I started implementing a file uploader in Vue today. The documentation was half Chinese, half Google Translate English.
While that's bad enough already, the cold I'm having is competing with my brain for resources. Due to that, I am pretty much constantly hangry (hungry +angry) and am making stupid rookie mistakes. Fuck this day, I should have stayed bed.

And another one. Thanks mate!

Woke up to 99+ notifications this morning. Largely, but not only, to this guy. Thanks!

There I was, foolishly thinking that I had escaped legacy land for good.
Today I ventured deep into its realms again to solve a bug in our old system. It's a maze, with tons of branches, frontend and backend code entangled in each other (think: echoing a call to a JS function from the PHP controller, and much much more), and classes with functions that often span 500+ lines.
I have lost my way and just lit a campfire. Hopefully I will find my way out by daylight.

So this popped up on my office group chat: A graph displaying the use of curse words in the Linux kernel by version. https://vidarholen.net/contents/...*

I'm starting to get the impression that ranting about Arch (and its users) is way more popular than actually using it. Can we stop that shit and just let people use whatever the fuck works for them? That type of ranting is unoriginal and it gets tiresome to read about after a while.
I'm one step away from programming a blocker for PHP / Arch related bashing content.

So I just opened a German news app, and the first thing I see is this ad. Translation: "Transparency and control, all in one: The Google Account"
Are you fucking kidding me, Google???
I nearly categorized this as a joke/meme.

Dear colleague,
I do not appreciate your condescending tone when you explain things you made, or concepts I'm not familiar with. You also started at some point. Do kindly get the fuck off your high horse and act goddamn normally.
I hope you step on a Lego tomorrow morning.

I forgot how exhausting being tech support can be. I tried helping my dad update his WhatsApp earlier. He barely knows how to even use a smartphone, let alone how to update apps. I ofc auto-enabled updates through WiFi, but for some godforsaken reason he isn't connected anymore. So yeah, I've been trying to remotely troubleshoot a phone of someone who doesn't understand there's a difference between an app and the Google search bar, and that you can swipe on phones. ~.~
And if you read this until the end, have a cookie 🍪 and / or a beer 🍺- I'm having one myself now, after this, cheers!

the current project I'm working on. I'm learning Laravel and VueJS while working on it, and especially VueJS is seriously geeking me out. I've been in legacy land for far too long, and VueJS is heaven after that!

!dev
There's nothing like a good weekend rest and then turning in for the night, only to find that there apparently is a damaged water pipe right over where your mattress is, leaving your mattress super wet. I'm now trying to sleep on the couch and have to call my landlord first thing in the morning. that's my weekend relaxation gone. fml

Do you guys answer recruiters that contact you via LinkedIn? I am starting to be spammed lately, but not reacting at all seems impolite to me. thoughts?

it's amazing how much the mindset / mood you're in can influence your productivity. I had a minor spat with my teamlead earlier because I didn't get a lot done in the morning due to technical problems. That blocked me so much mentally that I hardly got anything done until I went home. I ate, calmed down, relaxed a bit and tackled my coding problem again. And within 45mins, I accomplished more than in most the workday.

How to know you're but fully awake yet, you ask? I just tried to double-tap a news article and wondered why it didn't work. ~.~

Here's to actually being done with changes in the morning, a colleague requesting a lodash function call replaced by vanilla js, and my unit tests exploding as a result of the changes. Apparently lodash is far more forgiving than vanilla js about what you throw at it. That's my day gone. I need a drink. cheers!

As a few of you possibly read in my last rant, I had to refactor a lot of my current story's code right before the deadline because senior colleague A "requested" it. Now my teamlead, who wasn't present yesterday, isn't happy with A wanting those changes. The discussion tomorrow will not be fun. Ffs people, the end of a sprint is NOT the right moment for that kind of shit. I'm not sure whether to bring popcorn or booze, so I can make my coffee Irish.

I finished a story of my sprint in VueJS, which is new to me, with occasional help from colleague A. I put it through to code review, and colleague B refuses to approve it before I rebuild half the codebase of my story to improve it. In a framework I am still very much learning. The sprint ends in two days. There isn't enough coffee for this. Fml. Help.

I think I may have just found the worst calendar design yet. Why. just why???

To git rebases: thank you, and fuck you, respectively.
Thank you for allowing me to integrate my colleagues' changes into my own, fuck you for all the damn conflicts I get that eat up so damn much of my time.
So: Have a cookie, then go fuck yourself.

I saw a guy wearing a hoodie saying "trust me, I'm a programmer" recently. and I immediately not trusted him. Does anyone who really codes actually wear something like that?

that would be:
1.) when a co-worker belittled me for asking a question about a piece if code he wrote in a technique that I'm not familiar with, and mainly:
2.) when my contract wasn't extended and I received an invitation to improve the onboarding process for new employees the next day

I'm going drinking with my colleagues tonight. If I don't make through the night, please track my phone (to possibly find my drunken ass) and delete my browser history

Warning:: Buzzword alarm!
I was doing smalltalk earlier and this guy asks me what I do for a living. me: I work for a company that builds software that is, among other things, able of giving your company prognosises how busy it'll be, so they can plan ahead. Him: ohhh, so like Big Data?
Me: *dies a little inside*... yeah, that's right! (didn't feel like having the talk with him at that point). No dude, not everything is big data 😥

age ++, and my army is growing

I was a backend dev for pretty much my entire professional career and recently made the switch to fullstack. writing frontend, framework-based code feels like being a total newbie again. It took me an (for me) embarrassingly long time to simply fetch data from the backend, and filter and display it. I hope tomorrow goes easier, but tonight, all my brain is still capable of is playing the tetris melody on repeat.

I thought I had conquered a piece of complex logical code, after hours of work... ran my tests, and it turns out there is one tiny subscenario that didn't occur to me. fml.

Your dev duck jumped into the heated oven when it saw your code

I just had to explain my dad that he can scroll down on a website. fml.

I start to grasp why sprints are called the way they are. tomorrow is the last day of my first one and I'm fucking exhausted.

The boss I had at one of my internships was pretty cool and only managed when it was actually necessary. I will forever remember him for the following scene though: The colleague I shared an office room with had just gotten something incredibly complicated done and was staring out of the window for a moment to relax. Boss walks in. She, without looking up: "Not now.". Boss looks at me, grins, and walks out again without a word.