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Tech Twitter is a fucking joke, unless you're a somewhat accomplished programmer, wrote something interesting / useful, or at the least have contributed anything meaningful that isn't just a repository with Markdown documents in then I don't want to see your fucking stupid inspirational quotes or words of encouragement with thousands of damn retweets. The circle jerk is frankly just unbearable.

There are plenty of developers that you can learn a lot from and that's great, and I don't want to put new developers down, but you're really not in any position to be giving advice or motivational monologues, you're still new, or worse yet, you've literally just started. Behave yourself.

I'm convinced they're all just LARPers who jerk each other off and shut people down when they have "naughty" opinions. They spend more time writing articles about HTML tags or some aspect of JavaScript you can just get from MDN and get a million fucking applause for it. Maybe you'd be a better programmer if you actually did some programming.

Okay I'm done

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  • 2
    Crap, I don’t know if I’m considered to be part of Tech Twitter or not. 😅

    Good quality rant! Kudos!
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    You don't need to know everyone's opinion on how to be a 10x developer?

    How much their being an asshole means they are super awesome at computers?

    But also how socially conscious they are... aggressively expressing their care for others.... by yelling at people (or nobody) ....
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    @N00bPancakes Every time. Sometimes all in one thread. You can smell their self-righteousness through the monitor.
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    @AmyShackles I mean, I'm technically a software engineer who also uses Twitter! But if you were in the REAL tech Twitter paparazzi of perfectionists, you'd be shouting me down right now!

    Thanks for your comment!
  • 0
    That sounds like a very specific part of Twitter, thank God I haven't encountered it yet
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    @LotsOfCaffeine It’s hard to miss once you find it.
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    This inspirational circle jerk happens in linkedin as well, but mainly with recruiters..
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    I still seem to be one of the few people that doesn't "get" Twitter as a platform. Just seems messy, convoluted and with next to no content worth reading.

    Last time I looked on there it was a bunch of people debating master Vs main. Time before that it was people arguing about climate change and coding.

    It just seems to be where people go to be deliberately boring 🤷
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