For some reason, our CEO decides on the designs. I have send some designs to him on Wednesday last week. On Friday, he finally approved the designs (with a minor tweak) at 16:57.

On Monday at 14:00, I had a meeting with him and he was mad that the full feature was not finished and in production.

What did he expect? 😐

For context, Friday we had a deadline to get multiple products updated for a deployments on Saturday. That went to the shitter and we spend hours trying to fix it till the middle of the night and decided to roll back. Now we were fixing the shitshow that it was and he is still mad

(those deadlines that friday were barely feasible and we failed)

I like Twitter better because I can ragebait the shit out of people.

Y'all are quite immune to it now.

So a lot of games have in game fake operating systems. They are usually just standard fare utilitarian. I got to thinking that maybe I will have a brand of OS in game that is loosely similar to certain IRL OSes. However, I want to have at least one in game brand OS that insults the user.

user: <clicks on browser in fake computer OS> (loosely based on IE)
computer OS: Don't use that you stupid asshole!
user: ...

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Oh wow, a free stress ball for 750 upvotes?

Guys, if I’m ranting hard enough to get 750 upvotes, I don’t need a stress ball—I need a new job.

There is so much stuff wrong with me mentally, I’m a terrible person.

"I like being right so much that, when I’m proven wrong, I change my mind."

Such a great quote! Found it in the comment section of a youtube short :)

I've been vibe coding not knowing that it was called that until yesterday. I always give up before I reach anything interesting because I get about 4 or 5 good responses before it starts forgetting things and breaking already working code. And it's not even that complex of an idea.

There is no way people are coming up with whole applications with any level of complexity with these things.

Damn I need to get back to work, I'm cooking way too much and at this rate I'm going to be a mid developper, a mid cook and still not have a job...

power outage, raaaghhh

I haven't been on in a while because I got laid off two weeks ago. I made it three years and survived two layoffs. I'm relieved honestly; got a decent severance package. Technically I got an extra week of "PTO" where I still had access to two Slack rooms if I wanted to say goodbye to people.

I've taken two weeks to unwind. Time to update my cover sheet and get back into the flow of contacting old buddies to see what work is available.

I've been at it for over 20 years at this point: Java, Scala, Python, Ruby and even a couple of years of devops/sys admin. Let's see how bad the remote and local job markets suck now.

Why do programmers prefer dark mode?
Because light attracts bugs.

Engineering Life:
4 years of sleepless nights, 40 subjects, 400 assignments…
And after graduation?
“Please attach your resume and 3 years of experience for this entry-level job.”

I did see two posts about vibe coding.

While it's a bit hyped and not that convenient yet, I actually vibe coded two applications in Rust / C# using my own vibe coding tool. My vibe coding tool is very convenient since it's a terminal app you can talk to that will read, write and execute on winning systems (Linux). You don't have to copy or paste source code as with other vibe coders.

This project url, binaries and source: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/r. Use free version if you do not have openai key. If you do, use commercial version and configure OPENAI_API_KEY in your env.

It's written in C because I'm crazy.

Since it's written in C it's maybe not convenient as educational resource but it does contain all information you need to let AI control your pc / filesystem and instruction following.

There's also a python module of that software. You can do rpylib.chat("user", "prompt") with it and it'll be a session. I prompted yesterday 150(!!!!)mb with it by batching using python.

The r project supports context (instruction file) that makes it a real local agent. If you're creative, sky is the limit with this tool. I use it all the time. I copied to /usr/local/bin and if I need gpt, I just type r(f) in my terminal or directoy "r [the prompt no quotes needed]". Last example exits the application after result of prompt. If you say "Hey, grade the quality of my script.py from 1-10" it will do that. The options are endless. Ultimate automation tool.

Me: suggests some visual improvements for the web app (because it honestly looks and feels like it has been designed by a backend developer and they make the UI/UX guy design the screens AFTER they've been implemented in the code)

PMs & Management: Okay, let's put it to a vote and get the graphic designer's eye on it.

Me: ...

Is mildly offended lmao.

(I have a graphic design qualification and over 6 years working in web and print design agencies before getting into programming whereas the company's graphic designer knows almost nothing about web design, he's a print designer. Still sends massive gifs to use on the website and doesn't understand web pixel dimensions nor responsive web design principles. These people know my education and employment history btw)

When you double-tap a word on your phone, it will select the whole word.
The difference between iPhone and Android is that if that word is a part of a name, it will select the whole name, not just that word. If you double-tap “Smith” in “John Smith”, it will select the whole thing.
That’s all you need to know. It’s the little things.

Mom: "Why are you always on your phone?"

Me: "I’m reading."

Mom: "Oh wow, what are you reading?"

Me: "Comments… on a meme."

Spent 4 months to implement an impulsive thought to save logs size. Now, I'm ambivalent if I should extend it further or leave it on its fate.

There was this one time when a coworker needed to update the Xcode.

IIRC because his Mac mini was low on storage space, the update failed && the Xcode became corrupted.

He found that out when he tried to open the Xcode, at which time he was presented w/ an error akin to:
'Xcode was found to be corrupted && was moved to the Recycle Bin'.

C: 'Good, it belongs there!'.

We rolled out yesterday a new update out to our Desktop application. The goal was to do it last weekend but we failed for reasons. The update is a success and now we (devs, project manager, QA, COO, support) got an angry email from our CEO, he mentioned:
- He is very disappointed in the whole process
- we released it without a coordinated marketing campaign
- That the devs should have communicated to the customers
- That the devs should have communicated internally more
- That support is getting a lot of new support tickets. I asked support, they counted 0 for this product in the last 7 days.
- Asked us to self-reflect how we can improve.

My project manager (who is currently on paternity leave) responded with an angry email to defend the dev team and pointed out that the CEO fired the marketing guy (again). The deadline is here for months, that the CEO literally ran the update locally and sold the update to new customers. He also called the CEO "lack of self awareness" and "not understanding the update process" and "disappointed in this approach". He also said that he asked the developers not to respond to the email.

Love me some drama between higher-ups

Anyone else's arms take a serious hammering from constantly leaning on armrests and desks?