one week back from my holidays and so far:
- 3 server outages
- 1 developer will be fired
- 2 new employees (company has around 35 employees)
- 2 employees leaving
- outsourced designs, the designer surely didn't read the feature research doc nor followed style sheet
- a small, easy feature has not yet been finished by the rest of the team
- new devOps engineer wants to rewrite our entire tech stack

But at least the CEO was doing it's best and ran away from the problems & ran 150km

forgot to add:

- a colleague is busy transporting restricted biological materials across borders without official approval. (and that's not a joke)

I guess things are improving?

@wojtek322 You mean like taking a sausage from one end of Ireland to the other?

@donkulator Close. But transporting horse sperm from crossing at least 2 borders. It is for a local experimental research project there.

@donkulator still can’t accept that sausages are the epicentre of the competition of the most idiot bureaucracy between the UK and the EU.

@joewilliams007 150km!

@wojtek322 how much? Maybe it's better to send the whole happy horse

Rewriting the tech stack... All possible bugs new again. I never saw such projects going right in real life. It's always underestimated how mature a project is. I prefer to keep what's not broken and will write the new parts in a new way. Only refactor what you touch. Yes, you'll have quality differences in your code base - but that's how it works. It's development

@retoor If the lab is expecting a small pot of horse jizz, they'll be pretty put out when someone turns up with an actual horse and says "here he is, you know what to do".

I imagine the horse will be a bit miffed as well.

@donkulator jacking the horse of yourself is cheaper and fresh. Also, it keeps you humble

@wojtek322 wtf

@retoor Two life hacks for the price of one.

@retoor yea by the time i am ceo, everiiiday;)

@retoor No idea. The metal box including cooling elements and what not weights around 25kg.

Our cloud infrastructure was written by 3 employees who were new to cloud development. So I can understand that there are flaws in it but it is rather stable (the cloud infrastructure are, the backend code not). The new employee was an ex-employee of that cloud platform (his title was instructure).

But the feedback he has gotten is that he has to deliver results in the short term and not spend a year (or years) to rewrite everything.

My senior dev said for the joke "so he taught new people how to build stuff and gets billed the max possible amount by AWS for using too many services". I wonder how true that is

@joewilliams007 when you're CTO. But now, find out if you're valuable asset enough to get a copilot license :P

@wojtek322 AWS is were the complexity starts i guess. It's like windows - if you don't know much, buttons are most easy. If you do know enough - a config file is easier. I worked for a big cloud company for a few years and wrote provision software myself including VPS hosting that you could control in web browser. They were competition of AWS

@retoor they said im so good i dont need it

@joewilliams007 they give compliments instead of paying. That's the dream

@wojtek322 isn't that the plot of a rick&morty episode?

@Probabil Would not be the first time we had something rick&morty in our code

https://devrant.com/rants/6704837/...

> 2 employees leaving

Make it 3!