The Internet's Precarious Foundation

Oh how the mighty have fallen! 💀 Remember when companies expected you to master 17 different technologies, frameworks, and certifications in the time it takes to microwave a burrito? Now they're just like "Here's a course on how to ask an AI to do your job for you." The absolute AUDACITY of these companies thinking they can replace our blood, sweat, and Stack Overflow tears with "Hey Copilot, make me look competent." Next they'll be offering courses on "How to look busy while an LLM writes your entire codebase" and "Advanced techniques in taking credit for AI-generated solutions." The tech industry's evolution from "prove your worth through impossible certifications" to "just learn to type good prompts" is the greatest betrayal since they removed the headphone jack!

Look at these American cloud giants getting the Toy Story treatment. After years of Stockholm syndrome relationships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, European dev teams are finally having their "Jessie moment." Nothing says "I've reconsidered our toxic relationship" like migrating to Hetzner after your AWS bill suddenly includes a 25% tariff surcharge. Sure, the documentation might be in German, but it's still more comprehensible than Lambda's pricing structure. Scaleway doesn't have 47 different database options? Good. I didn't understand the difference between the last 46 anyway.

Content Bethesda sues Warner for ripping off Fallout Shelter in its Westworld game By Andy Chalk 2 hours ago Bethesda claims the Westworld mobile game is basically a clone of Fallout Shelter, and even uses the same code. f cOMMENTS The lawsuit examines the many similarities between Westworld and Fallout Shelter in detail, but what makes the case seem particularly egregious is Bethesda's allegation that Westworld contains the same bugs as Fallout Shelter did when it was launched. One such bug causes the view to be off-center and out of focus at startup, "as if a camera capturing the scene had been inadvertently pointed to the lower right foreground and then slowly refocuses on the central image." Bethesda identifying stolen code by the bugs in it is the most perfectly Bethesda thing to ever happen.

Content Qualifications Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Computer Science from one of the top 30 universities, like UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, etc Must be proficient with Node.js, React.js, Algorithms Familiar with CSS, HTML, PHP, JS Working knowledge of Amazon AWS, Docker, or similar cloud solutions

The existential crisis hits hard when junior devs finally grasp that their precious code is just a tiny speck in an endless Russian doll of virtualization. Their Java app isn't running on a "computer" – it's running on a Java Virtual Machine, which is running on a VM, which is running on a hypervisor, which is part of a Virtual Private Cloud... which is probably running in some AWS data center that might not even physically exist for all we know. Seven years into my career and I'm still not convinced my code isn't just running in a simulation inside another developer's fever dream. The turtles really do go all the way down.

Content Skills You have 6 out of the 10 preferred skills Data Integrity sOL TypeScript JavaScript Architecture Microservices American Welding Society (AWS) API Development Microsoft Azure Relationship Building