The newest version of ESLint, a popular JavaScript linter utility, contains a new set of English grammar rules and semantic rules. This update now marks string "backward compatibility" as grammatically incorrect and urges the developer not to use it in comments or as a string va … | Continue reading
Fagooglix, a Silicon Valley company, joined a wave of layoffs by reducing the pool of middle managers, agile coaches and scrum masters by 20% in an attempt to cut costs. Surprisingly, weeks after the pink slips were delivered, the productivity levels of in house software develop … | Continue reading
Relatively sad news from one of prestigious AI institutes crushed dreams of many researchers and corporations heavily investing in AI. Experts in the field came to a unanimous conclusion: true General Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally impossible to achieve because, given a … | Continue reading
The world of JavaScript is high speed when it comes to updates. The Node Package Management ecosystem now treats packages as abandoned and deprecated as soon as 24 hours is passed since the latest non-breaking commit. As a result, the authors of popular libraries and frameworks r … | Continue reading
Leaked screenshots of internal documentation and messages reveled by an unknown source confirm a myth that the Kubernetes team prefers simple Bash scripts for own deployment tasks. It seems like in the most difficult deployment scenarios, team leaders at k8s sometimes may additi … | Continue reading
During the annual Centralized Cryptocurrency Conference Planning (CCCP) leaders of the cryptocurrency community officially declared the successful completion of the first two "Ruin The Word" projects. It was reported that the first word — 'crypto' — took several years to ruin, wh … | Continue reading
Thorough, long interviews are familiar to anyone trying to get a job as a software developer. Certain companies make candidates go through as many as 9 circles of interviews, including test assignments, culture fit assessments and correct emoji etiquette exams. 🍆 Anil Paw … | Continue reading
It's a remote dream for some professionals, but for Miriam K., a senior developer from Houston, the dream became reality when she finally completed her perfect note-taking system comprised of Zettelkasten-styled interlinked markdown files stored in Org-mode format with two-way co … | Continue reading
A regular SaaS company based in San Jose has been offering native macOS and Windows apps for almost 11 years. A glorified CRUD app received minor, but ultimately unnecessary updates on a regular basis. According to the CEO, an influx of almost $480 million US dollars of VC fundin … | Continue reading
Impostor syndrome is a common problem among tech professionals. It refers to an internal belief that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be. While many suffer from IS for years, regardless of personal achievements and formal qualifications, one middle-aged softwar … | Continue reading
A young developer's blogging career abruptly ended in an unexpected twist. Mere hours after finishing a 3-month project of creating the perfect, powerful, customizable blogging setup, the author has been struck by a realization: he has nothing to write about. In fact, he hates wr … | Continue reading
Thanks to new legislation, starting June 3rd, 2020 all software development job interviews in California must include comprehensive testing of proper use of emojis and GIFs in the context of communication in Slack. "Soft skills are very important. A wrong emoji, an inappropriate … | Continue reading
According to recent corporate leaks, which include vast archives of accounting documents of Facebook, Inc., Satan not only exists, but often delays payments for services rendered. In particular, it seems like Satan still owes over $400,000 USD to Facebook for "consulting services … | Continue reading
An unprecedented leap forward in politics, global economy and medicine has been made virtually overnight after a powerful artificial intelligence system gained access to Hacker News, a popular discussion forum where tech elites share bits of wisdom while having decaffeinated chai … | Continue reading
Sony's newest generation game console PlayStation 5 is yet to become as ubiquitous as PS4. However, the industry is already full of rumors about the next version — PlayStation 6. Among alleged improvements in graphics and network capabilities, the built-in browser is rumored to b … | Continue reading
Complicated rules of type coercion of JavaScript have been the bane of existence for many software developers. Recent research reveals interesting correlation between the level of heavy drug use and the level of understanding of JS type coercion rules. For those unfortunate deve … | Continue reading
After spending nearly 300 hours throughout several months, building the perfect coding productivity setup with vim, tmux, bash, xmonad and several other tools, middle-aged software developer Alex Lewis found himself deeply surprised about the fact that said setup did absolutely n … | Continue reading
Several important publications in prestigious scientific journals have finally resulted in a major AI breakthrough which may revolutionize the world as we know it. An immediate practical consequence is that, when the new version of YouTube is shipped later in May, you will stop s … | Continue reading
Kate P. from Wisconsin suddenly found out she is rich mere months after she decided to stop purchasing domain names for each side project idea. Most of her side projects never materialized, and most of the corresponding domain names were renewed 2-3 times on average. This is a c … | Continue reading
Friends and colleagues of Austin G.R. Floss are trying to accept the fact that all software projects created from now on by the talented developer will be based exclusively on Material Design UI framework. Austin insists on using the default color scheme, too. Mr. Floss had reco … | Continue reading
After weeks of extensive road testing, several motoring journalists have reported a suspicious noise coming from under the hood of the new EV from Volkswagen. While many happy owners suspect a minor mechanical flaw, several experts have voiced a surprising, unexpected theory: to … | Continue reading
A quarter-mile-long, Japanese-owned container ship en route from China to Europe has been stuck in the Suez canal for several days. It is blocking more than a hundred other ships, halting a vital global commerce route. The engineers are still struggling to propose a solution to t … | Continue reading
Social networking giant Facebook has finalized the acquisition of the African state of Somalia for the price of 4.31 Instagrams. Formally, the unusual business transaction was planned to "connect the people and improve the livelihoods of the citizens". However, experts believe t … | Continue reading
An ambitious software engineer Nathan Zander, native of Northern California, decided to get into one of the most difficult industries: car manufacturing. To help the transition, Nathan is taking advantage of his extensive experience developing software. His first car is already o … | Continue reading
A regular working day of one of Google's numerous departments has come to a halt on Friday afternoon, when a mundane security update forced all employees to re-authorize. The process involved passing a simple CAPTCHA, in particular, Google's own reCAPTCHA test which asks the user … | Continue reading
The official spokesperson of the Roman Catholic Church and The Holy See published a press release filled with clearly worrying undertones. The Church is saying that God still continues to allow new JS frameworks to be born and further procreate despite an abundant amount of human … | Continue reading
An ambitious medical startup, promised to revolutionize the world of medicine, faced an unexpected challenge: so far, the HR department has managed to hire zero out of necessary 3500 full-stack doctors with 75+ years of experience. This comes as a surprise to the founders and th … | Continue reading
According to the latest Climate Change Reports, nearly 14% of total energy consumption on Earth is attributed solely to package managers installing other package managers as dependencies. For example, npm installing yarn or pip installing pip3 — a common occurrence in everyday li … | Continue reading
The world of IoT (Internet of things) and smart home devices is viewed by many as wild west, with questionable security practices, numerous vulnerabilities and a large attack vector. Despite all that, a respectable industry expert holds an opinion that all IoT devices are inheren … | Continue reading
A hacker of unknown origins hacked into servers of Complify, a rapidly growing VC-funded startup. When Complify's security specialists noticed the breach, it was too late. However, unexpectedly, the hacker's actions did not seem to have been destructive in nature. Apparently, the … | Continue reading
Soon after British NHS has added web-development to the list of "mentally dangerous activities", the U.S. Department of Health went further and officially recognized the presence of any Webpack-related tasks as an explicit sign of a hazardous job. Web-developers who spend at lea … | Continue reading
An experienced web developer, who joined a large tech company in Nottingham last month, claims to have discovered a hidden, secret feature built into all web browsers: page scrolling. According to him, if one simply does not implement scrolling with JavaScript, then any page is s … | Continue reading
What started as a mundane web search ended with a deep existential crisis for a young Janet in Baltimore. A regular modern website on the first page of Google search results seemed to contain the answer she was looking. It loaded in mere 18 seconds, then proceeded fetching the we … | Continue reading
An ambitious hardware project is facing difficulties soon after raising more than 1.4M USD on Kickstarter. Apparently, the new, glossy touchscreen-operated, bluetooth-powered printer/projector combination device with native Zoom integration has been officially declared as Antichr … | Continue reading
Jeffrey R., 47, has lived through a modern story with a happy ending, but not the one you'd expect. After many years of low-paying jobs as a janitor in local high schools and city halls, Jeffrey decided to learn web development and get a job in the tech field. Little | Continue reading
Last month Google had finalized the acquisition of Fitbit, manufacturer of fitness tracking devices. Today Google has finally revealed the newest hardware product in Fitbit lineup: a fitness ankle bracelet. The Fitbit Ankle Bracelet (FAB) is meant to be worn at all times. It trac … | Continue reading
A recent update to Google's terms of service confirm a rumor that tech giant has finally achieved quantum supremacy. The new terms of service is written in so called The Black Speech, also known as the Dark Tongue of Mordor. The Black Speech was the official language of Mordor. S … | Continue reading
The relentless growth of Slack does not seem to stop. After multiple relatively small features during 2020, the popular team communications platform finally dropped the big update which allows running full blown virtual machines and docker containers inside any channel or private … | Continue reading
A large scale archeological dig in southern France reveal astounding results. Among the oldest known cave paintings was found what researchers believe to be the first even LinkedIn invitation. While early humans who created the paintings did not have written language in any form … | Continue reading
While old-timers may remember the limitations that FAT32 filesystem had on file size, users of modern filesystems rarely think about such fundamental issues. The first people to experience the old problem once again were web developers dealing with global enterprise projects such … | Continue reading
Witnessing tremendous success of various AI-powered recommendation systems increase engagement across multiple software projects, maintainers of VSCode, a popular text editor and light IDE, released an AI-powered feature of their own. The feature constantly learns the habits of t … | Continue reading
Digitalization of world governments brings great results. As soon as a github-style Bot was deployed to analyze world issues, the whole climate change thing was immediately marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. All discussions and now closed, as bot thanks every … | Continue reading
Mountain View, CA—According to sources in Google, Inc, the company just shut down another large software product, one that was supposed to be actually beneficial to customers. While the news itself isn't surprising considering Google's long history of prematurely ending all good … | Continue reading
It will takes weeks until all the paperwork is done. Until then, an 8 month old British boy is still legally asdf Graham. It's an unfortunate temporary name given by his father Bob, who is a professional programmer. Father comments: I just typed something assuming I'd change it … | Continue reading
2021 is the year of the Linux Desktop according to Kaya, an enthusiastic GNU/Linux user with many years of experience running various distributions on multiple machines. In an interview about the state of desktop GNU/Linux ecosystem, Kaya also claims her life has no flaws, excep … | Continue reading
Senior C++ engineer Bear Bigbirdtrup's idyllic family life changed forever as soon as he heard his son's first word: 'NaN'. The seed of doubt has been planted. Few weeks later Bear is convinced his wife has been cheating. Bear's wife, who is also interested in obscure forms of c … | Continue reading
Software engineers around the world will get a fantastic 2021 Christmas present, according to Jay Tzee, co-founder and CTO of Waldo, Inc, an ambitious startup from Califronia. Waldo just raised $133M at staggering $1.2B valuation. Company's mission is to use cutting edge machine … | Continue reading
Unprecedented class action suit against a team of UI/UX-designers came to an end this afternoon in Pueblo, Colorado. The victims claim that enterprise software designed by the team brought deep moral trauma to dozens of employees. While the design firm itself was only fined, the … | Continue reading