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For most developers there is no overlap with what they know about software and the things listed above.

The best time to start learning electrical engineering was 10 years ago. The second best time is today! ;)

Also survival skills and amateur radio skills.

I don’t know, if any of those things can expose an API or provide some kind of IoT interface I could see backend skills being very useful.

I figure if most data centers are targeted and destroyed people will probably have to host servers on their own local machines, which at least requires a DevOps person in each community.

Hence the stew pot ;)

He edited that in later :)

If there’s no need for front end devs anymore does that mean apps will be designed in very utilitarian, command line like interfaces with no frills?

That might actually be pleasant.

If true, Armageddon can't get here fast enough.

Front end dev is utilitarian. Learning is not 0 cost.

I’m a backend developer and I’m still useless with those things :)