For the love of all things sacred, put a damn space between your parentheses and whatever comes before/after them. It is totally not cool to read if(expression){}.

No, seriously, I mean that.

39 hours. Finished building an Excel tool to help me convert rows of data into Magento custom products in seconds instead of minutes. Then I used said tool on a huge load of data and worked my ass off to get it done by some deadline. I honestly forgot what for.

Writing a function to take a string of delimited entities, parse each character to find the separators, capture the characters in between separators, and return an array of entities.

I used this for about a year before I learned about String.split()

Yeah.

Bugs that vanish when you look for them are the best kind of bugs.

Going on vacation for a couple of days next week. So, apparently, the people scheduling the on-call rotation think it's a great idea to assign me on-call duty next week.

ME: ...you know I'm going on vacation, right?

THEM: Oh don't worry, nothing ever happens, and 95% of the time it's just this easy stuff that can be dealt with quickly.

ME (internally): ...I was taking this vacation time to get *away* from having to think about work. Now I'm going to have to keep this in the back of my mind the entire time I'm away, checking for alerts, and potentially interrupt my flow to deal with work, defeating the point of why I'm taking the down time.

Fuck this. If I'd known earlier I'd have tried to get the time rescheduled, but of course this happens on the weekend, the day before.

FUCK Internet Explorer

Just fuck it

Go die in a fire and burn the ashes, you outdated, flea-infested, psychopathic bastard. Then drown in your own grave and go to hell.

Decided to look at Firebase tonight, to see what's what. Before accessing the demo project, it promoted me to review the Terms of Service. I obliged.

...holy fucking shit, dude.

http://joshanthony.info/2018/06/...

My first in-depth tutorial, on React. I'd love feedback on the project and my writing style, if anyone is willing!

Started writing a blog post about a simple React project I created. Several hours later and I've finally gotten to the part where I'm creating the first component.

...this going to be one long-ass blog post. :P

So...if Microsoft now owns Github...then they also own Atom.

*sips grape juice and watches mass exodus from Atom to other editor*

Psst, anyone who wants to use VS Code, but likes the key bindings for X editor: VS Code lets you use the default key bindings for most editors. Just search for it on the extensions marketplace.

"Error in your build"

I KNOW, I WAS JUST CHANGING A COUPLE OF QUOTATION MARKS, OK?

So I came up with an interesting idea for a quick side project. "Should be doable in an afternoon," I thought to myself.

Then I sat myself down and started diagramming all the components and sections I'd need to build. Suddenly, simple project no longer seems so simple.

...dammit, not again.

Welp.

From a movie theater ad screen.

If I have to listen to one more trendy, simplistic, shallow, preppy pop song I'm going to snap and beat the living tar out of whatever happens to be in swinging range.

...ok, I won't. But man I'll be tempted.

My current desk setup.

People who use word-break: break-all on body paragraph content need to stand in a narrow, claustrophobia-inducing room, cut off their left hand, and hold it up against the right-hand wall, while holding the stump of their left arm against the left wall. That's what it feels like to read break-all in longform content.

Launch my entertainment company and leave [day job] to focus on it. If things go really well, have enough money to spend my time working on whatever projects I want irregardless of job.

Day 3 of trying to set up a VM for this legacy app. Demotivation is at an all-time high.

Note to self: shared folders work both ways...

Dear Microsoft,

Please kill Internet Explorer post haste. The last time I want to hear "IE" is from the screaming sounds of your hated browser dying in a fire.

Sincerely,
A web dev

Legacy app using jQuery to attach event listeners to table rows just to change the background color. That's gross, even for legacy.

Note to self: when tracking down why your data differs from the DB...make sure the damn Workbench view is fresh. It saves a couple hours of frustration and misery.

Dealing with modified PHP Blitz. Yeah, that's going as pleasantly as that sounds.

Laravel accepted my pull request! Ego boost, baby!

Didn't realize how much I got used to PHPStorm until I used VS Code for a personal project and got errors from forgetting to manually add my Use statements. :P

That moment when, after you've spent days trying to refactor your code to be clean and readable, you look at what you've made and you honestly feel like you actually made things worse than before.

Today we bought my wife her first brand-new computer. And soon she's going to start learning web stack. :D

(Oops, !rant)

Fucking Ren'Py, how hard can it be to display a window with scrollable text? Dammit!

Is it just me or is Vuex's documentation confusing?