• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 months ago

    From my experience the only big changes I’d say I made overtime are:

    1. Font size bumped up

    2. Switched to neovim from visual studio, which took like a year to relearn my entire workflow (100% worth it though)

    3. Switched from multiscreen setup to one single big screen (largely due to #2 above no longer needing a second screen, tmux+harpoon+telescope+fzf goes brrrr)

    4. Switched to a standing desk with a treadmill, because I became able to afford a larger living space where I can fit such a setup.

    If I were to do this meme though it’d mostly be #1, there just came a day when I had to pop open my settings and ++ the font size a couple times, that’s how I knew I was getting old.

      • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        Yup, I usually have it set to the slowest setting when typing.

        I find I work much better and can think clearer while walking, as it keeps the blood flowing and makes me feel more awake and engaged.

        If I have a tough problem I’m trying to work through I turn the speed up to a faster pace and sorta just work through it in my head while speed walking, often this helps a lot!

        During meetings when I’m bored I also turn the speed up a bit.

        I often get around 10k to 12k steps in a day now.

        Note I don’t stay on the treadmill all day long, I usually clock a good 4 hours on it though.

        Then I take a break and chill on the couch with my work laptop, usually I leave my more “chill” tasks like writing my tests for this part, and throw on some Netflix while I churn all my tests out.

        Highly recommend it, I’ve lost a good 15ish lbs now in the past year since I started doing it, and I just generally feel a lot better, less depressed, less anxious :)

    • emmie@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 months ago

      Dark mode in the dark makes your pupils do funny things like constantly widening and narrowing. Dark mode with a backlight is the best. Any screen in the complete darkness is like self destruction to the eyes

  • brrt@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    7 months ago

    Senior what? Accountant?

    On a serious note, maybe just let people work however they like to work? Dark theme everywhere has been such a blessing for me as it is way less straining on my eyes. (Almost everywhere, fuck you google calendar. Wish I didn’t have to use you at work.)

    • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it’s more like

      Junior dev: Got all the nice addons, RGB lighting, only uses dark theme, got all the stickers, works from either a café or moms basement.

      VS Senior dev: Works on company standard issue hardware, barely customizes visuals (but got a script which makes a cup of coffee on the shared machine in exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds), works in shared office, has old rolling cabinet with unknown artifacts last touched 10+ years ago.

      Obviously this is an overgeneralization and not a catch-all, you might even say that it’s “programmer humor”.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 months ago

      Red sky in morning, developer’s warning.
      Red sky at night, go home and eat something.

  • Magister@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 months ago

    Senior dev here, and dark theme is the best, really, how could we used white as shit screens/IDE before is beyond me. Everything is dark theme here. Using dual 27" 4K (in Linux, using 120DPI for fonts), lot of spaces, readable, smooth fonts

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I live in a mid rise apartment with big beautiful windows, and light mode is easier to read in a bright ass room. And I don’t need to deprive myself of sunlight be working in a pitch black basement office, I’m depressed enough as it is.

      Just explaining my situation, in a mid-lit room I could go either way. Dark room -> dark mode

    • evatronic@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I don’t know how other devs tolerate IDEs in the first place. Is not (neo)vim and CLI sufficient?

      • Magister@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        I was using standard editor and cli for years, but for a couple of years now I’m using code in Linux and it’s really good

  • kinttach@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    Another senior dev here, one of those weirdos who likes light mode. Sometimes. VS Code’s light mode is blinding to me, and I never use it. But Nova’s is beautiful and I prefer it. It depends how well the app renders fonts and colors. The oversaturated colors used in most apps are a big problem.

    • poinck@lemm.ee
      1·
      7 months ago

      VSCode has theme support; there are light themes, that are not so bright and dark themes that aren’t that dark.

      I prefer a very dark gray, a very good font (Iosevka, tuned to my needs) and an appropiate font size (because wearing glasses).

      I hope, I never get this senior title. It is complete BS to me. And I am glad, that my junior status is gone for good and I have a job title that does not try to tell something about my expierience!

  • 7heo@lemmy.ml
    01·
    7 months ago

    Junior dev:

    Straight out of uni, know the latest developments while having also studied long established standards and specifications (like POSIX, LSB, SQL, etc), full of energy, and ready to speedrun burning out any %

    Senior dev:

    Hasn’t learned anything substantial in decades, uses outdated specs because “who got the time for that, and legacy stuff works just as well anyway”, copy pastes most of their work from stack overflow, is only still employed because of their inside information knowledge and the utter absence of documentation leading to a bus factor of one, and has perfected the art of gaming the system to the point of photoshopping a sloppy IDE screen over their WoW game whenever a picture of them “working” gets taken.

    Yeah, checks out.