Every Senior Dev's Personal Website

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5 months ago 182,716 views 0 shares

Every Senior Dev's Personal Website

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Ah yes, the senior developer paradox - can build enterprise-scale distributed systems that handle millions of users, but their personal website? A Firefox security warning because the SSL cert expired three years ago. The computer clock is apparently set to 2025, which is probably when they'll "get around to fixing it this weekend." The same weekend they'll finally finish that side project they started in 2018. At this point, the broken website is basically a badge of honor. "Too busy writing actual code to maintain my own site" is the developer equivalent of a chef who only eats takeout at home.

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