Unpopular opinion: Having a beard helps convince others that you are a senior engineer

> be me
> starts job at a new company
> team likes me, coworkers appreciate my skills
> bosses have plans for my future
> insomnia hits
> wakes up at noon
> 15 missed calls, 20 unread messages at the start of my second week, some from the client firm
> cuss-word.jpeg

Please tell me it's not that bad and I'm not the only one that gets bent over by poor sleeping habits :(

I just gave a 20 minute presentation in front of fifty people, and apparently did well enough that I got five private compliments afterwards, including one from the vice president. 🥳

And all of that without a single drop of rum!

Wanna mess with users? Take

“OK” and “Cancel”.

You know what looks visually the same but means the opposite?

“NO” and “Confirm”.

Deploy that little ui update overnight and watch the world burn.

I hope everyone ia safe and is wfh enabled.

@ynnk </3

I don't like interview coding challenges. At the same time, given the skill level of some developers I've worked with who work for a contracting firm and presumably didn't get a coding test in their intervies...I understand the necessity. Some people are so bad at coding that even the simplest of coding tests can show how bad they are.

I think my favorite is being given a simple task to write code for. And that's it. No "use this specific language feature to do this specific thing". Just a task and that's it.

I got a really simple coding test once. I had to reverse a string. I could choose any language. Presumably they wanted to see loops or something, but I just used Python and did this: string[::-1]

I got the job.

Finally got 'em!
I totally forgot about it and it worked!

Fucking true confidence is the key to interviews

for fucks sake

How to fail (successfully):

Build your startup with Firebase.

Our team just got the best email from our client hahaha

There are two types of people on DevRant:

Those who add tags
and
those who give a fuck about them.

the advantage of dating a non-dev: she thinks I'm incredibly smart when I describe what I'm working on, when in reality I have no clue what I'm doing 🙃

Friday evening at work be like

Anyone?

So we're both software engineers and we're getting married tomorrow

As a Dev,
I hate writing Docs.

As a Dev,
I hate it when there's no Docs.

Vicious Cycle.

At the top of a 2000+ line source file

How to vertically center in css..

The deadline is tomorrow and we should work for extra hours to make it through! Oh look, a video about roman army structure!

This > whiteboard

When you have the users test your application

I'll start implementing this in my apps too.

My form of rubber ducking is starting to post a question on StackOverflow and realizing in the middle of typing the reason for the bug I've struggled with all day.

When you realize you're spending all your time on a skill set that would be 100% useless in the apocalypse....

Scalability

When people spend too much time on 404 pages...

Everytime.

You pay a dev for 8 hours of work, he/she thinks about (ie. works on) the problem for 24...
Best deal ever :/