Introducing NVidia cuLitho, or "little butt" for you spanish speakers
https://twitter.com/NVIDIAHPCDev/...

I got an apology today about how my last block of work was handled. Progress!

I've created a code review for merging someone else's code, coz they were signed off sick for the last month.

They're making comments about how it's wrong.

It's code they wrote, but restructured to be more readable.

They wrote incorrect code that was just so illegible they didn't realise.

How do I explain this diplomatically?

Comment on a code review:
How does this relate to the task?
Me:
Most of the changes have nothing to do with the task, but half of the code & build system was either wrong, broken or not following best practices. This particular change is because something was broken.

AWS has identified suspicious activity on my account.

I'm using it for the first time in 2 years. That's the suspicious activity.

Anyone work for a company that banks with Silicon Valley Bank? Coz they've just gone bust. (They're basically a bank for tech startups)

Google will be doing its last online coding competition in April. They've been running 20 years. Personally I think this kinda thing is one of the highlights of being a programmer, a load of random people around the world coming together to do their fun, nerdy hobby.
https://developers.googleblog.com/2...

Seriously, I got given a project that someone else was working on, it's beind and they're on long term sick. I did the project as discussed. My manager has decided he wants it done differently, wasting about a week of work. This is the same manager that complained about my rate of closing tickets. 2 weeks ago.

Malicious compliance time, I'm closing the current ticket and creating a new one for the new work.

I don't have the patience for people right now...

I am however going to the gym.

Why are you trying to multithreaded c++ file i/o? If you can't write c++ code that's faster than your hard drive, please just don't write c++.

Literally no complex calculations, just some insane string formatting.

I seem to be seen as our team expert on build systems, and I'm literally on a call trying to help someone fix a problem they're having with the windows build system. My only real contribution to the conversation has been "does it build on Linux?", to which the answer was "no", and everything after that has just been other people discussing the more informative error messages coming from the Linux build system.

The main driver behind my use of social media is work meetings. Thank god for no requirement to have camera on.

Today, my manager complained that my productivity doesn't match that of a senior engineer. I pointed out that senior isn't in my job title. He told me he thought of me as a senior engineer. I didn't dispute that that matches the level of experience I have, but it's not in my job title.

HTML. I'm a C++ dev. That shit ain't for me.

Convo with manager "ticket is a month late"

I've been on holiday for 3 weeks.

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Happy New Year folks

Manager ran docker prune on a server that had run out of drive space. One of our internal sites/automation tools was running on said server in docker. Fortunately the only persistent info that was wiped is user/passwords, we don't even bother backing it up, but a bit of tedious admin this morning...

I've put my back out. Today I'm super grateful for a nice desk chair and working from home.

In my current team, when someone else's code breaks, I fix it. When my code breaks, I also fix it. I feel like there's something wrong here...

Apparently Patreon has fired (and then outsourced) the entire cyber security team. What's the worst that could happen?
https://thehackernews.com/2022/09/...

Do coding outside of work. I got into the industry because I enjoy writing code, but your job won't always be fun. That's why they give you money. Make sure that spark of joy doesn't die.

Or, when it does die, at least you'll have something to rant about.

On an all hands, someone talking about a spreadsheet and my brain hears "so we should turn this into a database with a front end but you're not a dev and none of us care enough to help".

Are we the bad guys?

Today is a "lots of coffee and sugar" kind of day...

My manager has explained in detail to me how to fix the problem I'm having. I know how to fix the problem. I just don't have permission on our servers to change the settings I need to.

Guess who does?

My job title on paper:
"Application developer"
How I'm introduced to interview candidates:
"Senior software engineer"

Does anyone else see a problem here? 🤔

Reading candidate CVs makes me feel way better about my CV

I feel like a "confess your sins" weekly rant would be on point.

Doesn't even have to be coding sins.

We have a new "anti-piracy" policy at work which says we have to get written permission to install *any* software on our work devices.

Someone didn't think this through...

Forget most useless feature, an entire, year long product. Me (at the time very junior) and a principle engineer, wasted a year bundling our product as a plugin in a third party app. 3 years later, we'd sold 2 licences. It was a buggy pile of hell.

Anyone used "Showwcase"? Branded as a "social network for devs"
Was reading an article, seems a bit shit, but thoughts?

Article:
https://blog.greenroots.info/why-do...
Url:
https://www.showwcase.com/