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There was only ever one Xamarin CEO, Nat. Miguel was CTO

Creepy AF

I've reached out to a few hiring managers and recruiters and let them know I gave up on applying for their job because their software failed to parse my resume containing 20+ years of experience.

I truly hope whoever thought it was a good idea to stop accepting PDFs resumes, loses their job and spends the rest of their life trying to apply for jobs using these awful platforms.

Well said! I'll be keeping this in mind when searching for my next job.

At 45 I got laid off from a startup in June 2023 after trying to push through burnout for over 2 year. After 4 purely cosmetic redesigns of the product before we were even public, I just stopped caring. Our none existent customer base isn't going to suddenly buy the product if primary buttons are purple vs blue.

The next six months of trying to find a job were completely demoralizing thanks to all the other layoffs in the industry. I gave up looking and downsized my life so I could take 2 or 3 years off.

I'm slowly letting it go, but I'm still dreading having to go back to writing software. Unfortunately I haven't been able to come up with many similarly paying options to switch to. Maybe management or technical sales I guess? Maybe just getting away from frontend dev will help as well.

I decided to downsize my life by selling a relatively expensive car and my condo and see how long I can go without working.

I have no desire to go back to frontend development even though I can make way more doing that than anything else.

I'm hoping in a year or so I'll be ready to get back into tech, but right now I have no desire to. So much of the industry just seems toxic to my mental health.

I was really hoping Devin was an actual human and this was a meme.

More proof Apple is terrible at software and iOS is a broken, stagnant OS.

I love Apple's hardware, but iOS is such a turd, I'm stuck on Android even though the rest of my eco-system is Apple (MacBook, AirPods, AppleTV)

It's Trump's fault for telling his sheep not to pass the bipartisan immigration bill which included aid for Ukraine.

I was for 2 or 3 years over 10 years ago. I built apps (mostly web based) for smaller businesses and startups.

I'll likely be going back to it after being laid off last June and not being able to find the same level of pay.

I haven't pirated content in a decade but I'd estimate I'm a year or two away from going back for the reasons you stated. So sick of the rate hikes and fragmentation. Once ads become common place I'm out.

I wish someone would make a good weekly digest World News newsletter.

Every year I look for one, and every year I come up empty handed. Every newsletter is daily at a minimum.

You just have to be more hardcore

joking

The way tech companies have been doing layoffs is appalling. This would be my 26th year in the industry if I had a job or could get another one. I have little desire to go back. I hope there's another big developer shortage someday but with developments in AI it seems unlikely.

Stop spamming this thread please. It's frustrating to search the page and hit your same content over and over.

Maybe it's just me, but the survey style job application is not as fun and whimsical as you probably think it is. I've probably applied for 100+ jobs in the last few months, and nobody has time for that. Especially when you're probably getting 100's of applicants.

I did this with my Mom and really enjoyed it! Learned a lot.

I also applied for this role. ;) I love that you're using Svelte!

you're getting paid a lot less at Microsoft than you would be elsewhere

The one year (2016) I worked at Microsoft after an acquisition was more than any startup has paid me, even if you factor in "(stock options exit / years worked at start) + startup salary"

I was blown away and felt stupid for all the years I've been chasing startup lottery tickets.

Any of the big tech companies, including Microsoft, pay WAY more than your average programming gig. OH and they don't have career ceilings for individual contributors.

I'd happily work there again someday, and really wish someone would have told me how high the pay is at these big tech companies 20 years ago. Would have skipped the startup route.

no

I'm with you. I much prefer class components. So much easier to understand and work with.

I disliked hooks after first trying them on their release, and I hate them now.

I'm still bitter that a senior engineer didn't step in and prevent them from destroying the react ecosystem. I wonder if they were have been squashed if React was developed outside Facebook?

I believe I speak for all web developers when I say "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Did they also do a study to find out if water is wet?

The disappearance of buttons and knobs in cars is super frustrating. Thanks Elon and all the sheep copying his bad UX.

Exactly my impression after reading the article.

I've been saying it since it came out, React Hooks was a HUGE mistake. It fractured the ecosystem into two completely different ways to use React.

Personally I find Hooks code much harder to comprehend. And this article is a perfect example of why even simple looking Hooks code comes with unintuitive behavior.

Someone needs to fork React, remove Hooks, and merge `componentDidUpdate` and `componentDidMount` into one function with a flag to determine if it's "on mount", so I don't have to keep calling `componentDidUpdate` from `componentDidMount`.

I've been using React at work for 8 years straight FWIW, and can't wait to use something else. I'd be happier using jQuery at this point

I much prefer the regular/original Airpods with the tapping instead of pinching.

Whoever designed pinching, obviously doesn't listen to books or podcasts. Three pinches to skip back 15 seconds? No thanks.

They also don't have winter. Trying pinching with a stocking cap on.

I wish Evernote was stagnate. Instead some product manager is trying to make a name for themselves and monkey patched a ToDo app in and made the UI harder to use.

What's border line criminal is the new version is WAY slower than the old one.

I used to feel the way you do (absolutely despised TypeScript).

After using it for five years I can confidently say I was wrong.

I wouldn't even consider working for a company still using regular Javascript.

Agreed. I was excited for a couple minutes, then 1 minute and 15 seconds into the video saw "indentation based" and checked out.

Nothing good is indentation based. I will die on this hill

Exactly.

"If I had to guess, I would say ~40 hours"

That's just the tip of the iceberg if you're going to maintain this for years upon years. No thanks

1Password on my original iPhone SE is a train wreck.

It often doesn't show the button to enable biometric unlock, so I'm constantly having to type the full password

Apple is bad at software.

Impatiently waiting for people to realize this.