Lost all the lead engineers in my org. Now I'm the most senior.

God help us all.

RECOVERY EXPERTS CAN FUCK OFF. WATCH AS THIS PLATFORM FALLS INTO DARKNESS

AI slop continues to dominate devrant with strange ads, that can't possibly result in any conversions. Is there anyone on here who's stupid enough to fall for it? They're wasting their time! Well... Maybe @b2plane might fall for it.

Him: Hey your program doesn't work
Me: what's the error
Error: malformed data file
Me: where'd you get that data file?
Him: oh in this new place I saw
Me: that's not the correct data file for that command
Him: are you sure? This is more convenient for me
Me: the command needs the correct data from the correct source....

!dev

Boss was fired.

Saw someone complaining not enough dev rants.

I have a coworker who's a good friend. Got him this job. He has good output, smart kid, but our coding styles clash.

I believe in DevEx (since we write internal tools). He sees it as premature optimization.

Example:
He won't validate data from input we don't control because "it shouldn't change that much".

Results:
He codes fast, but delivers shit that breaks in production and others (me) have to fix.

It's frustrating.

Wife's driving me nuts
Work is driving me nuts

At least my kids are awesome!

Maybe getting a new job would help. I'd probably need two new jobs to match this one though

Update on my shitty manager.

He's been in HR training and leaving me the fuck alone. So it's a win so far.

Well, my boss is officially unhinged.

He threatened me in a call. He thinks I ratted him out to HR for living over seas. Funny thing is I don't give a rats ass, he's got the wrong guy.

Going to HR now though, see if I can move teams to minimize the damage he can afflict on me.

Mandatory winter break means mandatory.

Getting PR requests from a team mate during company wide holiday PTO. Asked him wtf he was doing, manager told him he had to work.

NOT the managers call! This is going to HR on the 2nd

Probably not the right category but idgaf.

Can't keep up with the bot drama and something to do with sid.

Can someone give me a primer?

Planes without entertainment systems and usb chargers are useless.

I love that this place is so solution oriented.

Post a rant anywhere else and you get people telling you "there there", but here you'll get 5 different ways to stop the issue (even if they're all retarded).

Am I the only person who thinks the zip function in python is awful? It always results in such fragile programming patterns

We had a production outage directly caused by our team not following a change procedure correctly. Now we're under a microscope and in a "get well" program.

They took over the daily standup for this high priority program and are organizing efforts in confluence instead of jira.

Now we have a confluence doc of what everyone is working on with someone changing the text status in a table by hand every morning along with the comments in a note section...

Pooping in the airport is one of life's small pleasures.

I'm averaging 3 hours a day outside of meetings. Mostly in 30 minute blocks.

Manager is wondering why I can't get work done...

Show of hands for people who feel they can effectively estimate their work and consistently give accurate due dates on short tasks and longer projects?

Felt a knot in my shoulder while training BJJ. It slowly got worse and had to stop training.

By the next day it feels like my back is out but in my neck. It's miserable.

I was supposed to do work around the house but that isn't happening now for sure.

Saw a free AI video generator that looked like it had really good results. I guess they cherry picked what they show on the cover...

https://storage.cdn-luma.com/lit_li...

Fights in the daily standup. That's a new one!

My companies org is in a serious state of disrepair when it comes to project management.

Everything is tracked via conference. Each level of management (CTO, EVP, SVP, BP, S DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR, S MANAGER, MANAGER) all have a different tracking page that all say slightly different things.

To organize things there's a technical project manager who isn't just new to the team, he's new to the field. He's not technical, or experienced in project management. He's never worked within a scrum before.

He's dictating how to organize the teams scrum, and he's getting it very wrong. Decided to organize efforts in all the confluence pages by creating another one for him, again it's different.

When the work in confluence page 3/16 isn't done by a due date anybody knew about, the engineers have to hop on a call and get a Micky mouse solution out the door by the of day so upper management doesn't think the projects off the rails.

In the mean time I've taken a small group of more junior devs and shielding them. We have a side scrum that we manage and is going great, and I'm blocking the BS.

CORPORATE SUCKS. Golden handcuffs are a thing. I might set sail for greener pastures once i don't have to pay back my signing bonus if I leave.

15 lbs down today. Getting back to fighting weight.

I'm at that part of the diet where I'm just starting to see real results in my body, but also have a massive urge to give up.

Just need a little kick in the bum to keep going.

Between me and my wife, we pull in 300k CAD a year, but we're still middle class. We should be fucking ballers living in a mansion, but I'm still budgeting at the grocery store.

I can afford to keep my house up, raise a family, and have 1 nice vacation a year. I guess it's fucked to complain since others are struggling to eat.

Still it seems crazy.

That was phenomenal!

I really want to apply at magic.dev, but I'm not sure it's the right career move right now.

The work is way more interesting than what I'm doing.

https://thehackernews.com/2024/02/...

44 years after Unix, Windows gets sudo. I'm proud of the little guy. He's starting to grow up!

Writing a new tool, and it's looking pretty slick so far.

This is much better than meetings upon meetings. Maybe I should ask for a demotion so I can be writing code more often?

When you interview for dev positions, what are some questions or techniques you use?

Team is growing from 5 to 19 heads. Hopefully the work load per person goes down after they're up and running.

Anyone had this happen to them? Any dynamics to watch out for?

Mandatory 2h interview training at 11pm... Gross. Having a hiring blitz to triple our team size is not gross.

I'm conflicted, but mostly tired.