Feeling especially blessed by our backend dev team, this week.
I don't understand half of what you are saying, but I can tell that y'all understand each other and I can see the tickets opening and closing, and the stuff getting fixed, upgraded, migrated, and built. That gives me one less thing to break my own head over. 💕
So, shout out to:
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and a "get well soon" to our newest addition.
hopefully soon i will have some front end dev pestering me for changes and fixes in the HTTP API soon and maybe get started working on some simple redundancy stuff, and i'm always up for questions about data structures because that's one of my specialties.
just been starting to get that in my paid gig and that feeling of being involved and not just some arcane mage mixing potions in the background that nobody can see what i'm doing is nice
Yeah, that's why backend devs tend to either be a bit gloomy or a bit grumpy.
Spend all day doing really hard stuff hardly anyone else can understand or see, watch the frontend dev vibe-code a button and take a week-long victory lap in front of a hysterically cheering crowd. ROFL
it's not to say we wouldn't love some praise once in a while for doing something good but i think also back end devs don't tend to be so interested in or used to a lot of attention and probably it would not be good for our work
what turns us on more is seeing hundreds or thousands of users happily using our low latency, high availability things and blissfully unaware of how much work they took to build, happily enjoying the technology we helped put together
Backend improvements are like quality checks:
You only notice when they didn't happen, and you only are bothered by it over the medium term. But then it drives you up the friggin wall and sometimes drains your resources.
That's why everyone skips it. Ship some snazzy features, make some quick cash, tell the users who eventually complain to "Then build your own app, bro."
But we aren't "everyone". We are us, and we don't skip it.
> Yeah, that's why backend devs tend to either be a bit gloomy or a bit grumpy.
Probably. Millions of lines of code that all must work without question. Sifting through specs all day and getting little to no reward XD
