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[-] self@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

the raw, mediocre teenage energy of assuming you can pick up any subject in 2 weeks because you’ve never engaged with a subject more complex than playing a video game and you self-rate your skill level as far higher than it actually is (and the sad part is, the person posting this probably isn’t a teenager, they just never grew out of their own bullshit)

given how oddly specific “application auth protocol” is, bets on this person doing at best minor contributions to someone else’s OAuth library they insist on using everywhere? and when they’re asked to use a more appropriate auth implementation for the situation or to work on something deeper than the surface-level API, their knowledge immediately ends

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

have implemented jwt (used the library, first in the company)

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

so uh, they keep self-fellating on Twitter about how they invented their own CAD program over the objections of the haters

here it is, it’s an extremely thin wrapper around the typescript version of manifold with live reloading on changes. note that not only is manifold already a CAD library, they already have a web-based editor that reloads the model on code changes, and kache’s live reloading is just nodemon. the server part looks like it’s barely modified from a code example. the renderer is just three.js grabbed from a CDN.

it’s so weird they didn’t take the necessary 2 weeks to learn how to write the CAD parts of the CAD system they made!

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

hackers and builders (both in the a16z definition of) are some of the fucking worst things out there today

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago
[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

founder mode derogatory? [flagged]

[-] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

chatgpt: for people who don’t want to be gaslit only by bad cli tools

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

the absolute worst type of coworker from my cubicle days: heard about a technology at a conference, decided they invented it

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