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Ask HN: What's your favourite kind of programming?

by samsquire on 3/23/24, 5:29 PM with 3 comments

Hi everyone I hope you're having a satisfying Saturday. I was curious if there was a pattern to the kinds of work people enjoy in software engineering.

Do you enjoy optimisation?

Do you enjoy factorio?

Do you enjoy server setup and configuration?

Do you enjoy software architecture design?

Do you enjoy API design?

Do you enjoy performance engineering?

Do you enjoy UI design?

Do you enjoy workflow systems?

Do you enjoy backend architecture design ? Frontend architecture?

Do you enjoy software dependency picking?

Do you enjoy business logic or technical detail?

Do you enjoy CRUD?

Do you enjoy integration work?

Do you enjoy SQL?

Do you enjoy pipelines?

Do you enjoy functional programming or OOP or network/REST API programming?

Do you enjoy maintenance work?

  • by interbased on 3/23/24, 7:34 PM

    Automation of operational tasks and report generation using various data sources. I love taking a task that an Operations team would spend hour or days working on and automating it, giving them time to work on other tasks. I also like normalizing data from various sources into digestible information.

  • by david927 on 3/23/24, 5:52 PM

    backend architecture design and algorithms

  • by nh23423fefe on 3/23/24, 7:43 PM

    code golf and math puzzles. basically project euler stuff