It worked to bring balance to The Force.

The deal is kinda nice to resign.

6 months of pay or $30k to resign, whatever is higher.

I support open-source and understand Matt. But dude, what a fucking wrong way to approach this.

Good.

I worked at a job where there would be 4 managers, all “managing” one or two developers to get a task done.

You would replace your NAS drives with SSDs?

Im not super experienced with NAS and only started home networking like three years ago. but I read SSDs would die quicker than traditional disks.

And if you go to the store and buy it in person, it’ll be a empty cd case with a serial key to download.

I’m optimistic. I’m making numbers out of my butt because I literally can’t remember.

But I think My 20GB SSD from 2010 was about $100. I used to dualboot.

Today, I can get a 512GB SSD for $50.

NGL, if I worked at Twitter, it was probably because I get paid extremely well and there’s no alternatives. So I’d absolutely phone it in. On a good day, id half ass it. And on the average day, id be copying and pasting chatGPT code directly into production servers, just enough work to not get fired, but not too much where I’ll get pulled into a meeting as someone who can solve critical problems.

Gonna bet that’s how every twitter employee is.

What?

I learned bash thanks to AI!

For years, all I did was copy and paste bash commands. And I didn’t understand arguments, how to chain things, or how it connects.

I want a flip phone.

I still think the Game boy Advance SP’s design was peak. Lightweight, compact, and very distinct. It looked sleek enough to not look like a toy, where I was using it in the office and nobody would bat an eye.

Give me that with a phone. Im not interested in being a first buyer or spending money for that novelty. But id happily use a foldable the moment they become as reliable as these tablet phones.

A quarter is cute and all but…

I took it as software engineers tend to build for scalability. And yep, IT often isn’t prepared for that or sees it as wasted resources.

Which isn’t a bad thing. IT isnt seeing the demands the manager/customer wants.

I’m glad you’ve done both because yeah, it’s a seesaw.

If IT provisions just enough hardware, we’ll hit bottlenecks and crashes when there’s a surprise influx of customers. If software teams don’t build for scale, same scenario, but worse.

From the engineer perspective, it’s always better to scale with physical hardware. Where IT is screaming, “We dont have the funds!”

Accurate!

Developers are frequently excited by the next hot thing or how some billionaire tech companies operate.

I’m guilty of seeing something that was last updated in 2019 and having a look of disgust.

This is like saying before you can be a writer, you need to understand latin and the history of language.

. I think to be a good software developer it helps to know what’s happening under the hood when you take an action.

There’s so many layers of abstractions that it becomes impossible to know everything.

Years ago, I dedicated a lot of time understanding how bytes travel from a server into your router into your computer. Very low-level mastery.

That education is now trivia, because cloud servers, cloudflare, region points, edge-servers, company firewalls… All other barriers that add more and more layers of complexity that I don’t have direct access to but can affect the applications I build. And it continues to grow.

Add this to the pile of updates to computer languages, new design patterns to learn, operating system and environment updates…

This is why engineers live alone on a farm after they burn out.

It’s not feasible to understand everything under the hood anymore. What’s under the hood grows faster than you can pick it up.

Rough and that sucks for your organization.

Our IT team would rather sit in a room with developers and solve those problems, than deal with hundreds of non-techs who struggle to add a chrome extension or make their printer icon show up.

Absolutely agree, as a developer.

The devops team set up a pretty effective setup for our devops pipeline that allows us to scale infinity. Which would be great if we had infinite resources.

We’re hitting situations where the solution is to throw more hardware at it.

And IT cannot provision tech fast enough within budget for any of this. So devs are absolutely suffering right now.

The open-source side of WordPress is pretty pissed off at Matt right now. The Slack is heavily downvoting/disliking all of this.

Oh that’s neat with Nvidia shield!

I currently do the pi-hole and block calls route.

Wait what? Is there a blog or article on how to do this?

Because I can’t picture how this works in my head for my setup. It needs internet to go to Hulu/Netflix/etc.