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jestdotty5969207dI've never seen competent coders on twitter
the new Boston taught me java way back when and that was about it -
null-pointer-ex386207d@retoor
agreed. Nowadays, I exclusively host everything on DigitalOcean. It works so well.
AWS is for masochists.
What's your quarrel with CDNs?
I think in the right circumstances, they make sense. For example, with video delivery, on-the-fly image transformation... -
null-pointer-ex386207d@retoor yeah, video streaming is still not a solved problem.
Yeah, I only use CDNs for video streaming or heavy file delivery. Helps speed things up a ton. Especially when it supports resumable uploads/downloads. -
cprn1751206d1st of all, there never used to be a decent *anything* coders community. “Those who cannot write, teach” includes code.
98% of those people just started and write about stuff they don't understand, because they're excited and think it's magic. As soon as they understand a single concept, they think they should teach it to the whole internet, because their way of thinking is *so unique* and deserves praising.
The remaining 2% are either mids, or failures. Even when you watch someone highly regarded, like Cherno or Primeagen, who worked on complicated subjects for big companies, you realize their own code is full of bias and not that good. Better than most, but not breathtaking. Why? Because they went through the hump, declined, burned out, and only then started talking about writing. As soon as they got their mojo back, you don't see them teaching ever again.
Decent is a level, that cannot be taught. -
antigermanist1255206di always thought twitter was that place to follow porn stars. Why would u talk about serious shit there?
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cprn1751205d@jestdotty In my experience, most people in modding communities don't understand what they're doing. Usually, there's 1, maybe 2 smart guys who do 90% of the real work and prepare some kind of template, then the remaining 10% follow it while making their heavy, bug bringing mods. Obviously, there are exceptions, but I didn't encounter many. I'm jelly of your high quality beginnings.
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There needs to be some sort of enforcement about who can write code. JK,
but seriously, the current dev wannabes and influencers on sh-t-witter and linkedin are literal cancer.
A dude will make a post about how to "scale" a system, yet they have no grasp of the most basic fundamentals. They have no idea what a CDN is, they think you can just store blobs and be done with it. Like, bro, are you going to be serving a 10MB image from the DB every single time it's requested? How WILL that scale? How will low bandwith users be served? Oh, yeah right, I forgot that everyone in the world has 1Gbps internet from NASA.
They think serverless will take care of it.
BUT HOW? No wonder "serverless" companies like Vercel are making bank out of idiots who can't manage to spin up a decent VPS that would take care of 99% of usecases.
Granted, most copy paste regurgitated AI slop from chatgpt but still.
It's so infuriating. There used to be a decent Twitter dev community, but not it's just AI shills, crypto bros and script kiddies all pretending to write code.
It's time I stopped using that site.
Also probably a sign I should quit this industry. Getting tired of it to be honest.
Don't see myself still writing code in 3 years.
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