Clients are pretty interesting people, so one client had an issue with Outlook not working, issue I suspect is their internet connection, before I knew it they had formatted the machine to fix it

Flexible schedule, remote options, good pay, great team, building something useful to humans

Clients can such cheapskates, client asks me for hosting options, I suggest Webfaction ($10/m), decent service, storage etc. Client goes and buys ($20/year) hosting, storage space 2GB. Client has 2.9GB worth of emails. Now am charging said client ($110) for migration.

Added a WYSIWYG editor for one of my clients, client uses it to write articles in comic sans

So you know camelCase. Today I learnt there is a StUdLyCaPs e.g. "tHeqUicKBrOWnFoXJUmpsoVeRThElAzydOG" Imagine that in a codebase.

Fixed a two year old bug by deleting a bunch of code

I would be have to say waking up to fix bugs really works better than coffee

Well it was a paid internship but I was in IT/support, used to work in shifts, loved the night shifts (solo) that was when i could write some code, a fellow intern showed me a bash script he had written to automate some the reports he needed to generate, life was great those few months.

Nowadays for my responsibilities all am thinking is maybe I can write a script for that

As much as I love CodeIgniter, it is really showing its age (I know v4 is in progress). Most of the extensions and libraries are really old (4,5 years of no activity on GitHub) or abandoned, feeling like one is visiting 2008, it makes me sad.

Using Joomla makes you want to use WordPress, that is just sad.

When you bullsh*t stuff the whole meeting, then they setup a meeting tomorrow to continue where you left off today

Drunk Java lecturer

Using ffmpeg to convert some videos from the command line

@dfox feature request, as part of the menu links in a rant, if you could add open in web version.

Why?
Sometimes links aren't clickable on my devrant version (using latest Android version am on Lollipop 😧)
Sometimes really large images don't load

So I usually copy link then paste in my browser

Right now, building a scheduling/personnel management tool to ease some of my planning duties. Learning some cool tools and concepts along the way.

Used Joomla after a long time and I have to say it is still sh*t

Read and Practice

Backend cause frontend

Anyone who has transitioned from freelance/consulting back to employment? What was the experience like?

That time my then employer decided to build an ERP system but was unable to fund the process, long story short delayed salaries, low morale, everyone on the team leaving, sad times

So after my phone got stolen I am now using a series30 Nokia device, problem was synching contacts dumped from Google contacts. Run a Python script that modified the vcf into a format compatible with the series 30, never felt more of a hacker man than this

Two steps forward one back: Gets paid by client, phone gets stolen enroute. Now am just ranting from a tab

I remember when I was younger an uncle told me the then famous Y2K bug (millennium bug) was a firefly, needless to say I believed him

For the first time in a long time I have no backlog 🙂

I have to say one of the most annoying things in software development is building tools that will never be really used by clients, sometimes clients just want something new and shiny and once they get it off it goes into a dark closet of no use to gather webs

You are now irrelevant

In hospital today and the queue is too long, all I see are the help desk computers restarting cause the on board application software isn't running, sometimes a manual paper system > shoddy computerised system

Have you ever thought, what if programming isn't for me?

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