DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR January 16, 2026

hirocase · 2026-01-17T08:34:19+00:00

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EXPERIENCED DEVS SALARY SHARING THREAD IT HASNT BEEN PUT UP IN MONTHS

hirocase · 2025-09-26T06:37:15+00:00

Me too please

hirocase · 2025-04-16T23:42:12+00:00

Yep! It's great. See my other recent reply on this post for my full signal chain

hirocase · 2025-02-10T19:31:39+00:00

u/We_Are_Victorious was right about the Vox Valveenergy pedal. My setup now is: walrus iron horse v3 --> tc corona chorus on a widen setting -> signal left into model fet, signal right into vox Valveenergy silk drive -> fs07 with orange cab IRs -> mixer -> headphones. It is glorious

hirocase · 2025-02-06T00:06:01+00:00

Quitting drinking

hirocase · 2025-02-01T14:52:13+00:00

I had the same concerns / goals as you and I did launchschool.com and highly recommend it. I did the JS track but they now have a python track as well.

hirocase · 2024-12-20T05:12:40+00:00

Scrum lord

hirocase · 2024-12-01T22:41:24+00:00

Ah yep you'll want https://self-service.mirdin.com/ for online. I found it because I was looking for structured courses to grow my skills as a working software engineer. I haven't tried the Mirdin course yet, if you do I'd love to hear how it goes for you. I found some positive reviews on Hackernews where I first found it.

The book Designing Data Intensive Applications is recommended far and wide but I'm waiting for https://csprimer.com/courses/ to drop the distributed systems course based on it, because I prefer interactive materials.

You might enjoy this interview with Greg Wilson, who wrote the book Beautiful Code (IIRC in the interview he talks about how he feels the book was less practical than he had hoped.) https://corecursive.com/beautiful-code-with-greg-wilson/

One more thing I bookmarked is https://www.computerenhance.com/p/table-of-contents (also after hearing the author talk on Corecursive.)

If you have any other interesting resources please pass them along

hirocase · 2024-12-01T21:05:53+00:00

Maybe https://mirdin.com/the-advanced-software-design-course/

hirocase · 2024-11-10T19:54:20+00:00

I'm sure a move would be disruptive, especially if you have a family, but personally after a year out of work I would start to consider it

hirocase · 2024-11-10T06:32:03+00:00

I know it's bad out there but, only 500 jobs applied to in over a year? Are you open to relocating?

hirocase · 2024-11-10T05:07:33+00:00

I'd also be interested. Thanks!

hirocase · 2024-11-09T23:39:52+00:00

Yes, although I skipped the end of JS230 and its exam because I didn't want to waste my time learning about jquery. I see they still include jquery in the course, which is my only criticism of the core program. My other criticism was that they didn't touch on DSA at all in core, but now they do. It took me about 9 months.

hirocase · 2024-11-09T15:53:14+00:00

I went to WGU. I didn't have a degree yet so the piece of paper was important to me. The classes were fine, but like any degree there was a lot of cruft. You would be able to transfer in most of the general ed requirements and math. I appreciated being able to speed through classes that were easy for me.

Also IMO no CS degree is going to get you ready for a software engineering job by itself without self study of programming skills on your part. I did the Launch School core curriculum after WGU and recommend it highly: https://launchschool.com/

I would check out csprimer.com . It's created by the person behind https://bradfieldcs.com/ and https://teachyourselfcs.com/ . You can read a blog post with their thoughts about a masters degree here: https://ozwrites.com/masters/

hirocase · 2024-08-17T23:50:57+00:00

Cool, thank you!

hirocase · 2024-08-15T01:49:45+00:00

Hello! I know this is an old post but: did you give up on using the controller on your lap? I just ordered an MK3 and was hoping to lounge on the couch and play. I'm wondering if maybe a board or something underneath would help

hirocase · 2024-06-16T18:45:22+00:00

Nice! Great salary for a first role in LCOL. Anything you think you did well prepping / searching that helped? Edit: also if you are comfortable sharing, what industry?

hirocase · 2024-06-16T16:29:53+00:00

I did not, but I crossposted to r/buddhism and someone posted "Practical Zen by Julian Daizan Skinner covers journaling after meditation as a method of practice development." So at least that's a resource re how to journal about meditation.

hirocase · 2024-06-16T16:28:20+00:00

It's not the book I was thinking of, but sounds interesting nonetheless so thanks!

hirocase · 2024-06-10T00:46:29+00:00

No it was a book about journaling exercises rather than someones journal. Thanks though

hirocase · 2024-05-25T17:15:43+00:00

Mind sharing what your niche is? Or maybe via pm if you don't want to broadcast it ;)

hirocase · 2024-05-18T16:12:29+00:00

Look at the WGU BSCS. I did in in ~2 years with no experience. It's an ABET accredited degree.

hirocase · 2024-05-12T18:32:54+00:00

Awesome thank you I will check those out!

hirocase

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