Exactly, as hard as it is to swallow for people, there was a time when coding was a cushy job that you could land after drinking through college. Those days are gone, and it’s back to what it was when I was a dev: you made your own way; You made something awesome and you force companies to look at you and say holy fuck let’s get this person they’ve got something going on.
I thought most corporations just used the free software made by people who’ve “got something going on” without paying. I keep seeing complaints about that crossing my feed in Mastodon.
Exactly, as hard as it is to swallow for people, there was a time when coding was a cushy job that you could land after drinking through college. Those days are gone, and it’s back to what it was when I was a dev: you made your own way; You made something awesome and you force companies to look at you and say holy fuck let’s get this person they’ve got something going on.
I thought most corporations just used the free software made by people who’ve “got something going on” without paying. I keep seeing complaints about that crossing my feed in Mastodon.
What does this have to do with anything.
From what I gather the modern pattern is “holy fuck this person has got something going on; let’s harrass them to do free labour for us!”