80% of professional programmers are unhappy

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The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs.

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Show Notes:

All links mentioned in this episode of Changelog News (and more) are in its companion newsletter.

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Chapters

1. What up, human nerds? (00:00:00)

2. 80% of progressional programmers are unhappy (00:00:43)

https://shiftmag.dev/unhappy-developers-stack-overflow-survey-3896/?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Doing web dev using only vanilla techniques (00:01:41)

https://plainvanillaweb.com/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. The missing semester of your CS education (00:02:33)

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Sentry (00:03:20)

https://sentry.io/resources/extended-tracing-frontend-issues-with-backend-solutions/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=paid-community&utm_campaign=tracing-fy25q3-traceworkshop&utm_content=newsletter-headshots-rsvp

6. Why CSV is still king (00:04:09)

https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Request analytics from the nginx access logs (00:05:21)

https://github.com/facundoolano/ngtop?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:05:57)