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BordedDev
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Anyone in NL have any good suggestions for finding job? Currently, I'm working at a software house doing fullstack (node + python) + mobile (android + react-native 🤮), generally one of the 2 categories per project. I do have ~10 years of experience. Currently, I'm all the way at the German border, I'm up for moving, especially if it gets me near people I can actually talk tech to (even to another country, but I only know Dutch and English fluently).

I do get offers on LinkedIn with one semi-success, but it came with several strings attached (e.g. can't find a new job with in 80 km kind of stuff).
Game dev has always been a hobby-wanna-go-pro thing for me, so I want those to be excluded from any type of “you made this in your free time, well, it's ours now” contracts.

Part of me wants to go into the game's industry because that's what I've always wanted (it just didn't exist back where I lived outside of gambling/shitty mobile games). I'm crazy enough to like C++ but with the current toxic culture in the game's industry, I wish to avoid it at the same time (+ just being exhausted all the time makes me think I wouldn't be able to keep up in the beginning).

Which makes me think I should rather go for “saving for the future” but the passion I had to just sit and programming seems to have 404ed🥲

My mind has been Ouroborosing on which way to go unfortunately as well

I moved back a couple of years ago largely unplanned timing wise, for a couple of reasons (safety and family mostly, the whole reason/process would take a while to explain). Which means I couldn't start to get things organised until now, including re-doing my driving license since I'm not allowed to convert it since I missed out on the 30% ruling (and my “old” country's license isn't good enough).

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    6d
    Dutchy here. I just configure my linkedIn to pop up in search results from recruiters and the offers STREAM in.

    But yeah, try to avoid travel time (and expenses ffs) at all cost indeed. Home working is less hip in the Netherlands that you would think huh? Many companies want their employees just at the office. I prefer the office if it's in the neighborhood. Home is for other programming tasks ;). Also, I just like to hang out with coworkers.

    I do not like games but if I had the opportunity somewhere to learn it on the job, I would definitely do that. What I like about it is that it comes with a certain level of complexity. I do mainly financial applications and stuff, data entry, and I'm bored to dead. I'm good in it, but after learned twenty ways about how to process form input you get kinda tired. Everything changes, not much gets better. My site, that's decent. Fully html rendered with ADDITIONAL js. It's a complete application that I use 24/7 and generates in 1 - 30ms. .
  • 1
    6d
    @retoor I do miss the office, and playing D&D at my previous employer. Not so much the hour+ commute, started listening to audiobooks and made peace with it. Now I sit quietly on discord with friends I made back in school/uni. Doubt I'll find a commute shorter than 1 hour.

    I did also apply to NS and got rejected because of not having enough experience with large orgs after interviews. Should probably have mentioned I just wanted a position but could only find senior ones open. That would also have a 2-hour commute (to Utrecht), but it would be on the train, which they would pay for AFAIK.

    Performance and DevX are definitely what I crave. One of the proudest things I've managed to do was creating a performant FSM + firebase ORM setup in an app, it was for an app for a B2C route planning company.

    That class of responsiveness 🤤. Reminds me of my excitement of Svelte, which has served well where we have used it, but instead I'm dealing with React slop. What are you using?
  • 1
    6d
    @BordedDev for front-end pure GPT, mostly HTML backend rendered Jinja. It's the only 'code' I generate with GPT. I'm in the top 1% active coders from codium, not for generation but for * tab tab tab * and of course A LOT of coding.

    Performance is for me important too. I monitor now my own keystrokes for a few weeks now and I can perfectly by GPT summarization see what I've been working on, per hour. It's good self reflection. Also I made a review tool that gives your source code a grade. Target is to score an eight, most of my projects are a six or seven. The review is done very well, better than humans. Deeper level, it knows every issue from every tool you use, so you can get negative review points for using original stuff if it sucks. Here's output: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/drstats/...
  • 1
    6d
    @retoor Do you mean it's generated on the fly by GPT, you asked GPT to write the site for you, or do you mean you TABed to victory?

    At work, we have access to co-pilot, the tabs there flow as well. With occasional “can you write X” for me, which always assumes jest for tests even though we're using vitest.

    That review is awesome and more useful than 500% the "reviews"/complaints about (client)PM at work, did you make your own model or are you interfacing with something else? (I'm going to assume the source is on your site)

    Have you had any luck with more complex/modern topics — my recurring project is making an MMO engine (MMO game would be secondary) and have found that co-pilot doesn't really understand what's going on (e.g. packing integers into 7 bit chunks with a marker if the next byte is also part of the number)?
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    6d
    @BordedDev site frontends i just make by generate in chatgpt and copy and paste it to local. It's not a lot of effort because i prefer simple clean looking layouts.

    Tabbing myself to fictory is what I do a lot. Codeium (people say it's actually better than copilot but it will steal your source code) writes most time exactly the code I wanted, so why wouldn't I use tab tab tab. And very rare, it shows me something that i thought, that's better than my idea and I learn smth new.

    The review thing, i use openai as backend, that's why it's so good. I have played with local hosted models but openai is soo much better for so cheap, there's no reason to local host, for me at least.

    The source code of my review code is not on my site, but how to use it is:

    https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...
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    6d
    @BordedDev Yes, I did have luck on complexer complex. I made a few interpreters (have read book about it) and also regex in C. The source of interpreters got lost sadly. GPT also doesn't understand writing of regex interpreter. The examples look good, but they're all wrong, like MOST of the examples online, will have problems when you implement more features. First 80% is easy.

    Thanks for calling my review thing awesome. Rarely someone calls my project(s) awesome sadly while I make a lot (see site, that's only from 1,5 month, most completed / in use). The one I mentioned in my previous post does a review from @Lensflare's work. It's a way better review.

    Also, my work includes bots that devRant hates.
  • 1
    6d
    @BordedDev I did train an GPT model for $10 with 5Mb data where it trained for one hour. Sadly, the data wasn't correct input, and when I fixed the data to correct input, it said that contents were inappropiate. Juts gave myself the answer why to host local. Got it. I did not train local models, but I did embed them, I don't get as good results as the typosaurus bot here which is openai+vector database with 25Mb of devrant statistics that i generated (also on my site).
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    6d
    They hate bots like this: @typosaurus Tell me statistics about BordedDev in less than 800 characters because else you'll crash again.
  • 1
    5d
    @retoor BordedDev is ranked 277 in appreciation and has made 1 contribution on devRant, which accounts for 0.0% of the total contributions. The average post length for BordedDev is 160 characters, with a total post length of 160 characters across their single contribution that also represents 0.0% of the total content on devRant【8:0†source】. Additionally, BordedDev has not been mentioned in any discussions on devRant【8:9†source】.
  • 1
    12h
    @retoor Ehh the reason for “local” (I'm going to assume self hosted since you can run it on demand on places like runpod) has more to do with specialisation since those local models can have the same limitations/brainwashing.

    And yeah, it's very awesome, wish I had something like that back when I started programming — would still like to set something up like that, but I have been instructed to not have that much pride in my work. You are missed, my dear PR formatting and “error” correcting setup 🥲. (Junior had too many issues writing good code, and boss told “but it works right stop complaining” in more than those words — guess what it didn't work, but I wasn't allowed to put it back. This was before the “AI” industry)
  • 1
    12h
    @retoor Turns out, like pretty much all NL government email (WHY!?!!?!?!), the LinkedIn emails were going to spam.

    Do you have any recommendations for looking at average dev salary?

    Also, sorry about the delay in replies, it's been busy this side — washing machine decided to detach the tumbler from the motor today, not that big of an issue since it was on the list to replace but still…
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    12h
    @retoor Eh the most fun I had was creating a voice->text->voice discord bot (could also just text->text) but since finding anything trained on high-quality audio is hard and the datasets even harder (with LJ being the standard or newscasts 🤮). It annoyed the shit out of people on the server since there was a delay and no auto-cut off, almost like I told them it's a work in progress 🙄 + my original goal was just to annoy them with it.

    The saddest thing about it was the best thing to message when I had a shit day, since it would always try to cheer you up (since people get tired of the retard doing the retarded thing, and you're having to fix it at work story).

    (I do want to rejigg it be like the cursor IDE thing where I can just go "Tomoko, where did these morons put the vehicle control logic" and it just pops it up for me)
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