"I build things"

aka how to sound like the most boring software developer ever.
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I can’t count the amount of times I’ve heard this phrase. You say it, and it sounds so profound. So grand.
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- You. Build. Things. after all.
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- but behind those no words is no substance. You build things, so what?
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  - the film starts, the film ends. nothing is said inbetween.
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  - humpty dumpty sat on the wall…
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if you’re so uncreative as to only be able to say you build things… yeah you’re not very creative are you.
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riki yells at cloud.
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- there’s a reason I call myself a programming wizard. that one word tells you so much more about my nature than “I build things.”
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  - the wizard part is about wanting to go deeper, to explore every nook and cranny of the software I obsess over. uncover arcane knowledge few to no people know about.
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fucking, EVERYBODY builds things in this industry, arrite
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- “I build things” is something literally every creative can say.
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by the way here’s a funny: https://godly.website/ have fun browsing bad UX design xoxo
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- this website feels like it never had a UX designer look at it either.
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  - explore the directory—a list of categories, each of which is a link that takes up the entire width of the screen, so you never have any space to autoscroll with your middle mouse button
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    the fact the categories include boring garbage such as: “Agency”, “E-commerce”, “Startup”, “Development”, “Mobile App”, “Finance”, “SaaS”, and of course the badges on the front page start with “AI” and “Web3” tells you a lot about the creators.
    
    “quality” my ass.
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- this website doesn’t even work without JavaScript, even though it’s purely static content.
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  - look I know treehouse barely works without JS, but at least you can read it.
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- an entry on this website provoked me to write this. I don’t want to call out the specific one because it would be missing the point.
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