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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • From the generation before this, I always thought the “mobile generation”'s computer savviness had been overrated. Mobile phones (especially iOS) are like a walled garden compared to using a PC and Windows. It was easy to shoot yourself in the foot on Windows 98, etc so you learnt to be careful very quickly. Likewise, there’s no jumping into the registry or terminal, no built in zip/rar handling, warnings from the OS, built in Malware protection, etc

    The internet was a wild place in the 90s and this generation never really experienced that. Forums had lax moderation and could be full of troll links to “I am an idiot”, goatse, etc. Files could be hosted on random webpages and the downloads could contain anything: often a virus alongside the actual file, etc

    I remember not using an antivirus as Norton and co would crush your machine, so you just had to tread extremely carefully



  • It will be like where I was working. On that project there were ~12 people. You could’ve cut in in half easily:

    • AFAIK the project manager did nothing (tbh they had no clue what they were doing)
    • The QA was incompetent and I wrote all their tests
    • 2 User Researchers set up various sessions – but the business told them all their findings were wrong (turns out the researchers were right)
    • Architect went to some meetings and never spoke to the devs about anything (turns out I had to find out how things worked and tell him…)
    • My Tech Lead seemed to be on holiday every other day
    • One Dev was fresh out of a scheme (for non comp sci students, so was slow but that’s understandable)

    I ended up working overtime into burn out to get the project through the door (and hit issues due the architect should’ve informed us of). It would’ve honestly been easier as just me, one other developer, and a BA