What if I told you… imposter syndrome is real and you’re probably a pretty good programmer. If you care enough to frequent this community on lemmy you’re probably in the top 25% at least.

My perception of which side of the Dunning Kruger effect I’m on is in some kind of quantum superposition.

Fluke McHappenstance
link
fedilink
English
91Y

pump your brakes kid, you could be talking to the left-pad guy and you would never now it

DarkenLM
link
fedilink
41Y

Yet not many people can brag about breaking half of the internet in one swift blow.

Fluke McHappenstance
link
fedilink
English
41Y

I don’t think he knows what he did. He’s going around the world like that. Just living life.

Man if you actually use proper http status codes instead of returning 200 to every single request no matter the outcome, you’re already better than a lot of “senior” developers. If you’ve written any amount of half-useful readmes or docs or even comments, you’re well above the average. If you’re aware that git has more than 3 commands, you’re well on your way to godhood.

You mean every error shouldn’t be a 500?

Fantasticly written. I’m going to quote you in my team onboarding documents.

I dazzle the youngins every time I git rebase

Whereas I…uh… Give the youngins a memorable story to tell later, when I git rebase.

Did you inherit the same project I did?

Did they also not use feature branches, API documentation, or any frontend framework, opting to create one based on jQuery instead?

Create a post

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

  • Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
  • No NSFW content.
  • Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.
  • 1 user online
  • 77 users / day
  • 211 users / week
  • 413 users / month
  • 2.92K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 1.53K Posts
  • 33.8K Comments
  • Modlog