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Xetera
@_Xetera
Full-stack developer. I like working on anti-abuse and security.
- I'm getting tired of seeing this dog in my followers list every 3-4 months. Stop wasting your precious API quota on me lil bro
- Replacing "please" with "kindly" is 100% a Chinese ESL speaker-ism that should've been a huge flag here. It pays to be bilingual and to interact with non-native speakers sometimes.I just fell for one of the best scams I've seen on X. Here's what you need to know (and how to avoid it):
- I've seen some of these people write code and they spend half their time going back and forth between their editor and the screen with the compile errors to hunt for line numbers. It's a painful experience for everyone involvedI've been fascinated by a special type of programmer, the devs who don't use IDE features like: -autocomplete/copilot -LSP - go-to-def What allows them to just rawdog text editors? Do they have superhuman coding ability? I asked them and here is a thread of what they said:
