Toorii, https://snek.molodetz.nl/register says 404

In my company I now have 3 browsers.

Chrome for company stuff that only works in Chrome.

Safari for company stuff that only works in Edge or Safari.

And Firefox for actual work.

🤡

Found this ancient, forgotten task that was basically a QOL improvement.
Given that the feature would shorten the time of testing from some 10-15 minutes to 2, I left a comment mentioning that it would be immensely helpful.

!too long after, the report started seeing some traffic && the feature got actually implemented.
Checked the implementation as soon as I could.
- Speedup worked well regardless of platform.
- Slowdown /* which was never actually mentioned in the task as it wasn't crucial */ was also implemented, but the mobile phones were omitted, since the implementation would be too complex for the time allowed for the feature implementation. I was perfectly fine w/ it, as this wasn't actually necessary for those.

I left a proper comment, thanking for the feature implementation.

...then the lead tester chimes in, bitching about the lack of implementation of the slowdown on mobiles.

Got the same explanation as I mentioned earlier - too complex for the time allowed. Plus, the feature had other platforms in mind. Having it working on mobiles was just gravy.

Good call, lead, now - ask for another favor.
I'm sure it'll go well, since you can't be satisfied w/ getting what you need. You need that special pampering, too.
/s

Week: 93 (Year 1 )

The weekend is here. Planned already?

Question: What are the signs your body tells you that you shouldn't ignore?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/17489835

My boss published someones resume online to make fun of it because it was handwritten. He at least blurred out that persons name but not the past jobs & other info...

It took me 30 minutes on linkedin to find the person that I believe it is.

Isn't this a GDPR violation lol

I put on a peertube:

peertube.boomjacky.art

TIL: mechanical click of a touchpad is now managed by os in new lenovos. Suspend os and you can no longer click your touchpad.

Not tap. Click.

Wtf..

I think I'm now a tabs person, it's the only character where the width can be easily adjusted for different devs without changing the underlying file's data

asphalt is the only 99.9% recycleable construction material. When they need to renew an asphalt road, they just scrape it off, reheat it and lay it right back on. Bitumen that glues rock content together gets melted, essentially making what's indistinguishable from brand new asphalt.

Nothing better than seeing pajeet fuckers getting rekt

age++

I'm trying really hard to like Swift but every time I open the hood on this bird, it takes a shit on my windshield.

For example:

struct ContentView: View {

var body: some View {
let kFontPointSize = 25.0
var theFont: Font = .system( size: kFontPointSize )

theFont = .custom("Helvetica", size: kFontPointSize )

Text("Hello, World!")
.padding(.horizontal, 20.0)
.font( theFont )
}

}

... in spite of how wonderfully self documenting (🐂💩) Swift is, that dirty bird converts the 'var' to a 'let' and "theFont" cannot be reassigned after declaration.

3 things:

1. invisibly converting the 'var' to a 'let' and not indicating 'var' can't be used... really?! Suppose to just "know" these obscure inconsistencies? (sloppy design)

2. then the error Xcode presents on "theFont = ..." line is : "Type '()' cannot conform to 'View'"!? How about "can't use a 'var' here"? God forbid it should make sense. (sloppy design)

3. "var" means variable and "let" means letstant? If you are going to use "var", better use "const", or be consistent and use "set" and "let" instead of "var" and "let" (sloppy inconsistency)

4. and ".horizontal", who owns that? Self documenting?. It is owned Edge Set aka Edge.Set.horizontal and effectively a "global".

5. And reading the Swift coder's mind... No, you should NEVER NEVER NEVER use "25" as a constant literal passed like .system( size: 25 ). (magic numbers not aloud)

Have all best engineering practices been simply tossed out the window? Rule #1 in software "engineering": Globals are BAD. Corollary: magic numbers earn you a one-legged A on your project.

I am so incredibly disappointed in the Swift community right now. Swift designers are honestly earning a "script kiddy" badge of dishonor.

Well, dR just disappeared for a bit but glad it's back, but I can see that recent rants are gone (because I was trying to catch up on missing rants)

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...

So this recruiter reached to me. They supposedly like my profile and have a role in mind but need more info than what's currently on my CV

They want 15 bullets points for duties per role.

As in 15 for each job... My CV is already two pages long.

What the fuck do recruiters actually do

We "engineered a prompt" (in other words, crapped a very poorly written paragraph using only short sentences) that gathers many arguments pro and against the usage of AI to code our production data pipelines.
Most of the "pro" arguments are variations of "we'll get fired if we don't use this crap in something".

Prompted with the whole argument, even Gemini thinks we should not use AI to write our code. Nowadays, we use Gemini mostly to justify why we shouldn't use Gemini.

Seriously. We made the whole setup so that any PO who demands AI has to convince the AI it is a good idea. I'll admit, the AI is doing a good job to deter people who want to use it. It hasn't cracked even once. Not that it matters, anyway. POs just ignore what the AI says and organically write orders telling us to use it anyway.

Tomorrow I’ll post about how I narrowly escaped completely and irreversibly losing my mind

The most interesting thing about the GDPR training that we do is that very little of it is about our rights as employees and almost all of it is to protect our employer. Funny that.

is java code javanese

GoRetro.com has been a great tool for us to use at work… to run retros -hope the name didn’t give that away 😏

The product has been completely free for a while now. Their site even had a long message about how important it was to the dev community to provide the tool for free.

Now they are back stepping their position, and offering a free version and a paid subscription.

Honestly I get the move, but hate that this company has sold out its values for some extra cash.

Lack of efficiency doesn’t come from people doing nothing but rather from people who are doing things that are slowing done everything else.