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This week, the IT community celebrated International Programmer’s Day. Ukrainian specialists chose January 7 as their professional holiday so as not to celebrate it together with the Russians. On the occasion of the holiday, dev.ua asked IT professionals what the most unusual requests or assignments they received from their environment, «because you are a programmer.» Here is a selection of the funniest and most non-trivial answers.

«I left IT almost a year ago. There’s no going back. I just put an end to it, because it’s not mine,» says Olga Popova, a graduate of Kyiv Linguistic University, who entered IT right after university, but didn’t stay in the most promising industry for long. To understand that IT is not the area where she would like to develop, the former IT recruiter needed experience working in three companies. dev.ua Olga told why she left the area that many Ukrainians dream of entering, what’s wrong with IT from the inside, and what she does now. Next is the heroine’s direct speech.

Greenland is the largest island in the world with almost untouched land and scarce resources, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. Located above the Arctic Circle between the United States, Russia and Europe, the island is a geopolitical prize that the United States and other countries have been hunting for for over 150 years. During his first term as president, Donald Trump expressed interest in purchasing Greenland. Now, after winning the election, the island could become his gift to American Big Tech and crypto miners.

HR Business Partner Victoria Zakharova shared with the IT community a trigger that has a significant negative impact on recruiters' performance of their duties and reduces their desire to respond to all candidates' resumes.

Despite its rapid growth in popularity, many developers have not heard of this tool or do not know enough about it to confidently use it in their daily work. Although the ViteConf 2024 conference announced that the number of Vite downloads exceeded 15 million per week, which is twice as much as the previous year. It seems that this tool will soon catch up with the more well-known Webpack among developers and can significantly affect development in the web industry. So let’s now understand what Vite is and how it can be useful in the frontend.

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