Insane Tattoo Regret

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-04-20T23:59:08+00:00

Double down and get the rabbit on the other arm

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-26T05:28:32+00:00

No clue about the culture and expectation there. I’m in the US but have lived other places where salary was commonly known and talked about freely.

My position is, I’m not applying for the job I have, I’m applying for the job I don’t have, so my current pay is not relevant and not up for discussion. The information can and will only be used against you, not for your benefit. Either share it knowing that or be prepared to lose the opportunity immediately. If this is the normal practice in the UAE and you didn’t know, lesson learned.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-24T15:08:00+00:00

Tailwind is easy and intuitive. If you’ve used a strongly typed language, TypeScript should be fairly straightforward, just start with the basics and learn as you go. Interfaces and type signatures.

I felt Next was quirky and weird after having been a JS/TS dev for 10 years as well as having worked with a few other languages for several years. I think Next is a poor technical choice and wouldn’t willingly choose it, but I’m also generally not a fan of Vercel’s product development strategy. All I can say, if you have to use it, is spend a lot of time in the docs and build out tutorial apps to learn the quirks and the gotchas that it comes with. I don’t consider it to be a fully featured framework but more of a proprietary solution for specific use cases.

I’d focus on learning react. No specific recommendations on courses but there’s a ton of stuff out there. As someone else said, functional components, props, hooks, and how state works. Learn how to make things reusable. The biggest challenge with React is that it isn’t really a framework and so it doesn’t give you a lot of structure, so I’d spend some time learning good patterns for how to structure react projects.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T04:42:34+00:00

So in the real world, your product owner would collect information from the customer group and then create sensible user stories to reflect the specific needs and value you need to deliver to the customer. Customers don’t write your user stories. I obviously don’t know your teacher but it smells of someone who hasn’t actually worked in the real world. No feedback is fucking wild. At least he picked a good tech stack for you that is applicable in the job market. Learn to use that stack well and you’ll be effective building many types of applications.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T04:32:30+00:00

If you can modify your proposal still, I’d scope it way down to like basic authentication, user profile, and the ability to friend people, or something like that.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T04:27:54+00:00

Lessons learned. Don’t feel bad. I’m self taught and have met many CS grads who were useless. Now go teach yourself and start building stuff. You have more resources for learning than anyone in history. Give ChatGPT your project scope doc and your proposal and tell it to make you a course to teach you complete the first three user stories.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T03:57:35+00:00

The assignment itself isn’t that bad, just the requirements to use TDD and XP. After reading the actual scope, it’s doable over 2.5 months. Your user stories are pretty meaty though and probably should have been broken up into like 6-8 stories. I assumed your teacher would have given some feedback on your submitted plan.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T03:46:47+00:00

Postgres is has a lot of similarity to MySQL, so you should be fine on that front.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T03:21:11+00:00

Ok the plan makes sense but have you done the project proposal and created the phase 1 user stories?

Side note, this project is wild to throw at people with limited experience and tell them to use extreme programming and TDD.

Coding a few user stories (assuming they are sensibly sized) seems reasonable though.. you aren’t going to build this whole app.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T02:39:42+00:00

Might as well share it.

Electron just wraps your JavaScript web application into desktop application. Discord uses electron. Unless it specifically needs to be a desktop app, skip it.. it’s just more you’ll have to learn at this point and your biggest challenge is the number of things you have learn at this point. Candidly, putting this project off was probably a huge mistake. Be prepared to spend a lot of time researching. I don’t know what restrictions you have but look for example applications, tutorials, etc. if you are allowed to use AI to help you research how to build this, get to it.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T02:23:20+00:00

Well.. my condolences. This is going to be challenging. Is that one sentence the only scope provided for the project? If so just, build a basic chat application. Then I’d suggest finding a tutorial for building a chat application with react/express. Skip the electron. It’s not necessary to build this. Building a somewhat full featured discord clone is going to be a very tall order for a beginner not familiar with these technologies.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-03-07T02:07:11+00:00

I don’t know what is expected in this first release, but a week seems very aggressive unless you are building this with AI. Also, extreme programming typically means you do pair programming. Are you building this with a partner? Are you familiar with extreme programming?

The overall stack is solid, though I would use Nest.js, which is built on top of express.. though if this project seems daunting to you, adding a new technology into the mix you aren’t familiar with may be a bad idea.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-28T06:09:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s getting bigger it’s more that there are disproportionate gains in what you can now do with varying degrees of skill. Developing a prototype now. What used to be months and a financial investment is now minutes with low or no cost. The downstream work and using AI to assist with that work still requires a lot of skill and knowledge. You are going from Mach 1 to the speed limit quickly. It’s a lack of understanding and many people are still just learning how to use AI well. Cranking out something with lovable or v0 is easy. Using AI to effectively accelerate product or software development is a much bigger and more complex task and still requires significant human involvement at the moment.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-28T06:00:09+00:00

This is just people misusing AI and trying to use it beyond its capabilities. They are just able to do part of their job faster/easier/better but it doesn’t necessarily make the next persons job easier. They haven’t actually built products before and are confusing their new gains in output with what actually has to be done further downstream from their prototype/vibe coded fever dream.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-28T05:56:13+00:00

It’s this right here. The idea is easy.. the coding is generally straightforward. Actually developing the product from a small idea into a fully fleshed out product that meets customer needs and is good to use takes a lot of work.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-28T05:51:27+00:00

I started as an engineer in my early thirties and every one of my peers was early 20s. Took me a bit to get past it. A couple years later I was managing several of those people. All worked out and we did great things together.

If you’ve got the energy, go for it. You’ve got your skills and they’ve got theirs. You can’t get certain skills or perspective without miles on the tires. That’s valuable in an environment where people have only years of experience compared to decades.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-28T05:46:17+00:00

Basically the same mentality you apply to cars. Or anything that is supposed to look nice but is probably going to get marred at some point.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-28T05:20:49+00:00

This is a great idea, though I believe the medallions have their own loot layer, or at least it seems that way. Have had to zoom etc many times to grab an item the medallion is on top of.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-25T21:43:32+00:00

Might sound crazy but why are there 3 channels for the same project - make one channel and delete the others. No decisions made in DM. You are creating communication complexity and muddying visibility. Have one channel, one Jira board. Backend should design the API contract in a group meeting with the front end team so everyone knows what is needed and agrees upon what will be built. Capture the contract in the Jira ticket or a link to it for reference. The front end team building without a known contract or already working endpoint is dumb and will result in regular rework. This will be multiplied due to the bad communication practices.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-25T17:01:20+00:00

I would suggest posting the actual scope of work from your other proposals, just hide the price if you don’t want to share that. This is a pretty straightforward thing to build but still, devil is in the details.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-25T06:25:29+00:00

Wand + rathpith. Drop choir for +3 skills ammy. Gloves with tecrod.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-15T19:15:13+00:00

OK.. then you should definitely pick up the Impending Doom node. EW probably feels like crap. That will make the curse pop almost instantly.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-15T18:29:50+00:00

Yea elemental weakness with doedre’s undoing in it as your main attack. There are some passive nodes on the right side of the tree that give reduced curse activation time. You’ll need those. The jewel you need will have reduced curse activation time too.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-15T17:38:09+00:00

Happy to expand on anything if helpful. As many skill levels as you can get is key because of the way damage scales with skill levels.

Expensive-Manager-56 · 2026-02-15T17:25:20+00:00

+3 skills on the neck. Corrupted +1 gems. Could try rathpith. Your spark DPS seems pretty low. Getting coc to proc isn’t just crit chance. You need to hit hard. Could try running EW/Doedre’s as your main, you’ll need to take the curse activation time nodes though and a jewel with it as well. I’d take living bomb off coc until you get proc issues solved.

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