When you look for a strongly opinionated article about JavaScript but you get a JavaScript framework instead..

Got the chance to check devRant on a 27inch iMac at work, looking good I guess

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Well...

Does anyone know how to post a rant via their api. Trying to make a custom devRant app.

Mr Meeseeks

Mom bought me this mousepad... Written in visual basic...
What's worse is that the code has five lines that have been commented out

My job is so f**king unbelievable.

I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless.
The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up.
She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself.
She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet.
Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10.
I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts.
I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead.
In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work.
He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22.
He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big f**king dog to work.
Every f**king day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke.
Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing.
Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single f**king day.

Anyway, I drive these dicks around in my van and we solve mysteries and s**t.

Well...

Hack the planet using visual basic!

Naming advice for new devs:

Test
Test1
Testtest
Final
Finalfinal
Final1
Asdjsfkd
Jkhfd

I'll sleep when the program is done.

How much coffee do you consume in a day? I'm somewhere between 3-5 cups

!rant

New mobile coffee van appears at our office today. When he realises we're developers he knows he has hit the jackpot. 😀

Vimexit

I am a full stack developer....

After several months of bug fixing, I can proudly say the application I inherited at work has gone a whole day in production without an unhandled exception (from a peak of above 1200 a few months ago).

Well, either that or I've broken the error logging and am now living in blissful ignorance.

Getting rejected in interview hurts. And after that not getting a Rant sticker hurts more.

Programmer: A pointer walks into a bar.

Non-programmer: I don't get the reference.

Trying to understand code from a previous developer.

In "Sprint Planning", the team is supposed to come up with stories, break those down into tasks, estimate those tasks as a team, then let devs choose what tasks they want to work on based on the stories pulled into that particular sprint.

Instead, our manager creates the stories. He assigns the stories to each developer and then has that developer announce his theoretical tasks (without any research on feature's or project's requirements!) in front of the entire team. So, when I say, "I think it will take me 6 hours to implement this feature", he says, "6 hours? I think it will take 3." and then types the estimate as 3. I have so much rage when that happens. Then we continue to sit in the room for 2.5 hours where we go through this long data entry mess of him typing out tasks and second guessing estimates. There is no team deliberation or collaboration, its whatever the manager says.

While there are many issues I take with this approach, my pet peeve would be the second guessing of the estimates. It would make sense for teams members to second guess estimates as long as they are the same teammates who have the ability and possibility to take on the tasks themselves.

But I disagree with a manager seconding guessing an implementation feature that "I" definitely have to do alone, and they do not possess the immediate knowledge to implement it themselves.

Finally got a girl iOS dev colleague on the team 😊

This happens more often than I care to admit.
I take a coffee, then I drink a sip.
Because it's too hot I put him aside.
Start working
Lose track of everything around me
Then when I am no longer distracted by the stupid bullshit line of code that I was stuck at, I go to drink the coffee and is FUCKING COLD!!!!!

Customer: "I want this."
Dev: "Cool! We can do that!"
*delivers product according to spec*
Customer: "Hmm, now that I see it, I want something else instead.."
Dev: "git reset --hard origin/ifreakingknewit"

Tried to double tap on a programming joke in the iOS Twitter app... Closed Twitter and opened devRant.

I am more thankful to StackOverFlow and Google than I am to my university.

Looking back at the code you wrote in your first year of programming

when you forgot your clearfix

(thank you flexbox!)

When you find 7 years old website made while you were 14 yo.

We practice IDD: Incident Driven Development