Docker has taken out 2 of our (6) on prem servers.

It's forked 65k processes to run a health check on 4 stacks...

How's your day going?

Jira for one of my personal projects has an epic called "progress repo". No description. No child tasks. It seems vaguely famiar, but I've got no idea what I was talking about 4 weeks ago...

Me: I prefer to make sure dev is fully separated from prod, that way if we fuck up, it doesn't matter.

Manager: It's fine, the service isn't fully deployed and dev/prod are named differently.

Me: runs ansible script to stop dev
*prod breaks*

Me: Huh. Wonder why that happened.

Why are data scientists such bad coders? 🙈

IT admin on paternity leave since Friday.

Can't access one of our servers, backup person can't find their password.

So... Looks like I'm doing something else for a bit.

Me: "Some kind of algebra library would be really useful for this code/math course I'm doing, but it'd be hard to write"

Python devs: "Is this what you're looking for?"

https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html

Me: Yes. I'm now conflicted, coz on one hand I'm like, "I don't want to use any external hard to use libraries because that's the point of teaching it... But this makes the math easier to understand..."

I quite like devRant's "discussion" tab. It's a shame it's hidden away in the overflow menu (at least on android).

Software engineers: "Maths is hard and scary!"

Also software engineers: "I've learnt to write a balanced binary search tree in c++ as interview prep!"

Mathematicians: "Have you guys heard of an AVL tree?"

If I press the attach image dialogue in the devRant android app, then don't select anything and back out instead, the app shits itself. Takes ages to respond, I usually just go to the task switcher and dismiss the task and open the app again.

Anyone else?

s10, android 11.

And if so, could someone else raise an issue on github? I don't want to associate this profile with anything that's demonstrably me.

What's the nerdiest book in your bookcase?

I have ADHD. If you don't know what that means, for me it makes me a better software engineer. I can't do repetitive, so my code is by definition DRY. If someone needs help, I'll notice and help because my brain can't filter out the emotion of someone struggling. I fixate on problems I don't know how to solve, I literally struggle to stop myself. The list goes on. But, at its heart, who gives a shit?

I'm a software engineer, and I'm good at what I do. Does anything else matter?

I've just spent 20 minutes swearing about this to a friend. I'm now past "blind incoherent rage". 50% of managers in a survey said they'd be "uncomfortable recruiting and line managing a neurodiverse individual". Why the fuck should I have to hide my condition? FUCK THEM.

I may still be a bit angry.

Reference for managers being bad people: https://peoplemanagement.co.uk/news...

Apparently I'm INFJ, seeing this was much quicker than those silly personality questions.

I wouldn't want to run a company, but I keep hearing about incompetent bullshit and so I think I want to run a company and not fuck it up.

Thoughts?

As an update on how work is going, my rep on here has jumped about 1k in the last week. 🤔😐🤨

Am I right in thinking that the ++ count in your profile page only references rants you've upvoted, and not comments you've upvoted? 😢

So, incase anyone was thinking of trying it, windows 11 is a bit of a mess. Not as bad as 8 tho.

I use multiple audio outputs, switching between them is now a couple of extra menus deep, my wallpaper stopped working, if you've got virtualbox and wsl2 you have to uninstall or disable one of them (currently). The task bar is now fixed on the bottom, not movable. I got annoyed by that and reverted.

Please ignore, need to raise an issue with admin

So, I probably shouldn't post about this publicly, but I'm just exhausted.

There's a moment when you're writing a grievance letter to the CEO, and you're saying things like "evidence of discrimination includes a letter signed and sent via email and post by the CTO", and you have to giggle to yourself when you add "by default, I have not sent this letter via post as I believe this is a more environmentally friendly approach, however am more than happy to do so"

So, I found out that Facebook is down by reading people's rants.

When it's stack overflow, let me know. Then the world is burning.

So uhhhh, I think maybe someone is trying to communicate...

Y'all go share some love with them.

Kevlin Henney said it best. Old is the new new. Tech goes in cycles. Lambda functions aren't new, they've been around since the 70's. Microservices aren't new. Linux is built out of small applications that do one thing, and do it well.

So what can you do that is "new"? Different. Learn a new domain. You're front end? Do back end. You're back end? Do some DB. You're full stack? Do some ML.

At the same time, finding the time to do those things is hard. I barely manage to do my job with other stuff going on.

You can also try to be better at what you do day to day. Find someone that's better than you. If you're the best in your team, maybe see if anyone needs teaching.

Kevlin Henney talk:
https://youtu.be/AbgsfeGvg3E

This week can be summed up as "well fuck".

Currently matched with someone on a dating app that's a "business analyst" at a "tech company", and I'm starting to wonder if recruiters have gotten sneaky.

Work: You're not allowed flexi time to accommodate your medical conditions

So anyway, I've missed the last 2 days of work because of medical conditions that could have been accommodated by flexi time.

Stack Overflow. You Legends.
Source: https://twitter.com/StackOverflow/...

You remember that turtle game where you draw stuff? And lemmings. My dad got me playing with those at a young age. And one time I was ill as a kid, he took me into work with a briefcase full of lego, he woked away quietly while the rest of the office set doom up for me. Pretty awesome.

"For Product projects *company name omitted* uses a combination of Waterfall and Agile methodologies".

Wow. Nice they're actually admitting they're doing it. But the paper that explained what Waterfall was spent most of the time explaining why it was a bad idea.

My plan for the morning: 2 hours getting poked by doctors. How's your day going?

FYI: Oracle Cloud has 2 servers "always free". Probably useful for some of you. Personal projects n such.

Rant: I've just submitted a customer support ticket coz the sign up isn't working for me.