Tuesday, January 10, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc.

Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc.
13 by throwtheheyaway | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Throwaway.. because I don't want to tie my actual account to this one. People - how do you deal with the ongoing requirements it appears that jobs place, such as social network involvement. To me - this means LinkedIn posting rubbish, Twitter bollocks, public GitHub repos for sharing - even the asks from employers to post here. I, as a person have zero accounts anywhere, except for one here. I've been gainfully employed in industry for ~2 decades, and frankly I have neither need nor desire to have a "social profile". I speak at conferences when I want to, sans twitter, linkedin, etc. Moreso - I find the amount of developer advocate written blogspam (let's just call it marketing crap) only contributes to the web problems - and hence have started to block... everything, including my employer's search results (personally, with a plugin in DuckDuckGo and Google. I'm not interested in writing blog things. I'm interested in continuing my ongoing work as a principal engineer, without marketing externally on the fakery of "how great we/I am/are", or "humbelbragging", or frankly any of the rubbish I keep encountering. I just want to focus on the things we're collectively doing to be successful. So... how do you handle this?

New best story on Hacker News: Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case 364 by nobody9999 | 250 comments on Hacker News....