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> it will likely retain almost no value as time goes on.

If you're buying a car as an investment I have bad news for you...

IME the big gains nearly always come from how data is surfaced and cached from the storage layer.

You may get some nominal gains from sending less JS or having the server render the html, but IME the vast majority of apps have much bigger wins to be had further down the stack.

I'm both inspired and green with envy at what the Gas team was able to do here.

All these little apps are really impressive from a web development point of view. Shows a real mastery of css, canvas, browser apis, JS, etc. Kudos.

what have you not liked about grpc-web?

How is gRPC-Web not an RPC approach?

Meth gives people lots of energy and prolonged use causes psychosis. Heroin makes people feel content and sleepy.

It was setting up schemas in posgress and learning the basics of using a sql database; setting up a web api to auth users and connect to that database and serve json with Node, then building a JS frontend to login users and fetch and display that data with backbone. It was done in the format of building a couple applications in teams of 2-3.

My first job didn't use those specific languages or technologies but everything was close enough to what I had done in the bootcamp that I wasn't completely lost. I knew enough to be a good jr developer and learned 20x in my first 2 years on the job than in the bootcamp.

I've since built/done lots of services, data pipelines, database migrations, devops pager rotations, large/complex frontend applications. The bootcamp was really just a jumping off point. The real learning starts when you get to the job.

I was 24 and couldn't find any work in my desired field. I was working stupid office jobs and looking for a better options. I started taking some coding night classes and really enjoyed it, I believed the hype about the market need for developers, so I decided to do the full time bootcamp.

Yeah and I agree with that sentiment. But to be clear I just hated that specific company's culture. I'm still a dev and I still mostly like the work.

I graduated my bootcamp in 2015 and had a jr developer job with a 50% pay bump within 6 weeks. I had a college degree but in a non-technical field and 0 experience coding before I started the program. In my cohort of ~20 people all but 1 had found gainful employment as software developers within a year, most within 3-6 months.

I completely agree that the value of a bootcamp is having a community to encourage you through the process, everything they teach you can be found online. I also went to a bootcamp that had a good reputation around my city so I think it was legitimizing for someone with no experience and no stories of coding for fun as a teenager.

Even back then hackernews was full of people saying how flooded the market was with bootcampers.

4 years later I grinded leetcode and got a job at a FANG and essentially 6x'd my income from 4 years earlier before I could code. I eventually left that job because I was miserable but thats a whole other story.

Now with 7 years of experience I leave the bootcamp off my resume because of the stigma. I took the specific degree program off my linkedIn and just put "bachelors of science" and let people assume what they want. If anyone asks I just say I'm self taught.

Point is, it's 100% possible.

Don't be in a rush to start a career. The career advantage to starting out at 18 vs 25 is negligible in the long run, and no one thinks twice about a 25 year old applying to entry level jobs.

You might as well take a few years to travel and make friends and do interesting things now because it will most likely be the only time in your life to do it.

IME 3-6 months is not uncommon but a full year is.

"Please end the system that I have benefitted so greatly from that I make enough money to be in the top tax bracket. I pay more taxes than a 1920s farmer and that is inherently bad."