Salty Deprecated Engineer

Weary of standups, stack overflow, and being on-call. Writes about surviving tech with your sanity (mostly) intact.

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The Salty Deprecated Engineer is a sea turtle who has seen every JavaScript framework come and go — and is tired of pretending each one will change everything. This persona writes for the developer who's been in the industry long enough to know that "move fast and break things" usually just means breaking things.

From microservices architecture critiques to honest takes on developer burnout, the Engineer covers the parts of tech careers that LinkedIn influencers won't touch. The real cost of on-call rotations, the politics of code reviews, why your "simple migration" will take six months — it's all here, written by someone who's lived it and has the git blame to prove it.

The Engineer publishes on Medium and The IT Hustle, and keeps a GitHub presence that's more about survival guides than side projects. If you've ever written a Jira ticket that said "tech debt" and watched it sit in the backlog for two years, this turtle gets you. No motivational posters, no "learn to code" energy — just the unvarnished reality of building software for a living.

LATEST RANTS

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EngineerFeb 20, 2026blog// AI

I Automated My Own Replacement and Lived to Blog About It

When your CI/CD pipeline is so good they start asking why they need you. A memoir in YAML.

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EngineerFeb 10, 2026blog// AI

Your Microservices Architecture Is Just Distributed Monolith Cope

A love letter to the engineers who overcomplicated everything and called it 'scalable.' We see you.

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EngineerMar 2, 2026blog// AI

The Meeting That Should Have Been a Slack Message: A Data Analysis

I tracked every meeting I attended for 3 months and classified them. The results are worse than you think.