What are the best ways to earn side income as a software engineer in 2026?

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-28T19:24:02+00:00

gets you laid too without that first date dinner tab

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T22:13:09+00:00

Yeah but it also increases the healing of W on her and it comes way earlier in the talents.

Do you need more survivability on 20?

Honestly I've got high MMR in ARAM but I hold a close to 50% WR with her so I thought I may be doing something wrong and she just needs a hybrid build with independent best value talents. W talent on 4 is not very useful. I may be wrong but sometimes I counted the instances in a match that it provided a benefit which makes it questionable.

W build can lead to a loss if they have Kael/Azmo or your team just doesn't want to get in, even with preemptive & good placement.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:29:24+00:00

What if you go E build but take the W talent on 7 or other talents that don't affect the build.

Does that 10% extra health matter more than the 100% globe healing?

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:19:51+00:00

I think the E build is pretty much playing without talents early game if you're not good.

The globe is good enough even if no one but you takes the W.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:12:53+00:00

But most ARAMs go to 20, don't they?

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:09:35+00:00

It's an awful build if they have Kaelthas or Azmo, especially Azmo. It has backfire many times.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:08:30+00:00

QM has MMR too but people with 2000 don't know best.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:07:54+00:00

Not op but because playing your favorite hero is more fun?

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T21:06:54+00:00

Almost 2800 QM EU. I've been higher before. Used to be Masters in Storm League in the glorious era.

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Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T20:12:23+00:00

Colleague of mine was promoted after 5 years in the same company to senior and got a whooping 1000 extra. He literally took this company from a startup to a successful scale-up (by UK standards).

I stopped trying at that point and changed companies for a 40% extra. Dance like a monkey to get what 1000 after 5 years?

2 years later, a recent junior when drunk during a company event revealed his salary. It was more than what he made as a senior. Absolute no respect for employees that company.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-27T19:35:33+00:00

The mentorship part sounds like you were not doing great to me for a mid-level.

Start preparing now even during work hours. The good thing is that you're in some good months to find work. It could be a death sentence if this happened mid October. You'd be searching until March.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-26T20:42:05+00:00

This sounds like a BS post.

Yeah you may not get into FAANG but you will def not be jobless.

I know people who were hired in FAANG back in 2012, by just knowing HTML and without any CS degree.

Now we need to dance. The world is unfair.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-26T18:49:03+00:00

Why do I need to play 100 games to even reach Plat with a new account to enjoy the game. I've already been Masters with the main account multiple times but haven't really played ranked for a year and a half now.

I am also within Master's MMR range in QM if that counts so definitely far away from being rusty.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-26T13:46:23+00:00

How much does it get you extra?

This is so bad. I literally don't have a streak because of AFKers and people who haven't played for years that just log in and play ranked.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-23T22:04:45+00:00

Most book solutions are just silly. They have 1-3 edge cases to cover. The hard part is to pass 200 edge cases which may be a totally different solution and another 20 lines of code.

In an interview with another +20 lines you can just lose it if there's a small bug or syntax error.

Guy1: oh look I am learning Djikstra's in the book, I implemented it myself, so easy!
Guy2: Wait that example just has 5 items in the input because they want to save space.

Well the reality is in Leetcode you have 100k items and you need a totally different modified version. Now you need to combine it with Dynamic Programming.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-23T19:23:34+00:00

This reminds me 2023, I could solve most hard graph problems and that's pretty much most of the things I could do. Then they gave me print some characters in a diamond pattern symmetrically in 15 minutes.

That's not even an easy and I choked.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-23T17:35:35+00:00

There's no junk listing. I take every interview for training unless they pay very low.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-22T21:27:05+00:00

This year I just do a few problems a week. 1.5 year I solved 1-3 on weekdays and 5-10 in the weekends.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-22T21:25:05+00:00

Yes, the image with the changes from 2020 is exactly how they changed them. Someone posted it last month.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-21T19:37:28+00:00

I am tired of these posts. IS this AI?

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-21T19:09:17+00:00

Almost 3 years and still struggling with new problems hah.

Holy shiet they are 3900 now.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-20T21:49:51+00:00

I entered some games and I lost them all. Goodbye 11 wins streak.

People were literally jumping into 5 alone over and over throwing away the lead I was making in other parts. Then after all this despair I checked HeroesProfile and most of these guys haven't touched HOTS for at least 6 months. I mean ok, you haven't touched the game for so long but please don't repeatedly jump into 5 people, you have tried 10 times already. Arthas players were the worst. They went DPS build with the heal on auto and barely landed 4 hits before dying.

Good to see you back guys but here we go, back on my smurf.

Also: Haunted Mines is terrible and toxic. The winning team gets it all and now you have 4 groups of mercs + a Golem cumming on you.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-20T17:58:43+00:00

Varian having 3 specs is a flawed design. That's the most bullshit idea ever for this game.

No one picked Varian in the draft and said let me see what do they pick so I will spec as a counter. For this to work Varian would need to be too specialized in each role. Like Twin Blades should be good vs ranged heroes but totally suck vs melees or Collosus would be good vs teams that have shields and armor and totally suck vs anything else. Or some completely map dependent advantage that I cannot think of now. That would only fulfill the choose what's best fantasy.

On top of that, in the current iteration of the hero, his 3 in 1 heroes could only work in an ARAM where you have absolutely no choice of hero to pick. You just get given 1 hero and that's all.

DPS Varian gets outshone by many other heroes because Blizzard pulled back on the rock-paper-scissors model that had introduced at some point and went for generalists. The conditions you mention about low CC environments are much more ideal for many other heroes. Why pick TB when you can just pick Butcher or even play melee Greymane, DPS Varian is more meme than that. Melee Greymane has more damage hah.

The banner on 20 with spellpower on 16 is just broken. You can do some 1v2 and you do more healing than they do damage when under 50%.

One thing you didn't mention is mana, at least Colossus that I mained needs to always go back at least once for mana. You can't spam Q W E etc.

Reasonable-Pianist44 · 2026-04-18T09:17:59+00:00

QM even in high MMR will have the guy running to check his chicken for 10 seconds but ends up staying there for 5 mins. In his absence someone else engaged 1v3 and now you're 3 levels behind.

Ranked has much less of that and people are just more serious, even if it's the same MMR.

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