What if I told you… imposter syndrome is real and you’re probably a pretty good programmer. If you care enough to frequent this community on lemmy you’re probably in the top 25% at least.
My perception of which side of the Dunning Kruger effect I’m on is in some kind of quantum superposition.
pump your brakes kid, you could be talking to the left-pad guy and you would never now it
Yet not many people can brag about breaking half of the internet in one swift blow.
I don’t think he knows what he did. He’s going around the world like that. Just living life.
Man if you actually use proper http status codes instead of returning 200 to every single request no matter the outcome, you’re already better than a lot of “senior” developers. If you’ve written any amount of half-useful readmes or docs or even comments, you’re well above the average. If you’re aware that git has more than 3 commands, you’re well on your way to godhood.
Did you inherit the same project I did?
Did they also not use feature branches, API documentation, or any frontend framework, opting to create one based on jQuery instead?
I dazzle the youngins every time I
git rebase
Whereas I…uh… Give the youngins a memorable story to tell later, when I
git rebase
.
You mean every error shouldn’t be a 500?
Fantasticly written. I’m going to quote you in my team onboarding documents.
What if I told you that there is software that sucks less?
What if I told you that someone had already beat you to the punchline?
One update in 2023? This site sucks!
Do you mean the software made by literal nazis?
I was not aware of their political stance. I am definetely not endorsing them, nor any other person that I don’t know. And I would definitely condemn Nazi policies and behavior. It was just a pun replied to a pun.
Yeah, but there’s software that sucks less
This is why I always look for ways to remove code. The less there is, the fewer bugs there can be in it!
Well my software swallows
Why not both?
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Even the shiny stuff ?
Specially the shiny stuff.
I mean, let’s be honest guys, would we really get the paychecks we do if any software engineer could turn out perfect functioning code on time and in budget for every request?