Embedded is so fun...
You get to use Code Composer from TI...
How do you add "system" variables and not break your project when someone else downloads it from the repo?

Edit the .cproject file.

TI: Please don't edit the .cproject file, but do it to fix this garbage shit mess.

So 20 years ago people were laughing about the reviews on Amazon for sugarless gummy bears. I decided to check to see if anything in that regard has changed. I selected two brands to look at reviews. Both brands in the first few reviews had a great amount of entertaining reviews. I was reminded once again of how despite people having issues with them for over 20 years that they continue to sell.

This just reminds me of why products that are seemingly broken still have a market. Its not just our industry. Its all industries.

I'm doing a new strike technique called sneaky strike.

I'm not doing shit. Not even telling my boss I'm on strike.

Nobody tells him.

C'EST LA LUTTEUH FINALEEEU

One of the most detrimental things for a developer is having a team who doesn't understand the developer and doesn't fit the developer's personality. This is often overlooked.

Management likes to try and be 'scientific' and start to micromanage, as if the cause of someone's slowness really is their technical skill. No, it's often psychological in nature. A great manager will have a one on one real talk with you. A bad manager will ask you to log every single thing you do on every single day and instead of caring for you they will immediately delegate the issue away without taking into account the psychological conflicts between employees and hidden bullying. You can't solve people problems with business processes.

What doesn't help: ignoring the issue and just softening it with "It's your first time, you will get used to it" or "You will get better at this over time". No, you won't.

One of the sure ways to let a developer spiral down into failure is to not address these kinds of issues. Don't promote a former employee to manager. I think a real manager has to have the personality and studies for it. People aren't cogs and life is not black and white. You are dealing with people. People are infinitely complex. How often they forget this.

Linux weirdness of yesterday. I was copying files from one file manager to another. If the managers weren't the same file manager they couldn't see each others copy and paste selections. Which is kind of odd. I am not used to copy paste being incompatible on the platforms I use. One of those managers was Dolphin and another with a generic name called Files. So I don't know if this is KDE weirdness or what. Since I transitioned from Gnome I have like 3 file managers I use because each one has different features I like. Yeah, probably not great for file copying. I just never imagined they wouldn't work together.

What we were promised:
- The world as seen in Frutiger Aero
- Solving chess by running minimax on quantum computers
- Fully automated luxury communism powered by blockchain
What we were delivered:
- The phone selling machine in Walmart values your $700 phone at "$59 Today", but when you hit "Cancel", it bumps the price to "$79 Today" while stealing your data via USB. You can sell the phone for $400 on Ebay.
- Microsoft will try to bruteforce your zip archive's password if you upload it to OneDrive
- Butthole logos

Do you prefer to pin dependencies to an exact version or a specified major, latest minor version?

apparently there's a sect of monks/philosophers that believe if you drink yourself silly on epiphanies you gain enlightenment

so cool

Project manager wants that we write a full app by only vibe coding and he is enforcing this...

Gotta say, this is one of the most unsatisfying projects so far...

Weekend Vibes :)

Yes, pdf a’s code of some kind is indeed ends with a space, and that space is mandatory. Who let uncle bob specify anything, anything at all?

Scrotumborn
(stolen from reddit, but this is some funny shit!)

The typeface in this picture that still looks modern is 127 years old.

A good reason to deny meetings. No agenda - no meeting. :)

Dear diary,

Today with my dad at AI expo, and it was the best person to go with. He has learnt reinforcement learning and ocr. Never enjoyed a museum together that much. There were also steam engines and minecraft carts and elevator.

Did you know that the car years ago was considered dangerous bevause you didn't have a horse to protect you from mistakes? In horses we trust, nit in Tesla.

It was a great day.

I just had the gayest dream. I was having a nap with a dude similar to Ross and Joey on Friends. Then the guy started removing his shorts. I quickly stood up and left. I'm not sure if it had something to do with me experimenting with different AI Assistants on VSCode like Copilot, Cline and Gemini.

Expectations vs Reality :)

just wrote this on the wall of the toilet at microsoft cafe im berlin lmao

now i'm fleeing the country

it's the rust bracket pipes all over again