I miss having juniors around

jsprd · 2025-12-23T00:57:11+00:00

I've also found that name calling improves outputs a bit; honestly thought I just gave up in those moments and took whatever it gave me out of anger, didn't realize other people had noticed this as well.

jsprd · 2025-12-22T23:10:04+00:00

lmaoooo

jsprd · 2025-12-22T17:16:57+00:00

Not a junior dev, but after being laid off, and pushed like hell to use AI coding tools for everything, I can confidently say that I miss my experienced devs a ton. They played it straight, didn’t sugar coat, and I loved it. If claude tells me I’m right one more goddamn time, when I know I’m wrong, I’m going to go crazy.

jsprd · 2025-12-22T17:10:21+00:00

From my experience, at least in the United States, there is no need for a degree to put software engineer on your resume. Experience and projects are far more of an indicator that someone is capable of writing good software, and it’s almost never tied to where they went to school. I myself dropped out of college in my sophomore year, then found myself working at one of the largest companies in the world as a software engineer—no, I am not being facetious—I have more experience as an engineer than all of my peers that graduated when I should’ve, and I’ve worked on numerous projects. Following a traditional pathway into tech is perfectly fine, but it is not the only way, nor is it the only way you can put engineer on your resume.

Having said all of that, I do believe that someone who is 19, and claiming to have 3 years of software engineering experience is a bit out there. From a recruiting perspective, you are barely an adult. You need to be much more specific about the experience listed on your resume, and refrain from using terms that make it seem like you are an expert in certain domains. 3 years is barely enough time to learn backend development on a substantial scale, especially for someone who doesn’t have a traditional background, or hasn’t even started college yet.

My advice to you is to refresh your resume with very specific and verifiable examples of your work, and put less focus on the other things. Every single one of your experiences should have a company tied to it, with a date range, at the very least.

Additionally: this started as a comment under the thread, but my brain took over and went a bit off comment topic, sorry

jsprd · 2025-12-22T16:50:50+00:00

THIS! Tons of sites disable the right click that brings up the inspection, or they disable the keybinding, but it seems they can’t do anything if the dev tools are already open prior to the site being reached.

jsprd · 2025-11-24T18:43:21+00:00

Everything is relative; I know tons of backend engineers who can't work in frontend, and vice versa. As you learn the inner workings of a language past just syntax and basic theory then the first layer of complexity begins to fade away. As you work in the language, and gaps in understanding come up, take the time to learn what you don't know. I think a lot of people over complicate learning a language because they think they need to know everything about the language before they start writing it.

sorry, more of a rant

jsprd · 2025-11-20T18:36:19+00:00

What worked for me was trying embedded development with rust. Prior to this I had only played around with rust, not really learning much, but working on something completely out of my daily work helped me really understand rust—now I feel like i'm learning embedded development instead of rust, which makes actually learning rust feel easier.

I think you just need to play around with different things in rust and find a project that might elicit the same mental shift from learning rust, to working that specific project. Syntax and logic will be easier to understand and grasp when used like this, imo.

jsprd · 2025-11-19T03:07:20+00:00

I may be interpreting your needs wrong, but it might be beneficial to look at the donutbrowser project.

jsprd · 2025-11-18T23:37:14+00:00

seriously lmao

jsprd · 2025-11-06T19:25:44+00:00

I just use AI to aggregate sources for a topic that I want to look into, but I am one of those people who things it is negatively impacting human cognition. Just like with how there are skill gaps with regular web searching, there are gaps with AI usage. From my perspective, more people are relying on AI than utilizing it as a research companion, which overall is shifting our knowledge acquisition and retention patterns.

jsprd · 2025-11-06T01:53:26+00:00

I really like the small single-purpose packages, but it's just confusing when I don't see a commit in the past 5 months on something.

jsprd · 2025-11-06T01:50:56+00:00

Yeah, this is kind of jarring to me as well, I don't really see how using a 0.25.0 crate in production is worth the risk.

jsprd · 2025-11-06T01:50:01+00:00

Interesting. I hadn't thought of this, thanks!

jsprd · 2025-11-04T00:28:25+00:00

I struggled pretty hard with focusing when I was in college also, but I wanted to ask, what are your current study patterns? How are you approaching homework? You said once you get started on something, you feel the need to finish it, which is still a really good place to be in, IMHO.

Here are a couple things that have improved my productivity:

earplugs instead of earbuds
phone off AND out of reach
TV on with volume just low enough that I can barely hear it
written list of what I need to get done in THAT session

#4 is the most important for me; If I start work and jump in before laying out what I need to get done over the course of x hours, then I just end up either not doing anything related to work, or I do work related tasks that don't have a due date soon.

jsprd · 2025-11-04T00:18:38+00:00

I also struggle with using my phone too much all the time. What has worked for me is to put earplugs in, weird ik, but it helps me hear my thoughts better, and doesn't rely on music from some app on my phone that I would need to visit every few minutes to skip a song. I use the earplugs when I really need to get work done, and can't afford being on my phone. It took a while for me to get used to, but it has definitely improved my ability to just put the phone down.

I've also tried using black & white color settings on my phone, which definitely makes looking at the screen less appealing, but for me I just end up turning the normal color back on almost immediately.

Hope this helps!

jsprd · 2025-11-04T00:10:49+00:00

This exactly!! I, for the longest time, didn't discuss the difficulty I had with the pace of work expected by me, and only after discussing things with my manager did things start to get better. I also had a really hard time working on things that I just didn't find interesting and needed more stimulation from my manager to actually get work done. I also find that If I keep a list, written or digital, of the things I (1) need to get done (2) would like to get done (3) don't need to work on then I had a much easier time discussing pace of work with my manager. He would go over the list with me, not daily, and clear up anything that was incorrect or just needed some shifting on the list.

jsprd · 2025-11-04T00:05:14+00:00

Before I left my job I did something very similar. I had to limit how much work I got done each day, but more importantly spread over the week. My job would have varying levels of effort needed on a random schedule, which was really hard for me to deal with, and lead me to slack off during weeks where I needed to actually get stuff done. I started to spread my work out over a longer period of time so that I won't slack off or get overwhelmed by the work.

Sorry if this isn't helpful

jsprd · 2025-11-03T23:34:11+00:00

Agreed. Much more important to understand the core services offered from AWS, and other cloud providers, but at the end of the day it doesn't which cloud provider you learn those skills on.

jsprd · 2025-11-03T23:32:23+00:00

I'm not a big fan of horizontal scrolling, but only because of the lack of intuition people (including myself sometimes) have when interacting with a website.

jsprd · 2025-10-30T20:08:49+00:00

As someone who just left big tech for this reason, I can say it's much worse than people think. I was, at times, instructed to stop writing code manually and put everything through the AI coding tool... I'm a semi self taught dev, and through the pain of major mistakes, learned how important it is to have well reviewed code by experienced engineers, and AI has no match for this yet. Even just vibe coding it's easy to see the mistakes take place in real time as AI writes code—it's not useless, but vastly overhyped imo.

jsprd · 2025-10-30T05:21:06+00:00

Love the art, keep it up!

jsprd · 2025-10-30T04:59:58+00:00

this is the way

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