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As a fairly experienced and middle aged software engineer, this advice “sounds right” to juniors but it’s wrong and it needs to stop being suggested

Adam Chalmers@adamchalmers.com

if I could go back in time and give myself advice when I was a fresh grad working his first real programming job, it'd be: stop eating spiders.

30/12/25, 6:50 pm40 reposts232 likes

fuckface "squeaky" from:me

Paul R. Frazee (the "R" stands for "'rachnids")

@ox1digital.co.uk

I think I need to have a word with my devs today.....

If my interns aren’t trying to match spiders georg then I just can’t recommend they be kept on permanently.

@kevinmarks.com

I thought the whole point of relays was that we didn't need spiders any more

@stevenjs.bsky.social

Do you know what he means by “stop eating spiders?”

Newfangled Audio

@newfangledaudio.bsky.social

Renfield knows where true programming power comes from.

@jeffehobbs.bsky.social

Managers believe they can speed up software development simply by making devs eat additional spiders. This is only half-correct

Bruce Grem-boo-ski

@bruce.grembowski.com

Yeah, spiders have more protein than Fritos!

Paul you can eat as many spiders as you want, treat yourself.

1 eaten spider = 1 man-year of development experience

@valkyrie.hacker.gf

If software engineers stopped eating spiders, spider overpopulation would get so bad no one would be able to walk from one room to the next without tripping through webs

@billstewart.bsky.social

That's why "Return to Office" was so important - software engineers might have been eating spiders at home while being on Slack 16 hours a day, but they weren't in their cubicles eating the spiders THERE and management certainly couldn't do it all...

Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

@amandabf.bsky.social

Paul, in every meeting