LET’S JUST SHIP GIGABYTES OF DATA CONTAINING AN ENTIRE OS WITH ALL DEPENDENCIES FOR EVERY SINGLE SERVICE”

Computers have insanely better CPUs and much more RAM nowadays, yet they feel slower than 20 years ago. I used to think it happens because computers do more useful work. Turns out, better hardware is more forgiving to crappy coding practices.

A Senior Engineer in Europe earns less than a Junior Engineer in the US

Quant interview question: You press a button that gives your randomly uniformly distributed number between $0 and $100K Each time you press, you have two choices: 1. Stop and take this amount of money 2. Try again You can try 10 times total. When do you stop?

As a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, you should know: MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite MongoDB DynamoDB Cassandra LevelDB RabbitMQ Kafka Redis Docker K8S Nix Linux C Python Bash JS HTML CSS JIRA

I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years. Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust. Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot. Anyway, this is my desktop now.

Today I submitted my resignation at Netflix. They rejected it. Apparently, you can’t resign from a company you don’t work at.

It's crazy how after 23 years, devs haven't created anything better than JSON for the human-readable serialisation/config format

Docker is stupid. “Sorry, we can’t deploy a single statically linked executable of size 10 MB, so LET’S JUST SHIP GIGABYTES OF DATA CONTAINING AN ENTIRE OS WITH ALL DEPENDENCIES FOR EVERY SINGLE SERVICE”

Python is a great first programming language. Its main problem, it’s a toy language. Too bad many people didn’t realise that, and started using it in production seriously. And now we all suffer.

Here’s a proper 1-hour SWE interview question to filter out people who don’t have basic coding skills: Implement a pure function from scratch to calculate the day of the week by year, month and day.

I’m tired of bs coding interview question. Here’s a real question to filter for 10x devs: Store a binary tree in an SQL table and fetch it with a single query. Go.

As a Software Engineer who deeply cares about my craft and the quality of code I produce, It’s incredibly hard to cope with the fact that shit software almost always wins.

Languages I approve: C++, C, OCaml, Haskell, Ruby, Gleam, Kotlin, Flix, PHP, Pascal Languages I don’t approve: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Zig, Java, C#, Scala, Clojure, Rust, Perl, Go

Software Engineers are not paid for writing code. They’re paid for solving problems. The faster you accept this, the better your life and career will be.

Strong men create C++ C++ creates good times Good times create weak men Weak men create Python Python creates hard times Hard times create strong men

I’ve been programming for 16 years. It still annoys me that restarting a service weekly is an industry-wide accepted solution to fixing memory leaks.