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Yes, I don’t know how that reached the frontpage. A failed 15 minute experiment from someone who has no clue what they are doing
by growt 2y ago
Yes, I don’t know how that reached the frontpage. A failed 15 minute experiment from someone who has no clue what they are doing
- ctippett 2y agoI think it plays to the topics that are so often popularised here: the decline of Google Search and Rust™.
- ryandrake 2y agoTo be fair, a lot of resumes say "I created X" and "I developed Y" when, if you look even a little past the surface, the claim boils down to "Made a thin wrapper around one or more existing services." I interviewed a guy who was the sole developer of a web app that converted image files from one format to another. OK, cool project, bro, let's look at it. A little probing revealed it was just a small generic page that called into ImageMagick to do everything. I'm convinced that's a lot of what passes for software development in the 2020s: Make a splash screen and display some branding on top of older, robust, actually-complex projects.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoLeaning on IM seems the exact right way to handle the problem? If I needed web accessible image handing tricks, I could get away with not much code, because it is ultimately going to be passing some POSTed bytes into an image handing library.