I graduated with a CS degree which focused 99% on software only. In my current job, I get to write software to control hardware (pumps, valve’s, etc). I think this is awesome and I really enjoy interacting with the hardware. It makes the software seem more tangible.

I’d like to stay in positions that allow me to write software and interact with hardware but I’m having a hard time finding jobs that aren’t just a PLC programmer.

Do any of you guys have a job like this?

People with a computer engineering degree, what do you do for work?

I’m a junior developer on a very small team (4 devs total including me and the manager).

Because we are so small, we work in silos. We individually work on issues and rarely work together.

There is a more senior dev that I really would like to work more with. I feel there is a lot to learn from him because he has the experience and skill sets that I would like.

What’s the best way to work with him more? Should I just ask him? Or is it better to find a more indirect way?

As the Junior on my team, I get frustrated because I don’t know when it is acceptable to ask for help. I don’t know at what point I should find the answer myself or just ask my coworkers.

I am very resourceful and I know how to find information so I am able to help myself 95% of the time.

However, this often includes days of spinning my wheels and not making any progress which is extremely frustrating

I’m pretty interested in golang but I don’t have any projects that it applies to and I can’t do anything with it at work because the other developers don’t know golang either :(

Python packaging is way more complicated than I thought it would be holy shit

Grafana managed alerts are so fucking over complicated it surprises me that it is a professional product.

And if you need help, the grafana community forum is a fucking ghost town

And the docs suck too

Anybody hear about this Q* algorithm that was leaked out of OpenAI?

Why would you write a fucking blog about how to setup a software, but not explain the aspects of the software your setting up??? All you did was re-word the examples in the docs

Wtf is a microservice?

Sometimes I wish I could rent an expert for a day you know.

I do a lot of side projects that are mostly outside of my comfort zone and it’s frustrating having nobody to consistently ask very detailed and specific questions to

Anyone know any VScode extensions that allow you to add edit comments? Something that will allow me to highlight a piece of code, and write a comment in a text bubble. Similar to comments in the “Suggesting” mode of Google Docs

Survived the layoff!

Wandb is pretty great

Angular’s NgFor + selenium = StaleElementReferenceException :(

Any built a self-hosted compute server before? I’m debating making one. I am a big fan of laptops and don’t have a PC. I also don’t play video games so I would mostly be using the PC for code projects which lead me to the idea of a self hosted compute server

Adafruit is cool, but most of its stuff is for like cosplay costumes which isn’t very useful

Sometimes I have a hard time not working on side projects during work

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Something I hate is that I do not have friends who are also software engineers. I have friends who do cybersec and IT but none that develop software. I have nobody to share programming memes with or to share interesting projects I found

What about the other software engineers at my work? They are the type that are not passionate about computers and programming like I am. Unfortunately for me, they are just there to collect a paycheck

This makes me sad and frustrated because it makes me feel alone

I’m the only junior software engineer at a small startup where I do mostly web development, as well as other bits and pieces (automation, ci/cd, etc)

Our software team is extremely small so we do not have anyone dedicated to QA. I usually just ask a team members with related experience to review my merge requests. So if I have a merge request for our ci/cd, I ask the software engineer with the most ci/cd experience to review the MR.

Recently I realized that my MRs will usually sit for days, and sometimes weeks without the reviewers taking a look. And when they eventually do, they don’t even run the code. It seems like they just gloss over it and look for obvious syntax or logic errors.

It makes me feel as if my code and efforts do not have much value to our team.

It also pisses me off because whenever a issue happens in our codebase, me and my code is the first thing blamed even if my code is not the issue

Is this typical in other companies? Or is this something I should speak to my boss about?

I’m frantically trying to escape the ‘CS grad to web / react / next developer’ pipeline. Only thing that sucks is I only know the web shit

What happened to the devRant discord?

Just started pushing myself to contribute to an open source library that I really like

I am a junior / new grad and I am working at my first job out of school. The software team is very small (around 5 people) and we maintain a very large project. Since the project is so large, each member of the team is responsible for a specific part of the project.

Other members on the team work on embedded and low level programming. I am responsible for only the web interface to the project.

I recently just figured a solution for a problem that I had been exclusively working on for almost 2 months.

I tried asking for help from other members of my team when I was working in this problem. However, most of them told me that they do not have the time to become familiar with the my codebase inorder to help.

As a junior, what am I supposed to do in this situation? I know I could’ve asked a question on stackoverflow but I thought that if members of my team helped me, it’d be a beneficial mentorship experience.

What are your thoughts?

I have fucking ants coming from the wall next to my cubical

Fuck the zeromq js library

Noticed today that at my company, the younger devs do everything via cli or through the terminal, and the older devs do everything through a GUI or a IDE

All I wanna do is make bots play retro games 😔

Any tips for ROM hacking? Specifically GBA racing games