The Science of Overestimation Humans are known to overestimate their contributions, and subsequently the amount of effort they prescribe to a task. When Availability Bias is combined with Illusory Superiority, the result is a person who maintains less information, but insists on being a decision-maker. This is problematic in the context of a team…

I completed over 500 deliveries (with a 5-star rating) on food delivery apps. In that position, I never understood why the companies providing these applications were worth billions of dollars. While there were clients whose reasons for ordering were obvious (disabled, kids, old, etc), the notion of people paying exorbitant…

I started my Medium journey on August 23rd, 2022. In the first 60 days, I was able to acquire approximately 2,300 reads and 28 followers with 17 articles. In contrast to the last 30-day period, I began posting new articles relatively quickly (from October 27th onwards). Resolving “The Incident” I was still not…

Now I’m rich. — I applied to this company that ended up being a total shitshow. First, it took like 2 weeks to go from the phone interview to the technical one. In that meeting, the “head developer” wanted me to do this “20-hour full-stack take home assignment”. The whole nine inches… The “20…

All it took was 7000 lines of code. — Due to Goodhart’s law, using lines of code as a measurement of progress is NOT recommended. However, anyone with a brain would understand that there is — in fact — a difference between the capabilities of a software with 100 Lines of Code and one with 1000 (1 KLOC). Putting…

What determines how much programmers get paid? — Programming is a popular profession due to its increasing demand. The action is required for a variety of fields such as Data Science, Computer Science, Software Development, Machine Learning, and more. In addition, programming is used — in the modern day — in practically every industry to increase production. With…

Vaporware is software or hardware that has been advertised, but is not yet available to use. Obviously, releasing vaporware is not something to be proud of. Yet I managed to do so by accident. You can learn from my errors so as to not make the same mistake. So here’s…

Be me. In the milk aisle of a grocery store I’ve never been to before, since I recently moved to the city. A lone kid walks by like most kids do, but this one is different. Much different… The kid stands next to my cart and opens a glass door…

Prevent Horizontal Scrolling CSS without using overflow. Learn how to use <style> * { outline: 1px solid red !important } </style>, JavaScript, or Developer Tools to debug layout issues on your website. Forget the platform specific tools that you use to debug your website’s frontend. There is a single line…