It is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing (IBM is really close). It is 2005. I'm 23 years old. They say my job won't survive visual IDEs. It is 2010. I'm 28 years old. They say my job won't survive smartphones. It is 2015. I'm 33 years old. They say my job won't survive web3. It is 2020. I'm 38 years old. They say my job won't survive AI. It is 2025. I'm 43 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing.

Tha saga continues

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Alvaro Montoro (@alvaromontoro@front-end.social)

Doctor: The procedure is a screening so it's 100% covered by your insurance... Me: Good. Doctor: ...unless we find something, then it changes int...

I received a $3,700 medical bill for the screening that was fully covered. I called my insurance and they told me the screening is covered for people 45yo and older, but I'm only 43... So they washed their hands and referred me to the doctor's office. The doctor's office says that because it was something requested by the doctor during a visit, and not a regular check-up thing, it's considered diagnostic and I need to pay for it.

Title of article: do not boycott Amazon. Body of article: do not boycott Amazon! Instead, stop buying there, just as I did a long time ago instead of boycotting Amazon. ...dude, I have some news, and a dictionary definition, for you... --- This person got 1,000 times more engagement in a BS article than I do in any of my "serious" articles. Enshittification sucks. A lot. But it works because, deep down, people enjoy it. They know it's terrible content, still they go for it.

New comiCSS cartoon: Type of GitHub users

comiCSS #180: Types of GitHub Users

illustration mimicking the GitHub contribution diagram for different types of people: regular developer (different sharesgreen in different locatio...

#github #cartoon #css

Preparing the comiCSS cartoon for next week. It answers the question "what if Piet Mondrian had been a software developer?"

Doctor: The procedure is a screening so it's 100% covered by your insurance... Me: Good. Doctor: ...unless we find something, then it changes into surgery and we can't tell you how much it'd cost until after the fact. It could go from $$$ to $$$$$ Me: Wouldn't it be covered too? Doctor: LOL. No. And so it begins the next episode of "Everyone hates the US 'healthcare'." In which we go see a doctor, are put to sleep, and find out if we are $$$$ into medical debt when we wake up! Isn't it fun?