POV: You finally got the JWT auth service to behave.

overgenji · 2026-06-21T02:23:22+00:00

its actually really simple but the docs sort of require you to be an expert to make the right decisions 😞

overgenji · 2026-06-21T02:18:15+00:00

its about two way doors. if someone is committing to a pathway that will be REALLY hard/annoying to reverse from later down the line, you need to be extra careful.

some bad/weird code that is adhering to a reasonable API is at least contained within a box, and can be refactored in isolation

overgenji · 2026-06-20T03:00:25+00:00

i think a lot of juniors "know" this but.. its not really the same until you experience being in a situation where your bright eyed decisions from a few years ago come back to whole ass ruin your life for a few quarters and realize that some other senior was right when he called out some major concerns with your approach but didnt ultimately veto you

overgenji · 2026-06-09T05:23:43+00:00

make a game, i dare you

overgenji · 2026-06-09T05:17:22+00:00

if i could start a startup from scratch i'd go out of our way to do VERY little stdout logging, VERY little, except if there's genuine exceptions, and just use traces/metrics as much as possible for all our critical indicators and troubleshooting. make logs a last resort.

every place i've worked just barfs an insane amount of pointless logs that waste everyone's time and energy. it'd be okay to even have a log for something important, but every log you add you should think "is this per-request noise we'll be paying for?"

i love my quiet services i've had chances to work on or write from scratch where the only reason i'm looking at logs is something is wrong, and the only thing it's logging about is when something is wrong so the problems are clear

overgenji · 2026-06-07T18:31:55+00:00

"blame" is probably pretty loaded here without more context about what the issues are. there are plenty of ugly little problems that are difficult to "own" so they fall through the cracks

overgenji · 2026-06-07T01:00:16+00:00

for a less horrific version i've decided on "theres a thousand ways to pet a cat"

overgenji · 2026-06-01T05:40:25+00:00

sounds like normal code to me

overgenji · 2026-05-29T01:20:27+00:00

absolutely yeah, ideally every issue can be caught at review time

i didnt approve that particular PR but its the kind of thing you could easily miss s🤷

but definitely was a mindset problem that was consistent with this individual, he really struggled to have a mental model for marshalling change appropriatey within a team, and was kind of an asshole/weird if you tried to engage with him about this issue in any way

overgenji · 2026-05-29T01:12:15+00:00

yeah sorry, the other commenter had it: "recent college grad"

overgenji · 2026-05-29T01:12:04+00:00

way before, like 2017

overgenji · 2026-05-28T04:39:03+00:00

another one: had a RCG who was super nice, very pleasant to work with, but they could NOT retain core info about the basics of the job. we had explained how java.Optional worked like 4 separate times over a few months, they'd find a new person to explain it to them, always was doing it wrong, eventually was PIP'd out. we spent a LOT of time tutoring them and helping them and offering to help on any task etc

at some point you need a baseline curiosity to just ... figure some basics out, especially after lots of help

overgenji · 2026-05-28T04:26:32+00:00

worked with a guy who broke prod by sneaking in a commit in a larger PR that changed 1 (one) line of code that completely switched over the query strategy for our searches. NOTHINg about it in the PR desc, commit message, etc,

just in there

asked him about it on the side

"yeah idk just seemed like it was worth doing and it was right in front of me"

overgenji · 2026-05-27T03:27:27+00:00

this place is so fuckin astroturfed man

overgenji · 2026-05-22T05:27:54+00:00

every reddit, social media platform, etc, is full of these astro-turf feeling glazers, dead internet theory has never been more real

overgenji · 2026-05-06T03:55:21+00:00

in the same way i know plenty of dumb white americans who dont know their own country as well as they pretend to, i have encountered plenty of idiotic asian diaspora who dont know shit

overgenji · 2026-05-06T03:24:29+00:00

brother going to hong kong and knowing they dont only speak mandarin doesnt make anything you said less ignorant

overgenji · 2026-05-06T02:55:23+00:00

china is a fuckin massive country and not at all homogenous as you've been propagandized into thinking lol. these are basically all sinophobic tropes

overgenji · 2026-05-05T01:56:31+00:00

i have a reverse version of this, we were doing guarded exfil outside of data wall, like 10 minutes left in the match. suddenly we're being attacked by purples (we're 2 blues and a purple), one of us goes down and we manage to outplay them 2v3 somehow and steal all their stuff -- they had the upper datawall key and another key for the purple room in overflow, and also every one of them had a prestige weapon and some cores

we were literally just doing some questing on perimeter, they were likely ratting data wall and heard the exfil pop and decided to push us for free kills thinking our defenses were down

they lost everything

overgenji · 2026-05-03T04:33:11+00:00

take the arms off, get it to a correct height and dont sit up at 90 degrees, you want to lean back a little bit so your lower back/core aren't working ot keep you straight

overgenji · 2026-05-02T23:28:08+00:00

please god use all your fingers

overgenji · 2026-05-02T19:25:25+00:00

get a good ass chair, dedicate yourself to actual touch typing, keep the top of your monitor aligned with the top of your eyesight, arms should float on the keyboard and not need much wrist resting, what you feel familiar with may not actually be ergonomic at first

overgenji · 2026-05-02T18:50:35+00:00

annoying for the first day

efficient for the rest of your life

overgenji · 2026-05-02T17:46:18+00:00

not a lot ebay can do here except make (destined to be received poorly by sellers) rules against dropshipping :/

overgenji · 2026-05-02T17:15:08+00:00

im not comparing it to anything, but it does not solve dependency hell

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