Engineering is a skilled trade. We need our own union like every other skilled labor group.

The ol' Hug of Death has brought the site to a crawl. Dark Lord willing, someone will produce a torrent and link to said torrent.

This hits hard. I was unemployed for ten months over the last 3 years. Fuck IPOs, valuations, and mass layoffs with no repercussions.

There are only 3 reasons employers force RTO: control, real estate, impending RIFs.

I find most bad codebases exist because of a culture that isn't focused on quality, and I'm not talking about bug counts or code coverage. Clean codebases stay clean by being proactive about keeping them clean. This should include meticulous peer reviews, establishing design patterns, enforcing best practices, and taking initiative to leave things better than you found them (we used to call that boy scouting).

If your teams PR comments only contain LGTM, and the average time spent reviewing them is 5 minutes, your team isn't focused on quality. If a PR contains more files than an average person can keep in their mental context window, it won't get the attention it needs to be properly reviewed. If there is no accountability to keep a clean codebase, you'll end up with 2 hours of work taking 5 days to complete.

Memory recall is the worst for me. Long-term or short-term, cognitive; all bad.

• Did you remember to grab your laptop on your way to work? Nope.
• Do you remember going to the movie theater, sitting in your seat, and watching the new animated Adams Family movie with your family? Nope.
• Did you move that load of towels from the washer to the dryer four days ago? Nope.
• Did you remember your wife's name after fifteen years of marriage when introducing her to your new coworkers? Nope.
• Do you remember the word for that super simple thing? It's literally the opposite of down, and you should definitely not be stumbling on this word because we're on a conference call. Nope.

Does it taste like Bud Light?

In the mid 10s, I worked as the engineering director for a consultancy. My boss would openly brag about being able to hire women for a fraction of the cost of a man. I was so offended by this that I created a partnership with a coding academy for at-risk and underrepresented individuals just a few blocks away from our office. I made it my mission to hire as many women junior engineers as I could, just so that I could train them up and find them better paying jobs elsewhere.

Women engineers are out there, and I hope I've made the dating pool just a little bigger for you.

Howdy-do, fellow minute-man!

If your dick can't do the walking, let your tongue do the talking.

If your team is only focused on tabs/spaces or soapboxing during code reviews, you have bigger issues to take care of.

I have been laid off from every job (5 in total) since the pandemic. We are a subhuman commodity. Companies that are hiring now are exploiting the market by offering lower salaries.

Meta and Amazon are in their hiring season and they'll start their layoffs again next spring or summer. And somehow, everyone forgets this fucked up cycle keeps happening in perpetuum.

We need to stop being afraid of mentioning the U word. We need better protection and rights as employees.

This is a beautiful work of art! Can you ELI5 what this is, please?

You aren't being weird, you're dealing with a one-sided emotional expression. I have to deal with the same situation with my mother, who stopped caring for my brother and me when I was 12, but somehow still thinks she's the best mother in the world.

My situation is complicated. I have a child and a wife, and I have an obligation to keep some semblance of normality for them. My wife knows and can see how narcissistic and fake my mom is, but my son does enjoy his time with his grandma.

I have come up with a placated version to respond with to people whom I must entertain versus those who actually deserve my affection. When I tell my wife or son that I love them, I say fully and wholly, "I love you." For anyone else, it's "love ya." It doesn't always feel good to say it at all, but at least I know when I'm being sincere versus an obligational pleasantry.

My team of engineers and I were laid off on January 2, after spending a year replatforming a medical SaaS product. We were told the company was heading in another direction in order to to go to market faster.

That direction is the Product Designer and Claude Code, rebuilding everything from scratch.

Never get into Modular Synthesizers.

Not that it's Linux fault, but access to and compatibility with popular creative tools like Ableton or Adobe products.

Sure, it's feasible to use Wine to run these products, but not in any professionally usable manner.

Yes, I am aware there are Linux-friendly alternatives, but they lack the plugins, compatibility, features, and quality of their industry~standard counterparts.

Spreading knowledge and context sharing are exactly why I like code reviews. It should also be something done by more than one person so that information is better disseminated throughout the team.

Where can I buy this?

Some email services will let you append arbitrary strings to the end of your email address with a +. Whenever a sales associate asks for my email to sign up for discounts, I give them [email protected]. I love the looks I get for that.

Welcome! I was 40 when I was formally diagnosed with ASD and ADHD.

The ADHD diagnosis was a godsend, as I was finally able to put a label on why I couldn't sit through hours-long meetings without completely rearranging my office, or feeling like a complete failure because I couldn't understand or learn a new programming language.

The AU diagnosis, while completely expected, hit harder because it was not only validating, but also hardened the fact that I truly do have difficulty with social and executive functions.

I'm glad communities like this exist where other neurodivergent individuals can feel represented and validated.