To be or not to be a dev

Cristian Gherghel — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:42:30 +0000

10 years ago the JS frameworks appeared and they were a game changer for all the backend developers who mostly embraced React, unfortunately.

But I suspect for them, React was the most similar in terms of syntax with their backend languages, especially by the fact that React was the only one among Angular, Vue, Mithrill, Aurelia, Meteor which used classes, heavily.

Classes in js are a bad idea, you should know this already.

And now, the game is kind of over, and the trial period has ended.
The jury started to decide what we keep and what we throw.

Unfortunately, many developers knew just the lyrics, and we have that say: "you may know the lyrics, but you don't know the music."

It's time to start again from scratch for most of the devs, to switch again. Some will be able to flip, some not, and we also have a bunch of new young devs which are joininig the big dance.

Goood luck to everyone, cause we need it!

Jobs, fake or real

Cristian Gherghel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:39:08 +0000

I've noticed that a lot of jobs on Linkedin at least are smelly. So I have started a simple test with claude.ai to analyze a set of around 90 jobs. Guess what, it seems that only about ~15% seem to have credibility.

Then I've found out from Roberta Storey that from her studies, around half of the jobs are listed on jobs platform, and from this 50% only about 10% get hired. The rest of the jobs are posted through internal network and friendship relations.

So, could it be that staying online is actually getting us further from a job?

Here is a clip in my native language about a fake job study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8-XYP1e3Qk

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To be or not to be a dev

Jobs, fake or real