Holy cow! I came here to talk about how Glocks are like Honda Civics too!

I like you.

I took it as software engineers tend to build for scalability. And yep, IT often isn’t prepared for that or sees it as wasted resources.

Which isn’t a bad thing. IT isnt seeing the demands the manager/customer wants.

I’m glad you’ve done both because yeah, it’s a seesaw.

If IT provisions just enough hardware, we’ll hit bottlenecks and crashes when there’s a surprise influx of customers. If software teams don’t build for scale, same scenario, but worse.

From the engineer perspective, it’s always better to scale with physical hardware. Where IT is screaming, “We dont have the funds!”

Accurate!

Developers are frequently excited by the next hot thing or how some billionaire tech companies operate.

I’m guilty of seeing something that was last updated in 2019 and having a look of disgust.

This is like saying before you can be a writer, you need to understand latin and the history of language.

. I think to be a good software developer it helps to know what’s happening under the hood when you take an action.

There’s so many layers of abstractions that it becomes impossible to know everything.

Years ago, I dedicated a lot of time understanding how bytes travel from a server into your router into your computer. Very low-level mastery.

That education is now trivia, because cloud servers, cloudflare, region points, edge-servers, company firewalls… All other barriers that add more and more layers of complexity that I don’t have direct access to but can affect the applications I build. And it continues to grow.

Add this to the pile of updates to computer languages, new design patterns to learn, operating system and environment updates…

This is why engineers live alone on a farm after they burn out.

It’s not feasible to understand everything under the hood anymore. What’s under the hood grows faster than you can pick it up.

Rough and that sucks for your organization.

Our IT team would rather sit in a room with developers and solve those problems, than deal with hundreds of non-techs who struggle to add a chrome extension or make their printer icon show up.

Absolutely agree, as a developer.

The devops team set up a pretty effective setup for our devops pipeline that allows us to scale infinity. Which would be great if we had infinite resources.

We’re hitting situations where the solution is to throw more hardware at it.

And IT cannot provision tech fast enough within budget for any of this. So devs are absolutely suffering right now.

Sometimes managers do guilt trip.

Shitty manager: “Oh you’re taking a few days off to go to a funeral? Now Sarah has to work overtime… :-(”

A dumb employee would then try to reduce your PTO time to make it work, because they’re too stupid to realize that it’s the manager’s responsibility, not theirs.

Oh, and the manager is paid significantly more than them.

The open-source side of WordPress is pretty pissed off at Matt right now. The Slack is heavily downvoting/disliking all of this.

Dude had a fucking power boner.

He saw a tired teenager who was bothering nobody as an opportunity to wave his dick around.

Oh that’s neat with Nvidia shield!

I currently do the pi-hole and block calls route.

Wait what? Is there a blog or article on how to do this?

Because I can’t picture how this works in my head for my setup. It needs internet to go to Hulu/Netflix/etc.

I think about this all the time.

All the “just a prank” folks.

All the “I’m just asking questions” folks.

The “It’s just a thought experiment” folks.

SEND THEM TO THE CHILD MINES

Musk has continued to interfere with politics over and over again. From donations, to censorship, to being a weird fucking creep to female politicians.

Swift was dragged in there because Donald Trump shared fake AI images of her supporting Donald. To fix the blowback, Swift said, “Ew you old filthy pedo, I’m not doing that”. (Don’t quote me)

Its newsworthy because it’s news.

Haha I think I met one!

Dude was a eco-friendly pro-Kamala pro-weed driving a Tesla.

When I made a joke about buying a Tesla before Elon went crazy, he kinda sheepishly shrugged and then excitedly talked about all the new things Tesla is coming out with.

Hey what the heck? How did you get my Lemmy password?

I remember watching the rich kid in middle school buy a ring tone right in front of me, flexing that his device could play a 12-second loop of Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.

I would cry so hard.

For the last 30 years, they’ve been trying to charge for dumb shit like wallpapers, screen savers, mouse cursors.

Who are these people who buy them? And what’s wrong with you?