@vintprox Agreed, but there's plenty of very average software out there that we use every day. It does the job for us, we have our tasks moving across the lanes, some Git integration, whatever. We were forced to use LeanKit once which I hated a lot more for instance. 🤷‍♂️

I am not saying Jira is great, I just observe how it always gets all the hate. Seems a bit like the Nickelback phenomenon.

I don't get all the hate for Jira. Are you expecting a piece of software to solve all your problems? Are you trying to use all the features regardless of whether they suit your needs or not? Could it be your PM/boss/whatever setting things up to align with their idea of the work flow, and not the actual workflow? In its simplicity, it's a Trello board with a shitload of options. Options you don't HAVE to enable or use.

And as with everything, just use something else then. 🤷‍♂️

It can make people want to smack the next person who tells them what AI can do.

@retoor I used to prefer Dells, always happy with them and they had the best keyboards (personal preference obviously). Once they sent a technician out to a town in the middle of nowhere where I happened to be at the time to replace a faulty screen within 24 hours.

I didn't have a valid warranty on that XPS (4 years old), hence the DIY replacement. Other than that, great laptop. Excellent screen.

@tosensei My thought exactly.

You can't predict the outcome, the same prompt will give you a different image every time. Suddenly, the cover of Bad Boys 4 is two white dudes holding a carrot because there was a new wave of protests involving race and someone wrote on reddit that carrots are the new weapon against obesety. AI only read the first part.

I thought we abandoned integer IDs in 2010 and converted to GUIDs. 🤷‍♂️

@retoor My XPS had the issue many others have reported as well: the keyboard stops registering random key strokes. Makes wrtng rlly werd fr oths t read. Should have gotten it replaced by a technician, but I thought what the hell - how hard can it be. And it wasn't hard, but I must have short circuited something in the process. 😖

Replaced it with a Lenovo X1 Extreme, and very happy with that.

Replaced a faulty keyboard and got a new battery for a Dell XPS (4 years old). The keyboard replacement required a lot of components to be taken out, and after reassemly everything was fine. For a while, 10-20-30 minutes then dead. No reaction, no lights - bricked. Then I leave it for an hour or two and it comes back to life, might run for hours and then dead again. Put the old battery back in, no difference. Running on battery power or on the charger - no difference. Replaced the RAM, no difference. Can't find any error logs in BIOS or Windows. Someone suggested a screwed up capacitator or whatever, I don't know. Wasn't worth the repair costs and 4 years is a good stretch for a dev laptop. Sucks though, could have been used for other cool projects.

@Lensflare In VS you will get warnings if there's a potential null reference happening and they have what they call null state analysis which existed before but was enabled by default from .NET 6. As for warnings about everywhere a potential error might be thrown.. 🤷‍♂️ There are pros and cons, I am not one for being babied too much but at the same time getting good habits forced upon you is not bad either.

You can write good, solid code without having to handle every unlikely and possibly never occuring incidents. There's a balance. Be pragmatic.

I was there too. Found out it's pretty all right, but if you inherit someone elses spaghetti it's a royal pain in the ass. If you build your app from the ground up or if someone with half a brain did it right before you took over it does the job well.

Do freelancing. Earn more, get more greedy, count "time off" as lost income. Repeat.

It's up to you. You have to freedom to take a break between contracts. You can also take time off whenever the client allows it, because you cost nothing while you're away.

If you are doing freelancing and not reaping the financial benefit then go back to a normal job. Increased income is the key to all those other perks.

If that destroys your friendship I would look for new friends.

@stackodev .. or not monitoring your logs when a simple lambda function goes bananas unnnoticed for a few days. "Alarm? Yes, our alarm is the invoice - it tells us something is SEROUSLY wrong!"

@Lensflare Yep, next it will be "Linux is not for production, Windows is for trad wives. Change my mind."

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@Lensflare We were on the topic where someone complained about certain keyboard features. Noisy mechanical keys is one I don't get.

@Lensflare I don't get why people have mechanical noisy-as-fuck keyboards either. I have a backlit MX keys keyboard and it's a dream to type on. I just wish there was a hack to keep the lights on all the time, because the soft glow is good.

Most queries I run are for just getting something then and there, why would I bother to specify each column? Wasting seconds to shave milliseconds off a query..

As always, it depends. But it's not about lazyness.

GraphQL.. Came and went i my books, not impressed.

20+ years in the business here and this is my observation:

There as assholes everywhere, humans are just built that way. But what I have started to enounter more often now then ever before is that socially awkward nerdy person merged with the spoilt woke gen Z type. Those who lack the ability to interact with others in a healthy way (old school nerds), but still demand their voice to be heard simply because it's everyone's right to have a say about anything regardless of if you should or know what you're talking about. People in their 20s literally stomping their feet like a toddler to get their way. And you can't say anything, oh no, because they have very fragile feelings.

You are comparing a framework to hosting..

Are you talking about just pushing nextjs apps up on vercel? If so, yes that's a quick and free way to get something online.

Unfortunately, often in enterprise development you do need a bit more than what vercel can offer. So you also have to pay for that, and yes way too much of it goes to buying yachts and shit.

People tend to forget that it is still possible to host your own stuff on-prem though.

Let me guess: gen Z?

@Demolishun Currently listening to "Blood, sweat and pixels" by Jason Schreier. I've never touched game development except for some basic graphics development back in uni, but it has always fascinated me.

Your comment reminded be of how Stardew Valley came about, covered in one of the chapters of that book.

Money rules above anything else.

If there was profit to be made, they would make linux versions. Trust me, someone would have considered this several times and the outcome has clearly been "not worth it". Not idealistic, not to be difficult, not because of incompetence.. money.

@Demolishun Just a remaster of HL2 as far as I know. Same game, updated graphics. Looks pretty smooth!

Monkey Island, Doom I & II, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, even those old Test Drive games (yeah, I'm that old).

@kiki Half Life 2 is getting remastered this year, will definitely revisit it then!

Two barracudi?