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Yeah dude. Amen. In my 20's I could literally code a side project all day into the evening (sometimes overnight) and it was absolute serendipity. Coding in and of itself was a vibe. Then, life happened, more life happened, and eventually software development just became a career instead of a passion. Coding became a means to an end.

"Resentful" is a perfect way of putting it - I may just be old and grumpy now, but I think it's sad what we as a community have done to the process of web development. It's such a circle jerk. Node in my view is the worst thing that ever happened to building web applications.

Enter Claude Cowork. I've spent the past few days building an app that would have taken me weeks of time in the past. It's using a framework I've never built with, and I don't have to learn the intricacies. Shipping this to Vercel and hosting the database on Supabase is incredibly easy and it's very exciting. The only drawback so far is the unsettling fear of the unknown regarding leaking secrets and whatnot, so I'm going to have to manually audit the finished project before deploying.

And here I thought my days of "side projects" were completely over.

50 here. Years ago I completely stopped coding, becoming tired of the never ending rat race of keeping up with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks for everything, node for this, npm for that, Angular, React, Vue, whatever - as if solving business problems just became too boring for software developers, so we decided to spend our cycles on the new hotness at every turn.

Tools like Claude Code are the ultimate cheat code for me and have breathed new life into my desire to create. I know more than enough about architecture and coding to understand the plumbing and effectively debug, yet I don't have to know or care about implementation details. It's almost an unfair unlock.

It'll also be good to see leetcode die.

Post mortems are absolutely key in creating process improvements. If you think about an organization's most effective processes, they are likely just representations of years of fixed errors.

Regarding blamelessness, I think it was W. Edwards Deming who emphasized the importance of blaming process over people, which is always preferable, but its critical for individuals to at least be aware of their role in the problem.

Every day I thank god I finished my career in software before Leetcode-driven interviewing became so popular.

I am imagining an industry where half of developers don't know how to design a relational data model. Scary if true.

If you have a problem with MIT taking Epstein's money, then you have a problem with money in general. We all take money in some fashion from disgusting, psychotic, and evil people on a regular basis. Particularly so when we're on social security, medicare, or another social program.

It's like the people who are against hunting, but who are happy to eat store bought meat.

What a silly little article. Venn diagrams are an extremely illustrative and useful way to visualize joins.

If you're in executive management then it's a big cause for celebration, and it's been that way since the dawn of M&A

I love this! Maybe the absolute fetishism over the overrated GitHub and Git will finally cease.

I would say the biggest decision point here is how either entity might evolve. If these are truly different domain entities then one may end up with different attributes than the other in the future, meaning these should definitely be different tables. They just happen to have the same set of fields at this point in time.

It also helps communicate with colleagues who prefer to leverage their CS background when discussing algorithms, issues, etc.

I'd call that a broke person with potential, but that person is still currently broke. I would hope that person looks in the mirror and also agrees they are broke, and will make financial decisions with that in mind.

In many ways, this is how so many folks end up drowning in debt. They "bet on the come" by assuming they are investing in the right education, will be successful in their field, etc.

They delude themselves into thinking that just because they make $75k/yr that they aren't broke.