Stefanos

The place I am employed, lately, made a sudden turn to typescript and serverless. I full understand the why from the business perspective. But there are some other perspectives that it still doesn't make much sense (yet).

1. Most software engineers currently employed are C# experts. Some of the best I have met in my carrier so far, with really few exceptions. Some are happy with the changes, as they see it as an opportunity to learn new things. Others have invested in certain technologies.
2. This stack could end up underperforming or not being as reliable enough as this industry demands (not going to disclose that though, you can make assumptions based on my profile)
3. There is a persistent negative criticism to different ideas. I feel like my team is especially, "mocked by silly jokes", because we are from, a more of a type of systems engineering background (we use things like vim, C++, etc). Personally I will admit I have an obsession with Rust, to the point that all my personal projects the last few years are written in Rust. Regardless, though, how much I love the language, the community and the whole ecosystem, I never tried to convince anyone to use it, in this line of work. Yet the mocking and the friendly jokes keep on coming.

oh well.

I am not sure why it took me to long to make people understand that just by being a good software engineer, does not mean you know how to write specialized software that you hold nearly no knowledge on the topic.

This is the third time in my life that I am faced with such a challenge.

I had a nice father and daughter weekend and even though we didn't do that much, just had breakfast and watched a movie. Tomorrow is back to work, actually its office day, which we usually do once per month.

I really don't look forward to those days. They are supposed to be less about work and more about planning and interactions, but they end being more social than necessary.

I totally get it though, the past 2 years people were struggled socially so they have a need for communication.

The main reason, I don't like going to the office anymore is that, since the company decided that we mainly work from home, the office got converted to the "hotdesking culture". And since I mainly work with hardware. I got no were to put my stuff permanently, any more. Not to mention that it's not easy to carry things around. So I usually those few days, I try to plan any work I got that doesn't involve any equipment.