The git log created by my coworker. It gives me a sad.

Most hobbies need funding to get started and to continue. Wood to carve, cables and electronics to solder. Programmers need only their time (as long as they have a computer). It is the most cheap thing to pick up and learn.

Whenever there is a problem I need to solve. I can solve it. Want regular news for dwarf fortress, build an app for it. Bang. Done. That is the best thing about it in my eyes. The same as a carpenter can feel great about putting together a quality cupboard and using it himself.

You all talk about your peer review ducks, I present my peer review puppy with my new stickers! I can't help but think he isn't doing his job...

When I was in college I was approached by an entrepreneur whose "search engine" idea consisted of scraping the search results of Google and posing them as his own results (after a little shuffling and filtering). Needless to say I declined.

!rant

Do you take your devRant stuff to work?

Don't you ever wonder whether they think that you are ranting about them on here?

A coworkers shameless hack. Our services have a bug being investigated that cause the server eventually to fail.

The hack? Reset the connections of every user every 6 hours and restart the servers.

-_-

I'm extremely lucky that I had parents who encouraged it. My mother was a programmer herself, working with punch tape.

They brought the family home a BBC and let me fiddle with it. When we had a PC they let me get Visual Basic (ew) which got me really interested in programming.

I tell a colleague, "Hey, could you make your commits more meaningful? A commit message of '.' helps nobody.".

He then uses 'no message' for his commits.

Also, commits every 30 seconds. I know commit often... But is that really necessary?

Why.

When I was 7-8 i was introduced to programming on a BBC Micro. You could code on it with the BASIC language directly. I found a book about coding BASIC, read it over and over like a holy text, and coded pointless password programs and maze games. From the moment I started, I knew that is what I was going to do when I was older.