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Andy Young
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Andy Young
@anerdguynow
Principal software engineer. I post about code, frontend stuff, web components, my career in tech, various nerdery.
PC gaming, math, music, Simpsons
- The Windows 11 Start Menu is comically bad. This machine has a $1600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM and this is the performance I often get. What is going on in Redmond?
00:00 - Free, no ads, just works. 🤷♂️ Also, I helped make it so it's got that going for it.Is this the worst app of all time?
- There's literally no such thing as a fast computer anymore. They're all slow. Same with networks, slow as hell. Wanna know what would make me think "hey this is fast!"? Programs that open instantly. Streaming video that starts and seeks instantly.
- Do the developers building Jira... like... know? They know, right?
- I didn't say Windows 11's performance was bad. I said the Start Menu's performance was bad. Don't twist my words and fix your sensationalist headline. @TechSpot Or take the article down wtf.Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad," even with monster PC Plenty of people still dislike Windows 11 – it's partly why adoption rates for the most recent OS are disappointing – so it's not surprisi... techspot.com/news/102601-fo…Readers added contextHe said that the Windows 11 start menu performance was bad, not the entire system. x.com/anerdguynow/st…
- To any senior software engineers in their 30s who saw this tweet, you're doing just fine.Bruh, If 8 years later I'm just some senior engineer at a company, I failed at life.
- DevToys is seriously a fantastic app. So many great little tools all in one place, and open source to boot.
- Do devs still create little tools or scripts that address dev pain points and/or make them and the rest of the team more productive? This has been super commonplace during my career, but I almost never see this anymore. Everyone is too busy working on user stories. 🫤
- Senior dev challenge: go one week without saying "it depends".
- I've never owned a super nice computer. Think I've spent only $1-2K building any PC (ignoring monitors) for the past 25 years but they've always felt good enough for 5-10 years. What are people doing with their $5K rigs? Dual streaming AAA games at 4K? Heavy video editing?
- Reviewed some Python code today. Goddamn y'all live like this?
