Why is this being downvoted? Doesn't it make sense that senior developers spend more time sending emails than staying up through the night writing code?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand how you got that from the image.

Both monitors on the senior side of the image are showing coding environments

[–] astraeus 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What do you mean? You don’t write your email in your IDE and lint it before copy/pasting it into Outlook (or email client of choice)?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

You don’t write your email in your IDE

Found the emacs user.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

A senior dev writes a program to generate her email.

I have actually done this, and for more than just automated responses. It was before ChatGPT, though; now, I'd be surprised if even junior devs aren't doing it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

CI / CD baby, every autosave my build pipeline clones my email, transpiles it into more easily understood archaic English and then sends a copy to the intended recipient while kicking off a chron job to send an automated follow up email to them and everyone they're contacts with 2 hours from commit time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I beseech thee pull my merge request lest I smite thee (bitch)

[–] MajorHavoc 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Junior devs leave everything in ~~dark~~ bright mode. Senior devs have learned to protect their eyes... While doing nothing but email and meetings...

Edit: Fix word swap. I'm not one of those crazy light mode users, I swear.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does white mode...
It makes my eyes hurt even during the day. At least unless I turn down the brightness, usually to minimum.

[–] fourwd 9 points 6 months ago

Try not to work in pitch darkness :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The brightness adjustment is there for you to adjust it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Light mode definitely is not better for the health of your eyes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depends. If you're working in a well lit environment, like you should, dark screens are harder to read.

And if you've got astigmatism, like you shouldn't, the color-on-black contrast is really hard to read.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I have crazy bad astigmatism and work in a bright room and still cannot stand light mode on anything

[–] Shareni 4 points 6 months ago

Use dark mode in sunlight for a few hours and then tell me how it's good for you.