Thanks guys!

Can report that I have received a job offer from another company :) hopefully they have better practices and standards...

This is a bit of a sweeping statement... I'm a junior developer but about to hit 2k stackoverflow rep. It all depends if you want to go out of your way to contribute or not

As a newly qualified dev (graduated 2 years ago) this question just terrified me

What sort of stuff could you say apart from an open source contribution? Would keeping a programming blog count?

Completely misunderstood the perspective in this photo at first. Thought that the guy had made a giant thank you card or something

A lot of the programming podcasts that I listen to are by self-taught guys who don't all have degrees in the field, or degrees at all. Some are now working at companies like Microsoft and/or are prominent figures in the <programming language> world. don't give up buddy

"Make it 'POP'!"

Github public repos are scary for this

Cheers for your private key, pal

Yep! I live in the UK and can confirm that they were successful received

Thanks, it wasn't an easy task! It used some libraries put together by some wizard back in the 90's so I can't take all of the credit, but the entire thing was so convoluted

learned that the hard way, too. Threw me into root usr/bin instead of a local folder. This was 2 weeks into my first project on my university placement year. I feel your pain!

Git has the ability to accept commits in the past. This is basically abuse of that as opposed to carefully timed contributions

Am I the only one who finds these t-shirts rather cringe?

I mainly use them if I either have:

a) A chunk of variables declared at the top which each require a few more words about them (mainly to stop long variables names). Comments then get tabbed so they look nice

b) If I need to explain a slightly more complex if statement. I ain't breaking up the flow with comments! Inline, you go

His Stack Exchange question (the 'forum' mentioned in the article) http://serverfault.com/q/769357

"My productivity is being slowed down" is known to work!

Thanks guys! The empathy is appreciated. The sad reality of having a non-technical manager lead a technical team.