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@retoor I do miss the office, and playing D&D at my previous employer. Not so much the hour+ commute, started listening to audiobooks and made peace with it. Now I sit quietly on discord with friends I made back in school/uni. Doubt I'll find a commute shorter than 1 hour.
I did also apply to NS and got rejected because of not having enough experience with large orgs after interviews. Should probably have mentioned I just wanted a position but could only find senior ones open. That would also have a 2-hour commute (to Utrecht), but it would be on the train, which they would pay for AFAIK.
Performance and DevX are definitely what I crave. One of the proudest things I've managed to do was creating a performant FSM + firebase ORM setup in an app, it was for an app for a B2C route planning company.
That class of responsiveness 🤤. Reminds me of my excitement of Svelte, which has served well where we have used it, but instead I'm dealing with React slop. What are you using? -
@retoor Do you mean it's generated on the fly by GPT, you asked GPT to write the site for you, or do you mean you TABed to victory?
At work, we have access to co-pilot, the tabs there flow as well. With occasional “can you write X” for me, which always assumes jest for tests even though we're using vitest.
That review is awesome and more useful than 500% the "reviews"/complaints about (client)PM at work, did you make your own model or are you interfacing with something else? (I'm going to assume the source is on your site)
Have you had any luck with more complex/modern topics — my recurring project is making an MMO engine (MMO game would be secondary) and have found that co-pilot doesn't really understand what's going on (e.g. packing integers into 7 bit chunks with a marker if the next byte is also part of the number)? -
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@retoor Ehh the reason for “local” (I'm going to assume self hosted since you can run it on demand on places like runpod) has more to do with specialisation since those local models can have the same limitations/brainwashing.
And yeah, it's very awesome, wish I had something like that back when I started programming — would still like to set something up like that, but I have been instructed to not have that much pride in my work. You are missed, my dear PR formatting and “error” correcting setup 🥲. (Junior had too many issues writing good code, and boss told “but it works right stop complaining” in more than those words — guess what it didn't work, but I wasn't allowed to put it back. This was before the “AI” industry) -
@retoor Turns out, like pretty much all NL government email (WHY!?!!?!?!), the LinkedIn emails were going to spam.
Do you have any recommendations for looking at average dev salary?
Also, sorry about the delay in replies, it's been busy this side — washing machine decided to detach the tumbler from the motor today, not that big of an issue since it was on the list to replace but still… -
@retoor Eh the most fun I had was creating a voice->text->voice discord bot (could also just text->text) but since finding anything trained on high-quality audio is hard and the datasets even harder (with LJ being the standard or newscasts 🤮). It annoyed the shit out of people on the server since there was a delay and no auto-cut off, almost like I told them it's a work in progress 🙄 + my original goal was just to annoy them with it.
The saddest thing about it was the best thing to message when I had a shit day, since it would always try to cheer you up (since people get tired of the retard doing the retarded thing, and you're having to fix it at work story).
(I do want to rejigg it be like the cursor IDE thing where I can just go "Tomoko, where did these morons put the vehicle control logic" and it just pops it up for me)
Anyone in NL have any good suggestions for finding job? Currently, I'm working at a software house doing fullstack (node + python) + mobile (android + react-native 🤮), generally one of the 2 categories per project. I do have ~10 years of experience. Currently, I'm all the way at the German border, I'm up for moving, especially if it gets me near people I can actually talk tech to (even to another country, but I only know Dutch and English fluently).
I do get offers on LinkedIn with one semi-success, but it came with several strings attached (e.g. can't find a new job with in 80 km kind of stuff).
Game dev has always been a hobby-wanna-go-pro thing for me, so I want those to be excluded from any type of “you made this in your free time, well, it's ours now” contracts.
Part of me wants to go into the game's industry because that's what I've always wanted (it just didn't exist back where I lived outside of gambling/shitty mobile games). I'm crazy enough to like C++ but with the current toxic culture in the game's industry, I wish to avoid it at the same time (+ just being exhausted all the time makes me think I wouldn't be able to keep up in the beginning).
Which makes me think I should rather go for “saving for the future” but the passion I had to just sit and programming seems to have 404ed🥲
My mind has been Ouroborosing on which way to go unfortunately as well
I moved back a couple of years ago largely unplanned timing wise, for a couple of reasons (safety and family mostly, the whole reason/process would take a while to explain). Which means I couldn't start to get things organised until now, including re-doing my driving license since I'm not allowed to convert it since I missed out on the 30% ruling (and my “old” country's license isn't good enough).
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