When the Marketing team runs a promotion focusing on a feature you're about to remove.

Last day of my job tomorrow, looking forward to the challenges of the next one and wondering what's the first thing I'll be ranting about.

Support Team Member opened a ticket.

> This customer's image isn't loading.

Load image, it's white and transparent on a white page.

Ask fairly technical SEO question on Stack Exchange. Only response is a comment telling me it's be easier to do it differently and use HTML instead of Javascript.

Got bought these by our CEO today as a way of him saying thank you. Means a lot to get such recognition from someone you look up to.

Spent a good 7 minutes wondering what 18. Ago was in a date field.

Minutes ago?
Hours ago?
Days ago?

Turns out my browser was set to Spanish and it's the short format for 18 August....

I guess it's been a long week.

Monday morning we found out our main event queue hadn't processed since late Wednesday afternoon. Shit was hitting the fan and we were stumped. What had changed?!?. Why wasn't the queue processor running?!?

Turns out a server restart had killed the job (no worries there, surely?!) but turns out the job checked for a system flag on disk to stop it running multiple instance or in this case as the flag was still present any instance at all. Got to love the little things that really screw you over.

Run code
System flag set.
Code crashes
System flag not removed
Fixed code
Code won't rerun because system flag

That strange feeling which equal parts depressing and exciting when you've got to update your devrant avatar because you got a haircut.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What absolute fucking imbecile thought an upper limit of 6.0.0 would make sense for max supported PHP version on the entire Magento 1.9.3.X code base. Not to mention the installer is broken on account of them not fucking understanding InnoDB is default engine in MySQL.

Seriously Mage Rage is real.

Emailed client asking for access to his Magento storefront.

Client emailed me the following response.

Yes, what is your email?

Don't be afraid to approach companies that aren't actively hiring. No-one will look negatively at a positive attitude

Anyone know what the fucking outcome of clicking either these buttons is going to be? The button I clicked to get to this modal said "Buy Season £7.49"

Can you add a feature so we can download images that our customers have uploaded?

Yeah sure I can see that being a really handy feature, but until I have the time to add a button would you try right clicking on the picture and using the option "Save image...." 🤔

My trusty ballpoint pen.

It helps me take notes, leaves notes for other team members and is great for prodding people with if I need an update on something and they have headphones in.