To the unawares, it also communicates the “proper” image of a senior developer

My experience was different: after using Linux for a decade, I had to use a company MacBook for a year, and I was happy to return to my “normal” laptop afterward. Even though it couldn’t run Deus Ex like MacBook.

Experiences differ, so I’d prefer it were labeled “failed senior developer” or at least “burned-out senior developer”

Countless teams are misshaped, but the usual unwritten objectives of a senior developer in a team also lie beyond lone development

Let’s see how many people agree with me that both poor communication and alcohol are not really signs of professional seniority

A matter of preference, really. Each side can sneer at another.

Anecdotal evidence, but when both my wife and I participate in a VoIP call from the same device, the codec carries my wife’s voice much more poorly than mine, and she has to repeat her words way more often. I vaguely remember hearing the same issue in calls with female colleagues.

The LICENSE.txt and curl -v https://google.com/ must be mentioned as well

With their products one can have it either way

You can, they are not built in but bundled

They work without it though

I keep seeing complaints from non JavaScript developers about their IDE not handling millions of files in a folder properly