In my current position I basically act as an techlead in a small company handling things from software architecture to functional requirements and dev ops, but also mentoring the developers.
Basically any small tech company where you got one guy running around doing almost all the stuff excluding the actual development (which I still also partially do).

I recently completely bombed an interview for an tech lead role. This was my first interview for an role that wasn't just IC.

I got several feedback points:
- I was too much all over the place
- Was talking too much, not giving them enough room to ask questions
- Didn't ask enough questions
- They didn't find I talked enough about leadership

My previous interviews were just me geeking about tech and this clearly doesn't hit the spot during interviews. I feel like I actually do plenty of the work (and beyond currently) but struggle articulating this in a manner that makes an company interested in my abilities.

So considering above what would be some good resources to learn for me to better communicate based on an non IC role.

I’m so annoyed that the word “throwel” exist but doesn’t even mean a tactical shovel designed to be thrown.

been working in the same company for 7 years, founder removed all our remote flexibility, told us people who dont come to the office can be replaced with AI, we have no excuse to being late to the office, etc...

feeling violated i began applying to other companies, and im very surprised that after 8 years of development experience, many side projects and curious endeavours later, i keep getting rejected or ghosted... wtf is this job market? i used to get interviews at least in almost any company i applied for before...

how tf do you land a new job these days?

Quote of our co-founder today: "Recently I've learned we should be doing market research before building something"

Explains why we are so much in the red now...

I think HR is the first role that could truly be replaced by an LLM.

Speed, quality, scope. Why managers dont understand that they can pick only two and expect all three?

the only thing more terrifying than a chainsaw is the person who's not terrified of it.

For fuck's sake, management is now asking us to provide data converted in % as to how genAI is actually making us more efficient as developers. How the fuck do you even measure that empirically?

It is already BS enough that they track how much we query these AI tools everyday in our development environments, but now they want genAI to produce most of the code templates in our SDK. It can barely produce a working regex or a working python script, let alone a small piece of code that won't stack overflow itself into oblivion. It sometimes takes more time to debug and refactor than to do it myself from scratch.

They ask for our professional opinion, we tell them, they don't give a fuck about it, proceed to think all is rainbows and unicorns, and still ask us the same moronic things as if they were the new messiah's on earth.

Don't get me wrong, genAI can be useful, but why the fuck does management think it will magically solve all our problems when they don't even understand how it works even on the surface.

The only thing that would make sense is a lot of them got money at stake in some AI investment sales pitch bullshit and they try to jam it up our collective throats because otherwise they will loose their investments like there is no tomorrow.

Fuck all of this, I just want to do engineering and build something useful to society. Is it too much to ask?

I need a polite way to ask someone if they're brain damaged.

my scrum master keeps changing the format of retro and it works worse every time. We're at the 2.5 hour mark right now. It is aggressively hot and humid in the office. Everyone is asleep.

I don't think there's a way to explain to him that the purpose of a retro is not to magically fix things within the format but to financially commit to the preference for conversation, from which the hidden work of resolving conflicts can be billed.

I regret talking shit about my coworker because despite being not a great programmer, he is a nice human being, and at the end of the day, this is what matters.

Running is good for sleep. I wish my lungs weren't fucked, but I ran anyway.

So we are looking for a ML summer intern.
The amount of fake ML genius is astonishing.

These kids would put projects like "increased state of the art vision transformer model for automated guided missiles technology by 500%, leading to the destruction of ISIS in Irak and Syria", and then proceed to be unable to give you the derivative of Relu(x)=Max{x, 0} which is 1 or 0, or explain what batch normalization is ?

"Collect Call" by Metric is my favorite song. It takes me back to Android Ice Cream Sandwich times and invokes strong Mandela effect episode that makes me "remember" how I called someone using that fancy aluminum brutalist Chromebook and a native Hangouts app built with Material design v1, while being in a cafe in the evening.

Hangouts app never looked like I remember it looking. I've never seen that Chromebook. Yet, I remember it clear as day.

Omfg.. I couldn't understand what the doc jotted down on the recipe about using the prescribed drug. Took a pic, uploaded to chatgpt -- it transcribed dvery single word correctly.

Dear Lord....

The difference between my CSS and your CSS is that you write z-index: 999999, and I write z-index: 2 to get the same effect.

I'm working w/ idiots.

Since a week ago, builds have started being bundled w/ this interesting folder called 'DeleteBeforeSubmission'.

Immediately mentioned the problem, but no action has been taken thus far. Sure, they might !care whether it is bundled or !. If whoever submits the builds for release manually removes those folders prior to submitting the game - fine.

Thing is... the shit is heavy. Depending on the platform, it's ~~500 MB up to some ~~2 GB on top of the actual size of the build. So, apart from our NAS storing garbage, people have to download unnecessarily larger files.

But hey - why do something about it. It's fine, right?
/s

My daughter: "why don't you want to do a pinkie promise?"

Me: "because promises have been supported natively for like ten years now."

My colleague thought process became the average of all possible existing LLMs. He has perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor open on different tabs every time I go check on him. He is literally performing majority vote on all possible LLMs -> he basically stopped thinking.

Unless in severe pain, the cat will always enjoy this eternal moment, proud of its existence. Never questioning its needs, desires, likes or dislikes, a cat will never consider evaluating itself. The cat glories in its existence and lives with supreme self esteem. It so values itself that it will never assign a value to itself.

The cat has risen entirely above the need for self esteem through perfect self acceptance beyond the need for self esteem.

Our ex-employee wrote an amazing SQL SELECT-query consisting of 6449 characters. It has 11 JOINS and takes a solid minute to execute.

The table it fetches from has 16 records and the SQL query returns 46857 records and it was production code lmao

The water heater in my new flat is broken so I can't shower as thoroughly as I'd like, and the technician who's supposed to install broadband keeps reporting that I'm not home without checking, so I'm forced to tether from my phone. If he does it again today, I may just visit "One", the provider's offices with an IED.

For some reason, I feel very fortunate that neither my teacher nor my spouse has ever shoved me in the face whilst disembarking an aircraft.

new kiki zoo reform:
- only unreleasable animals are allowed to be kept in zoos
- ban cages, replace them with large ecosystems with glass panels. ecosystems are open areas with recreated microclimate that is native to the animals that live there
- ban animal shows/performances. ban circus-like animal training. let animals do their own thing
- ban private zoos. profitable zoo = cruel zoo

A couple months ago I hired a designer to design a mobile app which I am now half way through.

I now understand why the final product doesn’t look like what the initial design conceptualized.

You know you’re in a good mood when every song that comes on sounds good

So when we having an IRL meet? I think something was discussed a while ago.

🍺 Just tapped a fresh feature for PixelPrep!

After countless commits and more coffee than is medically advisable, I’ve shipped a shiny new feature to the PixelPrep - Composer 🍻

Whether you're wrangling web-app snapshots or just trying to keep your design system sane, this update makes composing your design web-app snapshots smoother than a well-poured pint. 🛠️🍺

Check it out and let me know what you think (or rant about how your team still hardcodes colors in hex 🙃):

👉 https://pixelprep.io/composer.html

If you don't test for it the bug doesn't exist.

My project mananger let it slip during the sprint review that the upper managers are making plans to do lay offs / cut the fat.

What an ideal moment to hand in my resignation.