The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why #burnout happens: "You’re expected to follow half-a-dozen different specialities, each relatively fast-paced and complex in its own right, and you’re supposed to do it without cutting into the hours where you do actual paid web development." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/
Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause you believe in (especially in FOSS where people are often working for free or at below market rate). Working for a cause you believe in brings the highest highs when things are going well, but the lowest lows when they go badly.
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(Free reg)
I was back at my first job at iRobot. Some manager I currently follow on linked in last night had re-hired me.
I was excited to just make money again.
Howerver, I didn’t go to work on my second day because of burnout/depression.
I didn’t go to work on my third day because of the anxiety caused by not letting my employer know what was going on.
On the 4th day I went to work. They mocked my apology when I finally talked to them. While I was gone, manager and his friend coworker stormed the corporate housing I was staying at and put all my stuff on the street. They kicked me out and kept mocking me…
This is a fascinating glimpse into the beginning of the #xz exploit, i.e. the social engineering.
Some users (accomplices of the attacker?) used the dev mailing list to badger and harass the maintainer of the project who was on the verge of burnout, to pressure him to grant co-maintainer status to the attacker.
Whether this was part of the attack or not, it’s a sad glimpse into the toxic pattern often found in open-source software, where users demand maintainers’ free labor, instead of helping them strike a healthy work-life balance.
💲Software Needs To Be More Expensive | blog.glyph.im
「 For most maintainers, Tidelift pays a sub-hobbyist amount of money, and even setting it up (and GitHub Sponsors, etc) is a huge hassle. So even making the transition from “no income” to “a little bit of side-hustle income” may be prohibitively bureaucratic 」
Personally, I have nothing against the emergence of new #programming languages. This is cool:
the industry does not stand still;
competition allows existing languages to develop and borrow features from new ones;
developers have the opportunity to learn new things while avoiding #burnout;
there is a choice for beginners;
there is a choice for specific tasks.
But why do most people dislike the :clang: #clang so much? But it remains the fastest among high-level languages. Who benefits from C being suppressed and attempts being made to replace him? I think there is only one answer - companies. Not developers. Developers are already reproducing the opinion imposed on them by the market. Under the #influence of hype and the opinions of others, they form the idea that C is a useless language. And most importantly, oh my god, he's unsafe. Memory usage. But you as a #programmer are (and must be) responsible for the #code you write, not a language. And the one way not to do bugs - not doing them.
Personally, I also like the :hare_lang: #harelang. Its performance is comparable to C, but its syntax and elegance are more modern.
And in general, I’m not against new languages, it’s a matter of taste. But when you learn a language, write in it for a while, and then realize that you are burning out 10 times faster than before, you realize the cost of memory safety.
Ich muß aus persönlichen Gründen mal in die Runde fragen, kennt ihr im Großraum #Nürnberg#Bamberg eine Art von Wohngemeinschaft in die ich vorübergehend einziehen könnte um aus einer toxischen Situation "Frischluft" zu bekommen, plus Betreuung/Hilfe für Autismus in bürokratischen Angelegenheiten
Die Burnout Cafes sind Selbsthilfegruppen, die auch Online stattfinden.
Ich kann das jedem Betroffenen oder Angehörigen von Betroffenen nur ans Herz legen. Nichts hilft mehr, als mit anderen zu sprechen.
Semaine prochaine retour au taf après 5 mois d'arrêt.
Je commence à me mettre en mode pleine conscience pour réguler mes émotions, d'autant que je suis en conflit ouvert avec ma direction.
Je fais 3 mois (peut être renouvelable) et après je me donne le droit de partir pour de bon si c'est les RHsont toujours aussi toxiques.
Kennt ihr Angebote für so etwas wie #SozioTherapie im Umkreis von Nürnberg bei denen ich sehr bald eine Reihe von Terminen bekommen könnte.
Das Wichtigste wäre daß die Therapeuten auch aktiv und mit Nachdruck auf meine (unwillige) Mutter zugehen und sie mit einbeziehen. Hintergrund ist eine Situation von gegenseitiger Abhängigkeit (Ausziehen ist keine kurzfristige Option) die extrem toxisch entwickelt.
Is there any point me contacting my GP about my #burnout? Can they actually do anything at all?
Asking cos I just went to make dinner. Found stuff I had to do first and had as meltdown in the kitchen, after which I had to retreat upstairs again to recover, without the food or drink I went down for. And now I'm stressed because I put stir fry in my app and I can't go make stir fry now so that's wrong, and I know I can change it but it's not that simple.
Fellow #infosec professionals. Our jobs can constantly feel like Sisyphean tasks. Regular parts of life constantly do as well. What do you do in your life that makes you feel like you're actually progressing with something?