My latest "joke-app" has been published yesterday.

I highly doubt that anyone will buy it, but still, I hope someone will!

The whole point, of course, is that you can show off how rich you are by buying this stuff. nothing else.

If anyone is about to tell "rich people will have iPhones" the answer is "the app is only on playstore because I'm not rich at all and don't want to pay Apple, plus if you're really rich, just buy a phone and then buy the app"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...

So yeah, need money so I started looking for extra projects to develop and found a project to make "the new facebook" and it just kinda sucks.

I just got access to the whole codebase and it's done using angular, nodejs and typescript (which is cool to me), while the dude contacting me was telling me it was done in react (which is kinda a big no for me).

Well, anyway, I start by cloning the repo and the npm-i the whole thing, it's not even at 10% of the whole process and I already got like 50 deprecated packages over maybe a hundred needed (total of 2054 node modules installed).

Well I kinda don't even know where to start from this, all I know is that I'm gonna do it just for the money so I'll be a little underpaid (about 500$/month) while according to me the price should be about 1500$/month, but I can't do it full-time, so it kinda works out.

In the past months, every week or so, boss asked me:
"So what are you doing now?"

My typical reply was "finished thing and then gonna move on the oculus project to update that"
To which, he always replied with: "Nah, leave it, focus on all the other platforms"

Today we have to send the Oculus version to a big client and yet nothing is updated because it never was a main thing to update.

I will surely fuck something's up on this app, but not gonna take the blame.

I'm not a server-man, I mostly just develop apps in unity and similar stuff.

Boss: yo, can you make this work? I just can't understand https://github.com/ant-media/...
Me: Well IDK, there's a "start.sh" in it, just give it a try
*error*: /usr/local/antmedia cannot be found
Me: well then just put the whole thing in it.
*everything works flawlessly*

did you do magic?

Developing in Unity for Android.
>install UMP Pro for Android, iOS from assets store
>latest version on store: 1.7.3
>documentation in the plugin itself
>wow that's rare!
>open documentation
>"User Manual"
>"Version 2.0.3"
Wtf? is this documentation coming from the future?

My boss asked me and another one to make a webapp that uses socket.io as "api".
There are 2 client apps (one in ionic+react the other one just react) and the server code (nodeJS)

Now he started working on it too but he has no experience of nodeJS and no experience whatsoever on react and only heard of ionic.

on his first deploy nothing connected anymore.

But i gotta say I appreciate the fact he's trying to keep himself up to date with technologies we're using

> scrolling through facebook feed
> see ad to apply as an app developer at carrefour
> "you might win 300€ to spend at carrefour"
> "we're searching for an app developer"
> apply
> first test is to make a button that adds stuff to an HTML list, very basic
> pass the first test
> get an email: "you can candidate to the next phase and might get a job"

MFW I just wanted to get 300€ and not a job

Had an issue while running `fortune | cowsay`

* Cough Cough *

REF: https://reddit.com/r/...

I know it's not really related to development, but I got in a discussion on twitter and one dude tweeted "in science, 1 isn't 1"
And so I was like "mate what? science is highly dependent on math and in math, 1 is kinda always worth math"

And this this girl comes in and just says:
"it's not true that 1 is always 1 because there's binary code as well"

And was was like totally astonished, like, have you even studied something? 1b = 1d = 1x and it's always 1 in whatever base!
(she even says she's some sort of engineer in her bio)

Let's say you're building an application for a very specific android device, and you know exactly what it comes with (OS, architecture, Graphics libraries, RAM, ecc)

I can't really make HUGE changes to my code, but since I'm working with unity, I cant make some changes in the way the APK is built.

So let's say my device is ARCH64, uses OpenGLES3.1 and has 4GB of RAM, what are the improvements in making the APK for 64bits instead of 32?

Gotta love Oculus dashboard for developers

Also, I tried uploading 5 screenshot all together, and the loading bar (you can see it in the screenshot) gives informations about the upload progress of the files. but since there are 5 different files, you get the loading bar going back and forth

So my company has 2 different apps that work using the same API located on 2 different servers.

I mistakenly uploaded both apps to the store with the same server reference.

QA tester alerts me on this issue.

Boss: hey, I the tester said both apps works with server1, ask her more info

Me: (what extra info should I need? I've already been told what's the issue in details, so what's the point?) ok, will do.

Me to QA: hey, do really both apps work on the same server?

QA: yeah

Me to QA: ok, will fix

What the fuck have I accomplished by asking the QA team about it?

Not moving from home, which in my case means I don't get to ride my bike/motorbike

Lovely unity.

I kept building apps for android for the WHOLE day, then I just change the app version and what do I get?

No android SDK version is installed anymore, apparently.

Now I'll just have to wait like 3-4h to download everything back again.

If you could randomly decide that a specific software platform (like an entire OS) will not exist tomorrow, what would it be? And why iOS?

There's always a moment when your entire codebase starts breaking up piece by piece and you just wonder why did you choose this job, why you are a programmer, why you don't work at a bar or something like that

My boss' solution to whatever problem comes from a plugin:

spam emails to the plugin creator until they dont desperately give up and either block you or they solve your problem, 2 emails a day should do for first day, then increment every day.

I mean, if I ever get to make a good plugin and my boss will ever download it and can't make it work, I much rather remove the plugin from Earth than solve the issue of a spammer

E-Mail from client who couldn't add the WhatsApp link in her website:

"so if I click the link they can directly send the message through WhatsApp?"

Why the fuck would you click your own link to message yourself?
How is it that people can barely speak and still be a business owner?

Random recruiter viewing my linkedin profile:
"oh, this dude knows C#, I gotta send him EVERY single .net job I have"

Nah, mate, I don't know shit about .net or microsoft development in general, furthermore I actually despise developing for either windows or mac os x.
Also, take 2 extra seconds to check I don't have .NET or Microsoft development in my skills list.

Let's say the app you built costs X.
How much would you make the customer pay for the non-mantained source code as it is at that specific point?

I'm asking because I just found a library which costs 50$ for compiled version and 2000$ for source code

While developing whatever website that uses Boostrap, my boss always says:
"PLEASE JUST USE BOOTSTRAP CLASSES to make it easier for everyone else to actually operate on that after you're done"

I'm now working on a project started by him and OMG the mess.

The only bootstrap classes he's using are col-* and text-*, the rest is all custom classes like nopad, which is the equivalent of p-0 m-0.

I mean, I might get you use less bytes writing nopad, but be consistent with what you say

Running brew install PHP

I soon get that brew is installing python and compiling its sources.

WHY?

The more I work here the clearer it gets:
I just fucking can't make websites anymore.
I totally can't work on graphics, I can't transform a PSD into responsive HTML.

I fucking despise CSS, computers having different resolutions, having different browsers, doing mobile, doing iOS/safari which is always something extra.

I'm tired of not getting the appropriate resources and then people asking me why it just doesn't look the same.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT MY FUCKING JOB! I MAKE STUFF WORK, I DON'T MAKE IT LOOK PRETTY, I HATE PRETTY THINGS

So I'm in Italy, close to Milan, the biggest infected zone in the whole country.

I'm still going to work as we're in 2 people in the office and we're alone in a 90 square meters office, so no big deal after all.

My city is actually empty right now, so I'm just going from home to work speeding on my motorcycle (no really that speeding, since my motorcycle isn't that powerful)

So nothing really changed actually and I'm still working the same way I did before

So what am I supposed to do?
Stay connected for life?

I have to stop this in the first place, but:
Rebuilding something that already exists as a plugin or module.

Why the fuck should I make everything from zero if there's already something working that suits all of my needs?

On the other hand, avoid abusing the usage of plugins in order to avoid demolishing performance

So I did make a few website, they kinda worked well, but they really were ugly as fuck in terms of UI and UX.

So everytime a company was asking "have you got any website to show"

"NO, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT, BUT YOU CAN TRUST ME I'M A REALLY GOOD DEVELOPER"

So I'm I'll right now and my boss needed to upload an app to Apple store.

So the app was made in unity and it already takes like 5m just to build from unity to xcode.

After that. He could not figure out how to upload the stuff bc there was a missing provisioning profile and then the team information was missing and then other tens of stuff.

Now android does not have this problem at all, like why is iOS so complicated? Fuck Apple

I often wonder why was the marquee tag deprecated