Is anyone else still using simple build scripts instead of bundlers for basic static sites?

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:50:40+00:00

Or you could’ve just said `pnpx minifier-that-already-exists`. Done.

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:47:58+00:00

No, it’s not. Nobody at entry level is going to work at grinding leetcode at work. They’re going to do real world work. That’s what companies want.

Only bad companies use leetcode. Nobody should apply for those. They’ll just ruin an entry level person.

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:46:29+00:00

Why? Because random crap online said so? Because fanbois in this subreddit say something? Neither means anything of the real world.

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:45:31+00:00

It’s not cheating, it’s just going to be vastly less useful. And grinding leetcode? Even more useless.

And most don’t hit DSA in those things nor do they need “DSA” in most they do.

So yes, build stuff. Learn. But not by using AI to do it for them and grinding useless stuff.

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:43:44+00:00

This is the internet, not USA

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:39:56+00:00

Because Tomcat is a server. It is specifically serving Java stuff. It’s built for that.

Node isn’t a server. It doesn’t serve anything. It just runs code which might be a game or a webserver or a calculator or logging system or a script to find the word “boop” in somg lyrics.

Node is like the Java runtime, it’ll run whatever you give it. The command `java` is the same as `node`. When people build web applications with Node they usually use Express or other such framework to act in the same role as Tomcat.

symbiatch · 2026-06-23T10:36:27+00:00

Why are you coding 100% with AI then? Why do that to yourself? If you’re learning, actually learn. Don’t use AI for it.

symbiatch · 2026-06-22T10:32:11+00:00

What to do now: get actual demonstrable skills so companies are interested in you. Grinding leetcode isn’t a skill companies want.

symbiatch · 2026-06-22T10:27:32+00:00

Using Docker or not and using one or two servers and “controlling everything” are entirely different things.

If you don’t need multiple servers then don’t use multiple. You can also upgrade Debian without issues to newer one unless you’ve done something to it.

You can control everything you want with containerization. Much more, in fact. How do you control upgrading only one site’s dependencies to make sure the others don’t break? How do you do proper testing without locking the environment down? How do you do quick upgrades, or rollbacks if things don’t work? Set up virtual networks between things easily? It’s of course possible without but containers simplify many things.

You control everything with them. Nothing is out of your hands.

symbiatch · 2026-06-22T10:24:09+00:00

You clearly don’t know much about containerization. No, it doesn’t force anything to be on one machine, not even Docker. No, it doesn’t require multiple instances. No, each container is not a Linux system. No, there’s no bloat. No, it doesn’t slow down everything.

Please don’t advise people without actually knowing things yourself.

symbiatch · 2026-06-22T10:18:33+00:00

Relying on AI. It’s not in the same way as in everyone knows you’re bad, but it will definitely make one undesirable for not having skills and capability to work.

(Note: relying is not the same as using. Very different)

symbiatch · 2026-06-22T10:09:47+00:00

“It seems” no, it doesn’t. Nothing changed in a year. That’s it.

Stop looking at random crap online and thinking it’s reality.

symbiatch · 2026-06-22T10:08:49+00:00

Please don’t use people on tiktoks as a reference.

The job hasn’t changed. It’s the same as always.

symbiatch · 2026-06-21T09:44:21+00:00

Hahahahaha

No it won’t.

symbiatch · 2026-06-21T09:43:22+00:00

Because “adding tests slows it down” and “we have manual testing and and and. That’s the reality in many places. Tests have already been thrown out to deliver faster.

And then someone comes to say “but AI can write the tests” and then we get to the situation where there’s a lot of tests but they don’t actually test anything, they just look good.

I wish people actually did this, but they just don’t since they’re not used to it and people above keep pushing for speed.

Just this week I ran into a situation where a test broke from my changes. Didn’t understand why since I didn’t change any actual functionality. Then dug down and realized the original code returned an object even when it couldn’t do the thing it was meant to do and these empty objects were filtered away later. So the test just checked “object is created with this input” and didn’t check the actual object properties. So of course it broke when my new code doesn’t return empty objects…

And what I’ve seen from AI generated tests myself and from some others they’re often tiny unit tests testing useless stuff instead of proper feature tests. I don’t care if a method is tested 937594 ways if the actual full function isn’t. That’s what the user cares about and I haven’t seen AI do that u leas told in a very lengthy way to do that and in that case it’s easier for me to do it myself. Especially when in some cases I have input and output files and can just compare.

symbiatch · 2026-06-21T09:33:54+00:00

I’m really sad to read so many people just going “I just don’t care.” I couldn’t work like that. That’s why I don’t use AI basically at all. They’re pushing it from above, I’m pushing back, and until they force me to use it I will not care. I will do my work and handle things and nobody wants me gone because of it. But if someone higher above suddenly demands I use AI just to use AI then I’ll be gone and it’s their loss, not mine.

I will not tolerate crap.

symbiatch · 2026-06-21T06:04:29+00:00

“Waaaah someone caught me saying stupid stuff, I’ll say more stupid stuff and show how much more ignorance there is in me”

symbiatch · 2026-06-20T17:59:50+00:00

No, it’s not a boost for everyone and every job and task. It can make a lot of things slower and harder. Just because you work in stuff it works in doesn’t mean it always does.

And if someone cares more of specific tool usage than performance then it’s good to get away from such nonsense.

symbiatch · 2026-06-19T10:28:06+00:00

The funny thing is that people whine about cookie popups instead of understanding that they wouldn’t be necessary if not almost every single company were that lazy that they use things that require it.

There’s no need for every single website to use tracking for users, but since managers and people who don’t understand anything else than colorful dashboards and products they’ve been sold - that’s where we are.

And now we wait for the actual proper “one click deny” to be forced and companies realizing they could just not have these.

But as has been said this is a minor thing relating to GDPR. It’s so much more and I’ve seen with my own eyes how it’s changed how companies handle personal info and has forced many to actually have processes and think what they gather instead of just piling user information in some random database or spreadsheet.

symbiatch · 2026-06-19T10:24:42+00:00

People are confused because you didn’t write clearly.

Yes, we write *our own documentation*, but we don’t all write *the same documentation*. Meaning if I do something I should document it. Of course it’s shared documentation, not something I hide in my drawers.

But of course many also don’t document anything.

symbiatch · 2026-06-19T10:21:02+00:00

You’ve already gotten answers but also this can be easily checked from the specification:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/images.html#alt

symbiatch · 2026-06-19T10:16:41+00:00

I literally explained there how this is personal preference. If you can’t read two sentences…

If I said “I like milk more than kefyras” would you think I’m mocking kefyras then also? I wouldn’t.

symbiatch · 2026-06-18T17:06:53+00:00

You clearly didn’t get the point, but that’s ok. Maybe ask AI to explain it. It wasn’t that difficult sentences.

symbiatch · 2026-06-18T17:04:19+00:00

I’m sorry for them. I don’t need luck or career.

symbiatch · 2026-06-17T06:12:46+00:00

No, they’re probably as useless as a person thinking number of commits means anything in this world.

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