Googling why X sucks is always better research than googling why use X

I can't believe how difficult it is to convince people in a *tech* company to automate things.

"oh yeah it's only a couple of times a year. How much work is it gonna take to automate it, it'll take us only a few minutes to do manually"

That's how you get stuck in the past.

Let's be honest here. With all the ranting we do. Is there such a thing as a company/team we'd enjoy working with? lol

I had a job where the CEO/founder regularly yells at people and punches the wall.

During citywide rollout. He and a few other people went out to buy power inverters so they can power up my PC using someone's car

TIL a promotion == doing more things that I hate, and less things that I love

Career is over lol

Is it me or is password security is a giant mess right now?

Everyone has a gazillion ways to sign in.

Everything needs an account so eventually you get a password manager to keep track.

After reauthenticating passwordword manager, then you get to the next screen that requires you to enter a code from 2FA. Internet isn't fun to use any more.

Asked to make high level estimates for something that has no scope.

Manager keeps asking to trim down the estimates. o.o

Where is this economic + social collapse that was promised?

%@&$4727;&2@@(&@&

retire. lol

Then I actually have the energy to build the stuff I want to build. and for fun

dang. who thought faceid was a good idea?

Who the heck likes to see their face every time they use their phone o.o

Give me my fingerprint scanner back!

Working at a big-ish tech is like a completely different world.

Do we even speak the same words?

Why can't you say agree like a normal person. Who the frig made "++" a real life word (is it a verb/noun? wtf is it)

and then all those other acronyms like OKR, P1,p2,p3

Who talks like that?

why do I get stressed even though I don't care if I got laid off?

Something isn't right with me lol

Dang. I feel like I'm just not cut out to climb any ladder.

When we discovered a production bug. I feel bad about making people working on that part look bad by not catching it.

My manager has no issue with pointing out that I should have caught it. Beating a horse while it's down.

I mean no shit. Of course I know I should've caught it. How does making me feel worse about it help.

Feels like I'll always be in a tough spot no matter where I am on the ladder.

Or I'm just fragile. I acknowledge that, too

I love it! Ranting is so therapeutic!

wow. I, do, not, want, to work today at all.

I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about first day back to work before.

Guess the previous job was actually interesting :(

I even went to the office on NYD just to do some heads down coding. (but ended up doodling on everyone's empty whiteboards)

Dang. postman is forcing me to make an account.

Is this the age where we have to make everything ourselves if we don't want to store our information on the internet?

Definitely Jon Skeet. Not only is he #1 on stackoverflow. He is actively tackling the hardest problem of them all: Time zone.

Closely followed by Joel Spolsky. The founder of stack overflow. Feels like all his products (fogcreek, trello) revolutionizes developer productivity and addresses actual pain points

boss: numbers being aside. Why is this happening 40% of the time.

me: (thinking) wtf what an idiot. wtf do you think?!

type: (politely) Well the number being wrong suggests it's *not* happening 40% of the time.

I don't know who I hate more, myself for not point out how dumb that question is. or the person asking the question.

I don't know. I just can't get excited about numbers.

I'm a builder. I'm excited about things working from start to finish.

Id be excited about numbers if it was from 0 users to 100 users.

Not 10000 to 10500.

That's not an engineers job, is it?

Is it just a coincidence that there is always somebody going crazy here? And it's always one after another?

Seeing how there's only one thing in common. Coding is making us crazy!

I'm so bored I'm tempted to look for a more stressful job that pays less o.o

Towards the end of my art degree we were encouraged to setup portfolio sites. Most people used iWeb but I went to a DreamWeaver workshop and built mine and my girlfriend's.

Then I got into WordPress, read some good books and decided to pursue a career in it. Got my masters while working part time as a postman and my first job as a front end dev with a medium sized fintech.

Anyone else think the emphasis on scaling is misplaced?

I think we can have more innovative products that solve real problems in specific ways if people focused on solving specific problems rather than targeting wider audience in attempt to sell to as many as possible.

So I'm making a little CMS for a website generated by iWeb from Apple which is ofcourse shit. I just discovered that they include a 6000 lines javascript file with nu purpose except generating the menu from a feed.xml(which includes to other js files). And the most frustrating thing is that it lowers fontSize if you add more text than the viewport. Fucking hell. I'm looking for a way to dismantle this shit.

Almost got caught taking taking a nap haha

Lately I've been taking it easy since the work I've been doing has been super easy and boring.

So I was just lying in bed watching some youtube video.

When it ended I decided it might be a good time to check my laptop and see if there was a message.

Sure enough, I WAS FIVE MINUTES LATE TO A MEETING!

When I joined, there was only one person. It was a bit hard to tell if he just didn't quit the meeting since I was expecting another person on the call haha.

Then I checked the invite list. Oh, he declined.

Oh shit. My manager was supposed to be on the call too.

Upon further inspection. He said he was 15 minutes late.

So he didn't catch me slacking off haha.

Otherwise I'd for sure miss the "you coming?" message since I turned off slack notifications on my phone and he'd think I take off an hour on fridays regularly.

Not easy to slack off, haha

python + rename == nightmare.

I cannot be fully confident every rename is safe. Because there's no compiler check to tell me o.o

Wow. so many dumbass posts on LinkedIn talking about things they have no idea about!

Want to call it out. But don't want to give them additional traffic lol

When I'm at a medium sized company: Let's get CI/CD so we can build things and release things fast and stress free.

Now working at a big company. We have all the CI/CD we can ask for. Why are things still so slow and stressful o.o

da fuq.

My manager wants me to write specific test cases for status quo behavior (without turning on new features) on mobile web.

and TEST IT ON DEVICE NOT SIMULATORS

Does he know it's the 2020s?

and does he know all our changes were already out since we deployed it the first time? aka customers already tested it for us?

I'm not gonna tell him and open another can of worms lol

wow. Work had someone to talk about software on those space telescopes.

Compare to what they deal with, we are just monkeys! Monkeys!

gah. my ADHD is so bad I often leave sentences unfinished. Thought tagging this as a joke but no one

Unpopular opinion: reading a doc != training. How is this different from reading medium and stackoverflow

dang it. just because I signed in using google on an app. doesn't mean I want to be signed in to google everywhere. whatever happened to the privacy sandbox.

Why do I think older iOS version actually does what I want?

python is so kinky

You gotta PIP from the pee per (pypi)

dang. Messed up at work. Small action, big impact

Oddly enough. I thought I've outgrown this but still am being pretty stressed about it.

Weirdly, I think getting fired might put me more at ease than anything else.

Any theories?

aff. I just said my managers management skills seem to be improving on the company survey.

Then he asks me "why isn't the status quo done in the new way"

o.o

me: "that's what status quo means"

Does your company use QA team? Or do you do your own QA.

We do our own QA and then write detailed damned test cases in excel o.o for other people to run the scenarios you've already run through o.o

What does it tell you about the organization when a senior PM presents quarterly results using white text on gray background?

hm.....

Reading some system design study materials.

Unless it's literally a startup from scratch. I feel like that proper response to the "design youtube/twitter" question should be: I really hope your product team comes up with better requirement than just design a product, get to it

lol. accidentally used my reward points on company expenses lunch

Spent too much time with Sass companies.

I'm forgetting there's a non Sass world of tech

General Dynamics make nimble robots that flip and dance. I can barely make my figurine stand o.o

What kind of effed up world sells scale that comes with an app that requires you not only to register for an account but also give it LOCATION INFORMATION and people are OKAY with it?

Tech doesn't need "innovation". It needs a revolution

How are Macs preferred for web dev? You can't even easily switch between chrome and the inspector tab.

that tech will collapse as it provides no real value and I don't have the chops to switch to a different industry

Not something that's happening. Just remembered a debate I had with a coworker from a long time ago regarding hiring and diversity.

Assuming there are two candidates.

Objectively one is slightly worse than the other (let's say 10%)

but the objectively better candidate is more of the same as your team (In terms of stack, gender, ethnicity)

Obviously if one is a lot better (say 30%) I'd hire the one that scores higher.

However, in this scenario (~10%). I think I'd hire the person that offers a different perspective even though they may be less talented.

My reasoning is the team needs someone that thinks differently and looks at a problem from a different box. Otherwise it becomes too easy for my team to go down a path that we like but isn't necessarily better.

What say you?

I joined after this event but kept hearing small bits of this story from different people.

It involved a (I think secretary), a senior executive, his wife, and a hot tub at a Christmas party.

Used my imagination to fill in the rest.

Anyone worked with me is on devrant? 🤪

Just to piss off people some more.

Since everything applies across industries.

How could design patterns apply to non software industries?

People giving advice: Have you told your boss how you didn't like his approach? If you don't tell them they can't improve.

me: No, but it's easier to just find another job than risk getting fired. Another day he asks me to do dumb stuff is another day of wage earned while I'm given permission to put off the more serious stuff

Is it just me or do people sometimes do major refactoring not because it needs to, but purely because they are inheriting old code and can't be bothered to understand it

what kind of lame bachelor party doesn't involve doing leetcode questions with your buddies 😀

Numbers don't lie is the biggest lie ever.

No context needed (I think?)

why is async comm preferred over sync? Since when did people learn how to read?

Have you tried anything (legal) to consume/smell that helps you get in the zone?

I want to try smelling salt lol. Feels like it could give me a rush to crush whatever I'm working on

Why do I want to use in-house "products" when I could go third party.

I feel like when I build in-house I want a bespoke solution that's easy for MY use case. trying to "productize" it for internal teams is counter productive

I shouldn't have to explain to you how to get value of a cookie and pass it in to a remote call (cookie not passed from generated clients) when you make 6 figure salaries + rsu

lol so I got a new oldish laptop (so it doesn't break the bank) for my upcoming trip where I focus on working on my own project.

Didn't want to splurge since I have another laptop that I regularly use. just didn't want to take through customs since it's 8 years old.

Already used up half of the storage (128/256gb) from installing rider and wsdl lol.

thinking maybe I need to actually return it and get a more powerful machine o.o they are so expensive though

One other thing I hate about the popularity of async comm in corps.
After reading so much async comm. I have no energy to read for fun on the weekend o.o

There is no reason for detailed tech specs except for putting blame on people and covering ass. (Critical industry with strict standards excluded)

It should be a high level overview.

Then you start working on it and then review small pieces in code review and make modifications as more edge cases surface.

dang. google one tap is annoying.

It's basically a popup ad

gah. when I say I like doing documentation, I don't mean gantt chart, test cases, status update, rollout plans and newsletters

Agile can work really well with webapps. But does it work for mobile apps? Each iOS app release can take days if unlucky

Been browsing job postings for a year and just can't find a company I'd like to work for

They are either evil, or x-washing and doesn't actually solve the problem they claim to solve

More senior team member: If you would like to get in on call rotation. Do this

Me: Why the heck would I *want to* be on call?

Going on on call in two days lol

fadge. Can't work. when I see the world plunging into chaos. what's the point?

lol. I didn't pay attention and pasted my GPt prompts on someone's work anniversary card

almost, wish I didn't delete it