Full Stack Programmer Doing Frontend

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I sometimes wish my employer didn’t know that I can write Python code, so that they wouldn’t ever assign me front-end work. I prefer to deal with programs that take lists of numbers and return lists of other numbers.

(I’m not as bad as one guy I used to work with. His backend code only took binary-encoded configuration files for no reason I can think of except maybe to punish anyone except himself who tried to use it.)

I’m terrified by this binary config file. Why?! Was he writing C and said “fuck it, memcpy”?
I mean, python has pickle and people use that to store config. It’s a weird practice, and totally unsafe, but it works well enough. This wouldn’t be that different.