I was glued to the computer since I was a kid, mainly video games. I always have and still do wonder how some games are made. My first experience was reading a book about webdev when I was 11. Tried programming and got bored (and had no idea what i had to build). But a few years later, we had programming in school and that got me hooked. The year after I swapped to a different school with a more focus on IT & programming.

Maybe in the future I'll do a side project regarding gaming ':)

@afaIk Not a big company. It targets a specific set of customers. But i'm still confused, the clients that they target should be more data-privacy aware. Their main customer group is shit like auto garages, independent bank offices*, independent insurances companies*, vets, doctors, ...

* all of the clients are usually 1-5 people companies and are paying a license to work for one of the big insurances/banks.

@cafecortado Hard to tell. They also read as marketing/sales speech and not as a real review

The scrapped feature also had an amazing story that I want to share again. It was statistics and there was a "live" statistics page. It did an API request to our backend every 30 seconds. It was deployed to production and it worked fine (nobody used it). Our COO had this page open and went to take a shit, after around 20 requests... Our full platform was down because sending 2 API request per minute was too much for that shitty backend to handle.

It was tested on our test environment and the amount of lab data was a lot lower.

2 devs got fired because of this feature.

that's a lot of spam from the anti-spam bots :D

Thanks for the history lesson. I'm sad I found this platform when it was already dying. At least Linuxx was still active then :)

I don't recall seeing Alice. Never saw an April fools I think :(

@whimsical I think Netrikas probably wanted to respond on this. https://devrant.com/rants/19185230/...

@whimsical that implies anything dev related still happens :p

DR is just slow every single day nowadays =(

Oh yeah, I remember the weekly post. It still is fun to read through some older posts

Good luck with your future endeavours

@max19931 After 2 months at this company, I'm not even sure who the project manager is... or even if we have one, I don't think we do lmao

@TeachMeCode I hope the code is at least on his local machine and not yet pushed but I kinda doubt it

Idk what is worse. The state of this backend or the fact it took the senior a month to write this. Just checking the commit dates, he worked on it every day of March. 7 commits prior to March and 3 commits after March.

And even a lot of the code has some AI smell to it judging by the unnecessarily amount of comments describing easily readable code :D

@whimsical Oh no, it will be a real disaster to lose the product with the GUID that is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 /jk

@donkulator It's even more straightforward than that: anyone considering gambling is an idiot. :p

@D-4got10-01 Definitely. At least from the bright side, this job has fresh projects so now tech debt to fix/work around. The salary is a big improvement (but still average lol), at least I'm no longer far below the average :D The daily travel time is 25 minutes in total compared to 1h15. No work drama (yet). No 'mandatory' pingpong matches with a 2h commute.

But still a few other cons like more days in the office, product management still lacking, less health-focused mentality (previous job had free food and colleagues were all sportive, ..., this job offers limited free snacks, overweight colleagues and more)

Kinda planning to stick it out for a year or 2 and learn a foreign language and live abroad for a few years when I don't have any commitments yet.

@D-4got10-01 Haven't seen that comic yet, thanks for sharing.

No new tech stacks for me. They advertised that I had to write a tiny bit of backend code but that hasn't happened yet (and the needed sdk is not yet authorized to be installed lol).

I really dislike anything that is only controllable by voice. It sucks when you have a heavy accent & a speech impediment lmao

GenZ'ers are drinking less alcohol now but this concept still seems way too absurd lol

@Grumm We had also an incompetent COO at that company. Does his name by any chance start with "Se"?

@whimsical It's quite bad in my city which has a low amount of IT jobs/companies.

But Ghent / Antwerp or Brussels had a lot of job openings. I was looking semi-actively for the past 2 years and found a lot of jobs for those cities. Just barely for my city and I wanted something close-by (even if my wage would be a lot lower) :)

Since you have mentioned Belgium earlier, my previous job might be loojking for people if you have experience with telecom/voip. But they are a real clusterfuck.

Good luck in the job hunt

@BordedDev The expected features, at least for the frontend (my side), is not complex and there is a good amount of overlap. This project can do a lot damage to the core of the business with bugs related to our data. The deadline looks like there will be no time for testing

This is definitely one of the posts of the year

At my internship, sysadmin had everyones (colleagues) password stored in a excel and did not lock his computer/office when he went to get coffee. At least his excel had a password on it but left it unlocked.

At my previous job, I got the CTOs credit card info & PIN code in my first week there.

Current job: password of a soon-to-be-legacy system of our customers is stored in plain text

@antigermgerm my condolences that you had to be in brussels :'(

@antigermgerm Literally never heard of him lol

But thanks for the information

@retoor Thanks

I really should be following the politics of my country. What is the name of the one who send dick pics?

@retoor No features are estimated but if I go over the list and estimate it very generously, it is at least 9 weeks for my part excluding the technical documents, designs, testing, ...

yea; just barely. it's super slow here :/