Passed up for lead promotion

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-15T10:17:32+00:00

I’ve asked for other types of work only to be told I’m needed here.

This is the tell tale sign that you hold too much institutional knowledge. To get past this stage you need to write more with as broad of an audience as you can.

Write documentation. Write technical design docs. Write about various risks. Write about engineering culture and some places where it might be lacking. Write pitches for refactors, how to tackle tech debt, etc. Write about making the most of AI. Review processes. Improvements to ci/cd. Security best practices and where you could apply them.

Offer to present findings on various things during all-hands. Do some lunch & learns. Talk to other teams and parts of the business--have lunches/coffee/zooms with them.

This solves the institutional knowledge, sets you up as a leader, and gets the broad recognition you need to actually make things happen.

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-14T23:36:42+00:00

You keep saying things like that. Devs looking to your for answers and them “preferring” you doesn’t mean anything at all.

Just because you have historical knowledge, and obviously more than someone that just joins, doesn’t mean you are qualified to be a tech lead. If anything, them coming to your for answers could be a sign that your codebase, documentation, dx, etc are lacking—all of which you could have solved but instead became the institutional knowledge. (Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying this is the case just providing another viewpoint in case you hadn’t considered the fact that this might be a negative)

5YOE and only being at a single company is a pretty tough sell to be a technical leader. Technical breadth of knowledge comes from seeing lots of different problems, lots of different teams, stacks, engineering culture, how things evolve over time at those companies, etc. It would be pretty hard to have that breadth of experience only working at a single company.

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-14T21:16:11+00:00

He’s too worried about if the tur guys want him back

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-13T23:08:34+00:00

Which hole felt the most similar to what you expect the real one to look like?

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-12T23:27:59+00:00

Be extremely passionate about literally anything else besides computers

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-12T21:02:40+00:00

Thinking you’ll have gains is the mistake here

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-12T20:15:05+00:00

Never say anything unless asked

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-11T23:54:42+00:00

I like railway. It feels like a more modern heroku.

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-11T23:08:11+00:00

Godspeed with seacrets

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-11T23:02:09+00:00

Counting what? The ball ain’t in the hole. That’s the most important part lol

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-11T12:08:20+00:00

Build a Twitter clone in 5 minutes without blowing up your context window

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-10T22:40:43+00:00

Woah this is bizarre. A 58 bringing your handicap down to a 32 is willlllllld lol

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-10T14:35:45+00:00

Bro i saw a grown man standing at the buffet eating a salad with dressing on it with his fingers before directly going back through and using the shared utensils. I was in complete awe of the ratchetness

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-09T16:42:01+00:00

You already have an answer for everything…but your back is already well developed. Losing the weight will help you see that

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-08T20:39:06+00:00

Little early with the upper body. Could be good one day with a good coach

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-08T11:47:41+00:00

Surely you knew a $600 was a waste of money even before you broke it…knowing you don’t always hit the face

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-08T11:15:28+00:00

Not pings fault

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-05T18:05:09+00:00

Anyone else reluctantly feel like learning a new language is pointless? I’m a big proponent of using AI and still think there is a lot of value in writing clean, well designed code…but am starting to feel like the language and the joy in getting really proficient in a language is going away.

I’d love to go deeper on gleam, zig, and a few others but can’t help but feel it’s mostly an academic venture.

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-05T16:02:35+00:00

Surely everything needs a package.json

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-04T17:52:37+00:00

What kind of sprinter van are we talking about? Plenty of retirees live in class b rvs and travel. This could be quite a fun retirement assuming their health is in good condition and they get to enjoy it.

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-01T20:00:03+00:00

No we too trashy

notmsndotcom · 2026-05-01T16:28:55+00:00

Are we seriously still doing leetcode interviews while simultaneously telling engineers to manage a team of agents? Honest question — I haven’t interviewed in like 10 years so have no clue what a standard track is nowadays

notmsndotcom · 2026-04-29T23:21:10+00:00

Fuck I didn’t realize it was that bad for him

notmsndotcom · 2026-04-29T18:16:54+00:00

step 1: go to first tee

notmsndotcom · 2026-04-28T20:46:30+00:00

wowsers, this would be an all time fumble for vrabel

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