Instagram and TikTok are dooming humanity

Instagram and TikTok are created to zombie people’s minds.

I got to such conclusion after realising that ONLY Instagram and TikTok doesn’t have a clear setting to disable Video Auto Play feature. This article is another way to say why I hate Video Auto-Play.

Those platforms are designed SPECIFICALLY for infinite video watching, as if we humans are already doomed and nothing else we have to do in our life…

The reason I wanted to work as a programmer in Software Development in the first place was because I wanted to do something efficient, useful, and helpful for others. But sometimes the platforms and services which I use as a consumer are “killing” my motivation to even think about software.

How Product Owners and regular developers from Instagram and TikTok teams discuss requirements?

PO: I got new feature how to drive people crazy
PO: I know how to force other people infinitely watching our customers’s great videos.
PO: I know how to cause a Instagram/TikTok addiction from people who don’t have self esteem and other things to do.

This way? Then I hate such Software and Product development.

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#Need4Speed

Considering my experience since 2007 year, and observing how fast developer (or any software development related person) delivers expected work, I made up such classification, which helps me to put people in some branches. But it doesn’t help me to solve problem – how to work in teams, when there are different need for speed.

DISCLAIMER: This post is less technical as my other work-related articles on this blog, but from the other hand, it reflects my knowledge, my feelings as Software Engineer and my thoughts towards soft skills, considering I have been trained, I’ve been told we should be better, I’ve faced many opinions in this area, and I’ve seen many situations.

In below groups, I am using 2 terms:

“speed up” with meaning of getting more responsibility and ownership of work, being proactive and improve both product code and product team development cycle, extend edges of possible by new findings.
“slow down” with meaning of being lazy and doing work as fast as mood says, being late at the beginning of work day and being fast at the end of the day, being at some kind “delayed” in time.

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Managers in IT – Developer’s pov

It’s about what I really think managers are in fact, about how I see they work and should work. I work in software engineering (web development) since 2007, and this is one of my articles dedicated to my 10+ years of experience.

During 2007 till 2018 I have been working for 4 companies. Due to sensitivity of topics I express below, and considering potential harm to people I’ve been working with, I will not expose names. But I want to mention, that 2 companies were in Ukraine and 2 in Poland. And despite the fact it might sound different, but people were mostly behaving the same.

I also have to mention, that I express thoughts about managers as a web/frontend developer being employed in outsourcing companies. And it “might be” or “might be not” the same in other industries. So if it’s somehow not true, or insults someone, please let me know.

I started the draft for the article in nearly ~2011, and since then I wasn’t enough confident, that I’m ready to publish it. Every year gave me some new experience, some new thoughts, and I appended my draft with the content all the time. And finally now, in 2018, I write up this as full article.

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