I’d like to know.

I want to go out on my own terms. If that means I don’t have to save so much for retirement… Great, I can go on expensive vacations now instead of later.

And then I can do what needs to be done without regrets.

My principle dev asked if we could figure out how to invoke Lambda functions from within postgres trigger functions.

I was like, “Probably. But it’s like putting a diving board at the top of the Empire State building… doable, but a bad plan all around.”

I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn’t make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

History will forget her.

How many people remember stupid congresspeople from 30 years ago?

Imhofe bringing a snowball to the Senate floor, this disproving climate change, for example. You and i and historians might, but average Joe on the street?

Preachin to the choir, friend. I’d get worked up about it but I’m paid the same regardless of how upset I get.

I do one, the other senior dev does the other. We fight about it in pull requests.

I’ve been using it a lot lately in the day job.

My experience has been it’s close but wrong often.

It shines when I am doing the same thing for 20 variables, but then I should be using a loop instead and copilot won’t go there.

Nothing. They’re behaving quite rationally.

You just have to understand that their motivation is not “successful governing” or “making the world better” but rather, “getting more money.”

When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they’re behaving quite normally.

Normally, yes.

With this supreme court? Who knows.

Staff engineers get paid the big bucks to spend all day in meetings so the rest of us don’t have to.

Worth it.

I don’t know how other devs tolerate IDEs in the first place. Is not (neo)vim and CLI sufficient?

The Christian god is just a spurned lover who wrote in their diary about how stupid and mean their ex is and they should never have dumped him.

Satan is the dumper and has moved on long ago.

Shit, Comcast has a pretty decent change of charging you for the hardware even if you do return it.

You joke, but I’m literally fighting this fight right now.

Scoring political points is more important than feeding children is why.

It’s always been this way. We’re just old enough now to see the cycle for what it is.

Based on the planet’s climate trajectory, humanity may not rule it forever, but we’re aiming to be the last.

Developers have great mobility, yes, but barring a few “key” employees, we’re all pretty replaceable.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if, instead of having to change jobs every 2 - 3 years to get a decent raise, the union just negotiated raises across the board for everyone?

As if I needed another reason to not buy a GM.

On the flip side, Jack Smith has been incredibly thorough. He wouldn’t ask if he didn’t have a backup plan.