Coding sometimes feels easy. Today I worked on a ticket. Everything went smooth. Just moved from having quite a few JS tickets to scala. Intelli Sense did most of the work for me. So much more complicated when you have a dynamic language. And it was all done so quickly. At some point I even wondered why I am getting paid when the IDE did all the heavy lifting.

Well, as it was time to set up the merge request, I booked my time, expecting smugly to have been far under expectations.

I was spot on the estimated two hours. I wasn't fast. Time just flew because I had fun. Next time I have to estimate extra time. Couldn't have made it if I had stuck anywhere.

These moments in normal life that really show that you are a programmer, using programming to solve extremely mundane problems. I just had one of those and I want to share.

So, I am on this website. And they have a refresh button. And I have to wait and click periodically on that refresh button. I don't like to do that manually, but that's how the page is done. And refresh the page is not an option either, because then I have to click my way through the web app until I get to that refresh button again.

So, here is the incredible simple solution. CTRL+Shift+c brings up firefox's select element dialog. Selected the element and right clicked on the element in the DOM representation. Chose use in console and then wrote this simple line of code: const timeout = setInterval(() => temp0.click(), 5000);

I love those spontaneous coding solution. Has anyone anything like that to share?

What I thought coders would do when they are at home?

Building and automating everything in their life. How about a button on your wall automatically ordering your favourite pizza? A drone with a camera on the balcony that automatically gets triggered when someone rings the bell, flying down as a high tech and cool door bell camera?

Now that I am a developer, what am I writing in my spare time? Grease Monkey scripts that auto display none the "please do not use add blocker" notices. Living the life!

Kubuntu, why can't you empty your bloody swap. Swapiness is already at zero. Still my swap starts filling with easy 4 GB of 16 still free of my actual ram. Wonder if that's a docker thing...

Coding day is starting now. Listening to Rise against the machine. Could the band's name fit any better?

Recursively go through a file structure, returning all files as a List of java.io.File? 3 Lines. 4 If you count the method declaration. And I could have gone shorter, just wanted to upkeep readability. I bloody love Scala.

Changing to a language you haven't used in two weaks means guessing if it was 'elif', 'elsif' or 'else if'. Whatever the syntax highlighting catches first.

I feel for you guys,

My inbox is bombarded with emails asking me to give my permission for saving my data again, thanks to the new European data protection laws, which will go live the day after tomorrow.

Which means a lot of you guys are doing overtime today and tomorrow to work towards this deadline. Not me, though. Still. I want to share two sentiments with you:

1. Whatever management just decided at the last minute that they need that done before Friday, fuck them.
2. I repeat my initial words, I feel for you.

Just tried to figure out why in my scala application a function declaration started with a dot.

Like this:

def functionName: returnValue = {
.something()
}

how the fuck could I call a method here? And a method of what exactly? Until I ran my finger down the code and wiped away the piece of dirt on my screen I took for a dot!

Just signed my first contract as coder. I will finally be paid for writing code. I haven't been paid for doing something I like for years.

I use light mode. I am a rebel.

I hunt a bug for hours. Nothing works. It's getting late. I want to go to bed, but I cannot leave it in an destroyed state like this. The whole application is a mess. Finally, I understand what's happening. Finally I find the issue. I correct the bug. Proudly I commit my fix. Git reports: +1 insertion, -1 deletion.

Every bloody time I work on a ticket and am about to be done... "git commit -av" Looking at the branch... Bloody hell, I am working again in master... Aborting commit. Checkout -b to a new branch... Committing... Going back to master... Merging my new branch into master... This exercise seems so pointless.