Just finished my last day! On to bigger and brighter things.

Playing piano

Funny how it's the conversation when I give my 2 weeks notice that all this comes up, like:

1) how they were "talking about giving me a raise"
2) how they were "hiring more people" so I could spend more time coding and less time doing bullshit
3) how they were going to fix all the other broken things in the company

How do you think it would fly if instead they fired me and I promised to fix everything that's wrong about my working there after the fact?

Anyway, I knew they would pull this bullshit so it was expected. Excited that I signed the new offer today. Finally getting market rate pay and expecting better work environment as well. 🐶

Would you rather have an awesome manager but be on call or not be and call with okay manager?

Should I get a Surface Laptop 2 or Surface Pro 6 for development?

1. Be lost in thought less.
2. Listen to people more attentively.
3. Read 3 computer science books.

Note: Last year my resolution was to read 3 computer science books and I'm proud to say that I read 2.5 computer science books. Didn't fully reach it but 2 and a half books in a year is damn better than 0. They were: "Clean Code", "The Mythical Man-Month", and half of "Algorithms 4th Edition".

Is there an encryption/decryption algorithm that's guaranteed to have an output of less than 100 chars? Say to encrypt messages less than 50 chars in length

Thinking of making a calculator app that is implemeted with microservices.

Like multiplication service calls addition service, and power service calls multiplication service, and expression service can call all of those, etc.

Next I need to figure out how to add AI to it

Skypes emojis suck

1. Go to YouTube on desktop
2. Scroll down
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1) I accepted this job for way way less money than market value.

2) Approached boss about having performance review because I had been here over 12 months and no one brought it up to me.

3) Had performance review where they offered a big raise (12% but still way under market value)

4) I countered asking for market value and showed aggregate research (30% increase)

5) A week later we meet again and they offer 23%.

6) That's where we ended at, pretty surprised they offered that much, but glad. I wasn't looking forward to looking at other jobs to catch up to market value.

7) Feeling pretty good considering I've never negotiated anything before.

First vacation in a year. How do I spend it not thinking about work at all?

How much do you value alternative benefits to straight $$$?

Obviously subjective, but how much money would you part with for:

Vacation time
Flexible hours
Telecommuting
Equity
Workspace improvement
Other perks

Opinions on recruiters? Who has gotten a great job from a recruiter that reached out to them? Is it true that they tend to fill jobs that are hard to fill?

I think there is a bump in the YouTube loading circle and it's really bothering me

Betting available to have to answer support calls at any moment that distracts me for the next 2 hours

No wonder why people get hooked on TDD.

Passing tests are like crack to me right now

Company kept scaling work but not employees

Come to terms with imposter syndrome. Be part of a project I'm deeply interested in.

Here's some of my favorite quotes from "The Mythical Man-Month":

"The bearing of a child takes nine months no matter how many women are assigned".

"The management question ... is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers."

"I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure."

Eye drops help a lot with headaches I feel

Looking for next book to read:

*Googled "Mythical Man Moth"
*Realized that it auto corrected to "Mythical Man-Month"

Ever since I heard of the book I pondered what the hell the title could mean, thinking about analogies of devs to moths...

I've never felt so stupid and disappointed at the same time.

I was really excited when I first implemented boids.

How many of you have asked for a raise? How many have gotten it? How big was it? Did you leverage another job offer? How long did you work until you got it?

I discovered the Source Making website a couple weeks ago, it's awesome.

It gives you clear tutorials on the essential design patterns and refactoring techniques complete with example situations and code. Love it!

Spent 2 days on a client's site to do an install of our equipment on a huge project. Pretty rare for our company to install themselves.

And holy shit, I'm so glad this isn't my everyday work

Rollercoaster Tycoon

This app is amazing for learning/refreshing your knowledge on algorithms: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...

I'm a junior dev less than 1 year into my first job out of college. I'm halfway done reading Clean Code (my first software book out of college) and I'm really enjoying it!

What should I read next? I was thinking something about design patterns. Should I go for the classic GoF book or continue with Robert C Martin and read "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices"?