I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I hate... the industry and the community being driven by social considerations and gamification.
Peer-pressure, cargo-cult mentality, hero-worship, the rise of development "influencers" and the importance people - especially junior developers - hang on things like the number of Twitter followers or GitHub stars your project has.
Exactly, I agree with you Ben and Maddy !
The same when others on social media care about the likes, views, followers etc...
The criteria of evaluation is totally distorted these days
Best comment ever, I've also noticed this over the last few years, even on dev.to! People go crazy over other people's opinions about them ... time to say "no" to that.
Extremely harmful, why do you think mental issues are on the rise to such a huge extent, especially among younger people? We just drive each other crazy - non-devs with "glamorous" insta profiles or with producing the most popular TikTok clips, devs with 3K plus github star projects or with nonsense like "as a developer you SHOULD ... (fill in anything that apparently we SHOULD do nowadays)".
Time to focus again on our love for the profession and the projects, and less on the stars and the likes and all of the ego inflation.
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I hate... the industry and the community being driven by social considerations and gamification.
Peer-pressure, cargo-cult mentality, hero-worship, the rise of development "influencers" and the importance people - especially junior developers - hang on things like the number of Twitter followers or GitHub stars your project has.
This is an interesting one. Why do people care about Github stars? It's something that I've started to notice when I joined Twitter last year.
Exactly, I agree with you Ben and Maddy !
The same when others on social media care about the likes, views, followers etc...
The criteria of evaluation is totally distorted these days
Best comment ever, I've also noticed this over the last few years, even on dev.to! People go crazy over other people's opinions about them ... time to say "no" to that.
Extremely harmful, why do you think mental issues are on the rise to such a huge extent, especially among younger people? We just drive each other crazy - non-devs with "glamorous" insta profiles or with producing the most popular TikTok clips, devs with 3K plus github star projects or with nonsense like "as a developer you SHOULD ... (fill in anything that apparently we SHOULD do nowadays)".
Time to focus again on our love for the profession and the projects, and less on the stars and the likes and all of the ego inflation.