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by schrodinger 28 days ago
If you're actively looking for a job, you should have some familiarity with the common dev stack when you're looking. Today you should be comfortable working on a Mac, know Bash / Zsh, a little bit of Vim for SSHing, git, docker, react, postgres, etc.

If you don't, spend a few weeks before you start your search. You're almost definitely going to need them. Unless you're in a niche where the common stack is different.

This isn't me gatekeeping or something, it's just common sense. When 80% of the jobs are Python + Javascript / Typescript, running in Docker, using Postgres, using React on the frontend, FastAPI on the backend, and git plus github for deploying and reviewing, you're going to stumble without cursory knowledge. You don't need to be an expert in it all…
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youarenaive343 26 days ago
> This isn't me gatekeeping or something, it's just common sense. When 80% of the jobs are Python + Javascript / Typescript, running in Docker, using Postgres, using React on the frontend, FastAPI on the backend, and git plus github for deploying and reviewing,

Then I don't apply. I'm not interested in working with garbage tech.

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schrodinger 26 days ago
Interesting! I'd love to hear what type of work you do where you can get away without any of those because frankly I think most of those are pretty garbage too.

Postgres is decent for a free ($$$) database, although it's lack of clustered indexes and in-place updates (its MVCC approach) sucks for many use cases. I find it a sensible default but not the best at any one use case.

Python, frankly, sucks nowawadays. Maybe it had its time, but there are so many better lingos now. It's got type hints that are ignored, really bad patterns ("dependency injection" that's really just the singleton pattern, FastAPI encourages you to open a db connection and a transaction at the front of every request and commit at the end while you're making other requests, writing to disk, etc), and it's slow in both user experience and runtime (no real parallelism).

But generally I have to make some trades to get a great job. I love Go, personally, and the incredible simplicity it encourages.

Seriously, if you'd be willing to share, I'd love to hear what you do!

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