Job requirements for our company:
"Do you want to code?"
"Yes"
"You can start on Monday"

A wild merge request appears. These are your options:

A. Spend 3 days of back and forth
B. Accept MR and fix it yourself later

This, fucking, designer. He has no fucking clue what he's doing. Every minor fucking thing has to be a new fucking screen.

Toast notification? Snackbar? At least dialog? NOPE, WE NEED A NEW SCREEN.

Lead fucking designer my ass. Wasting everyone's time flapping your dick around.

Working for blockchain companies is kind of funny. They get endless money from investors, while shoveling manure.

Like developing random useless prototype applications. Registering patents left and right. Spending money on pentesting demo apps. Organising random obligatory company wide lectures, for multiple days.

If user was on the right screen, and if random error dialog happened to show, it would delete his account.

For example, if user got "Server error, please try again later", it would delete his account, after dismissing dialog.

Luckily it didn't make it to production.

Would you become a software architect? Why and why not?

Apple is really a rotten company.

They have a deal with Chinese government, so they are basically helping abuse human rights.

Recently they disabled AirDrop in China, to further prevent freedom of speech during protests. And they are threatening to remove Twitter from app store, since it Musk is ramping up free speech.

We had all hands on developer meeting. There were 2 interesting bullet points:
- deliver fast
- make quality applications

I mean, these two points are not correlated 🙈

My company outsourced project to another developer. First MR he made was 3500 lines. Looking forward to it.

"Good job coworker X for making a hotfix, that fixed crashes".

I don't get it. Poor code, no tests, bad QA and at the end of the day people get praised for fixing the crash. Cool, I guess I know how you get promoted.

Code coverage

Phone rings.

"Hello, not sure if you remember, but you've been at our job interview 3 years ago. We're just wondering, if you're currently open for work."

In my mind: "yeah, fuck no"... and decline the offer.

New Gradle logo

Budgie DE? Yay or nay?

Ever got confused where to find settings for desktop app?

File -> Settings
Edit -> Preferences
Tools -> Options

client: "I cannot access the app"
me: "How? Can't install app? Can't login? Any error messages?"
client: Sends picture, one of the screens shows error

I really don't understand some users. How does one connect the dots between "cannot access" and "screen error".

Does anyone actually use stuff like Github copilot and do you find it useful?

There is a special place in hell for people that do custom smooth scrolling on their websites.

Employed developers:
"Don't release on Friday"

Open source community:
"Don't release on Sunday"

Android users, I have a question.

How many of you do actually use Apple signup on your Android device?

http://www.strawpoll.me/46065729

How is eclipse doing these days? I got frustrated with it 5 years ago and started using IntelliJ. Is it worth giving it one more try?

Why why do people bother making so many lazy Stackoverflow spinoffs? Who would ever want to read that garbage low effort websites?

I just don't get my coworkers. They tweak designs, they tweak functionality, but no task is made.

They just simply update designs in Figma, without notifying anyone or just msg me on Slack what to change...

How the fuck do you guarantee that all those tweaks will get reflected to the app? How do you guarantee I won't forget? How do you guarantee QA will test your stupid tweaks?

By trying to do my best. Doing a good job makes me feel good and gives me even more motivation.

Also by trying something new every time. Either by using new library, new approach do to things or whatever. Just to keep stuff exciting.

My 5 cents about refactoring.

People often postpone it, making it harder down the line.

From my experience, it's better to just do it as you go. 5 min can otherwise become 30 min thing after a while, and combined with some other 5 min thing, this can become 2 hour thing after some time, for example.

Also good luck convincing management (especially bad one), that you need 2 weeks of refactoring. Doing tiny 5 min refactoring, no one will notice.

I'm working with some too smart junior. He rarely listens, does his own magic.

In his last MR, he did an ugly fix, 100 lines big. I told him exactly, what to check first, but nope, he's likes being a magician.

Now, I took 5 min and fixed it with single line of code.

Who the fuck accepted this garbage copy pasted code all over the place?! Ah, it was our "tech lead", cool.

Definition of code reviews in our company:

"Part of work that requires you to scroll to the bottom of the page and click accept button. Looking the changes is optional."

That moment in 21st century, when random programs can still cause your whole system to freeze

Do you think tracking work hours by ticket makes sense?

I think it's a waste of dev time. Not sure from PM pov.