If only all job-hunting web UIs had proper filtering options, e.g.:

- by location, job type, contract type, etc etc.

A number of them just dump all the applications in one place.. without filters.. sigh lol.

I wonder if at your company, budget for research is met with immediate "nahhh, we're not gonna do that" rather than "let's discuss it in a meeting" (where this depends on your developer rank and cronyism because yeah).

Too many companies have arrogant (ignorant) managers who immediately shut down or approve initiatives based on cronyism. It's things like this that slow down a company and make for missed opportunities.

Tired of vertical scroll websites.

Painful but true quote:
"Technology never exists in a vacuum—we’re constrained by our tools
and the social, economic, and historical factors that produced them."

The Pomodoro technique works wonderssssss!

Job market's gotten way worse. No joke: now, every job I interviewed for requires this:

1) Interview with HR
2) Interview with Hiring Manager
3) Personality test
4) Technical test
5) Interview with CEO

Only if all steps passed and vetted, then ok. It's like we're on a zero-trust policy now. Now even mom&pop shops want technical tests. Tf.

https://medium.com/@realbrickroad1/...

I don't think I would have found Wally unless someone had given a tip in the comments. I stared myself crazy for minutes on end. lmao. Definitely the most difficult Wally puzzle I found.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

That will be all.

Harry Potter chimes randomly in my mind...

Time for more weirdness.

Whenever your manager comes to you with a new request, I think you should reply with Ocean 13's Roman's line:

"“Oh, with 18 months, nothing else on my plate, no other jobs, no distractions… maybe.”

Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.

I just can't. lol

"can i get a curry goat rice and peas"
lmfao. trying not to laugh.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

This page makes me laff.

(webpage of big number facts)
https://sites.google.com/site/...

https://lightningchart.com/net-char...

Generate one trillion datapoints. Interesting. lol. I need 128 GB RAM for that, though...

"Guru meditation". Talk about weird errors... lol.

I think my mind is going a bit weird... Now I suddenly start hearing things in memes in my head. I wonder if I'm in the only one.

Examples of when something happens and my mind goes:
"The f"
"Ah shit, here we go again..."
"Huh?"
"Heh, yeah, bwoi"

Job-searching while listening to Final Fantasy VIII. Know what I'm sayin'?

Based on your experience and knowledge, can you wager a guess on the percentage of dev/production codebases at companies are actual, beautifully written, architecturally sound constructions and not a nightmare of a (spaghetti) mess that keeps requiring new architects/ai engineers/senior devs/whatever to maintain (or rewrite)? In my personal experience... let's see.. about 20% or less of all the companies I worked at. That's sad. lol

One of the challenges I find is remembering which construct works in which context. It's like.. I try to pass in rgb() in JavaScript but then I forget that only works in CSS. lmao. Things like that... Through learning a ton of mixed things, sometimes the brain mixes things up. Yes, I know it depends on how well you master your fundamentals. lol

So pissed off at this job stuff. All promises and no resolve (async pun).

At your company, ever dealt with the situation where no one has any fucking idea who's in charge of what responsibility and there is a lack of process everywhere?

"Hey, I'm onboarding. I was told to contact person x for troubleshooting."
"Uh yeah we don't know but ask that other guy"
"Uh yeah that other guy is on leave so ask this girl"
"the girl says ask other girl"

Sometimes it gets deep and shit doesn't get done for at least a week.

Sigh. There are a number of 'app' makers out there that slap their website into a WebView framework and call it 'our app'. Are you fucking kidding me? If you develop an app, make it at the very least native, not a port. Lazy fuckers.

How many of us tap their keys with their fingers extra hard even though the keyboard is responsive and flat enough? lol

Today I wrote: a mousetrail program. lol

<html>
<head>
<title>mouse trail</title>
</head>
<body>

<script>
/* elements */
let elements = [];

for(let i=0; i<5; i++) {
let div = document.createElement("div");
div.style.position = "absolute";
div.style.left += (30*i) + "px";
div.style.width = "10px";
div.style.height = "10px";
div.style.backgroundColor = "blue";
elements[i] = div;
document.body.appendChild(div);
}

/* mousex, mousey */
document.body.addEventListener("mousemove", event => {
let mouseX = event.clientX;
let mouseY = event.clientY;

for(let i=0; i<elements.length; i++) {
/* timeout */
setTimeout(() => { elements[i].style.left = mouseX + (10*i)}, (50*i));
setTimeout(() => { elements[i].style.top = mouseY + (10*i)}, (50*i));
}
});

</script>
</body>
</html>

A true dev rant now: I find it difficult to get Unicode working. There is a nice assignment in a book where you have to insert a balloon emoji on the page.

Okay, easy enough. So I use <meta charset="UTF-8"> and then the HTML entity &#x1F388; which works, but then in JavaScript it doesn't work:

<div id="output"></div>
<script>
let balloon = '\u1F388';
document.getElementById("output").textContent = balloon;
</script>
Either I don't have the right font, or something else is going on.

And now more research. This is what I find cumbersome about Computer Science; hours stuck on one single thing. lol

How long did it take you to become a... JavaScript wizard (so you are completely fluent in it, from beginner to advanced)? :cool_emoji:

A.I. says you would need about 12 months at 15 hours a week.

https://realmofdarkness.net/sb/...

I think people should secretly use Al Pacino soundboards during meetings. lol

See button 'Waste time', Angry, second row. Every time someone says something pointless.

This video shows how teachers parse students' work credibility for traces A.I.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

I think modern/good companies probably use A.I. now as well to scan an applicant's cover letter for A.I.-ness. Interesting stuff. Need to start watching out. lol

Do you prefer local environments or cloud environments?

I think the major downside of having your important functionality in public cloud (usually not the case, but) is that when a major part of the cloud goes down (say, the previous Amazon issue), your services no longer (properly) work.
Of course, there's private cloud, hybrid cloud...
Pros and cons.

I find it weird getting countless rejections saying they prefer other candidates who are 'better'. What the fuck, is the market flooded with top tier talent or something? I already have an impressive resume and apparently it's not enough.

That's the market these days. Not even an interview. Straight out rejected.