iOS 14 - what we thinking then?

Had to quickly code an emergency release for one of our visitor checkin apps that brings up a splash screen telling you to wash your hands after using our app.

Where others fear, I see opportunities 💰

Had my hairdresser tell me she thought her phone number was a great password for all her online accounts.

Just smiled and nodded, I feel there’s a time and a place for lectures on internet security.

> Finally write some wicked code that fixes a weird race condition bug we’ve had for two weeks now

> xCode breaks for absolutely no reason on a build so we can’t release a new version

🤦‍♀️

I’ve found recently my PM gets scared by technical words, so when I need some peace I usually start throwing words around like prototypal inheritance and decompartmentalisation and he nods like he understands and walks away

How we feeling about the Halloween theme on GitHub?

I wish I had enough time to do some festive themes on my companies apps.

No wonder the trains never run on time here, Google Chrome is sucking all their CPU

Okay we get it.

You hate x programming language because of y idiosyncrasy.

I wanna read some real rants people!

As a kid (in the 90s) I used to get a reoccurring nightmare that my family computer would get a blue screen of death and start screaming at me.

Legit hated computers as a kid because of that.

Really xcode! Now of all times, it’s Sunday and I just wanna finish so I can go home and watch Netflix

Thanks for that p5.js. Very informative.

YouTube interrupting me with an advert that is 3x as loud as my music with annoying jingles that make my ears bleed.

I don’t want to buy Spotify pro because I’m poor okay let me just listen to music on YouTube in peace.

I got lazy with my responsive site and iPadOS13 has come along to kick my ass.
It loads the iPad Pro 11” screen size but with a desktop user agent in safari.
Late night writing some ‘real’ css now.

I guess this is a rant at myself more than anything 🙉

My head of products idea of an urgent bug is a feature that he really wants in the app.

Guess who’s got 22 ‘bugs’ to fix by Friday 🙁

Bad: it works but throws errors

Worse: it doesn’t work but throws errors

Worst: it doesn’t work and doesn’t throw errors

Me: I think we should implement some kind of unit tests.

Lead: No time everything will take twice as long.

* some of my code accidentally breaks some of his *

Lead: I think we should implement some kind of unit tests...