What do you think makes someone a senior software engineer? What qualities make them stand out from mid-level engineers?

I completed 3 tickets in a day. Now can I do nothing for the rest of the week please?

It really annoys me that many tech recruiters do not have a basic knowledge of the roles they are trying to recruit for and what skill set to look for when they cold message/call potential candidates on LinkedIn.

I make it very clear on my profile that I am a Full Stack Engineer. Still, every other day I get messages about Data Engineering, Frontend Dev or SRE roles. Sometimes a recruiter would insist that I schedule a call with them before they tell me the details, and then I would realize after the call what an absolute waste of time it was.

I have a lot of respect for recruiters. It's not an easy job. But I'm starting to strongly believe that tech recruiters should be made to go through a specialized training to make life easy for themselves and to stop wasting time of people who are not even remotely suitable for their requirements.

Anyone here working as a consultant/contractor or running their own firm? How did you get into it? Where do you find clients?

Words of wisdom

Finally got these

Is it just me or do job descriptions like these sound like huge red flags

Let's hope Slack releases this dark theme soon.

Been thinking for a while now about getting into the startup scene and launch my own AI startup. I even got the domain name registered a month ago. Just can't seem to think of an idea that's not already been done.

One thing that's very frustrating about being in a globally distributed team is that you have to wait ages for someone to respond on Slack. You can't just walk up to them and ask for something. Most of my time is spent waiting for people to respond.

My new workplace

You should naturally expect to have no social life when you are a developer. But I managed to get a job with 9 to 6 timings with no annoying managers who call you after working hours. So I have the evening to myself.

I just landed a job in data science, and I've been asked by my employer about the hardware specs of the machine that I'm going to use. What do you guys suggest? I don't want to be a financial burden, but I also want something that wouldn't require frequent upgrades.

We all have that one prototype/test app in our phone

It wastes so much time when every time you have to learn to browse the documentation before being able to use an API.... Why does documentation have to be so complicated

I was once handed a very old PHP project that I had to make some changes to. I thought it would be a piece of cake. But the moment I looked at the code, I knew it wasn't going to be easy. It was so poorly written, it took me hours to figure out what was actually going on. Now these were the times when I was already quite disturbed mentally and emotionally, and this shitty PHP code only made it worse. At one point, I was like, fuck this shit I'm gonna quit this job.

Thankfully, the client soon emailed that the requested changes weren't needed anymore.

I personally have nothing against PHP. I have created some amazing stuff with it. But it's the programmers that don't follow the best practices that piss me off. I mean, how fucking hard can it be to write clean code. You might save your time today by taking shortcuts but you'll make life hell for the people who might have to maintain your code in the future.

Client's message: "The next feature we're going to implement is blah blah blah."

Me (to my manager): "Lol it can't be done. It's impossible. We're bound by technical limitations. I've done plenty of research on this."

*2 hours later*

Me: "Here, I've built a demo of the feature. We can deploy it in a couple of days."

"Works on my machine."

Yayyy thank you @dfox for sending these to Pakistan.

All I need is one good look at the delivery date and then one good look at my progress so far.

My PM took a day off and everything's so fucking calm.

So my client wants us to build a Photoshop/Illustrator-like canvas, with features such as ability to drag and drop multiple elements, resize them, etc. The project is web-based.

Any idea how to implement that? Are there any existing libraries that I can use?

Today the CEO called a meeting with our team just to get to know us personally and have some friendly chat. These meetings are to become a regular thing. Seems like he really cares about his employees.

Best experience: Graduated, got a job

Worst experience: The project assigned to me was built on fucking CodeIgniter

Is it a good idea to start learning Python? I'm a PHP dev but I really want to get out of my comfort zone and try something new. Moreover, I think as a PHP dev, I don't really have a future.

How to politely tell your client that their request for the new 'little' feature is unrealistic and fucking absurd?

My PM googles some really weird things. One day I saw him googling "how to play songs during phone call android"

Just finished this task 3 days prior to the deadline. Not sure what to do with my life now.

This guy loves Java too much.

My dream project is something very simple but not yet done in Pakistan.

I want to create a marketplace for musical instruments and related equipment. Currently it's very hard for amateur musicians in Pakistan to find the gear they're looking for, and being one of these musicians myself, I know how frustrating it can be. So it'd be great if I can solve that problem in a country where the government does very little to help independent artists grow.