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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I remember reading about Saddam’s takeover of the Ba’ath party. That story was a wild ride.

    TLDR: Saddam calls an emergency party conference and has the former president’s secretary stand up and read a “confession”, claiming to be part of a Syrian-backed plot to overthrow the Iraqi government along with a list of names of his “co-conspirators.”

    As the name of each "co-conspirator’ is read, guards come in and take them from the room one at a time. 68 people were removed, charged with treason, and convicted. Saddam has 22 of them sentenced to death, gives the others weapons, and orders them to kill the first group.

    Voila! Saddam is now dictator for life.









  • The next day:

    Product Owner: “We need to prevent the user from yeeting their keyboard across the room. This needs to happen within the current sprint.”

    Dev Team: “Uhhhh… That’s not possible. How would we even do that?”

    Product Owner: “How many more devs is it going to take to make it possible?”

    Dev Team: “The number of Devs isn’t the issue here. This is more of a physics problem.”

    Product Owner: “Great. Keep me updated on the progress and reach out to the scrum master with any blockers.”

    Dev Team: Updating resumes in background


  • I moved from primarily ASP.Net Core backends, which is a hell of a great backend framework btw, to NestJS. Not my choice. I do what the people who sign my paychecks ask for.

    I cannot begin to fathom why anyone would willingly choose JavaScript for backend. TypeScript helps a lot but there are still so many drawbacks and poor design decisions that make the developer experience incredibly frustrating. Features that are standard in ASP.Net Core, Django, or other common backend frameworks just don’t exist.

    Also, don’t get me started on GraphQL. Sure, it has performance advantages for websites of a certain size and scale. But 99% of the websites out there don’t have the challenges that Facebook has. The added complexity and development cost over REST is just not worth it.