So I'm a freelancer celebrating my second year at this one client (yes, times are good). When I first got to my current (not customer-facing) project, lots of "externals" (other freelancers) had come and gone, "internals" had been assigned and reassigned to and from this project and nobody knew exactly what was in the (angularjs) codebase.

One of my first
"quick win" assignments was to see if load times could be reduced. After some looking around it turned out someone had used moment.js (with locales, 67k gzipped) for some feature that had since been abandoned... and then accidentally dropped it into the source folder, checked it into source control (svn!), from whence it was happily packaged by the CI job and released every month.

Removing it reduced the pre-render javascript by about 40%. (also yes, that said "nobody knew exactly what was in the client-side codebase")

Ok, now for the thing I really wanted to say but which is not exactly interesting enough for a post: I can't believe I just found out this place exists! So, happy holidays to you all I suppose.

@cannonau welcome, and you are lucky to have a nice place. Even though the code debt might be a bit big.

Welcome to DR!

Thanks, guys (m/f)! I feel home already.

@cannonau wlc and btw. no devRanter will attack you if you refer to everyone as guys only.
We are not a sjw community. (At least that is what I have experienced)
So do not worry about it ;)

I prefer the gender and being neutral term "Things" personally. 😋 My favorite SJW is JP Sears (episode 88). He will make the world right, just wait and see.

@iAmNaN yeah but you are just a Number...

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- thanks for that, but I just really like the construct, as also in "I'm telling my mother (m/f)" and the like. It's less about "social justice" (although, why not) and more about avoiding refraining from confusing people (h/t monkey island)

@Codex404 what codex just said. You are just a number. NaN is just an illusion.

@cannonau you are welcome, but I do not quite understand why you are referring to known (living) objects as m/f. If your mom was a woman and is a man right now... she is biologically still a woman. Changing the tits and the bottom area won't change the majority of the body.
I mean that humans are not only made of vagina and tits or dicks and balls. How could we else speak and think, right? That idea makes no sense at all. I know. But I hope that you get my main point.
If someone identifies itself as non-binar, that is a mental illness and I am not making fun of it, because that is a very bad situation.

@iAmNaN but why tho?
And why does that term offend anybody?
I am not trying to get into a fight here, but I am open for a friendly discussion. I just want to see it from your perspective.

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- why? Why, as a joke of course, a play on words.

In the phrase "I'm telling my mother", "my mother" could be anyone in a position to tell someone they are in deep trouble, young man. It could be my boss, my big brother, even nobody, or myself. This is expressed (humorously, hopefully) through the addition of the frequently-encountered "(m/f)" which often signals tact, politeness, political correctness and/or activism, but in essence only means "some of the attributes of the preceding word (1 of them, gender) is to be ignored when determining what the speaker is trying to say". In this case, not only is the gender of the "mother" irrelevant, but their entire "mother-ness", even their existence. The point is: "I'm telling!"

So in short, the object is to delight through confusion in order to incite thought: a joke. Any resemblance to politically motivated statements, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- also, I'd love to have a shirt that said "humans are not only made of vagina and tits or dicks and balls".

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- as for my thoughts on how people identify, I think that's their own business. If my mother happens to identify as non-binary and wants me to call her "them", I will do so because I love her. And I would not be upset with you if you called her "her", because how could you know? I would probably be upset with you if you insisted on calling her "her" in her own house after she asked you not to call her that. But I would still feel you have every right to keep doing it (because that is your business), but I (or she) might think you inconsiderate and perhaps even ask you to leave.

As for mental illness, I think self-identification as anything might be about as crazy as getting hung up over how other people choose to identify, that is, not much more than other everyday crazy things like wanting to take the first step in fresh snow or to find a nice job or to be alone all the time or not to be alone all the time. It's people trying to be happier, or less sad if you prefer.

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- but why though what? Use of "thing"? That is purely tongue in cheek. Watch JP Sears, and then you might get it.

@iAmNaN wow, those are some important life lessons :D