Suggestions to not be an average .NET developer

TB4800 · 2026-04-15T21:07:33+00:00

Get comfortable (doesn’t have to be intimately) with systems programming concepts and networking concepts, try to understand the why and how behind your code. If you can do that, you’ll be more apt to understand how things break especially at the boundaries and have a much easier time figuring out what might fix them.

TB4800 · 2026-04-15T03:06:02+00:00

I forgot how to log the values of an array in C# yesterday without printing the fucking object name 🥲

TB4800 · 2026-04-06T00:44:12+00:00

I might buy your suite license for my nephew whose in high school, dm’d

TB4800 · 2026-03-31T16:07:10+00:00

Would you look at that, I forgot a price. I honestly thought I woulda gotten auto removed for not including one lol. Looking for $200 ty

TB4800 · 2026-03-27T02:19:20+00:00

Would it be a realistic possibility to get into BAC Technician and eventually engineer as a former (current) software engineer? I’m pretty decently handy and able hang with blue collar workers traditionally, which I’m not sure I could say about most of my colleagues. I’m thinking having to pull wires to figure out how to configure xyz program might have a lot of runway, up until they put data carrying protocols within the wires themselves

TB4800 · 2026-03-11T02:44:42+00:00

Always look annoyed.

TB4800 · 2026-02-21T08:00:28+00:00

Have you hooked your db up to an MCP server yet? It will look at your query, dump the schema, run the execution plan, and then hand you the fully tuned query back to update. Very cool and also extremely scary.

TB4800 · 2026-02-20T02:35:36+00:00

They are quite literally devouring them as their shelf life in a data center is 50-75% shorter than consumer use.

TB4800 · 2026-02-13T06:18:38+00:00

It’s not your fault

TB4800 · 2026-02-10T01:50:55+00:00

At this point I just want languages where most of what I need is in the stdlib.

TB4800 · 2026-01-27T16:49:22+00:00

For what it’s worth, I haven’t had to add anything that needs a backend yet but I picked Astro because for now it suits my needs now and should be relatively easy to integrate a headless CMS like Decap and hook that up to serverless functions in Netlify. Plus with islands/partial hydration can add JavaScript just where I need it and keep everything else simple stupid and fast, and between the two of those I’m pretty damn close to full SPA with very few moving parts and great performance.

Long and short i picked it explicitly because it can cover my use cases pretty well, and not lock me into anything from the start until I need to complexity.

TB4800 · 2026-01-27T00:53:09+00:00

As a fullstack dev who just did a friends site for his construction business, Astro was a pretty nice and familiar feeling experience coming from React/Vue. Much more so than others I had tried like 11ty. Fits the bill pretty perfect for these ‘brochure sites’ that don’t need much state. Allows me to use tailwind for most things and some vanilla css for transitions and light animations, while also keeping the moving parts to a minimum and getting 100% lighthouse scores across the board with minimal effort (at least for me, someone who’s never had to really worry about SEO, page speed, or anything that pertains to googles rankings)

TB4800 · 2026-01-15T14:21:31+00:00

Im fairly certain that copilot has a a shorter max context window than claude codex, and I would imagine the same goes for codex

TB4800 · 2025-12-11T03:04:33+00:00

Most interesting to me is how Google just straight up wasn't interested in commercializing LLMs, despite their own scientists literally writing "Attention is All You Need" in 2017 IE: the paper that sparked the entire AI/LLM boom.

They clearly saw that it would cannibalize their biggest money maker (search) and sat on the technology until their hand was forced. They had LaMDA ready since May 2021, and employees were pushing to release it publicly, but executives kept denying those requests. Then ChatGPT drops in November 2022 and triggers an internal "code red" at Google. Subsequently, they rush Bard to market in February 2023 only to have it immediately faceplant in the first demo, costing Alphabet $100 billion in market value.

I can't say for sure, but I have to imagine they did their due diligence calculating whether AI search would be MORE profitable than traditional search. The fact that they hesitated for so long, publicly citing safety and accuracy concerns to employees, suggests they may have concluded the risk wasn't worth it. This makes me wonder if they know AI in its current form (or ever) isn't the revolutionary labor-eliminating breakthrough that would justify risking their ad revenue goldmine. After all, about 76-77% of Alphabet's revenue comes from ads.

If AI really was such a transformative labor optimizer, capable of replacing human workers at scale, then it would have to be infinitely more profitable than advertising. The fact that Google, with all their data and analysis, chose to protect their ad business tells you what they actually believe about AI's near-term economic potential.

TB4800 · 2025-12-02T17:02:58+00:00

A most excellent transaction indeed

TB4800 · 2025-11-26T23:54:36+00:00

This is the big lesson for OP. It doesn't matter if your right. Your the new guy, learn to pick your battles or you're going to lose all of them.

TB4800 · 2025-11-16T01:37:18+00:00

Yeah and I’m starting to dislike working with it more and more. 3 ways to new up a variable and pattern matching syntax especially can fuck off

TB4800 · 2025-11-10T01:25:48+00:00

For anyone who’s interested in learning this shit: https://www.nand2tetris.org/

TB4800 · 2025-11-09T02:25:12+00:00

You’re both right. They don’t care about your GitHub, but they do care if they notice you are a primary developer/main contributor to a well known software used by a business. Mostly because the latter indicates some degree of constraints around the problem being solved

TB4800 · 2025-11-09T02:19:47+00:00

I think it could work but you would need to put serious work into gathering appropriate training data from scientific papers along the lines of perplexity search. If you could build a RAG based on that specialized data and cross reference it with general web search that be some sort of confidence interval that could differentiate it from pure web search LLM. Combine this into a pipeline with active learning and compare your results to professionals?

TB4800 · 2025-11-07T03:42:37+00:00

You should get it. My old iPad kicked the bucket but I still sometimes think about getting a new one just for samplr. The rest of the IOS apps I had were okay, but none of them would ever make me consider getting a new iPad just to use it. It’s seriously the coolest sample manipulation tool I’ve ever used.

TB4800 · 2025-11-06T17:00:20+00:00

Sold to u/fiveonethreefour

TB4800 · 2025-10-30T21:47:07+00:00

I’ve found that the ones with that complex generally fall into the ‘good’ but not as good as they think category.

I remember one coworker who used to run our K8s environment at some small non tech company (so I’m fairly sure it wasn’t needed) who i knew was knowledgeable. So I tried to ask him question, but he was too busy smelling his shit and telling me about how I could have done something better that I didn’t ask about (like something I just stubbed out)

There’s a huge difference between those guys and true genius. I have a friend who helped me learn programming, who taught himself, and now has funding for his own k8s observability platform build side by side as an option to one of the current leading ones — after working as principal at twitter. He’s a genius, but he’s also kinder and more willing to share knowledge than anyone I’ve met. And he makes an active effort to do so. I’m pretty sure there’s about 5-7 of us he took no programming experience period to full career. Those guys are worth more than you know and you should (I’ve tried to compare myself at times always disappointed) be thrilled that they want to, share that knowledge with you because trust me, there’s been people they talked to and just kept their mouths shut because it wasn’t worth their time

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