#Story time.
Been working on a project for 2 months with Colleague "Jim" doing the code reviews. Project is finished in a stable form and can be extended if needed. Then my other colleague/boss "Mo" decided that we need to do a refactor. Fast forward a bit and the conclusion is "Mo" and "Jim" are going to discuss every step with me. And we started a new project that should do the same as the project I just finished

Here some facts:
Every day a meeting/ code review / discussion.
Decisions they make I do not agree with.
I need to redo my work multiple times.

Now this does make me look like a toddler that needs supervision which is not the case.
They want something future proof and something that fits his new coding standard "Mo". and certain things I do agree with and is clearly the better architecture. however somethings are just stupid, time wasting, making it worse. I'm getting so frustrated by the fact that billion dollar companies have clear coding standards that work. and are correct. and this company decided to do their own thing of stupid rules!

- shorten variables
- Keep lines under 90char
- put multiple things in 1 file
- Keep function names short
and many more of removing stuff and let you guess stuff..

I just... *sigh* get so tired of this shit.

*names are randomly chosen

One year ago I did the Week 242 Group Rant:
Dev goals for 2021?
⬜️Finish my indie Game
⬜️Publish my Indie Game.
⬜️Make my wife pregnant.
⬜️Clean codebase current C++ job
⬜️Learn Piano play
⬜️Create clean coding presentation
⬜️Be more productive

Now its 2022 lets se how far we got.
⬜️Finish my indie Game
⬜️Publish my Indie Game.
✅Make my wife pregnant.
⬜️Clean codebase current C++ job
⬜️Learn Piano play
⬜️Create clean coding presentation
⬜️Be more productive

What I did instead:
✅Worked on my indie Game
✅Went on vacation
✅Make my wife pregnant.
✅Construct, Paint, Decorate house.
✅Hold presentation about profilers

Future Goals:
⬜️Take care of my new born daughter soon.
⬜️Finish my indie Game
⬜️Learn to play Piano
⬜️Socialize a bit more

No google I don't want result about marketing, features of set Software.

I want fucking answers why the fuck our merge tool that comes with that stupid software does not work! And setting an alternative also does not work!

Just Answer my fucking question!
Setting up "tool" with "Source Control client" or alternative.

What did the blackbox said to the other blackbox?

.. I don't know

when recruiters would use the same tactics when dating:

Recruiter:
Hi, I see that you are currently in a relationship and even married for over a year now. And you are perfect relation material for a friend of mine. I'm reaching out because you would be a perfect fit. Can you give me your phone number so that we could meet?

> I have this problem.
> I go Ask someone else.
> Other: Oh just use this, something like "XYZ"
> Me: trying to find "XYZ"
> "XYZ" is not there...
> Found "XYZ" somewhere else.
> "XYZ" does not work..
> Ask someone else again.
> Other: Oh Just use "XYZ"
> Me: But it does not work....
> Other: Oh then you use "YZX"
> Me trying to use "YZX"
> it doesn't work.....

I love working doing tasks like moving boxes.
Move 10 boxes from point A to point B. Simple, you know what to do. and you know when you are finished.

I Hate tasks such as: Change this Icon to other icon. (C++) Because it takes me 3 fucking hours to find in code where the fuck this happens! And every time my first instinct when I don't know something is go to the internet and search for it. But in this case I CaN't!.

Wife: asking why I'm browsing the internet looking at memes.

Because I Don't Know where the fuck I need to be to finish my task! And I am stuck in this repeating loop of searching in code, looking at memes and being ashamed of myself that I did not this fucking simple task in like 10 minutes.

And after 3 hours of doing basically NOTHING. I don't dare to ask a colleague about everything.

Please send help....

Mondays:
Waking up with the compiler error from last Friday.

0x0000FFFF
Format Hex RGBA
Red 0
Green 0
Blue 255
Alpha 255

!rant
After my performance review talk. Boss offered me a permanent contract.

Everytime I am left with this choice...

Having the attention span of a ..., Oh look a kitty!

⬜️Finish my indie Game
⬜️Publish my Indie Game.
⬜️Make my wife pregnant.
⬜️Clean codebase current C++ job
⬜️Learn Piano play
⬜️Create clean coding presentation
⬜️Be more productive

typedef bool Bool;
Class Description
{
public:
inline Bool IsTypeA() const { return IsType(TYPE_A); }
inline Bool IsTypeB() const { return IsType(TYPE_B); }
inline Bool IsTypeC() const { return IsType(TYPE_C); }
Bool IsType(DescriptionType T) const { return (T == Type()); }
DescriptionType Type() const { return m_Type; }

private:
DescriptionType m_Type;
}

I can't make this shit up

Rant.

Our dev tooling is not in order.
Names of classes do not represent what they do.
Filename is different from class name and there are multiple classes per file.

I try to fix this hot spaghettis mess and off course our outdated source control gives another barrier! FFS

========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 1 skipped ==========

Should I modify the file? or Copy the file?
it is already in use for a similar case but different.

double code vs doing one thing per class
a large refactor is needed for this one.

#codestruggles

Need to add a new derived class which inherit from class "lorum" that is in file "lorum.cpp". Other derived classes are inside the file "lorum.cpp"
Should I put the new derive class in file "lorum.cpp" or make a separate file for the new derived class?

Why do I need to ask this question...

IsIdentical(object l, object r {
if (l.m_Lorum == r.m_Lorum)
if (l.m_Lorum2 == r.m_Lorum2)
if (l.m_Lorum3 == r.m_Lorum3)
if (l.m_Lorum4 == r.m_Lorum4)
if (l.m_Lorum5 == r.m_Lorum5)
if (l.m_Lorum6 == r.m_Lorum6)
if (l.m_Lorum7 == r.m_Lorum7)
if (l.m_Lorum8 == r.m_Lorum8)
if (l.m_Lorum9 == r.m_Lorum9)
return true;
return false;
}

//FML..

Just do this:

return (l.m_Lorum1 == r.m_Lorum1 &&
l.m_Lorum2 == r.m_Lorum2 &&
l.m_Lorum3 == r.m_Lorum3 &&
l.m_Lorum4 == r.m_Lorum4 &&
l.m_Lorum5 == r.m_Lorum5 &&
l.m_Lorum6 == r.m_Lorum6 &&
l.m_Lorum7 == r.m_Lorum7 &&
l.m_Lorum8 == r.m_Lorum8 &&
l.m_Lorum9 == r.m_Lorum9);

today:
Committed my code for Code review
solved 23 Merged Conflicts
Fixed 65 Load project Error.
Fixed another 8 Compiler errors because of mistake made in Merge conflict.

I wanted to do coding today... I really do..

Out of stock.
F*CK! !@#$%^&*(

#storytime

Soon I'll start moving to a new place on the 16th and I wanted to change my address at the Internet provider (T).
go to provider website (T) reading that I need to call them...

CALL (T): .... Automatic answering machine.. ... longer than normal, covid19, 30 minutes later:

Operator: Hi moving, yes.. When? we send you an email with details to send Mechanic.

Next day: waking up. clicking mail on my phone in bed half sleepy. select 15th. next. next. next. accept. done.

Me happy :) .... One hour later realizing I said 15th.. and it should be 25... FUCK!!! Me Mad! Knowing what's going to happen...

Click link in mail to change date. You need to call (E).

CALL (E) : ... Automatic answering machine.. ... longer than normal, covid19, 1 hour later.... Give up..

CALL (E)(2): ... Automatic answering machine.. ... longer than normal, covid19, 1.2 hour later.... Give up..

Next day CALL (E)(3): ... Automatic answering machine.. ... longer than normal, covid19, 45 minutes later....

Operator: Hi, yes we can move to date 21. you need to call (R) to change fiber mechanic I'll patch you trough
CALL (T) : ... Automatic answering machine.. ... longer than normal, covid19, 30 minutes later....
Operator: You need to call (K) Here is the number 123456789..

CALL (K): ... Automatic answering machine.. ... longer than normal, covid19, 20 minutes later
Operator: This department (R) can not be reached by phone we will call you back.

Next day:
Incoming call from (K). Because you are moving to a new house you do not need (R). have a nice day.

Have a nice day to you too calm and friendly.
hopefully I won't be without internet for a couple of days...

Because of this spaghettis shit of code I was unable to make some progress. now I have to bullshit my progress in the standup. because telling I wrote 0 lines of code feels like I should be ashamed of myself. FUCK!

class XXX
{
public:
std::vector<std::wstring> m_Files; // Recently used files

why not just use:

class XXX
{
public:
std::vector<std::wstring> m_RecentlyUsedFiles;

FFS

Reading the comments in a piece of code:
{
//Step 1 save stuff in a list
code();
//Step 3 Update the controls
morecode();
//Step 4 Resize the UI
somecode();
}

//Me thinking: where the f*ck is Step 2?

Why is doing a minor change in UI always taking the most amount of time!!

CaN YoU MoVe ThIs 5 PiXeLs To ThE LeFT !@#$%^&!

NO I FUCKING CAN"T! BECAUSE OUR CLOSED SOURCED UI FRAMEWORK IS NOT ALLOWING IT!!!!!

Working now 8 months at a company. (C++)

Every feature becomes a refactor and a code clean
Every bug becomes a refactor and a code clean
Every Refactor becomes a code purge. :/

I'm doing this refactor in a project.

Got stuck on a decision that is not mine to make.
Colleague has a day off and could not respond.

I could not continue in either direction. Because the solutions I found are not improving the issue.

How to deal with such an issue?

A colleague is walking me trough some of the source code because we try to fix an issue.

colleague: Oh we don't use this anymore
Me: ...
LATER
colleague: This part we should refactor someday
Me: ...
LATER
colleague: Oh I think this is old code and does not exist anymore.
Me: .. .. ...

Great Colleague BTW :)
PS: fix will be posted Later.

Rant C++
Why do some people like to use ALL the language features. lets use "auto" en "std::tuple" and "std::tie" to hook everything together.. I cannot put something In a list because I now have to use std::move. SURE! If for every line of code I need to lookup what things were again or fixing compile errors it breaks my flow. "std::bind" this and Template that. half of the stuff you don't actually need.. it just complicates things..

Not all are bad. Only Unnecessary sometimes.