I want to do this now…

The New New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “don’t Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Don’t send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

It could be cool to get a blue check mark for hosting your own domain (excluding the free domains)

It would be more expensive than bot armies are willing to deal with.

I can tell when I’m being phished if my password works on the first try

I think Postgres could win the MisSql pageant

Snowflake and DuckDB would be up there doing 10 different talents, then Postgres would just stand there and say “uh huh, I do that too” to thunderous applause!

SQLite would win the swimsuit competition but then struggle with concurrent writes during talent show and get disqualified. The judges would always get its name wrong.

Big query would get caught copying Snowflake and bribing the judges. Presto/Trino would require a full team to get dressed for the costume contest and miss the event.

MySQL wouldn’t win any single event, but would get high scores all around for unknown reasons.

MongoDB would be at the front desk trying to convince the judges to let it enter, and while doing that would accidentally drop a suitcase filled with business and government secrets.

Sounds fair to me

I’m still surprised self hosting mastodon instances isn’t more popular among press/media brands

All the benefits of posting on twitter with complete control of how your brand is presented.

I think she’s my favourite comedian, Cunk is too funny!

(I know this isn’t her, but I read it in her voice)

There are two in the top corners at least

I need to set my own instances…

That actually seems attractive to me, but I’m unsure where I stand yet. It’s pricey, I just want a box I can put in the basement and then connect everything to over wifi.

I think I’m very much a generalist, but the areas in deep on I’m much deeper than others.

But that means as companies get bigger they want more specialists and i end up less valuable as I’m just filling in gaps.

Makes finding those good companies harder, but I’m more valuable to small companies than hiring 3-4 people, so I can command good pay.

Networking in university got me my first jobs and they were very good starting jobs.

I don’t mean you have to go out and be fake, but get involved in a bunch of stuff, and make sure to check if your department has any corporate relationships you can use.

Meeting people pays the best dividends in life.

This is very true

Some people fall into the lifestyle creep trap and get accustomed to spending what they make. If you make 2x average and live relatively normally you’ll find your savings grow quick.

Even if you do make good money, it’s best not to let that go to your head.

In curious where you are in the career curve?

When I started I had similar experience where I was rapidly getting promoted and raises. Eventually that slowed down.

My answer is I got promotions and now I’m not allowed to spend time on making nice code, I just have to get results and I’m closely judged by volume over quality.

I started a project with “I’ll just build a simple entity component system”

I quickly abandoned it because that does not work at all if you have not planned out all of the features you’ll use.

With all the features modern games have, and their portability across platforms and graphics stacks, yeah it’s damn impressive these things work.

My all time most annoying bug was the Witcher 3 chest management.

The algorithm they used to display and sort contents if a chest was abhorrently slow. I’ve worked on large datasets with terabytes of contents that sort faster than the inventory in Witcher 3 did.

Other than that, a near flawless game!

“Who the hell wrote something so stupid”

git blame

“Oh. Never mind”

At least it means you’re improving.

Not true

If you learn rust you’ll start saying “this would never have happened if they had used rust”