legacy redundancy

Why dafuq do websites have a max length password policy!!!

Random code review:

contractor changes 2 lines in the .gitignore and 1 line in the composer.json and logs 4.5h against the related ticket .. hmmm

Unicorn

Go to all interviews even if you already had an offer

When your boss asks you if you know how to fix it and how long it is going to take.

Task Manager (not responding)

wk60 :
tech: tcl/tk
reason: it was my first

How do you know your IT topic you are googling for is an advanced topic ?

1) There are no ads
2) The 5th result is from a PDF or from The American Constitution

AARRGH, 20 mins of blindness and frustration

arr.length vs arr.length()

Senior management has decided developers have to spent 25% of their time / month on business related self development and improvement.

😁😁😁😁😆😆😆😆

Wk59

After almost 20 yrs, i hardly see daylight, i have become allergic to bright websites/applications.
I have lost my fitness , became fat and coffee is no longer a luxury but a daily nutrition.
8h sleep in a row feels like a week vacation used to
Saturday mornings i still wake up after a blackout but in stead of from drinking it is now of lack of sleep from the workweek.

Week till deadline

PO: are we going to have feature xyz ?
Me: it wasn't in the original spec, we'll put it in the next spec.
PO: but we made a new spec for this fase yesterday and it is in that one.
Me: you can't do that you signed off the original spec before development started
Po: but we've signed this one off too
Me: ...

Whenever tech support answers "yes, i can help you with that sir",

what they really mean is "no, but i will google it for you"

I'm part of the key staff insurance now. My position as a cto is insured. I feel dirty now.

Wooaaah job offer as cto and shareholer in startup... or senior developer in established business.

How can i even make that choice.

2 interviews today, 2 tomorrow and 1 on Friday.
I've only been put on gardening leave on Monday. Things are going well.

Ooh garden leave. Being paid to look for a new job.

Select * from meetings where subject Not like "%dev%"

That feeling when you rant more in the devRant slack channel then on devRant itself

Brilliant

that moment where you dont see the difference between pinned tabs and normal tabs

i hate varnish, returned pass instead of pipe

FML

Have plenty of rants with enough ++ but I haven't requested stickers yet. Because i don't want to put them on something that i will end up throw away anyway. Besides from my gf, there is notting I'm attached to.

In this electronic age i which there was something more useful.
Example :
- email forward for nick@devrant.io
- custom profile fields
- ..

Just don't see the fuss over stickers. Maybe when i was 12 but that's 2 decades ago. But then again. If there were no rewards, it wouldn't really make a difference for me.

Because coffee

My first real coding project was a parser for planetarion.

Years before i made an html website with frames to show off me and my brothers skating pics. But i don't count that.

When you feel the love

thank you jetbrains for "Paste from history..."

There was a rant earlier of someone working a 9 to 5 job now which i can't seem to find, wanted to answer in regards to wk26

They were complaining about it being a boring job with boring processes and not learning anything new..

you can't say that you haven't learned something new, i bet you haven't learned a new language or technology but there are plenty of other skills to be picked up from a company that have worked for this all their lives..

I mean, these kind of companies have either seen it all already and had tons of bad experiences they are trying to avoid, or then never experienced any of them but are still trying to avoid them.

I once worked for a Japanese company in Europe. All decisions (big or small) were taken by answering with the phrase : If it isn't broken, don't fix it. As a result they had an excel with over 64k complaints in them (1 row per complaint) and their website was running on 19 Sun servers, load balanced, using php 4.2 because the technology was just too old.

Point being, plenty of things to learn, getting new experiences, even if they are bad, at least now you know, how not to do things in a certain way, but all in all, working at different places, even bad ones, gives you perspective..

And perspective is important.
Perspective is experience.
It's the bit that glues the knowledge together.

Go out and explore, don't be afraid, everyone needs bad experiences, even if it was only so we can identify the good ones.

Massive payment gateway (not gonna say names) with more then 10k transactions / hour telling md5 is one of most secure encryptions they have. Only to made worse by the fact that they send the key and hashed key in the same request.

I am advising all our clients to change payment gateway asap if they use this one.

that moment when a (non dev) colleague, understands how a single character (in the entry point) can break the whole website

next time i'll explain him why websites like devrant exist..