Finding the information I need to do my job. Seriously, as a senior dev that's 70 to 90 percent of my time. It takes many different forms:
Poring over documentation to find an implementation detail
Googling for hours when the documentation is missing something
Working the corporate hierarchy to find the person with the permissions I need
Clarifying specifications with a product manager
Getting feedback from the team on a proposal or a process I've documented
Reproducing and diagnosing bugs at various deployments of my team's app
And then sometimes I've got the information someone else needs to do their job, so I'm helping them. If I spend even half my day coding and knowing what I'm doing, that's a really efficient day.
Software Developer with 1 year+ experience in creating exciting apps with NodeJS, ReactJS, NextJS and MongoDB. Also, open source contributor and technical writer.
Software Developer with 1 year+ experience in creating exciting apps with NodeJS, ReactJS, NextJS and MongoDB. Also, open source contributor and technical writer.
Technical documentation is notoriously bad. Often I see terse docs, empty docs, or highly technical docs that ignore new users. Insecure managers that don't understand the scope of their user base, push for highly technical documentation that can easily confuse most people. This is why VCRs always flashed 12:00.
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Finding the information I need to do my job. Seriously, as a senior dev that's 70 to 90 percent of my time. It takes many different forms:
And then sometimes I've got the information someone else needs to do their job, so I'm helping them. If I spend even half my day coding and knowing what I'm doing, that's a really efficient day.
An insight into the life of a senior developer 😅
I don't know why, but I find this exciting
Sounds like you're headed straight for engineering management then 😂
Maybe someday 😅
Currently not even an SDE yet
Technical documentation is notoriously bad. Often I see terse docs, empty docs, or highly technical docs that ignore new users. Insecure managers that don't understand the scope of their user base, push for highly technical documentation that can easily confuse most people. This is why VCRs always flashed 12:00.