|
> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-09-24
> 6 posts returned ▋
Another npm package went rogue and turned into a worm this week, which feels like the industry's way of agreeing with the last post below before you've even read it.
| |
[01] Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man an open source library and he maintains it unpaid for a decade while a trillion pound company quietly builds its entire business on top of it. |
| |
[02] I told the interviewer I had three years of production Kubernetes experience.
I had one weekend, a YouTube tutorial, and a desperate need to leave my current job. |
| |
[03] 2005:
-on call means a pager on your belt and a walk to the server room
2025:
-on call means a phone under your pillow and a panic attack you're contractually obliged to hide by standup |
| |
[04] things nobody warns you about turning forty in this industry:
the standups get younger
the acronyms get newer
the pay review gets awkward
the "culture fit" question gets personal
you start saying "back in my day" about a framework from 2019 |
| |
[05] Recruiter: huge growth potential in this role.
Me: for the company or for me.
Recruiter: yes. |
| |
[06] At what point in your career did you stop being able to explain your actual job to your parents? |
Looking for developers? A listing runs here and on @iamdevloper. Reply to this email to ask about a slot. |
Same week, earlier years. No feed is going to show you these again.
| |
25 SEPTEMBER 2020 > lets keep staging as close to prod as we can
me: |
| |
22 SEPTEMBER 2016 If there’s not an unused yoga ball in the corner of the office, are you really a startup? |
| |
21 SEPTEMBER 2017 if I was dumbledore I would've hid the philosophers stone in jira's ui |
THE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE A timed assessment of engineering output. Most candidates do not certify. CANDIDATES ASSESSED: 2001 HIGHEST RATING THIS WEEK: 1000x THE 2026 EXAMINATION WINDOW CLOSES 31 DECEMBER 2026. |
The Institute maintains no physical premises. The Institute answers to no external accrediting body.
|