How’s this place doing? When I want to talk code I usually go to LinkedIn lately, and when I want to talk personal I use Instagram.
Missing those pre-Elon Twitter days a lot sometimes. I think we had something better than we understood or appreciated at the time.
It’s a rough week this week 😞
The best way I have thought to express this right now is — you are going to need to have taste to succeed in software engineering more than ever before.
Knowing how to code things is not the skill that will be emphasized as much as having the right taste for elegant solutions to problems.
Increasingly feeling like all the time poured into personal coding projects and watching videos, reading blogs is having a payoff that will keep me gainfully employed as AI consumes jobs from the bottom up of the software engineer heirarchy.
“Senior” coders and lower are in trouble
Your skills development and what a business needs are ideally overlapping as much as possible, but that’s not always the case. Not all businesses are current or asking for bleeding edge work to be done.
Taking personal initiative to be the best at what we do is so important.
I don’t know how to express this without sounding maybe snooty, but it’s not a field where you can ever stand still and rest on your laurels… even for a year
Jobs are rarely going to explicitly require you to stay current and deeply knowledgeable beyond what things the business needs.
Facing some challenges at work with team members who are not really advancing their knowledge or thinking deeply enough before proposing changes.
I don’t know if coding is a skill you can develop sufficiently by just doing the job, never watching videos, reading blogs or having hobby projects.
So cool! 👏 have fun 😊
What kinda camera?
I am highly impressed by Codex AI Agents. Now I’m starting to believe junior-senior programmer roles could become increasingly obsolete. When I say senior though, I mean that in a world where there are still architects, leads, principle engineers etc… The labour will go higher order.
Congrats and thank you for all your work on SwiftWasm! 🙏
Something about LinkedIn makes me feel like I need to be more formal, while here I can be off the cuff about things and post the little thoughts too. It feels natural
But I get more engagement on LinkedIn by far. I even have had a few posts get engaged with more than anything I ever said on Twitter
Lately I’m between posting here and LinkedIn to talk about code and I’m feeling increasingly like talking about code on LinkedIn just makes more sense given audience.
I hope bsky grows more and X/Twitter fades away, though it seems increasingly unlikely people will stop.
I want this to succeed.
Yep. That too 😞
Unless you absolutely have to for work or family, I don’t see why anyone would visit the USA right now. Conferences are not a good enough reason IMO.
Say what you want about the LAMP stack, but I have it to thank for my career as a programmer. Its flexibility really let things I didn’t understand yet get out of the way, so I could just code and learn. I still lean on skills I honed in those earlier years, like handwriting all my SQL queries.
So far, a couple months in, we now have several functioning tests on both Android and iOS. A huge number of our most major roadblocks are past us, and we’re adding new ones more easily every session.
It can be really hard to set time for E2E testing our mobile apps and QA barely has the bandwidth either.
So we decided at work to have a 1hr working session every week as a mobile team with the E2E lead on the web platform ans slowly take bites out of the problem.
Seeking podcast recommendations 👀
AI tools are getting damn close at generating code, as long as you remain the architect.
If you are good at architecting concerns into discrete components that is going to work to your benefit for codegen, because these tools can really only solve one problem at a time.
Thank you!
28 days into recovery from surgery now. Still a bit swollen and discolored, but reemerging from my shell
Just when I thought I was done with rpg video games for a while… hadn’t played my ps5 in months.. then on a whim i get Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I’m pulled right back in
So many peacocks in the courtyard of our hotel!
We have just arrived yesterday afternoon. It’s a very beautiful and cool city so far and there’s peacocks everywhere around where we are staying.
I have just undergone FFS and need to be gentle to myself so I may not get a chance to fully appreciate the whole experience. Just gentle short walks.
Matt’s fever dreams benefit the open source community
Get well soon 🤒
This hotel in Lisbon I’m staying at loves Swift programming, clearly
There’s obviously nothing romantic about it, but the ability to see eye-to-eye and finish each others’ thoughts when making software is so special. It makes you feel like you’re doing the best work of your life.
I’ve been thinking recently about collegial relationships with other developers in the workplace.
When you really vibe with the devs on your own team it can be so magical and uplifting that you miss those people for years after parting ways. I’m lucky to have had a few over the years.
Wut??? Tbh I think that subreddit has become a bit of a lost cause. It tends to overfetishize youth and looks instead of actual FASHION like the name implies.
