Does anyone else ever get so distracted/tired/pent up with other shit going on that they become a liability?

Last night I had about 5 hours sleep and have been worried over general UK politics lately.

Today, on a phone call to get support over getting locked out of our Apple Developer Program account, the call centre agent asked if we had the password.

I immediately replied "Sure! It's **begins saying actual password allowed over the phone**

If anyone can help I'd be very appreciative

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Feeling like I've gone back in time about 15 years!

Just told my CTO about various improvements we could make to the development process. Things like git, continuous delivery, agile project management apps such as Jira, task management such as Gulp, etc.

His response - "never heard of them. I bet they'll pass in a few months. Just another round of fads".

Genuine problem, not a rant

Started a new frontend developer/designer/graphic designer job recently. I feel technically capable, no problem there. Just noticing a pattern of repeatedly missing deadlines.

Its a very busy office, with various people all coming to me with things they need me to do. Never worked in an environment so busy before.

Doesn't help that they force me to manage my tasks by spreadsheets, communication by email, deployment by filezilla and no version control, but not convinced I'd still meet deadlines if I had a better setup.

I'm stuck with Linux using Inkscape and Gimp (cos my boss is a tight arse that's why!) and one of my clients just sent me an .ai file.

**The moment you realise your client is better equipped to do your job than you are**

Legit the file name chosen by a client. Honestly haven't renamed it at all.

I did save the cropped version of the screenshot so I can upload this as a GIF though.

I have literally just been asked to make the design "POP out of the screen – 3D effect – do as many
samples as you can – your free reign of artistic skills !!!"

During the first few months of my first professional development role, I had a really odd bug on a live WordPress site that I couldn't replicate locally, despite having the same code and dependency setup. Using WordPress was a mistake but not the one I'm writing about.

I decided to copy live site and its database. Then I thought it best to delete all the users from the copy of the database (I'm not sure why I thought I should do that) and I did so via the WordPress admin UI.

What I wasn't aware of was there was a custom function to email the user before they get deleted.

I got inundated with hundreds of confused/angry/hysterical users about their accounts being deleted, even though they hadn't actually been, and a telling off from the boss.

Starting a new side project and I am determined to do it right.

Just finished writing the features list and now I'm writing the documentation. Not written a single line of code not, nor even created a repository.

How do you deal with clients continuously rewriting the content for a static website and every time you deploy they rewrite it again?

Some pages of this site I'm currently working on are on their 6th version just for written content changes!

I wanna drive over there and punch them every time they do.

Last year I applied for a similar position to that I have now (Front-end Dev), but with a higher salary and less responsibility.

The interview went fairly well I thought, but I was also given a short written exam, where I was supposed to point out errors in the code provided. I'm certain I got everything right but I took too long (about 20 minutes for 20 questions) and they got inpatient pressing me several times.

My excuse was that I haven't used a pen in about 3 years. My hand didn't know what was happening! Who even writes anything anymore nowadays?!

When a client says they no longer have time for one of their websites and asks you to make it completely autonomous.

Yeah sure, I'll go ahead and install Skynet on it right away!

I no longer have any motivation to work with that client.

I don't work on bugs. Instead I improve the usability of undocumented features.

Just spent 10 minutes wondering why my change log hadn't updated after I knew I made a change to a file.

I updated the public version instead of the src.

Am I the only one that loses some, if not all, motivation when they can't figure out a way of overcoming a problem that doesn't involve a nauseating hack?

Wat?!

"Have you tried to acronym to the nickname of the proprietary acronym acronym from the acronym vernacular?"

When you've written out a grand and glorious rant or maybe an idea for a new feature, you're about to hit Post, then suddenly you realise - "Nah, that's shit" and close the modal.

To most non-dev people, being hit with error after error when fixing one small problem out of a much bigger collection of problems would probably be infuriating.

To me, it's a huge loop of:
for(var failsAtLine = 1; failsAtLine < lines.length; failsAtLine++;) {
changeSomething();
runTest();
readErrors();
cry();
comtemplateMeaningOfLife();
}

openChampagne();

Would help if deployer.org had better documentation and bigger support community.

sudo rm -R /got/bolton/army /got/bolton/face

SSSHHHH!! GOT is on!

So relatable....

Two years ago I said good riddance and go fucking die to everything Microsoft and I haven't looked back since.

I can work completely on my Mac. Life is now stress free.

I found this article today ( http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/... ) and within minutes my team started abusing poor scorebot on slack. Didn't take long until we had to uninstall.

while( $emails == 0 ) {
getDrink( 'tea' );
doSideProject();
}

Emojifiable is now a word? 😕

Home early. Dinner cooked. Apple TV on and now eagerly awaiting the start of WWDC.

Most normal people will now be heading home before enjoying their weekend with alcohol and hopefully friends and family.

However I can get pissed on 2 bottles of cider. Friends are busy tonight and family is elsewhere.

So tonight will be spent on designing a side project drunk and tomorrow will be spent repeatedly saying "what the fuck" while reviewing it. Either something good or something terrible will happen. Wish me luck.

Where'd my points go?! I can't find them anywhere!

Does 11 hours a week make me a serial ranter, a rantophile or both?

Thought I'd see what all you guys from across the pond are raving on about with Silicon Valley. It's not a tv show that anyone I know, including my dev colleagues, talk about. Suffice to say I'll definitely be recommending it to every geek I know.