yuriyb

> I think I'm done with the tech industry. 98% of the sort of programming people actually pay you for is about as pleasant as a root canal. I'm currently on a sick leave and seriously entertaining the idea of changing careers to something entirely different. Like gardening.

More than a decade of professional software development later, I'm having very similar thoughts.

I now spend 1/4 of my work week fighting dependency hell (after just about each addition of a new package by any other developer on the project), another 1/4 figuring out how the "latest and greatest" tool of the week is best used to do something that would normally take me 5 minutes to do custom (god forbid, not the C-word!), and the remaining half is spent maybe doing actual work. So incredibly frustrating that I've just about had it.

I've grown to loathe and hate that which I used to adore.

Google provides a way to "subscribe" to email notifications of new search results for a given term (don't have the link handy right now). I've been subscribed to results for my full name for many years, and occasionally get an email of a new mention here and there.

I've never provided literal, logical answers to security questions, as even without sharing the answers elsewhere, the logical ones would be entirely too easy to guess.

"Make of first car?" There are only so many vehicle brands reasonably accessible in a geographical area - not hard to brute force.

"City of birth?" Common knowledge among all my friends.

It's too easy.

An appropriate answer to "Make of first car?" would be something like "red &5 Blueberry."