That’s why they call us backend developers!

Brb changing a million libraries on npm to use padStart instead of left-pad and removing the dependency

The fact that the div center search needs a year on it got me lol

Loving my nearly frontend free development life. I use Stackoverflow or Google maybe 2-3 times a month these days, not sure if I qualify for the upper row :(

Last company I worked for and now contract for, explicitly set out to hire promising juniors over seniors. Reason being, they had to fire a guy with nearly a decade of experience because he was completely unable to adapt and learn new things, so his experience was all doing the same stuff over and over again.

A small company that has cash reserves will absolutely hire a bright grad who can hold a conversation in the interview, only trouble is the ratio between candidates and job openings.

It should be in the standard library anyway. Why the hell is it not?!

I mean yeah, I can write my own function to do the same thing and probably I’ve done it at some point in some coding exercise as a beginner, but this seems like such a common thing to use, it should be in the standard library of any sane language.

If anyone does miss it, they’re a lost cause anyway IMO

Ah, personally I just figured I’d use wireguard. I have few enough users that a bit of setup isn’t a huge issue. No way I’d want to expose it completely publicly, same with any other home servers I run.

The public availability without open ports is indeed a strength of Plex.

What’s missing from Jellyfin for you?

I’m going to migrate over soon personally. I canceled my plex pass instead of upgrading to lifetime a few months ago because I felt like Plex was going to go down enshittification alley soon. I haven’t used Jellyfin much though, so not sure what to expect at this point. I don’t have a lot of users luckily

In seriousness, I think gaming has LESS pressure from past titles because while classics still get played decades later, many games don’t even work on a modern operating system and many are so janky that you can instantly tell they’re old. Games often don’t age well. You could argue that the same happens for other media but IMO games depreciate more because of the technical aspect.

No, books written before April 2025 are already trash and who’s gonna rewatch an old movie or listen to 80’s music nostalgically?

Just add it for VSCode and Jetbrains and you cover like 75-95% of devs

Ubuntu Karmic Koala. To be fair, I was a kid and that was, according to people on the Internet, the most likely to work. And so it did - it had out of the box support for my wifi adapter, which some other distros I tried later did not, I had to use something called ndiswrapper. Of course I did not yet know about compiling my own configured kernel, that came a month or 2 later.

I only stayed on Ubuntu for a while, then tried Mint, used that on and off for years, dabbled with Arch at some point, too. In the last 5 years I’ve used PopOs, Gentoo, OpenSuse, NixOS. I’m not gonna bother with capitalization and punctuation on some of these.

I live in a country that gets very icy for almost half the year and honestly while AWD is a QoL improvement, it’s nowhere near necessary. Good winter tires do so much more for you and RWD gives you more control than FWD at least.

AWD doesn’t help you brake better unfortunately.

Damn, be glad you didn’t boil your brake fluid though.

The merchiest company in my country is one that does online casino software. Worst part is, they have the highest quality merch so people actually use it. I’ve seen the logo on like Thule backpacks and shit.

Hasn’t gotten me to go work for them, but they’re damn good at reminding people that they exist.

The US has a higher salary ceiling, but about the same salary floor - at a higher cost of living (higher rent, lack of social safety nets, etc).

Knowledge workers are just appreciated a lot more in the US. Software engineers are the most ridiculous example because it’s the one field where you don’t need an expensive (in the US) education, but there’s also doctors that can make hundreds of thousands a year in private practice if they’re really good, senior partners at law firms who make hundreds of thousands partly because they’re partners, not just employees. Etc.

The US also has tech companies that make a ridiculous amount of money, so they can afford to pay their engineers.

Oh and then there’s the following joke (told in some different ways, so I googled it and modified to how I heard it from my day, an immigrant in NYC:

A big shot Manhattan lawyer calls up a plumber to come out to his home. The plumber takes a look and says, OK, I can fix it today, and it will be $800.

The lawyer raises an eyebrow and asks, how long will it take? The plumber responds, “well, I need about an hour round trip to the supply house for a part, and then it should take me about an hour for the repair”

The lawyer smirks and says, “two hours? For $800? Thats $400 per hour! I’m a lawyer and my hourly rate is $300 / hour!”

The plumber nods and says, “When I came to this country, I was also a lawyer.”

Yes there’s ridiculous inequality and that IS a bad thing, but a lot of people in Europe are simply not getting paid what they’re worth. Like I said, it’s not just the tax differences that are the issue, so it’s not the European social safety nets costing us our income. It’s pretax income that’s so different.

Yup. It’s kinda my conspiracy theory, but also, it’s really not, it’s like a public secret at this point.

They don’t get these huuuuge golden parachutes for nothing. They get it precisely because they need to take the fall at some point, and if the fall is big enough, they might not even get a new job at a similar level.

It’s a disgusting system, but I’m not trying to absolve CEOs of anything here. They very much know what they’re getting into when they sign contracts for tens of millions per year in total comp, with generous exit packages. I’m just saying that’s why companies won’t replace them with AI, or even just cheaper proven leaders, any time soon, despite the fact that no CEO is worth the amount of money they make, in actual productivity.

Software engineers in the US can get their total annual compensation packages in the millions at the very very highest levels, or in the 300k range for normal senior engineers who don’t dedicate their entire lives to total comp.

We really get hosed here in Europe when it comes to software engineering salaries. It’s not the tax rates either, there’s just less money in the game.

My company was desperate to find a brand new dev straight out of the oven we could still mold to our sensibilities late last year when everything seemed doomed. Yes, it was one hire out of like 10 interviewed candidates, but point is, there are companies still hiring. Our CTO straight up judges people who use an LLM and don’t know how the code actually works. Mr. “Just use an AI agent” would never get the job.

Yeah, particularly with CEOs. People don’t understand that in an established company (not a young startup), the primary role of the CEO is to take blame for unpopular decisions and resign or be fired so it would seem like the company is changing course.