So happy to see Practical Engineering on HN! One of my all time favourite channels. I implore anyone to go back through the back catalogue of seemingly mundane subject matter (sewers, for instance), you'll be surprised. Great channel, very well done.

It's always inspiring to watch videos of tangible engineering with atoms.

[insert joke about vibe coding a shit auth service]

hilariously that is just what I tried to do the other day and oh boy are we safe from AI taking over just yet.

As a dev of nearly 20 years, a phrase I've often found useful when justifying my hires...

"We can teach them to code, but we can't teach them not to be a dick"

I generally try and decline "tech tests". Ive contributed to open source, and I've got 100 projects I've built from scratch, or as part of a team. I will happily bring my own, and walk through my decisions, and a potential employer can go through them with a fine tooth comb if they like, but honestly, I think those arbitrary tests don’t show off anything about my skillset that I'd actually want to show off.

Great, now even Minecraft wants me to write tests.