HAHAHA.

Finally ditched Linux and am back on the original and best :p

This should be the cable management standard it would take so long but keep it tidy.

Love a machine that can just keep going.

Ha, accurate.

As far as BSODs go, this one looks pretty cool.

HTML - hot tomato monkey language
CSS - crazy stupid script
PHP - per hour pay
JS - just scream
JAVA - just a valid acronym
C# - see sharply
Objective C - OOP cash
C - cash
C++ - cash++

At ATM

Options
- cash only
- cash and balance
- cash and receipt
- cash and balance and receipt

Choice
- cash only

Questions
- would you like to see your balance

Then
- would you like a receipt

IF I WANTED A FUCKING RECEIPT OR TO FUCKING CHECK MY BALANCE THEN I WOULD HAVE MADE THAT CHOICE WHEN YOU FIRST ASKED ME. YOU FUCKING CUNT.

I EXPLICITLY CHOSE “CASH ONLY” SO JUST FUCKING ASK ME HOW MUCH I WANT TO WITHDRAW AND THEN LET ME GET THE FUCK ON WITH MY BASTARDING DAY!!

When you want to withdraw some cash but forgot your windows username and password

Hahaha

Wut..

hahaha....lol

Lol, good start.

Swag of a Data Scientist 😎

Just got the phone call.

I got new job!

*chuckles more than should*

My wife asked me to give her some cash.
I asked how many bytes!
I'm staring at divorce papers now.

Such innovation, much practical..

I was trying to get some cash from an ATM. Instead of vending bank notes as it should, this happened...

I still need that cash...

Three months into new job and I've come to some conclusions.

1. I am nowhere near as good as I thought I was.

2. Having a super smart awesome dev review your code helps immensely.

3. It is almost impossible to learn at an accelerated rate and level up your skills without being in a conducive environment.

4. This was the best decision I have ever made.

5. I have a new appreciation for how badly people can actually drive since moving to the Bay Area.

Retarded things I do:

when I end up creating a nice complex elegant algorithm I end up staring at the code for am incomprehensibly long time admiring it.

Just finished writing a script with all the classes and variables named after the characters from Sherlock Holmes. I regret nothing.

Just got word that my old company terminated an ec2 instance and ended up deleting all the volumes attached to the instance.

They were using attached volumes as backups 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Who does that?

A lot of customers are very unhappy campers today.

They are all ecommerce sites, some of them with revenue in the millions.

No sites, no backups, no income.

Over a hundred companies don't have sites this am.

Always research who you entrust your own business to!

And always, always, have your own backup solution. Don't trust other companies they are doing the right thing. Because most of time they aren't.

I'm sure there will be lawsuits.

However, there response is even more comical.

Dear customer who entrusted there very own livelihood to us:

We have discovered a regression in our systems that failed to enable termination protection. We have fixed this regression and have found the issue in other instances that have also been fixed.

All backups have been lost. If you have your own backups please give them to us and we will rebuild your site. [However all recent orders are lost, in fact all orders, products, images, customizations, from the most probably dated backups, if any, are lost. Emphasis mine]

Nothing about we are improving our backup method to make it redundant. Just "we switched on termination protection" wtf? 20 dollars a month at rsync.net would have saved a company. Instead, they entrust backups to an attached volume? How is that even called a backup! It's attached!

Many people want a cashless society. This is especially useful when:

- you just lost your bank card.
- the banks mobile payment app isn't working at all.
- its Saturday evening.

I'm so fucking glad that I've got some cash left at home and that cash is still a valid payment method 😅

Seems like spagetthi code does not work as printer's driver.

Resigning tomorrow, should be fun.

anyone else just wake up one day and just isn't in the mood to do any work and feels like they are making no progress.

I have a story about not coding on vacation.

My boss really needed a feature to go live during my 2 weeks vacation and asked if i could do it while in vacation. I ignored the request. I ignored all the requests while on vacation, didn't answer any chats or phone or anything.

Went back to work this week, knocked out request first day back.

I think he is realizing they cannot take advantage of me anymore.

Now that I have other job offers on table, I have been able to speak freely with my boss.

I told him if he expects me to do my job he or anyone else cannot keep interrupting me every 20 minutes every single day to ask how to do something, they need to figure it out themselves because i cannot continue to lose my concentration every 20 minutes and still do the work i was hired to do.

I also told him if he wants me to work outside normal business hours my salary will have to reflect it.

If they don't care about paying me for my extra time i don't care about giving it.

Amazing how your confidence goes up when you have solid offers on the table and can jump ship right away.

😂
Courtesy - xkcd.com

Boss: Hey squares, I need one of you to select a new volume control, if you spot anything let me know.
Me: Say no more

Don't usually post reposts but this made me laugh. I didn't see it here so here you go.

Handing in my resignation today. Stomach is in knots.

It was a misunderstanding on my part with recruiter.

I think I am going to vomit. I hate this.

I hate awkward conversations.

How would you get your "Cash prize" if you reported anonymously ...

Well, this is pleasant surprise.

Hi from Adobe!

Hi xxxxx, I hope all is well in your world! I wanted to reach out and introduce myself from the Adobe Recruiting team. I noticed that you’re doing some great work as a Full Stack Web Developer / Magento Developer at xxxxx. I'd love to hear about what you're working on, what interests you, and what you're hoping for the future. Based on what I can see from your work, you’d be a great match for our Backend Magento developer role here at Adobe in our Austin, Los Angeles or Bay area location.

Is flattering.

Sums up our current job at work - a rushed redesign of a rushed web app.

So one of the things I was sad about leaving the old company for was the company provided laptop. I was able to pick it out and it is a nice Asus Zenbook Pro about 2k, was gonna pick one up for personal use as soon as I saved the money.

On my last day, my boss approaches me with an offer to consult for the company after I leave and let me keep the laptop while I consult.

My consultation is open ended and I setup 10hrs a month retainer so I get paid every month regardless if they use me or not.

I also have my new job. (luckily they didn't have a no compete clause on hire)

So life is really good right now.

Oh yeah and I have successfully quit smoking to boot. (going on week 5)

So, I drive for Lyft a few hours before I go to my real job. Mainly because I actually enjoy it and I like talking to people. I drive usually from 2a-7a

The other day I picked up a female customer with 2 trash bags from of clothes, the destination ordered the ride.

She gets in car drunk and stoned and starts telling me her story.

Apparently she uses Tinder to find guys to allow her to spend the night. I guess she was homeless.

She never met the guy she was going to and and she just left a gut who she described as sketchy and had to get out of there.

Using tinder to find a roommate/place to stay was unexpected way of using app, never thought of that.

Right after her, I picked up a lady who was flying to San Fran to confront the mistress of her husband who works as a Software Engineer at Pixar. That was another great ride. The lady was extremely wealthy and absolutely beautiful. The husband I guess messed around with a 28 yo co-worker. Sometimes people just don't know what they have, I guess. Of course I don't know the full story, but it seems people with money cheat a lot more than the average. Guess it's easier? Idk.

Real Linux fuck up coming up.

Be me.
Working on a project.

Accidentally used sudo with git pull, every file now is only accessible for root users.

Thinking to myself.. okay I'll just do chmod 777 to the current directory

Forgot how to use chmod
At first something like
Sudo chmod ./ 777

Not working
Maybe
Sudo chmod / 777

Not working
Remembering that it's the other way around

sudo chmod 777 /

Now... I fucked up. I forgot the dot, and for a sec I forgot that '/' means root directory and not current like './' does.

Few moments later the permission system of Ubuntu is utterly fucked. Everything is not working.

Need sudo in order to fix everything but sudo isn't working.

Few hours of crying later,I solved it thanks to some nice ppl online helping stupid people like me who used that command...😂

Weird to think about Gmail is only 15 years old.

I remember when you had to have an invite to join Gmail and I was fishing for one all over when it was released. I was begging people I knew that had access to send me an invite. So I have been with gmail for 15 years as well.

Geez, I am old. crazy how time flies and how much technology and this industry has changed in such a seemingly short time.

*noticeable chuckles*

One thing I did notice and idk if the stereotype applies accross the field, but the three teams this company has is a C# team, a PHP team, and a JavaScript/React team.

The C# programmers reminded me of brogrammers, buff, highly manicured bros, the PHP developers, myself included were disheveled, socially awkward, almost looked like burned out, unfit middle aged dudes, the JavaScript devs were all very young, hip, using all the industry key words.

Just thought it was funny the differences in these teams. If you did a line up of them us PHP developers world definitely be pegged first to die of a heart attack or stress.

When I get back I'll def have to take a pic, it's really priceless.

Ugh.

I was confirmed to start on the 28th on Monday through an email the one below:

Hi xxxx,

Yes, you can just bring your original paperwork on your first day. January 28th is okay with us. Please come to the Corporate Office at 8:00 on the 28th.

Thanks!

I was going to resign yesterday, Tuesday, was all pumped.

1) post to devrant, check,
2) resignation letter written and cc'd and hard printed, check,
3) courage to talk to boss check.

Ten minutes on Tuesday before scheduled time to have meeting with boss then I get this email:

Hi xxxx,

I am having trouble getting a reference. Is there anyone at your current employment that I can now contact since you gave your two weeks?

WHAT!!!!! Is this normal? wtf? what if the reference check turns out disastrous and I have already turned in my resignation?

Why wasn't this brought up before I resigned?

Ofc, I did not hand in my resignation, but they obviously didn't know that.

It took all day and the recruiter to get involved to get the reference checks done.

But now I'm apathetic, the wind is gone from my sails, and I am not excited anymore about this new job opportunity. They really have ruined my faith in their processes.

If I am not excited to start a new job, that is a really bad sign. What happens if I turn in my resignation then they decide they forgot some other check that I don't pass?

I am writing letter now to decline the offer, I am trying to leave the entrenched corporate culture for a fresh eclectic fun culture, not go to an even more bureaucratic entrenched culture.

If I have doubts and apathy starting a new job, those are definitely really bad warning signs.

I will continue to look for the perfect job elsewhere but for now...

Passing. Final Answer.

That feeling when you finally get confirmation that you got the position you've been waiting for at work, AND get a higher salary than you actually asked for. By quite a lot.

Solid improvements.

Ok, seriously the Stack Overflow April Fools joke is totally annoying. How did we ever make it through the 90's

"We need this feature live today. But first there are these 5-10 tasks to do first. That won't take very long" Says the guy who knows nothing about code. Now they judge my performance by lines of code written per day haha. Morons. Feature doesn't get pushed because been working on new tasks all day. Say I'm leaving after 8 hrs. Start getting push back about leaving after 8 hrs. I really don't care anymore. If i get fired at least i can collect unemployment while looking for new job. Drive for Uber and make just as much as I do now.

My care has reached 0% i just need to get through holidays. I'll be in New company by February.

I think I may have found the perfect job.

A legend in the industry is taking on a Padewan. I would need to move to California, but for this opportunity, not much I wouldn't do, plus the company he works for is a pretty big name.

Interview Round 1 coming up soon!

Hence the dance begins.

PSD2 is into effect in the Netherlands.

Because let's enable others to fuck over other peoples privacy!

Back to cash as much as possible it is.

Fucking hell 😡

Stupid stuff I do.

Have you ever been so proud of a feature because of the difficulty to implement that you mindlessly keep going back to that feature all day long and using it just to enjoy the beauty of your work?

I think I am going to start a devRant column called "stupid stuff I do" :D

So I met this Professor in my campus recently.. This life-changing conversation followed :
Prof: What are you doing on your laptop?
Me: Sir, I am practicing some coding problems.
Prof : Coding problems? What's your branch?
Me: Electrical Engineering.
Prof: You aren't expected to code. And you aren't taught much coding in your coursework too.
Me : Sir, I take it as a passion and I did learn coding all by myself.
Prof : Rubbish. Learning coding by yourself is similar to saying that you don't require a Prof. to teach you. Just focus on your subjects and stop wasting your time.
Me :Good afternoon, sir. You're right, I did waste my time here.
*Grabs laptop and leaves,hoping he won't be taking any lectures in my next sem. *

Am realizing just how important sleep is.

Woke up about midnight to do my second job, system admin, upgraded servers, sites, to use php7 upgraded sites to include security fixes, then went to work around 8a.

After lunch around 2pm the CEO comes to me and asks favor, to write script to scrape all our image urls and match them to a csv of sku's.

Easy enough, but my mind was totally gone, I couldn't think properly and an 30min-1hr job turned into 3+ hours with bugs. Went home, slept a few hours, woke up and took 10 minutes to fix and complete task with fresh brain.

Working overtired is common for me as I am an insomniac, which working remote has always been better as I worked the hours I was fresh, but going into office now is keeping me from being at my best.

Need to figure out how to sleep better.

I hate webdev. I wish I could find a job as a systems programmer or a devops engineer. I like Perl and I like C, I am not good in either, but it wouldn't take me long if I had a real job to get good in either.

I like writing CLI scripts and command line programs. Why is it not 1995? Someone get me a time machine!

Having a look through my .bashrc, apparently forgot about this.

Thank you bong smoking, fortune telling cow.

Ok, seriously...

Interviews in this industry are simply obnoxious.

I'm now on the fourth round for 2 companies.

On the third round for two companies.

Cancelled two interviews after 3rd round at two more companies due to the companies being in too high cost of living areas.

If I pass the fourth round at one of these companies they are flying me out for in person for final.

I've already been flown out to one company who thankfully was the final interview and will hear something by end of week.

Most of these companies aren't even that major of companies, they are small agencies only one is a major brand.

The major brand actually had the most sane interview process. Only 2 video and an in person.

I'm using my entire vacation on this shit. I mean, the travelling is nice, but come on surely you can make a choice without having 5+ interviews.

I mean even after all these interviews if i get hired, i can still get fired if i don't work out, so i think these extensive interviews are just a waste of time really.

Background check complete. Drug test complete, physical where doctor even had to fondle my gonads, check. Worried about accepting an offer from another non tech company, check.

I should know by Friday whether they rescind offer or not.

Should be an interesting week for sure.

Represent

OMFG

I hate AT&T

Worst company ever. Thankfully I am leaving them finally for good.

Went to cancel my account, trying to use their web chat service.

Once I entered "cancel my account" the chat suspiciously closed and now is not an option.

I actually have to call them. I hate them almost as bad as I hate Trump.

Edit: Just called them, they require payment before cancelling account lol. wha? riigghhtt. Not gonna happen.

Guess it will be in suspended state indefinitely.

Edit 2: Now they put me on hold for an indefinite amount of time. Probably due to knowing I want to cancel my account.

How any company this large can get away with this shit is absolutely amazing.

I had to get them as that was all that was offered in the ghetto where I lived. I will never ever ever get them again. I will go without internet before ever dealing with this company in the future.

Edit3:

Finally got through to an agent. Still insisting I pay. But they did finally cancel my account without payment. What a hassle, never ever again.

As an Apple shareholder, seeing people with those white bags and boxes sitting in this store seems reassuring that Apple should remain a cash cow

Code For Cash

After 9 months of my course that involved much fear, anxiety and depression, last night I had a great moment.
Learning about scrapers for my dissertation - watched 10 minutes of a tutorial video then thought of an idea and went away and an hour later had built a little program to read a restaurants menu on their website then read back what they had in the form of a poem - all in a language I hadn't used before that night.
The reason I learnt coding was that I idolised the idea of thinking of a problem and then just solving it with your own code. Last night was the first time I felt like I might be getting there.
:).
p.s. Sorry this isn't very ranty.

lol.....

So, my direct boss and I work from two different offices in two different countries. We are together in Scotland right now.

I used to have concerns about our relationship due to some issues we have had in the past.

What I realize this week, is the issues I have with him are exactly issues I have with myself. We are very similar personality-wise.

So really, I dislike many things due to them being my own negative personality traits.

I was going to leave the company when I get back, but I have decided after this week I will work on my personality and soft skills, I get a lot of leeway from him in regard to this, I am sure I would have already been fired anywhere else.

It really isn't a bad place to work, sure I could make significantly more somewhere else, but really, this company is good for the long game, it is stable, it is a brand, it is large and profitable (has been around 101 years) It is mostly a non-US company.

Lots of room to grow and expand IF I stop being a pretentious asshole.

The one issue I have is I am an only developer in my department, so I get overwhelmed quite easily and I lash out verbally and generally say the absolute wrong things to the wrong people. My boss protects me in this respect, again I most certainly would be fired anywhere else.

Also, this week I am working with a developer from another department, turns out, I don't like working with others as much as I thought I would. I actually like being in control of every aspect of the project and dealing only with my own code.

Lastly, I have noticed the same thing months ago when I was going to leave, and realized my faults, BUT I do good for a month or two (just like my boss does) then fall back into old habits of being pretentious hateful asshole without realizing it.

Anyone have any suggestions to catch myself before I lash out negatively or recognize when my attitude is falling back to default state?

I mean I acknowledge my faults, I am trying to change, and I do good a few months, but I forget that I am this way and simply return to what I do not want to be. Most people do not like me (they don't like my boss either, and they all talk behind our backs) which I really don't care, as I said it turns out I have issues with him because he is so close to how I am. I just want to recognize when my attitude starts declining again so I can remind myself all the good I have and not lament about insignificant bullshit.

Since starting new job in July, I have realized many things. I am nowhere near as good as I thought i was six months ago. My ego was checked at door.

Luckily I have two awesome senior devs on my team that are whipping me into shape quickly.

In the last 6 months I've learned and applied so much and have dived deeper into proper php development and learned mysql at another level finessing complex mysql queries, multiple nested joins and the like.

Everything at this company isn't just about making it work, but performance and standards are also a big deal.

First time in my career I'm leaning proper development.

My only dev goals for next year is to continue gaining deeper knowledge about my tech stack and languages, become more confident in my abilities, and also start contributing to open source.

Stupid shit I do.

Send nice email to Patreon.com explaining I cancelled my pledges and asked them why they are still charging my card.

Cannot log into their ticketing system because user/pass doesnt work for their ticketing system. they prob should get that fixed.

Next month get charged again.

Send a cuss ridden email insulting there mother, sister, and dog and their engineers in most graphic way possible.

find out my wife used my card to link to her patreon account and it is her pledge 10 minutes after I send email and start a dispute with my bank.

Guess whoever reads my ticket will get a laugh or press charges :)

Switching jobs is when imposter syndrome hits me hardest. I know I'm ready for the next level, just need to convince the other half of my brain.

Passed both technical interviews today. First one was sort of weird. Very complex css puzzle. Took me off guard considering I'm weaker in frontend than i am in backend and was totally expecting backend.

Second one was for a very old US brand and is stuffy corporate mediocre culture. But it is the most stable and would probably pay the most but is probably the one that is not aligned at all with my future goals. But would be the easiest job for sure if i actually cared about that, which i don't so it is my last pick.

Have 2 more technical interviews tomorrow and 2 on Friday as well as an initial on Friday that just popped up.

At least my confidence is a bit higher as I was congratulated for figuring some complex algorithms that usually stump other interviewees.

Ofc, nothing i studied was a part of the tests.

So i am definitely a solid intermediate developer. Yay me.

I resigned from my job Friday. Boss took it a lot better than I expected and I'll still stay in contact with him as a friend. I was really worried I would get guilted.

My boss seemed to understand that I'm only am intermediate dev any way you look at it, I've plateaued in my curve and cannot seem to get past this hump. I decided to find a team with some seriously smart people to learn from and that is what I did.

My last day is 21 Jun. I leave for northern cali 23 Jun and start my job 1 Jul.

I'm so excited. Although highly anxious as well. I just hope I'm what they expect. I don't have much savings to rely on if this doesn't work out.

But gotta try. Do or die. Jump in with both feet and see what happens.

After becoming so comfortable in the last 2 years, I forgot how alive switching jobs and driving across country makes me feel. Probably why I switch jobs every few years, it's hard for me to comprehend people that stay at single company for 20 years. I get seriously ansy after a year or two like I need something different. Been playing it safe last few years, but I'm back to rolling the dice and it's exciting. I will learn more at this new company in next six months than I learned by myself in last 2 years. They have some amazingly smart people there.

Lastly I am finally leaving Texas (no offense to Texas natives who for some reason think this is greatest place in Earth) but the Western US is where I feel most at home, so excited, been wanting to leave Texas for a long time now and finally have opportunity to do so.

Needed some cash, someone asked if I knew anyone who made websites. Took the job and I haven't looked back since.

Just finished my first C# application. Helped out the IT department that said it would take 3-4 months to code the application, I learned the language and coded the app complete with multithreading in under 2 weeks.

Coded it in Rider on Linux. Now they are having trouble building it on their Windows machines with VSCode apparently. Not my problem.

Must say, I really really like the language, too bad it is used mainly (only) for Windows so the chances of me getting to code in it again are pretty slim.

Chrome Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Rounded everything.

New UX.

Cool.

My biggest dev ambition is to get onto a team of experienced devs so I can continue to grow my skillset. I have plateaued and realize their is only so much one can do on their own without a true mentor. Oh and find company that will pay me a decent salary, at least industry average.

Imposter syndrome is hitting me badly lately. The problem is, my entire career I've been a solo developer, i have absolutely nothing or no one to gauge my skills against. Sometimes i think I'm the shit then other times i think I'm no better than a noob.

Getting a decent job in this industry is amazingly difficult. Never had so many psychological exams, intelligence tests, interviews, for what? If i don't work out you're just going to fire me anyways. So give me a try and stop putting me through the ringer.

Catch flight in 2 hours for final interview at major brand. Guess I've finally made it to major league.

The javascript devs at my company are all young early 20's. My lead and I are in our 40's were reminiscing about the days of BBS's the javascript devs actually had never heard the term before or how we used to do things.

It's then i realized how old i am and how different the world has become. Generational gaps are interesting. I just assumed everyone knew how things started.

I want to kill the developers at Authorize.net right now.

dead...all of them....

Thanks for the heads up that a major breaking change was pushed to your API at 1PM Tuesday...Assholes!!

Then roll it back 12 hrs later because it broke thousands of people's ecommerce sites.

Charging customers 5-10 times and never pushing a callback that is readable back to allow our systems to create an order.

Die all of you!!!!

Yup, long weird strings are the way forward.

McDonalds uses Windows. The woman at the cash desk complained about something not working and the cash system using Windows. xD

Is sort of surreal. Going to a company that actually has teams, development cycles, QA department, code review, I feel like I've been winging it the last few years. Now I get to see where I really stand in the pecking order. But anxiety is definitely high. As soon as background check completes beginning of next week, will be submitting my resignation and heading west.

Edinburg, Scotland is a really awesome city. Highly recommend visiting. Total Harry Potter vibe. Tons of red heads, finally i feel like I've found my people!

Nifty little fan, first time it's been hot enough to warrant opening it and I'm pleasantly surprised.

Haha, woops.

Almost miss seeing these on my parents screens.

There is supposed to be a process? Mine is whatever I think will make my boss angriest.

For fucks sake, the humble bundle books are awesome.

The interview today went very well. I am not at the "senior" level they are looking for, but they are impressed enough with my knowledge and skills to actually think about creating a position for me instead of hiring me for the senior they are currently looking for.

This company would be absolutely perfect for me, I really liked the people who conducted the interview as well, I think I got along personality wise with them, which is actually quite rare for me.

Plus the company has a team of 8 developers a QA department, and even a @Floydian!!

It is like my absolute perfect match.

First time in long time I am actually excited about the prospect after an interview.

Backstory:
So, yesterday was first time I worked with other developers in like 4 years. I am in Scotland to integrate my library into our Epicor ERP system. I am working with another developer from our company from a different department.

I have always been worried about how fast I can create solutions, I always thought I was a slower than average developer.

I haven't worked on a team or with other developers in years, so I don't have anyone to gauge my performance against. I really have no baseline to judge where I am at on the spectrum of developer experience and efficiency.

It has always made me slightly worried about switching jobs because I am worried about thinking I am better than I actually am, getting a job with a much higher salary, then failing to perform as expected.

After working with this other developer, he is very methodical and meticulous, but sooooo slow!

In fact I was getting anxious just watching him implement simple routines. I cannot judge his code as it was just implementing my library and some debugging, but if the average developer works at that pace, I am a developer god!

One thing I did notice, is, the code he writes probably has much less bugs in it initially than the code I would write. Generally I go through and fix those bugs and expand on the code after I publish, I would be almost sure, he would have less issues with his code, but it would take 2 extra weeks to get his code out vs mine. I could churn out something much more quickly and get it to the same quality standards within a few hours after I've published and get feedback. (generally I cannot stand testing, so I publish and let everyone else (users) test for me and push fixes out immediately.

So are you slow and methodical? or quick and dirty? which one is more preferred in the industry?

The story so far...

Have lunch with designer in company, my only friend at the office.

Tell her I am interviewing at other companies, plan on leaving etc.

Few days later get boss starting to inquire about things telling me how great it is to work with me and that they really want me to stay.

Well so much for thinking the designer would keep it confidential.

Boss also alludes to me getting small raise next year.

But then he says that they think he offered good salary to begin with considering 25/hr is 46,000 per year and they offered more. my math brain says whhaaatt???

that does not equate to 46k/yr it equates to 52k/yr. What is he playing at? I correct him, he says he calculated it for 35hrs/wk again whaaat?? A normal work week is 40hrs/wk why would he calculate at 35hr/wk??

This is the type of stuff that irritates me, he tries to pull stuff to guilt me all the time or make it sound better than it really is.

Anyways, I have big decisions to make in the next 2 weeks.

You know your job really sucks when you dread going to work and you work remotely.

I had 6 initial interviews last week, all of them turned into technical interviews scheduled this week, starting tomorrow. A few of the interviews stand out and I'm really hoping one of 3 companies (or all 3) I get offers from.

They are all agencies and agency work is difficult in that you are working by the billable hour so time is more important than quality sometimes and you also have to explain where every minute went, so there isn't much time to 'figure' things out if you aren't already familiar with them. They also pay probably the least amount. But it is one of these three jobs I really want. Mainly because of the people I interviewed with. They asked the right questions and understood most of what i was trying to explain.

For instance, I told one interviewer I was an intermediate developer wanting to join a team, he immediately asked what is the difference between an intermediate developer and a senior dev? I liked this, because he understood completely the differences, he also agrees that the label isn't standardized and means different things to different people. He also read my blog and discussed my writings and tutorials i think this is the first person ever to do this with me. Lastly, his team is super intelligent and i know i would benefit being a part of it. The downside is they are located in one of the most expensive parts of US, so any raise I would get would go to rent and still the commute would be arduous.

The second company is on the opposite coast, again, was an intelligent, thoughtful conversation and again, the interviewer understood that I'm very good at multiple roles and sort of a jack of all trades but not an expert in any one area, although becoming an expert in a singular technology being the goal and the reason I'm leaving my current employer. Again the team they employ sounds quite amazing. Another plus is there billing, they don't do hourly billing which relieves some of my fears about not being fast enough at least at first.

The other companies all offer quite a bit higher salary with a bit more stability and a older type of corporate culture s they are brands and not agencies, with smaller, less knowledgeable teams, but at least they have teams.

This really is my last chance for a little while to get into something more suited to my goals. Depending on how I do on these technical interviews and coding sessions will help me better understand where I actual live on the scale of developer skill level because I iterated with all of them I'm an intermediate dev not a senior dev, so if I still fail to impress, I will know where I'm at in my personal development journey. Although at least one had seen my code on my blog and it's still interested so that is a good sign.

Will be an interesting week. I am cramming for finals today.

I believe I will also have my answer to how my skills rank in the general pool of developers out there after this week is over. Also where i need to improve before i try this again. Or it will solidify my confidence and firmly plant me as the dev that i think i am.

Was offered job at a place that has startup mentality. Pretty cool offices, amazingly smart and talented team, would really learn a lot and actually be in a team instead of sole developer.

Never been afraid of hard work and long hours, but damn my current job has made me lazy. Keep thinking I'm gonna have to go back to work.

Sitting in airport waiting for flight back to Texas. Guess I'm moving to northern California next month.

My entire career I've never had a mentor. I've learned everything I know though trial and error. When I started off as a Junior at my first company, I thought I would have someone to help me, turned out that company just expected you to sink or swim. There was a lot of extenuating circumstances at that company and I didn't totally sink but didn't swim as fast as I would have liked to either.

The next job, I got the opportunity to read and work with thousands of different codebases mostly troubleshooting performance issues. This actually allowed me the most opportunity to learn. I learned so much reading other developers code and troubleshooting (mainly I became very good at knowing what not to do)

Fast forward to today. I am a solo dev at a very large multinational brand/manufacturer. I do a lot of very complex coding and figuring out the logic to make it happen. I have no over site. I have nothing out anyone to bounce ideas off, to review my code, to even compare my skills against.

It is a comfortable job, no hard deadlines. I have the time to learn and figure things out. But I do know how important having a mentor can help in advancing your knowledge. It's something I've always wanted/needed to get past this plateau of mid level.

So last year, I made a very specific set of criteria for the next company I wanted to join. I have interviewed hundreds of times for dozens of companies, but none really perfectly fit this criteria.

Then, I heard of one of the legends in my niche market was looking for a good mid level developer to mentor. I applied to said company, in fact, just got back yesterday from the final interview. Just received my offer letter. I am joining a team of highly skilled super smart people that will spend the time to help me hone my craft. I am super stoked. I've had offers from other companies and turned them down because either the team's I didn't feel were expert enough to get me to my next level, or I was still going to be a solo dev, or it just didn't feel right.

Today, I found the perfect team and the perfect company to become one of the best in the industry.

It's so important to be in a conducive environment that will help you be your best.

So thank you to all the mentors out there that take the time to push us to be our best and give us the direction we need.

Today, I start my journey to the top.

*notices I have Linux* "are you a hacker?"

That would be during and right after my first job as a junior developer at an agency.

I was hired in with another dev who had a masters degree but was absolutely horrible. We didn't get along at all, she didn't get along with the other devs either.

I was struggling to understand a lot. The more senior devs spent the little time they had with the other dev got frustrated with her then ignored the both of us. Also during this time, I would never log my hours properly (our pay was based on these logged hrs) because I felt i didn't deserve to get paid for something that should only take me an hour but i spend 6 on it, so i would only log and get paid an hour. So my paycheck was usually only a few hours per week, which caused my my family to become homeless. I was diagnosed with bladder cancer a month after i joined the company and had to take even more time off for treatment.

I knew the concept of OOP in theory but in practice I couldn't grasp it that easily. There was no help from any of the other devs, we were just ignored. I had stage 3 bladder cancer and was homeless with my family. Finally. After i didn't have the gas to show up to work after 8 months there, i quit.

Pretty dark time in my life. I struggled to get a travel trailer and a place to park it so we would have a roof over our heads. Started working as a night stocker at Walmart, and continued to learn what i should have already known. At least from that job, i did figure out everything i really did need to learn, and i learned it. 6 months later, i was hired as technical support for a hosting company and a year later i became a dev at a brand and all that is now in the past.

So yeah, i did have doubts, serious doubts, but i never gave up, i kept learning and studying the things i needed to, and now I'm pretty comfortable. (And not homeless)

Thinking hard on where and how to spend such a huge amount!

Sometimes I wish devrant had some sort of PM system or at least a system where you can post and not have it public, only certain people or group allowed to see it.

So many things I want to explain people, but I also don't want it out there on the internet at large. Anyone else have this problem?

Since you liked my 3x3 so much...

FUCK! Never ever do a system upgrade 5 minutes before work! Especially if you run Arch and Gnome!

finally fixed it, but fuck you gnome@!!!

I hate marketing department. They have no idea how much work is involved to make their pedantic "minor" and pretty useless changes. But instead of considering the technical debt something will cause, they just want it done.

When they say "it's just this, it's easy" I seriously want to strangle them.

You do it if it's so easy assholes!

If I tell you the framework we use does it a certain way and to change it means to track down and make changes to core across entire system that most likely will break other stuff for something bullshit minor visual effect they seen on a competitors site that has an entire dev team of at least 5 devs, not a single dev that also takes care of there stupid servers, plus doesn't use the same framework we do, makes me beyond rageful. And then when i finally get it done, they decide they like it better a different way! Fuuuuuck I hate you!

Decided I really hate marketers.

Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision not taking the job offer.

Just deleted 600gb of cash files.

Being 25 and just now getting employable dev etc skills is really quite daunting when you learn of the old geniuses like Bill Joy, Linus, Wozniak and then hear daily stories of 16 year olds doing amazing things.
Inexperience in a field where everyone demands experience is scary. Still excited to see where I Can l can get though.

Sometimes I get so frustrated dealing with people.

I really wish the end of the world would come in my lifetime.

Even if I was amoung the 85-90% that perished, it would be worth it to see most of humanity perish as well.

I hope the survivors would build an actual tolerable world.

I just hope the survivors aren't politicians or idiots.

atm: what would you like to do?
me: $40 fast cash from checking
atm: select an account
me: checking
atm: please enter an amount to withdraw
me: $40

What company schedules an interview at 4pm on Friday? this is absolutely ridiculous. Last thing I want to do after work on Friday is an hour and a half interview.

I'm really in a pickle. I hate people being pissed at me, in fact it stresses me out tremendously. I have to make a choice on Friday and no matter what that choice is, someone is going to be extremely pissed off.

I passed all the drug test, background physical, offer was not rescinded.

It is a significant pay increase if I choose that option, i mean really significant, life changing significant. Plus I'll be on a team of mostly really young kids, and have access to learn other languages.

Or if I stay, I get left alone and can do whatever i want without really answering to anyone.

This choice is actually making me physically ill, not because of the choice itself, but because of having to piss someone off badly with my choice.

Japan has a web service called EXIT that quits for you and does all the interaction so you don't have to do anything at all. I really need that service in the US. Because i really hate it. I really was expecting the offer to be rescinded so i haven't given much thought until i got the official word today.

First dev job and I've made it to lunch time, better than I'd convince myself I would do.

Not gonna lie, phpStorm is nice, it is also making me a better developer by reminding me to properly set exceptions, variables are initialized, etc.

Good investment. Using strictly Vim for the last 5 years, but I am really enjoying phpStorm with ideaVim plugin.

What irritates me to no end.

"Companies" that try to game the system and have people pay for something that is already free.

I was tasked with implementing a Magento payment solution integrating WeChat Starpay.

Sure no problem, maybe 6 hrs of work.

When I couldn't get access to the api as a developer, when the site doesn't have SSL and wants sensitive banking information, when the contact form doesn't work directly, and they have a contact form on mikecrm.com, my suspicions were raised.

Looking around further, all they are doing is mirroring the chinese api, taking your banking info and submitting to wechat for you.

Ofc, I canceled the project, found the chinese api, and will most likely release an open source version integrating the free chinese api directly.

Companies like this piss me off, so unethical. they want to do the minimum amount of work possible and have people pay for it.

As far as doing work again for friends, that is over.

I may not be the most righteous human being that walked the earth, but I do have unwavering ethics and honesty for the most part.

Why???

fonfi's post reminded me of this.
The power of the floppy!

Making backwards compatible websites for IE8 and back honestly feels like releasing the new blockbuster in VHS..

1> I wish for photographic memory so I could recall anything I've ever seen previously in code and not forget how I managed to write some amazing algorithm the next day.

2> I wish for another 100 IQ points

3> I would wish to become a mathematics savant.

I've figured out the problem with my life. It isn't my job, or my wife, I am just really really bored with life and live a totally unfulfilling life and don't have the money or credit to live the life I want.

So I want to switch jobs to increase my income to travel the world, because that is the only thing I have come to find out I like to do.

Either that or just find some brain altering substance to where I don't even feel like I exist anymore.

Quora is really pissing me off. They obviously have some sort of spyware for their system. I just signed up with Babbel to learn French and was on Duolingo for a bit doing same.

When I went to Quora it asked if I knew French and add it to my list of language.

I did not install a language pack, nor any other French related packages. This was them either monitoring my browser history, or monitoring my typing.

Which is very suspicious to me. I don't have the Quora app installed, just went to the website and they were able to determine that I either typed French or selected french on another website.

Very disconcerting really. Since it shouldn't have access to my history nor my input on other sites.

I am not sure if this was the "dumbest" or most brilliant, I cannot decide.

So the test was a codepen that had html that you could not touch. The html had no class or id. just something like below

<a href="#">button</a>

The instructions were to make a button that looks like an image. Just with css

The image was very complex and you had to use 4 box-shadows to create a sort of effect, a content to add a star unicode character, a double border and some other stuff.

The second was same thing except with lists that you had to target very specifically.

like below
<div>
<ul>
<li>
<ul>
<li></li>
<li>
<ul>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

and again make it look like an image. this time the > became very handy.

and this was actually for mostly php position which is why I found this type of test very odd.

But it did make me think. Even though it was relatively easy, it probably wouldn't have been for someone who didn't know much.

But again, the position was for a php developer, so this was a bit out there. but then again, having to use css tricks to make some super advanced stuff without touching html did make you think outside of box.

My boss has been in meetings 2 days, so it has been 2 days without interruption.

It has been an awesome 2 days.

I hope he will be in meetings all day today as well.

Although my production has slipped the last two days only because choosing something to work on on my own seems to be challenging in its own right.

Contact wants to discuss a list of projects with me next week.

What's the betting that these are unfunded ideas that need code?

I should just check by email, but it's been a while since anyone walked this path with me, so I'm up for some fun.

I see myself taking an advisory role in these projects for equity.

"First thing you need to do is obtain funding for them all. Then get back to me for my insights on next stage. Not sure how to get funding, but I'm not the the 'creative' side of the team."

Ideas aren't worth shit. I have a bunch every day and they are as worthless as yours.

Ideas without execution are like owning a book without reading it.

Best boss I ever had? Would be at Associated Air Center. They customized B-737 A-319 etc to be billionaire's private jets. So they had very very complex one off structural engineering challenges that usually if a wrong hole was drilled or a cut too short could cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I had a boss that would use my extreme skill and precision to do the most complex tasks. I would work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week until the project was finished, but he always knew as well I would disappear the second the last rivet was bucked for at least a week of debauchery and sin. I actually stayed at that company for over a year. Quit 3 times that year but that is another story.

He knew he had a guy that could get shit done perfectly if he allowed certain auspitious quirks.

I was an asshole and an alcoholic so he was able to use that to his advantage and get the best out of me.

Only guy that could ever make me do stuff out of guilt.

Or he was my enabler who knows.

I never understand job postings that have a list of requirements completely unrelated to each other. 5 years Php experience, 5 years Linux LAMP stack experience, then 5 years C# experience. Wtf? How many devs that work in linux and php would have c# experience? Probably not that many. They are asking for a needle in haystack. And it isn't preferred, it is required. Just crazy the specifics needed of completely unrelated tech stacks.

Creating cPanel plugins has been actually a lot more fun project than I imagined.

I created a plugin to bring Varnish Cache to cPanel, I had to learn supervisord, which is actually a neat project in itself and is powerful to contol system processes through software.

But I also had to learn a new language which was Perl, I am glad I did, I actually really like Perl and wish it wasn't so dead.

Sold!

Well, the primary goal of these interviews this week has been achieved. But it isn't really about getting a new job, that is just side benefit.

The primary goal was to see at what level my skills and personal development resides amoung my peers.

I can safely say I am definitely a solid intermediate dev with a solid foundation on Object Oriented Design Principles, algorithms, and logical thinking.

However, my personal life is still a mess, and if I am to succeed in this career field I need to clean that up some. Employers don't want to take on an individual with bad credit, mediocre work references, and no solid educational background.

I need to get my education in order, my credit in order, and a few other things. I am finding this is why my confidence lacks, not really my engineering skills.

1. Building stuff is awesome!
2. It's creative work that actually makes cash
3. I like writing algos and math

-Writes an algorithm that randomly generates a dungeon for my RPG game I'm writing in C++ with SFML library-

after 6hours of reading papers about algorithms, writing an algorithm myself, at 4 am I decided to give up and re try tomorrow and fix all of the problems, but all that I had in mind is, what the fuck did i just write here.. I'm sure the next day me will not understand what the hell is going on-

Another night of no sleep. Here is to another loong day. Hopefully i can get in 1-2 hrs nap in at 4a before I go to work. Wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so exhausted. I hate sleep, but I hate feeling exhausted even worse.

So is Google now filtering illegal free online movie sites?

I couldn't find a single one no matter what I searched for the show that I wanted to watch.

DuckDuckGo had them all!

The Magicians Season 4 Episode 3

Best show ever!

Was just sitting here listening to hardstyle EDM turns out it's my absolute favorite music.

But i digress.

Reading about the latest eastern europe bank hacks, makes me think about the entire monetary system. If they cannot just reset accounts, that means someone or something actually controls the flow of bits of only a finite amount of bits and how are the checks and balances constructed so new bits cannot be introduced? And i just for the first time understand what blockchain is truly about.

The other thing i realize about myself is my brain's inability to true rationalize large numbers. This is a huge problem for me. Instead of viewing niche areas as areas of opportunity, because 1,000,000 is there same as 1,000,000,000 is the same as 100 in my brain. I just don't actually process the complexity of numbers especially after 100. Having trouble explaining it. I can't rationalize large numbers but rationalize is wrong word, extrapolate? Maybe? fathom? Process? realize the significance? This may seem somewhat arbitrary, but those that can work with large numbers and actually comprehend the significance have a huge edge in many areas, specifically finance. I should most definitely be more in awe of the size of the universe and the number of stars, and even the circumference of the planet than i am.

You know what is a nice phrase to write in your documentation right before you leave the job?

"I leave this to the evaluation and practice of the reader."

Such a delight to write that down.

Get away from Magento. Expand my skill set into other tech stacks. Get into systems programming.

I will never ever use a recruiter in the future.

They have way too much vested interest in you taking a job.

Just realized the grave error I made by using my personal profile on my work laptop. Sort of gives them access to everything. Spent night wiping computer and setting up work profiles.

Have interview next week. I feel much more confident in myself after I fixed some of my personal issues and will definitely never tell prospective employers my flaws instead of my strengths. Apparently honesty is overrated. It hasn't done me any favors in my current situation. I have good feeling. I was always on fence about leaving so I think I was actually subconsciously bombing the interviews on purpose, or at least not taking them seriously.

For some reason every news app I ever try to use thinks I'm Canadian. 90% of posts are local Canadian news outlets. I also think Google's algorithm profile built over the years has me pegged completely wrong. Absolutely nothing makes sense in their adverts or recommendations.

Been really busy, so haven't been on here much. But just to update, successfully moved to California, successfully started new job, absolutely love my team, best decision ever. This is how development should be done, being lone developer sucks.

Really need to put more effort into finding new job.

I have feeling I am going to rage quit soon.

My client is pretty much my boss, he is worst client one could possibly have.

He questions my estimations of time, my estimations of difficulty, even though he is not a technical person.

It is infuriating.

I am to the point if he questions again, I will say if you know how to do it then you are more than welcome to do it.

Which will then be the beginning of the end.

my first day with Linux.

1. downloaded the Ubuntu 16. 04 LTS and made bootable.
2. install it on my system.
3. after installing wifi is not working.
4. searched on internet with my phone and connected my PC with USB thetering.
5. now installed wifi driver.
6. now my Nvidia card is not working installed its driver too.
6.finally i look at my desktop and its looking really ancient and old.
7. installed gnome desktop and switch to it.
8. now gnome is not much functional so added some extensions like dash to dock, dynamic transparency.
9. now setup java and android studio.
10. after that android studio font is looking blurry. finally stackoverflow made my life easy and i fixed it.

now after all this my system is working crazy fast.. Android studio is opening in just 5-6 seconds.
really happy.. 😍 😍

That moment when you drop your phone in a sink full of water and have to hope that rice will fix it since you're too poor for a new one right now.

Grrrrr.....

Spend almost a week trying to write this extremely complicated feature request.

I had two ways to go about implementing this, and the further I dig into it, the more I realize I chose the wrong way.

Time to throw the code away and start over. Entire week wasted.

My favorite item on my desk (after I finished killing all of the paperclips)

1) Using ScreenRecord record a video deleting his work folder(fake one obviously).

2) create command line vlc player to play this video on startup with flags -f and --no-qt-fs-controller

Eg. vlc -f --no-qt-fs-controller file://<file path>

Enjoy the show 👿

Forgot to pull latest changes into master and deployed lambda functions to AWS. Realized what I did and pushed fix, took 3hrs for aws to propogate changes to the edges, meanwhile 700 sites have no images.

I'm so fired tomorrow.

Got new work phones.
Mines sorted :).

Why is the web developer always broke?
He was told to empty his cash.

Had to work in Windows today.

Ugh! how can anyone be productive in that mess???

Having to use the mouse to do anything is not productive.

It took me twice as long to do my work on Windows platform than on Linux.

I am working with a colleague this week and need to use specifically Visual Studio for its TFS, usually I am good with Jetbrains Rider on Linux.

Working in Windows is simply.....slow....In Linux I do everything I need in terminal, in Windows I have to click around find the setting or feature I need click click click....mice need to be deprecated.

And don't get me started on the directory separator, or how user permissions work, or uncommon distorted names for cli functions, or line endings!

Trying to decide which course to take next on edX.org. It looks like either Java or Python is the next language I am going to take on as almost all the courses I'd like to take are done in those two languages.

I guess I will start "Software Construction in Java" from MITx tonight. I always have a hard time wanting to start courses in a language I am not very familiar with, idk why, just having to constantly lookup the docs for methods and struggling to make proper format irritates me. So I go in waves, I will not move out of my comfort zone for many months, then start something new eventually. Really, work is wearing me out, thinking about switching careers again to be honest. I just don't know what, I thought I would like an office job, turns out, I would rather be out and about moving around. I wonder what the age cutoff is to be a police officer?

When you notice your localhost server gets pinged by an internal network IP of the company your working at, time to add a local firewall so they quit snooping.

CEO announced a bug bounty programme for devs to do stuff in their free time for additional cash.

Cash is decided by business people based on their idea of how complex the given problem is.

And it's not for bugs one could just find and fix. Only some fixes/features decided by them.

Like second shift.

Two very good feedbacks from two interviews. Dev Test is fixed and submitted.

Now to just wait.

After installing an instance of Adobe's PWA Studio for Magento I am 100% convinced Magento is going to be a subscription service like Shopify and BigCommerce, Adobe's version anyways.

I need to bail and try to get my career trajectory going into a different direction. I am running out of time. I have 1 year tops to get into another area of development.

Or I guess become strictly a frontend dev.

After being a miserly bastard and settling on VirtualBox for my VM needs on OSX, I downloaded a Parallels trial a couple weeks back, and today, I'm happy to announce I bought a license!

VirtualBox can go do one.

I've ditched Studio for Rider, and now Parallels, what has the world come to when a dev actually buys software?!

The end is nigh I say, nigh.

So, as most of you know from my previous rants, I just came back from Scotland where I worked with a colleague to get a C# middleware up and running that calls a restful api and either pushes data to it, or pulls data and inserts it in a database.

I built the api calls and also the data mapping to data tables and vice versa.

My colleague built the interface to the database. We had a week to do it. Easy right? Well, it should have been, we should have definitely been done in a few days.

The crux of the problem:

We had no easy way to share code. I was using most up to date jetbrains rider ide and he was using VS 2012. Apparently VS 2012 compiles differently than the newer versions.

Instead of using a repo, or using something like TeamViewer or anything that would make it easy to share code, which I suggested, he just asked me to put my project on a thumb drive, and give it to him.

If there was a change that would be needed in my code he would save to thumb drive hand to me, i would make the change, save to thumb drive, hand to him. He would then recompile the library i created to interface with the api and use it in his db interface.

This drove me nuts, the entire process took 30 minutes, now imagine doing this 20 times a day, for minor code changes?

All our work time was used up by swapping a thumb drive, and this was ok for him.

No wonder they came back and said it would take 6 months for that team to create the necessary interface to the api. (I wrote it in 3 days, and that was learning C# in the process)

We got 95% done, have just have one part left, which i need this guy to do since i don't have access to database.

He is here at my office this week, for another project on his side, but he promised to give me a few hours of his time something this week.

I've set up a repo on github, given him access and he still wants to use the thumb drive option. It's killing me. VS has something called TeamViewer or something to share code, so today, I'm switching to VS from Rider just to set this up and get him to use it we have literally maybe two hours max if work to do to launch this and I need him to cooperate.

I seem to be the only one who cares that this gets done, but next week I'm going to be asked why it isn't, and I'll have to explain all this. It should have been 100% compete in Scotland, and would have been if we used a better method to share code.

This PWA bullshit is such pain in the ass. I hate Javascript I really do, thousands of packages from npm just to make simple frontend. crazy

Why is all enterprise proprietary payment api integration documentation shit? With shit worthless code examples in either java or dotnet? Even the most basic stuff is left out like the actual endpoints to hit for stuff, they just give you base url then bullet points of what you can do but not the actual endpoint i seem to have to infer them from the bullet points. Code examples are even worse.

I've seen this on a lot of proprietary developer docs from banks and such.

Actual internet payment providers like paypal and authorizenet have really good docs online instead of a 10 page pdf with almost nothing worthwhile in it.

How did I fail this?

How?
Is it a test?

Just had a technical phone interview that makes me want to cry.

I have just been put in my place and will crawl under rock now and cry.

bye bye world.

Sort of in a conundrum.

I sort of verbally accepted a job offer, they are doing the background check and all that jazz now.

I sort of told my boss I am not going anywhere.

I think the job offer will be rescinded, due to my bad credit and the fact that I audited the classed on edx.org and didn't pay for them, so I cannot prove I took them.

But if the offer doesn't get rescinded, I really have no idea how I am going to handle this. It is going to be a tough call.

New plan. Quit development all together and drive for Lyft full time. I can actually make 10k more than I do now

I've just bought myself a standing desk!

Woot!

(It's actually for at work, seeing as they would never cash out for anything like that themselves).

Hello Peoples of DevRant.

Anyone know of any good resources on how to make animations or simple animated movies?

When you're using any Android or Windows phone and passerby asks "Is that an iPhone? That looks like an iPhone".
😒

Best: learned to code, started writing smart-home scripts for home automation and developed biologic and quantitative data analysis scripts in Python and R.
Worst: didn't get paid to develop them and haven't got enough experience for it to be more than a hobby.

Stuff that irritates me.

When company says they will reimburse you for move they are requiring you to make, but doesn't pay you enough to make the move in the first place.

Muy lol

Work story.
We have this system that's being used nation-wide and basically there's a control panel for management (it's a website)) and an app for the regular users.

I just migrated and replaced the guy before me, I'm basically the only one on the project.

The code for the website is a mess, the servers are sometimes slow, and few security problems here and there.

Project Lead comes up to me and says that few of our clients that use the website are saying it works really slowly.
I start by analyzing the networking, and found shocking things.
First of all, let's say there's a messaging option, and the management teams that are our clients can have each a lot of groups, which all have messaging.

Upon first load, ALL OF THE IMAGES, FROM ALL GROUPS, ARE PRE LOADED. It can get up to few hundred photos being preloaded upon first load, which can explain the slow loading.
After discovering that, I discovered that the Administration control panel, which only my project lead can access, with sends heavy requests to the server and loads heavy assets, is loaded every time to every single client, generating heavy stress on our server and slowing everything down.

I tell that to my project lead and say that that's what causing the slow downs, I coded a fix that currently sits and is not being merged to the master branch to be deployed, and somehow I need to find a way to fix the slowness which all comes down to the heavy requests and slow connection with servers... And they won't merge my fix that fixes the loading of the administration panel so the stress on the servers could go down, and everything will be sped up....
Ah damnit.. sometimes I don't understand it..

Just saw an Oracle cash register. Made me shrug...

I drink a lot and of water so I always have two glasses by my bedside -
A full one in case I get thirsty and an empty one in case I don't...

Wow... Magento 2.3.0 Adobe is making cray cray changes, strict PHP typing, Interfaces and Chains, rewrote the stockItem interface today on my module because it is deprecated as of 2.3.0 and the changes are just.... wow.... Adobe gots some developers.

I am not gonna lie. I am really excited with the changes coming to Magento with the release of 2.3.0.

I think it will help with the huge problem in the Magento community with devs who are very incompetent but somehow keep getting significant income from clueless clients as Adobe has introduced many changes including deprecating the entire frontend, making it PWA, so react, vue, or any other framework can be used to create the frontend, all backend calls will be through the graph-ql api.

They introduced strict PHP typing, very advanced OO designs, and this deprecates 99% of all stack overflow answers and tutorials which makes me very happy.

Read the damn classes if you want to use them! Stack overflow is 99% wrong on how to implement solutions for Magento! which tells you how few devs out there actually understand Standard Practices for Magento 2.

Now, I just need to find a company that is on the leading edge of development so I can increase my skills faster than currently possible on my own.

I ironically have gotten positive responses from my resume blast yesterday and have initial interviews lined up the entire week at lunch. Was so not expecting this during holidays. But seems to be it is going to be a very good Christmas for me.

Which brings me to my prediction for Adobe's interest in an eCommerce platform such as Magento.

My prediction is they will make the backend a closed source subscription service and you will just create the frontend PWA style with api calls to their subscription service.