Where do you personally draw the line between "good enough" and "not good enough" code?
I just spent a considerable amount of time refactoring a function into 4 sub functions. The original one was fetching alerts for 4 related entities. All of the alerts are needed together in one dataset. A lot of variables and some of the logic was shared, therefore I originally chose to keep it as one, admittedly very large function. Where do you guys draw the line between refactoring or not refactoring in cases like these? How much weight do you give to separation of concerns vs simplicity? I'm curious.

So my heater is broken. I'm very tempted to try and install Android studio as a replacement heater

It's a twisted feeling when your team decides to fix up their unit tests and not just mock everything. Yay, because it's now done correctly. "Are you fucking kidding me?!" when you realize that that means you now have to add tons of new instances of classes that the main one now needs, now that it's no longer mocked. 😑😐🙃

I'm a language nerd. I could go on discussing random details of a language for hours. And I can't help spotting spelling errors pretty much anywhere.

Hi from FOSDEM! It's awesome so far. So many cool technologies and people, it's amazing!

So apparently management didn't have a design made for that new shiny but small feature (touchscreen keyboard plus implementation) because they thought it could easily be done without, "just like that". 😑
The result: me standing next to their desk asking for specifications and details how they want things done 5 times in a day.
And frankly, that the story only consisted of 3 bullet points didn't help either.
Part of me felt like yelling "software isn't magic, nothing works "just like that!!" at them.

1) there is proper, well-written documentation for everything, in English.
2) make clients send in a decent description of what they think it's going wrong, with screenshots where needed.
3) make me smart enough to figure out what's going on if 1) and 2) do not apply.

@Condor, @linuxxx, @404response, @Arch4ng3l are you guys up for FOSDEM? Let's meet up! Maybe over food or drinks?
@PonySlaystation any chance you're attending too?
Anyone else is welcome to join, too, ofc!

Who of you will be at FOSDEM 2 weeks from now, in Brussels? For those who don't know it: It's an open source convention on February 2/3. No tickets needed, you can just show up there. More info: https://fosdem.org/2019/

Dealing with special characters in JS is a ducking pain in the rear end. I recreated a virtual keyboard for vuejs today, and properly escaping all special characters according to the library I used AND according to JS itself was a damn pain.
I'm done being a human for today. Tonight I will roll up in a blanket and pretend to be a burrito.

TLDR: I hate SOAP so much I threw a Hamsterball against the wall.
I had to make a call to an API endpoint with SOAP today. I had the correct credentials. And the fucker refuses to let me in, claiming "invalid credentials". I even recreated the request via postman to make sure I didn't have faulty code. But nope, same story.
I even contacted their support team, which gave me an initial reply within 3mins that tells me to check the credentials and sends me a link to the error code explanation (really? thanks, I did read that.) and then closed the ticket. I answer: "well nice, but I checked that. The credentials are correct"
Them: "One of my colleagues will look into it and will respond to you within a couple of days." 😑
This blocks my story. Fuckin' awesome.
And this, kids, is the story of how I threw a Hamsterball against the wall.

me: *submits a PR on our old system*
My teamlead: please mind the code style, there was no need to add the extra whitespace line under that loop.
Me: 🤔 there are style conventions in this project??
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NB: this is really old code with tons of long lines, weird spacing and whitespace in random places and functions that span hundreds of lines.
I seriously did not notice a consistent style here.
I wanna go back to working on the new system ☹️

The only people I consider enemies are people who aren't honest with me and are playing games. Be upfront with me. Did I do something you liked? Did I fuck up? Fuckin' tell me. Then I'll treat you with respect. If not, fuck off and get out of my life.

Had some beers with linuxxx once again. Good to catch up with a fellow devRanter! It's been too long, and I missed the tech talk.

I created merge request #666 earlier today. And of course, it had a merge conflict in it. 😈🤘🙅

Probably the shortest rant ever: got sick right in time for the weekend. FML. -.-

Within his first 3 workdays, my new colleague witnessed my colleagues' false singing, the Christmas tree decorated with broken key tags, and the Friday afternoon beers + online fail videos - and a little of our workflow too. I think he's gotten a good general impression now 😂

We have a new member in our 3 ppl team, he started 2 days ago. Tomorrow the teamlead will have a day off, so I get to explain our workflow and systems to him and will answer any questions he has. Teamlead for a day. Let's see how that goes.

Happy New Year guys and gals! Thanks for being here!

I want to get my personal blog into a working state and expand it. I also want to get devMeetup off the ground (a platform to plan meetups for devRant users and others).
On the paid work side:
I'd like to keep my current job. Even though I think I've been learning a lot, I've had some tensions with my teamlead lately, and my contract is due for extension in spring. So fingers crossed for that!

The only project I'm forking these holidays is the Christmas dinner I made

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays, everyone! 😊
I hope everyone is able to relax a bit and the aggravating family conversations will be kept at bay

Dear Nokia, I really like your phones. But if I have a question about it, I expect the "Send" button on your contact form to actually work. Thanks.
FYI, I actually checked the console and network tab in two different browsers. No requests, no errors -.-

everyone, meet my growing Duck army 😁

dutch DevRant meetup art. we call it: debugging in proDucktion

One of the best parts of my day is when I get to check DevRant on my morning commute and get to read all the whacky, funny and brutally honest stuff you guys post. It usually makes me start my day with a smile. Thank you for that 😄

I have two personas at work: a professional dev and a person who giggles at the word "assessment" because it contains the word "ass" 😁

What's your favorite CMS? I'm toying with the idea of creating a blog for myself and I really don't wanna use WP.

we are planning a Dutch DevRant meetup next weekend. Anyone interested? More info here: https://devrant.com/rants/1913500/...

TLDR: fuck this plugin.
Longer version: I recently had to implement an external Vue plugin to upload files. That gave me a good headache already, mostly due to the half Chinese, half Google Translate English documentation. I now found out that testing the implemented component may be impossible. Turns out it overwrites the $route and $router variables and makes them read-only. Which won't even let me create a shallow mount of my implementation. Fuck this shit, I'm getting a drink!