Co-workers: "But we have always written our scripts in Perl"

Me: "Nope not a good reason to keep using it."

This made laugh for a moment until the truth sunk in

Finally had a weekend to myself to work on some projects. I got my hands on a Sonoff switch. Did a manual flash of some new firmware and got it setup on my crappy old washer to do a little DIY smart home upgrade.

Always nice to get to do a personal project 😊 Just wish I had time to tinker more.

Our parent company nixed our entire QA team last year and now they wondering why our product releases are so unstable lately.

Who needs QA anyways. Their solution is to just stop writing code with bugs in it.

Just had someone branch off my repo of some class assignments I did last year.

What are they up to.....

Better not be doing what I think he's doing.

Nothing like trying to fix a product breaking bug in someone else's code that just ran off on vacation for a week. 😒

Even this Google Survey knows the pecking order for voice assistants 🤣 Cortona gets a dedicated line while Bixby gets the "Other" line.

Screw AIX! More importantly screw the IBM designer that though cache batteries were a good way to monitize their platform to help validate the service contracts. I guess it "works", but at what cost?

Just lost the last 4 business days going down this rabbit hole with a customer's server.

Edit: Quick note, yes, the customer is on track for a migration soon.

Nice try Trello....

Scored another win as the family tech guy! I found out my wife's sister and her husband were storing all their passwords in a Excel spreadsheet. Long story short they are now using a password manager. 😁

Caught someone testing in production on my way home the other day....

Just accepted a new position with a raise!

Feels good.

When you get paid for every commit or release to your app repo.

Thank goodness noise cancelling headphones exist. I have a coworker who loves running a white noise machine at his desk all day. 😒

But now I don't have to listen to it 🙉

Best purchase I have made all year.

Some people are a little too sensitive about harmless practical jokes. 😒

This popped up on Best Buy while I was looking around for ideas for my next chair. Somehow I don't think they are on speaking terms with their daughter anymore 🤣

Watching Google Analytics for my company's customer facing tools.

Almost half our traffic is made up of IE and Edge.

In that IE group, somewhere, there is a sad strange little user still on IE 8. Just one.

Poor guy.....

That moment when you double tap tweet in Twitter to like it. 🙃

Why can't more apps be like devRant!

After wasting most of the afternoon trying to fix Visual Studio, I can honestly say is is the worst IDE I have ever had the misfortune to use.

Seems the only way to "fix" it is to erase it and reinstall.

Fml

Any fellow devRanters here at OpenWest conference today?

Goodbye Inbox 😢

Hello Spark!

What a bunch of liars....Gmail still doesn't have all my "favorite Inbox features"!

One of the better filler release notes I guess. Not as good as Slack or Discord but still better than Google.

Sample Merge Conflict 🤣

Another day, another dead Google project.

Really wish Google could get messaging right.

What's the most number of lines you have written for a project without testing and then had it run the first time? Also for context, what language did you use?

Feeling pretty good with my 200+ in C#.

Nice learning experience from Spotify. If a survey response might contain negative feedback, just don't allow it to submit.

Clever Spotify ;)

If you could keep only one alias from your {bash, zsh, etc...}rc what would it be?

One of my biggest tech related peeves, someone shows a video as part of their presentation but doesn't use full screen or even worse leaves the cursor over the video.

Feeling like a boss! 😎

Long story short:
Solved a formating issue in a program at work by using ancii code 32.

Even my team lead didn't think of that solution!