The author has some points but if I was one of his colleagues reading this (he works at github according to his resume) I'd hate to approach him with anything, at all.
I feel like he's missing the team element in this post. Yes your individual contributions matter, but the team's delivery matters more.
Definitely consider the outlay for a colour laser printer. I've had one for around 5 years and it has been no trouble and is always ready to print, scan and copy.
I really take issue with the idea that your travel insurance will save you in a case like this. It's almost a naive position to take. Travel insurance is notoriously exclusionary when it comes to individual items, especially high value items.
Travel insurance is probably one of the most least likely types of insurance where there will be a positive outcome for the consumer.
I agree with you about the build quality, but also from a software perspective.
I've been a long time Pixel user, and have had the Pixel, Pixel 4 XL, and currently have the Pixel 6 Pro.
On every device, there has been one or several glaring software bugs that haven't been fixed for months, or have required a really, really nasty workaround.
A good example was the bluetooth stack on the Pixel 4 XL. We got a security software update one day, applied it, and then found that the bluetooth connection to loads of devices was suddenly broken. Google took months to get the issue fixed, despite a few hundred pages of complaints on their forums. Instead someone (not from Google) worked out that if you went into developer mode, you could swap out the bluetooth stack for a previous version, and it might work again.
Is this sort of blasé approach to quality assurance and lack of urgency around fixing user reported bugs that really, really irritates me about Google's hardware devices.
The 6 Pro is an ok phone but also has it's problems (painfully slow and somewhat unreliable fingerprint unlock). I think I've had enough and I'll probably give a Samsung device a try.
Surely this is about who or what you are following though.
Personally there is very little crossover between what I follow on instagram and twitter. So the quality of the discussions vary greatly.
On Twitter I follow developers and product people. The quality is better on Twitter, but it's definitely declined because of engagement seeking over the last few years.
The "contrived textbook example from 20 years ago" still has a very real impact today. In my experience there are still lots of development teams that are instructed to develop in a "Clean code" style in the flavour of Uncle Bob. It's especially true in the .net development space, and is almost a cultural problem within .net.
As a former .net developer that was often pushed into "clean code", my big takeaway from the video was that actually, not using "clean code" techniques, such as polymorphism made the code so much more readable and easier to grok that the optimisation that followed was completely natural.
I feel like he's missing the team element in this post. Yes your individual contributions matter, but the team's delivery matters more.