I Will Do What I Must

Content Kat Maddox ctrIshifti 3h tech has three jokes: stackoverflow is mean, javascript is bad, and dark mode is good. my life's goal is to discover a fourth joke 975 1773 669 Kat Maddox ctrIshifti 13m my apologies, quitting vim is the fourth joke. As all 4 tech jokes have now been discovered, I will be closing this account. Goodbye 172 M87

Content Jared B. 2nd Leading Enterprise Growth CS Postman 5d Edited G Follow Today marks Day 1 of homelessness for me. I packed a pretty minimal stack of crap into a few bags and left. For how long? Who knows. A year, maybe more. Where am I going? A bunch of places. One every few months until I'm done. Why? To mandate absolute focus on a very small number of things (Postman included), fortify my network with coworkers and old new faces, force minimalism, and cattle-prod my brain. How am I going to afford it? By renting out my house to cover Airbnbs. Sure, it was planned months in advance. There was prep work. I'm not just blasting off into the ether. But still This could be a terrible idea, but it could also be genius - we'll find out. Wish me luck.

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Let's be honest, our job titles should just be "Professional Stack Overflow Researchers." The gap between what we claim to know and what we actually Google daily is the industry's best-kept open secret. Four years of computer science education just to perfect the art of crafting the perfect search query. "How to center div" for the 600th time this week? Yep, that's going in the search bar. The real programming skill isn't memorizing syntax—it's knowing exactly which error message to copy-paste into Google. Our IDE is just the middleman between us and our true coding environment: Chrome's incognito mode so colleagues can't see how basic our questions really are.

Content Me: Fullstack software engineer, specialized in security and UX, 10 years of experience with plenty complex microservice projects Also me: Google how to put double quotes inside a quote string in javascript

Started out thinking I'd build the next Facebook. Ended up debugging CSS margins at 3 AM while questioning my life choices. The "vibe coder" phase is that brief window where you still think programming is all holographic interfaces and revolutionary algorithms—before reality hits and you're fighting with dependency hell in a dimly lit room, sustained only by caffeine and Stack Overflow.