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5 Reasons not to become a software engineer - Software Engineering Blog The brutal truth about software engineering: constant learning, ruthless job markets, and burnout rates that should scare you. Still think coding is your path to the good life?

My top 5 reasons for avoiding software engineering as a career:

1. Schooling
2. Job market
3. Burn out
4. Money
5. Lack of passion

#softwaredevelopment #swecareeradvice #softwarejobs

User-friendly AI isn't here yet - Software Engineering Blog Since I started using LLM chatbots, my enthusiasm for them has been a bit of a rollercoaster. At times, they feel like they slow me down. Other times, I stumble on a prompting approach that unlocks so...

Hot takes:

- We are in the "CLI era" of AI.
- AI shines best when it doesn’t announce itself to the end user.

Nice 🤣. I just read the HTML one yesterday.

Perks and Benefits to Negotiate in Interviews - Software Engineering Blog Salary Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg Salary matters, no doubt about it. But when it comes to long-term happiness and success as a software engineer, it’s only the beginning. And sometimes, salary is ...

When salary is fixed, what else can you negotiate?

Finally got around to posting a video 😬

Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation You may have landed here because I had just apologized for my obsessiveness over punctuation in a GitHub comment and requested changes to your pull request, or you noticed me adding periods to a sente...

I can relate 😄.

Adding a queue to a web app is such a chore. Is there something simple like this?

1. You POST a task with a webhook + priority
2. When it’s your turn, we POST to your webhook
3. You run the task, then call back when done

Testing Manus in the next few days.
#manus

Are LLMs deterministic? 🙃

How do you know when to use a framework or a library?

If you don't know the answer, try building it yourself first.

By the end of that exercise, you will either:

1. Know exactly why it exists and which pain point it solves.

Or

2. Know why it is not a good idea to use it in your project.

YouTube video by Roman Taylor Second guessing majoring in CS

Responding to this Reddit post: rtaylor.co/csworthitred...

#computerscience #softwareengineering

Yeah, for sure, I'll add you shortly!

Blogging Queue and Eh I’ve been enjoying blogs a lot more, especially as a way of staying connected and up to date with friends, a slew of which have been tagging each other to write up their answers to some blogging...

@snook.ca I love this post! As a result I'm also learning about other cool blogs 🙂

Nice. Curious why use HTMX and AlpineJS together?

Slowly building out a starter pack with all of the software bloggers 🙂

There is 1000% more conversation about vibe coding happening than actual vibe coding.

Trying to define an agentic loop in the fewest amount of words.

Interesting!

A lot of new followers since I posted this, so in case you missed it, here's my Front-end Friends starter pack 😊 go.bsky.app/FfLUXeQ

(and a more specific CSS Starter Pack here too: go.bsky.app/JQYmgQH)

YouTube video by Roman Taylor #vibecoding FIXATION service

Idea: agency focused on helping vibe coders #vibecoding

YouTube video by Roman Taylor Which type of developer are you?

Do you agree that all software engineers fall somewhere on the "craft-result" line?

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Great post! Going to add your blog to sweblogs.fyi 👍

𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻: +40 libraries for UI Automation, Excel and PDF Processing, OCR, Scrapping, Secrets Management, etc.

Automate anything in #Python:
developers.botcity.dev/academy/en/c...

Interesting take on writing code with AI. Now apply that take to #vibecoding 😬

Makes sense. I haven't done an email newsletter, so I never used either platform very seriously. But it's a bit crazy to learn that there is no syntax highlighting for code.

Looks good. What made you start this project?

Look cool, thanks for sharing.

I didn't see any code or description of the project in the repo. Do you already have it partially built? If so, it would be good to see what you have so far.

Interesting data Alex! Do you mind if I read it in a video format on YouTube?

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents - Infrequently Noted Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We can do simple, straightforward things to combat that decline...but contemporary frontend isn't doing those things.

Why not?

A consolidated thread from last week:

infrequently.org/2024/10/platform…