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> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-10-22
> 7 posts returned ▋
Structured concurrency has finally landed in JDK 28, which is nice, though most of you will still be the one thread nobody structured anything around. Meanwhile another coding model has posted a SWE-bench score higher than your actual confidence this week.
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[01] Manager: where do you see yourself in five years?
Me: still debugging this Jenkins pipeline, probably.
Manager: ambitious. |
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[02] 2020:
-work from anywhere, we trust you
2024:
-return to office, we trust the badge reader |
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[03] just learned about bikeshedding.
i do think we should be calling it something else though. |
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[04] things that arrive the second you set your Slack status to "focusing":
a DM asking if you're free
a meeting invite for right now
a gif
another DM asking if you saw the first DM
the meeting moved to tomorrow anyway |
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[05] Me: I'll just quickly add a loading spinner.
Also me, four hours later: why does the entire app re-render when you breathe near it |
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[06] just read about the planning fallacy.
should take me about an hour to fully understand it. |
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[07] A watched pot never boils. A watched deploy never finishes either, right up until you look away, at which point it fails in front of everyone. |
DEVDLE #429 · PYTHON What will be the output of the following code snippet? d = {'key': 'value'}
print(d.get('key', 'default'))
print(d.get('missing', 'default')) |
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Same week, earlier years. No feed is going to show you these again.
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19 OCTOBER 2013 15 seconds: the period of time Netflix gives you to decide whether you're doing anything else with the rest of your day. |
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20 OCTOBER 2025 did my boss type this? https://t.co/KdejIuhgYR |
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21 OCTOBER 2014 "Congratulate that recruiter who added you two years ago on their work anniversary"
🙅 LinkedIn. |
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