3 ms·

What is the goal of this page? To make someone struggling with feeling that they aren't "10x" feel better? To define the good attributes of a standard engineer?

What is the goal of this page? To make someone struggling with feeling that they aren't "10x" feel better? To define the good attributes of a standard engineer? To mock the idea of the "10x" engineer? All of the above? I don't find it particularly effective at any of these. And let me join the chorus of folks saying; don't use Commodore 64 font. It's very inaccessible. Putting a button on the page to "fix" the problem you deliberately caused is a good indication you should't have done the thing the button fixes.

bussierem 4y ago
Based on the cursor, and my own experience with it, he's actually probably using https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css/ https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css/ so technically "NES font". But I do agree that it makes this less readable AND less respectable in the end. It's like writing a manifesto in Comic Sans. Serious topics deserve more serious fonts.
mattgreenrocks 4y ago
The tone is very weird: not quite passive-aggressive (yet oddly specific in a way that evokes the suspicion of that), and not very helpful, either.
- dTal 4y ago
  It reads to me like a combination of "don't feel bad for doing <x>" and "don't ever do <x>", which leads to tonal whiplash. The potshots look to me more like common sins of the nerding class than passive-aggressive indictments of a particular subset of it. I think there's something good here, but it would benefit from separation into "dos" and "don'ts" lists.
baby 4y ago
It's interesting, it looks like some people feel insulted by this page, whereas I found it awesome!
nickm12 4y ago
Yeah, I found this weirdly useless in the same way. I think it's simply trying to say "we should do our jobs, not stress about being rock stars, and not be assholes or gatekeepers". It's a mix of some solid traits, some pissing on gatekeepers, and some self-deprecation that doesn't add up to a coherent story.

bussierem 4y ago

Based on the cursor, and my own experience with it, he's actually probably using https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css/ https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css/ so technically "NES font". But I do agree that it makes this less readable AND less respectable in the end. It's like writing a manifesto in Comic Sans. Serious topics deserve more serious fonts.

mattgreenrocks 4y ago

The tone is very weird: not quite passive-aggressive (yet oddly specific in a way that evokes the suspicion of that), and not very helpful, either.

dTal 4y ago
It reads to me like a combination of "don't feel bad for doing <x>" and "don't ever do <x>", which leads to tonal whiplash. The potshots look to me more like common sins of the nerding class than passive-aggressive indictments of a particular subset of it. I think there's something good here, but it would benefit from separation into "dos" and "don'ts" lists.

baby 4y ago

It's interesting, it looks like some people feel insulted by this page, whereas I found it awesome!

nickm12 4y ago

Yeah, I found this weirdly useless in the same way. I think it's simply trying to say "we should do our jobs, not stress about being rock stars, and not be assholes or gatekeepers". It's a mix of some solid traits, some pissing on gatekeepers, and some self-deprecation that doesn't add up to a coherent story.