mouzogu

> Do you not need a google account to push to the chrome store?

i don't know. i'm just talking about the simple act of porting an existing chrome js file to work in safari.

it takes 2 minutes to port to firefox and you dont need to dowlonad gigs of proprietary junk on your machine and create an account.

good read. thanks.

> "This [lack of movement] indicates there might be some kind of competitive exclusion going on: Perhaps more energetic, younger deer with offspring to feed are colonizing the best grazing patches."

sounds like ageism in the job market (joking).

i think there is always a simple thing behind motivation. hunger, violence, greed...humans just good at hiding the naked truth.

safari dev tools suck ass. and they have done for at least 5 years if not more.

i'd say they've gotten worse even.

and expecting me to create an Apple ID and then download 30GB of xcode crap just to port my 5kb chrome extension to safari. yea right.

> "Start with the absolute simplest ecosystem possible"

has to be the most javascripty advice ever lol. instead of "solution", uses "ecosystem". lmao.

the problem with web is and always has been that there is a million ways to do the same thing. each one has it's own trade off, and you might not discover that until you're far too deep into the muck.

> you can introduce levels of complexity

yes, which is why the job market sucks for most people. being able to do the job is no longer good enough.

> I do need at least one baker capable of drawing a valid orbital configuration.

this way of thinking that contributes to such a toxic job market.

there's too many people applying for too few jobs. that's it.

this bullcrap about inflation, baking bread, interest rates, team building are all symptoms of entitlement.

if you only had 2 applicants you wouldn't be thinking that way.

web dev has been dead since 2015 bro. if not earlier.

it's grunt work. maybe 1-2 levels above simple data entry.

> When I'm on the hiring side, we can't find candidates

i had the perception that people's standards and expectations are too high.

like it's not enough to just be able to do the job, you have to demonstrate something extra to stand out.

when i read the job ads HR posts for my own team, it doesn't sound anything like what we actually do.

> "I’m at a point where I want to start looking at the next step, the next level within our company, the 46-year-old said. “I’m learning every day.”

i realised recently that covid has made me un-hireable.

this type of thinking, i can't do it anymore. i've tasted freedom and i saw how short life is to waste in a office.

> "Borderless hiring"

> "Value-driven efficiency"

> "Global time zone delineation"

> "Value chain"

> "Globalized opportunity"

> "Decentralized tech talent platform"

> "Asynchronous workforce"

> "Future-of-work philosophy"

> "Altruistic potential"

> "Growth playbook"

all just sounds like grade A bullshit to me. off-shoring is nothing new. still has same issues it always did.

although much dev work has become very commodified and saturated so the demographic reality is that it's very hard to find a job, and most jobs dont pay well and hiring has become extremely arrogant and choosy.

> every field has "technical" skills.

> they're simply the skills used to produce the work.

it's contextual, words can mean different things in different context.

in my work technical skills just means that you are a manager who progressed through engineering. you understand our problems and speak in the same terms.

non-technical is just someone from a different contextual background. although in their own context of dealing with humans ("soft skills") is also a "technical" skill in that it require specific skills which we engineers may not have.

> Oddly, it's not nearly the disaster I anticipated. It looks like an ordinary weak economy, the kind you get from time to time.

well they lost the right to live, work and freely travel through the EU.

and what did they gain in return for that. a weak economy.

> "The company’s official help pages steer users who have been hacked toward confusing automated tools that often lead users to dead-end links"

the internet feels more and more a hostile place.

i find myself constantly getting frustrated with bs like this.

like fucking passwords that expire every month and have some voodoo criteria. like don't try and outsource your internal secruity on me bich.

"move fast and break things" as zuckerborg himself said

most of the js ecosystem is made of stream of consciousness kludge that is constantly being "refactored" and "deprecated"

effing tiresome as hell dealing with that sh-t...and this mentality seems to have seeped entirely into nu-dev as i see it also in other ecos now

torrent is really a great technology.

subversive and evergreen. genuinely useful and hard to kill.

"The ongoing labour arbitrage – the deskilling of developers – can only be addressed with collective bargaining and union action."

web dev does feel more like cheap labor work tbh. aside from a few exceptions. mostly tedious grunt work.

musk finally found a use for X. pushing fascistic rhetoric to distract from his banditry.

the alternative would be socialism, and he definitely does not want that.

> "As debt increases, you narrow the range of outcomes you can endure in life."

when you have cash you do what you want. when you have debt you do what someone else wants.

a software i paid for 10 years ago recently got bought by another company.

they immediately added bs "features" like dark theme, changed to subscription model with 1 year sub price 3x what i paid to buy it outright, and reduced trial from 30 to 12 days

piracy is the only true form of digital ownership.

yeah a big part of it was developers offloading some administrative responsibilities, which ends up as a loss of power.

saturation of both devs & recruiters, with the bottleneck being HR.

we (developers) used to gatekeep recruiters, and now recruiters gatekeep us.

where did we go wrong...

i think it might be some accounting trickery from a BTC miner to avoid some regulations.

today is the BTC halving.

when i started my career, being a lazy dev was seen as a positive trope. it was understood as someone who is pragmatic in their choices.

we all spoke the same language.

now say you are lazy and your "resume" will get immediately trashed.

different culture and people.

reddit front page used to be all memes and humour

...now it's all US bizarro world politics and weird interpersonal sexual TMI stuff.

"move fast and break things"

turned out to be prophetically true in many many ways.