Internet of Bugs / Spec Again creator, Carl, is planning a course for developers who want to go solo - looking for feedback from potential participants
I'm not a programmer and I just found this channel yesterday. More precisely, it's two channels on the same topic, one for laypeople and one for the tech savvy. Carl, the host, has been a tech...
I'm not a programmer and I just found this channel yesterday. More precisely, it's two channels on the same topic, one for laypeople and one for the tech savvy. Carl, the host, has been a tech professional since the 1980's. I saw one video by him and knew I have to post it on Tildes - then I went to see what else he's done and saw this.
I greatly admire this man's lucidity in the face of the current tech bubble, his perspective and groundedness, and the ability to grasp what's important.
Here he outlines a course he's planning to create for programmers who have been working for a couple years at least. He says: 'It's a rough time to be a developer right now, although it's still not as bad as the dot-com crash, and I expect that when the AI bubble pops, it's going to get a lot worse for a while before it gets better. I really want to try to help with that.' --- 'So hopefully this is a class that will teach you things that will serve you for the rest of your career, not just for the next year or two.' There is a link to a form you can use to give comments and suggestions before he locks down the details. He explains his ideas in a very clear, tangible way in the video so I won't go deeper into that here.
I feel like this could be valuable for some people around here so I wanted to post about it, especially as I've seen the occasional post by developers figuring out a new direction. Even though I don't know much about the field, I know a good teacher when I see one. This guy seems solid enough that I almost want to become a developer myself, just to attend his course. :)
(Let me know in the comments if you guys think it's okay to post something like this.)
I’ve heard the name of the channel but hadn’t watched before. Thanks for sharing! At first glance this seemed right up my alley. I’m a burned-out, late-career SE with uncertainties about AI,...
I’ve heard the name of the channel but hadn’t watched before. Thanks for sharing!
At first glance this seemed right up my alley. I’m a burned-out, late-career SE with uncertainties about AI, looking for alternative paths forward as a solo dev. Not sure how I’d pay for a course at the moment as I’m between jobs, but if the price is right and the curriculum is valuable I can justify it as an investment.
I thought he was speaking straight to me until he started describing the syllabus. But it sounds like this is about business software, particularly cloud-hosted SaaS stuff. Huge focus on MVP, scalability, observability, uptime, security, continuous deployment, subscription billing, yada yada. Frankly that’s all the stuff I’m personally trying to walk away from.
My career pivot, if I can pull it off, is going to be about simple buy-once, run-offline games. I’m sure I’ll have occasional updates to push but those are more like bug fixes than new feature rollouts. I think I’ll probably still need a refresher for basic accounting and business structure stuff but unfortunately most of this course probably isn’t going to be relevant for me.
I'm also tempted. Sounds promising. I'm a past software developer with 2+ decades of experience, mostly on the old Microsoft stack -- C#, T-SQL & ASP.NET -- but with some experience in dozens of...
I'm also tempted. Sounds promising.
I'm a past software developer with 2+ decades of experience, mostly on the old Microsoft stack -- C#, T-SQL & ASP.NET -- but with some experience in dozens of languages, techs and platforms.
Looks great on a resume, but that's almost entirely 8+ years old. I have almost no experience this decade in anything even vaguely programmer-ish, except a couple of small home projects, and I know I'm effectively a complete noob in today's industry, though I'm confident that I still have good instincts and foundational knowledge. Plus, I suspect SQL still hasn't changed all that much.
I quit working as a developer, in large part, because the entire industry enshittified (not entirely sure that word applies properly to the industry, but the concept definitely fits) ... nonetheless, I would like to modernize my skillset for my own benefit, old-school programming, telling computers what I want them to do.
I'm not a programmer and I just found this channel yesterday. More precisely, it's two channels on the same topic, one for laypeople and one for the tech savvy. Carl, the host, has been a tech professional since the 1980's. I saw one video by him and knew I have to post it on Tildes - then I went to see what else he's done and saw this.
I greatly admire this man's lucidity in the face of the current tech bubble, his perspective and groundedness, and the ability to grasp what's important.
Here he outlines a course he's planning to create for programmers who have been working for a couple years at least. He says: 'It's a rough time to be a developer right now, although it's still not as bad as the dot-com crash, and I expect that when the AI bubble pops, it's going to get a lot worse for a while before it gets better. I really want to try to help with that.' --- 'So hopefully this is a class that will teach you things that will serve you for the rest of your career, not just for the next year or two.' There is a link to a form you can use to give comments and suggestions before he locks down the details. He explains his ideas in a very clear, tangible way in the video so I won't go deeper into that here.
I feel like this could be valuable for some people around here so I wanted to post about it, especially as I've seen the occasional post by developers figuring out a new direction. Even though I don't know much about the field, I know a good teacher when I see one. This guy seems solid enough that I almost want to become a developer myself, just to attend his course. :)
(Let me know in the comments if you guys think it's okay to post something like this.)
I’ve heard the name of the channel but hadn’t watched before. Thanks for sharing!
At first glance this seemed right up my alley. I’m a burned-out, late-career SE with uncertainties about AI, looking for alternative paths forward as a solo dev. Not sure how I’d pay for a course at the moment as I’m between jobs, but if the price is right and the curriculum is valuable I can justify it as an investment.
I thought he was speaking straight to me until he started describing the syllabus. But it sounds like this is about business software, particularly cloud-hosted SaaS stuff. Huge focus on MVP, scalability, observability, uptime, security, continuous deployment, subscription billing, yada yada. Frankly that’s all the stuff I’m personally trying to walk away from.
My career pivot, if I can pull it off, is going to be about simple buy-once, run-offline games. I’m sure I’ll have occasional updates to push but those are more like bug fixes than new feature rollouts. I think I’ll probably still need a refresher for basic accounting and business structure stuff but unfortunately most of this course probably isn’t going to be relevant for me.
I'm also tempted. Sounds promising.
I'm a past software developer with 2+ decades of experience, mostly on the old Microsoft stack -- C#, T-SQL & ASP.NET -- but with some experience in dozens of languages, techs and platforms.
Looks great on a resume, but that's almost entirely 8+ years old. I have almost no experience this decade in anything even vaguely programmer-ish, except a couple of small home projects, and I know I'm effectively a complete noob in today's industry, though I'm confident that I still have good instincts and foundational knowledge. Plus, I suspect SQL still hasn't changed all that much.
I quit working as a developer, in large part, because the entire industry enshittified (not entirely sure that word applies properly to the industry, but the concept definitely fits) ... nonetheless, I would like to modernize my skillset for my own benefit, old-school programming, telling computers what I want them to do.