Juniors
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Mentoring Juniors: A Production Deployment Story
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A 'Sweating Towel Guy' meme format. A very nervous, sweaty man is on the phone, looking stressed. The caption above reads: 'Watching the intern deploying to production for the first time'. The meme captures the intense anxiety and secondhand stress senior developers feel when a junior team member performs a high-stakes task like a production deployment for the first time. It's a humorous take on the responsibility of mentorship and the inherent risks of giving beginners access to live systems
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The intern is deploying to production. Time to check if my resume and the company's backups are up to date
Because nothing says “readable code” like redefining → as ↣ and turning your type system into EBNF
The same developer who spent three weeks implementing mixfix operators in Haskell later joined a startup and discovered they just needed a REST API that returns JSON
When someone says Haskell can't do something, a Haskell programmer doesn't argue - they just casually define a type family with custom infix operators at precedence level 0, throw in some effect system magic, and call it 'trivial.' Because why have mixfix operators as a language feature when you can just encode them in the type system using Reader, State, and Eff? It's the functional programming equivalent of 'I don't need a framework, I'll just write my own monad stack.'
Alias → to ↠ and hide semantics in r # t; congratulations - you’ve implemented mixfix via the type system and triggered a 300-comment readability postmortem
Haskell doesn’t do mixfix - until you alias (->) to a Unicode glyph and smuggle an effect row via a (#) type family; GHC compiles it, but grep resigns and your reviewer opens an RFC
Haskell: No mixfix? Just infix your way to type-level sorcery - because who needs built-ins when GHC lets you redefine reality