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Content How a career in technical communication ruined me as a letter writer BEFORE: Unnecessary verbage Unnecessary--omit. Superfluous detail Redundant Avoid Dear Aunt Bee, v Sentence too long parentheticals I wanted to thank you so much for the beautiful new angora sweater you sent me for my birtiday I cant believe you remembered that blue is my absolute favorite dolor (especially that gorgeous shade of robin's egg blue, which reminds me of the summers I spent with you in the country, all those years ago)! I'll think of you whenever I wear it. I really appreciate the time and effort you took to pick this out, wrap it so micely, and send it to me With lots of love. vour niece. Avoid future tense; avoid Suzanne contractions Subiective Last sentence does not add anything to the meaning. Unnecessary. She knows who you are AFTER: Dear Aunt Bee, Thank you for the sweater. It is: Warm Soft ORmA I think of you when I wear the sweater. I appreciate your kindness. Sincerely, Suzane

The ultimate career paradox: you grind LeetCode, master design patterns, and optimize algorithms until you can code in your sleep. Then you get promoted to senior, and suddenly your IDE collects dust while you're stuck in back-to-back sprint planning, stakeholder syncs, and architecture reviews. It's the cruel irony of software engineering—the better you get at solving problems with code, the less time you actually spend coding. Instead, you're translating business requirements, mentoring juniors, and explaining why "just make it work like Uber" isn't a valid technical specification. Your keyboard misses you, but Zoom definitely doesn't. The real skill ceiling isn't writing elegant code—it's surviving 8 hours of meetings without your soul leaving your body.

The generational coding war in three frames. Junior dev with a broomstick getting roasted for using "ordinary functions and objects" and basic HTTP requests by some floating coding wizard. Then the mic drop: "My mentor said it was enough for projects of this era." Every senior dev has been that floating wizard, criticizing someone for not using the latest framework-du-jour or some unnecessarily complex architecture. Meanwhile, the junior with their simple CRUD app is actually shipping while we're busy bikeshedding about whether to use GraphQL or gRPC for a to-do list.

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Content That code the senior dev wrote is too complicated. That code the junior dev wrote is too complicated.

Content 9:41 A I ON 3 92 38 last seen today at 9:19 am looked into React today to broaden my general design knowledge. Just wanted to get an idea of what I can ask of devs. First time I've done any coding for three years.. Jeez, even getting started was an assault course. OK, need a code editor - download Visual Studio Code. Advice is to then download multiple extensions to improve syntax. Next, apparently I need Yarn. But I first need Homebrew to install Yarn. Download and install homebrew. This takes a while. Install Yarn. Apple then tells me it needs to update xcode. I let it. OK, cool, we're cruising... So I want to view some components. Apparently now I need to install an NPM library, but first I need to download node. I continue typing things into terminal, the meaning of which, I know not. Nearly 45 minutes has passed by this point and I have no idea what I've just done. I'm at literally step one of a tutorial. I go for a run instead. 5:16 pm V haha! fee like a screenshot of that message would get a lot of upvotes on r programmerhumor 5:18 pm Type a message