In Switzerland/Germany we have an abbreviation TEAM: "Toll Ein Anderer Macht's" which means "Hurray another one/stupid is doing all the work". I think that nails it.

Finally after like a decade plus, I'm out of debt !

Hurray !!!

Now instead of paying money for nothing, I can save up for my retirement . . .

Note to myself:

Went alone to a conference, without knowing someone and
have problems to start a conversation with complete stranger,
is a stupid idea.

Social anxiety HURRAY but at least the talks were nice.

Hurray! Finally the IOS devRant Supporter subscription link has been approved by Apple and works. I joined at 4 am today. Great way to start the day. Keep up the great work David and Tim.

Hurray!
I've got my Intel NUC!

[9:10]

CTO (works as a team lead): You here?
Me: Yes 👍
CTO: After doing X, Y and Z I broke X. That should not happen. You do understand, that this is not a good UX?
Me (asked CTO X amount of times to hire a a good designer, because I’m not): Well, we made the backend receive Y when X is triggered so B can be passed. I can tell the user to do Y in order to do Z.
CTO: NO, you will not. Do what I’ve said.

DUDE WTF? YOU FUCKING 🐎 I WILL BLOW YOU BRAINS WITH MY MORNING NAUSEA AND DIARRHOEA. FUCKING DIPSHIT ALLOWS HIS BAD MOOD AFFECT OTHER EMPLOYEES. HOW THE FUCK YOURE A CTO.

IM NOT GOING TO REWRITE THE CENTER PIECE OF OUR APPLICATION IN A DAY, WHICH TOOK US MONTHS TO MAKE. FUCK OFF

Monday, hurray 🥳

You know when you can't sleep and think, I'll just do something simple, but useful, it will only take 10 minutes..

How hard can it be to change a CMOS battery in your laptop in this day and age..

Well...

Looking on the manufacturers website, it looks piss easy according to the diagrams.

Even a YouTube video, it looks easy..

Meanwhile, in reality..

First off, the CMOS battery I carefully ordered arrives, but its the wrong wiring..

Good thing I checked first right !

So..

Soldering iron time, change those wires around a little.

Now, where did I put that solder..

FX [ Considerable time passes finding it... ]

"Ouch!" burnt my finger !

Right, that's done, now to tape those joints up..

FX [ Runs out of tape.. ]

No problem, must be some more somewhere right..

FX [ Time passes after searching house... ]

Probably some in the garage..

Who needs to get fully dressed, just pop out in your Arthur Dent dressing gown in the rain..

You find some, eventually..

So, that's sorted.

Now, lets open up that laptop and swap the battery over !

Mmm... that's odd, the battery is glued in place..

But in the video it isn't !

No problem, I'll just take the case apart a little..

Lets check that YouTube video first though..

28 screws later, and they still haven't taken the part that covers that CMOS battery..

No problem, I'll just watch the entire video, they are bound to cover it at some point, right..

No..

Ok, lets not take the entire thing apart, when all I have to do is insert a sharp knife and cut the glue away between the battery and, that thing its glued to, without damaging the laptop in a tiny gap I can't really see..

Still, its fun feeling around with a sharp pointy knife inside a laptop, isn't it..

The glue is cut, and the old battery comes out !

Hurray !

Mmm.. lets not bother gluing the new battery in, we'll just stuff it roughly in the same area and hope for the best, after all, this is a desktop laptop, it never goes anywhere, so it shouldn't jiggle loose..

Whilst we are here, lets upgrade the memory.

And try and remember how to seat laptop memory correctly..

Boot to BIOS, load defaults, reboot to BIOS, set time, and other really important things, then reboot, and we get to Windows desktop just fine.

Now change the virtual memory settings to static file, do a defrag, and reboot..

Oh I mean, wait ages for a defrag and then reboot..

That's so we can try and get that lovely pagefile all in one chunk..

Obviously, it won't be finished doing that till tomorrow, or the next day..

Oh look, its already the next day and its the afternoon and I'm still in my dressing gown !

Maybe I'll just have a snooze..

!dev

Just took out my four wisdom teeth at once. I can't feel my face, I look like a balloon and I'm drooling like I'm about to eat a delicious cake.

Except the cake is a fucking lie, my mandibular joints are hurting and I can't eat solids for a week.

At least I only have one postoperative to contend with. Hurray! 🙃

After 7 long long years, today I reach the stage of being solvent !

Hurray !

A few more months and I'll be totally out of debt.

Lesson there = don't get into debt..

Hurray, the stickers are here! Now my laptop's awesomeness and coolness factor has been increased by infinite++!!! 😃
Thank you a lot, @dfox and @trogus!

Hurray got my avatar thank you guys for all your support

A new week at the monkey circus.

Hurray.

Thanks to my socialist government giving me some free money to help the poor, I'm now no longer poor, but only poverty stricken !

Interestingly, they only give money to the poor, not the real poor, who are below me..

Anyhow, this means technically, I am able to date !

Though only for 3 months in every year, then the money runs out, and no doubt so will my date !

Anyhow, I get to change my dating profile next weekend to show I've now some disposable income !

Then I reckon I'll get one relationship per year, so we'll see if that is true or not !

So happy days, and hurray for socialist governments putting up taxes so poor folk like me can get some free money ! ($300 USD in case you was thinking it was thousands!)

That was slight sarcasm..

And in 3 months time, if all goes to plan, I'll be out of debt !

My new exercise regime is paying off, I can see some muscles getting bigger.

Though marks out of 10 wise, I'm only about a 1.8 so not very attractive, still, I reckon it is now possible, where as before, I reckoned not.

Of course, I kept trying to disprove this, but I wasn't proved wrong !

Now lets see if I'm proved right..

As long as I don't move in the next year of course..

Which is always a possibility. :-(

When I say move, I really mean, end up homeless and have to move to another area where I know no one/etc.

Not that I know anyone here and I've been here 3+ years..

In the future you will be able to just buy things online with a click of a button..

Well, kinda..

After you first spend 2 hours finding all the items you want, since the websites search engine isn't very good at helping you do that..

Then, when you click buy, it tells you some items are now of out stock, and it has emptied your entire shopping basket..

FX [ Sigh.. ]

So, you go to your browser history and luckily the site is designed so you can find all the items you previously put in your basket, and it only takes you an hour this time to fill your basket up..

I guess no one brought anything and it went out of stock, whilst you was shopping..

Order goes through, hurray !

So the lesson there is, shop quickly online before your item(s) goes out of stock..

And, if you are designing shopping systems, don't totally empty someone's basket due to one small issue..

It's really annoying !

Whilst I@m at it, another website, has like 4,000 items listed, but you can't open in tab each item you want to buy, and add it your basket, nor can you do it from the list itself, no you have to click on the item, buy how many you want, and then go back to the list right from the beginning again..

I guess that means hardly anyone ever buys item number 4,000 !!!

This is one from when I was in school, so I wasn't a dev but it made me feel like a CS student badass.

A class mate and I were having a discussion about his study habits. Basically he was freaking about the mount of studying he was going to have to do for this class:

Me: dude, you need to relax. You'll do fine.
Classmate: no, have you seen the amount of work that is on the syllabus? The size of the book?
Me: wait you bought the book? Also we took this same professor for several classes. His syllabuses are always huge. What did you get in the prereq to this class?
CM: an A.
Me: there you go.
CM: but I had to study all the time. I had no free time.
Me: really? I had an insane amount of free time.
CM: what did you get?
Me: B+.
CM: See but I did better than you.
Me: yeah . . . but I had fun last year.
Professor: you know, it's hard to tell who is the better student. The one that had no fun, but got an A. Or the one that had a lot of fun and got a B.
Other Classmates: probably the guy that got the B.

Hurray for peer and professor validated laziness.

In good news today: my donut 🍩 looked abit like the surprized picachu meme.

In the sad news section: theres mostly meetings and bad micro management.

!rant

Unity for Linux actually works 🤟🤟🤟

Last time I checked it didn’t go well at all. Has been years ago though..

Now lets start building some 3D stuff.

Internship Project is Dooooneee !!

Party !!

My specialization exam is over hurray! But what now? Went from working 30+ hours a week to 0.
Never have i felt so empty, from coming home feeling tired and a need to relax with games to just existing.

I literally got home, stared at my desktop for about an hour, and then began work on one of my friends exam projekt... I think I'm broken :p

Guys...
I finally switched from eclipse to netbeans! *hurray*
But it was not easy...
Netbeans didnt want to import first, so i coded myself a little program that prints a complete config file for my project...
So that was done.
But the colors... So ugly.
So i changed them to my eclipse colors.
Finally, after 3 hours of configuration and getting to know how exporting works, I AM DONE!
EclipseUsers--;

Gotta love the IoT.

They set up a new surveillance camera in the company, that can stream live footage over the network and that little shit picked the IP adress of a coworker one day AFTER being set up.
Hurray for static routing. Hurray to the person who didn't disable DHCP on the router (Should probably configure my PC to use a static IP as well lel)

Anyways, this happened outta nowhere when I, the only guy who knows shit about IT and is usually present at yhe office, wasn't there and could not connect remotely.

The other, remote programmer, who set up the network, could guide the coworker to get a new IP but, he was worried that we got ourselves an intruder.

Since nobody told me yet that we (should) have static routing, I thought there was a mastermind at work who could get into a network without a wifi-access point and spoof the coworker in order to access the some documents.

The adrenaline rush was real 😨

Scanning the network with nmap solved the mystery rather quickly but thought me that I need to set up a secure way to get remote access on the network.

I would appreciate some input on the set up I thought of:
A raspberry Pi connected to a vpn that runs ssh with pw auth disabled and the ssh port moved.
Would set up the vpn in a similar fashion.

I’ve started to develop anger issues due to my work. Hurray, I am at that point as an adult.

!rant
After one and a half year working at my current company, I finally took the courage to link the shared Sonos to my computer, and play the music I like.

That's some Great Social Achievement for me! Hurray 😆👏🎉

New MB.

New RAM.

Put RAM in MB..

Hurray, 16Gb !

Use for several days..

BIOS error, only 8Gb..

FX [ Googles answer . . . ]

Move memory to wrong slots, 16Gb again..

It seems the CPU is not seated correctly from what I've read.

I guess a few days heating up the MB warped just enough so the CPU didn't quite sit correctly.

Solution is a small piece of cardboard in the right place, but I'll leave that for another day, when I want to fill up the memory slots and have the other two working.

me: yes..hurray I fixed 5 of 25 critical bugs. Its turning out to be a great day.....

...checks the bug list....

"There are 29 critical bugs in the list"

Hurray!

It looke like we can go live next week \o/

*Dances with armor*

and my internet is up. hurray

Everything works hurray

- why not change this column in the database ?

Ok
- everything breaks -
Let's write additional 50 lines of code,,,
Still broken

but it worked once that's an accomplishment right? 🤣

C++20 Modules ! I can't wait to get rid of includes and include barriers ! Still prefer Rust though, borrowing times saved my butt just this morning, hopefully we'll get them on C++ too at some point

So a co-worker just spilt his drink over the power sokets and now I'm going home. Hurray for desktops!

include ::rant
rant::newentry {'new-job-rant' :
ensure => latest,
location => goverment-employment-office-HQ,
job => DevOps,
content => {'
So, i've been at my new job for some time now, almost two weeks (hurray!) but boy oh boy, what a job it is!
I'm working at a goverment office charged with helping the unemployed to get a job or a new education course. I'm hored as re-enforcements for their DevOps team. I get my pay, easy transportation home<->office, coffe is adequate in quality and quantity, so no complaints there...

But the actual job is a FUCKING MENTAL CLUSTERFUCKS OF WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK MULTIPLIED BY TEN TO THE POWER OF GOOGOL!

A few items that make my blood boil to new temperature records defying medical science:

* devs refuse to use linting, say the builder will catch it when there is an error, never look at the builder error logs
* (puppet) modules have NO TESTS
* (puppet) modules get included in several git repo's as submodules, in turn they are part of a git repo, in turn they are replicated to several puppet masters, and they differentiate the environment by bash scripts... R10K or code manager? never heard of it.
* Me cleaning up code, commit, gets accepted, some douchebag checks out code, reverts it back to the point where linting tools generate 50+ lines of warnings, complains to ME his code doesnt work! (Seriously, bitch? Serously?) , explain to that person what linting does, that persons hears the bells ring on the other end of the galaxy, refuses to use it.
* Deployment day arrives (today) -> tasks are set up on an excel sheet (on google docs) , totally out of sync with what really must be done -> something breaks, spend 30 minutes finding out who is to blame, the whole deploy train stops, find out it's a syntax error, ... waiting for person to change that since that person can only access it...
...

the list goes on and on and on. And did you expect to ahve any docs or guidelines? NO , as if docs are something for the luxurious and leisurely people having "time" to write it...

I can use another coffee... hopefully i wake up from this nightmare at my 15th cup...
},
require => [Class['::coffee'], Class['::auxiliary_brain'], Class['::brain_unfuck_tools'],],
}