Road quality in 1600s would make it quite difficult I think.

I was thinking that about 2 months ago. And then I saw people doing bikepacking/long distance bike touring, and I was quite amazed. With wide enough tires, adequate tire pressure control and seat suspension, people ride huge distances with no problems, on old fashion dirt roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSrBIIC4po

The reason I linked a bike above was that they truly are a modern marvel. So unassuming and yet so flexible, reliable and overall... powerful, plus cheap by modern standards. A bike is probably the most accessible high tech modern invention that we take for granted.

I don't think you need seat suspension for bicycles to beat walking. On the kinds of surfaces that foot traffic naturally forms, am average commuter bike is gonna perform very decently.

I think the only qualitative difference would be that modern roads are usable all year whereas natural tracks are generally gonna get unusable when it rains a lot.

It's incredible that we have machines that can take that kind of a beating, while also having precision components on them, and also being light enough to pick up in 1 hand, and being affordable to the poorest members of society.

I think the word we are looking for here is horses lol

Horses are not "affordable to the poorest members of society" though

I'd treat it more as a linter. You deal with it before submitting review for a human.

Have you read the post at all?

> This situation caught up with them in the past few months with many outages that caused close $1m USD in damages. Thus why leadership felt they needed a tech lead to steer the ship.

What is your point may I ask?

If they were a high-performing team nobody would have brought someone external to steer the ship in the right direction.

The million dollar outage is probably a tall tail but passed around the management table as blame everyone can agree with because that group isn't represented.

Looking at the startup world, I would not be as confident about "solving problems for society", lol.

Cloudflare is 14 years old and Cloudflare Stream, the "newer services they didn't have time to make HA" is 6 years old today.

To be honest if you take the circumstances and them spending half of their post-mortem blaming the vendor, it does look like a total shitshow.

Can you outline what specific problems you have? I'm going to guess upgrade of Java runtime are not the issue, but upgrades of packages are? What kind of packages, an assorted list of cobbled together libraries or half the Internet's of BOMs like spring boot? And I'm going to take a leap and say you have not been keeping up to date for a few years at least?

And why does it matter if companies using it don't tend to pay well? Every single website is HTML, good luck finding a job writing just HTML.

There are devs on Reddit killing it writing just HTML/CSS.

> Senior roles are expected to be able to independently reach quality results without too much extra attention/help from their direct management or technical team leaders.

I'd add that in a number companies this is more of a mid-level role, with senior level having significant impact within the team and some impact outside (like driving initiatives involving other teams). It is difficult to show this after working solo for a while, and some companies might not know how to approach it and drop candidates with experience like that. I guess one angle to address this would be to show how you worked on longer-term projects and coordinating with founders/whoever.

There's sometimes also program managers who organize relevant projects across the company (for example with GDPR compliance a program manager might coordinate between legal and various products, identify risks and report progress to C-level, and each product will have a project kick off to get it into compliance (depending on the effort, the person overlooking this project and working with program might be a dedicated project manager, engineering manager, some engineer etc).