Email from vendor: "Will you require SSL?"

WTF. So many problems with this question. Am I alone in my frustration? What problems do YOU see with that question?

Three years into my "on the side" consulting business, I actually turned a profit! Most of my business "expenses" are my personal AWS pet projects, certification exam fees, and my hosted Gmail accounts. I'm super excited :)

Alexa, what’s a quarter times 13?

Alexa: One US quarter times 13 is 13 US quarters.

🤦‍♂️ Alexa, what’s point two five times 13?

PagerDuty: "This shit's so slow your servers are timing out"

Dev Fix: "Let's add another layer of caching before the Redis cache!" 🤦‍♂️

Looking for feedback on Elastic's SSPL license type change. Is anybody else worried? Any other companies seek legal counsel already? What have your lawyers said about it?

One of my insurance companies made me sign a legal disclosure that they no longer support Internet Explorer for paperless options. The end is in sight!

How can AWS cancel Parlor's account but not MeWe's? Aren't they almost identical in terms of content?

I don’t work for AWS, but this just one reason why my LinkedIn profile doesn’t list the companies I work for.

Change my mind. Golang can be more difficult than it needs to be sometimes:

Find the first "non-null" value in an array:

Go:
Optional<String> result = Stream.<Supplier<String>> of(
() -> first(),
() -> second(),
() -> third() )
.map( x -> x.get() )
.filter( s -> s != null)
.findFirst();

Ruby:
@group_list.find { |x| !x["list"].blank? }

Just because your service provider implements a well-known spec one way doesn't mean it's a requirement for mine. The spec clearly defines this field as "optional".

I couldn't figure out what the giant "C" was doing in my screen. It took me way to long to figure this out.

What’s 2020s way of consuming a REST API in React? Too many options!

Fuck you eslint:

* Missing semicolon.eslintsemi

* Unnecessary semicolon.eslint@typescript-eslint/no-extra-semi

With unlimited times I’d build a time machine, because why the hell not.

This is fucking unacceptable! The level of absurd in this company’s policy infuriated me.

if ( condition ) {
callback(data)
}
callback(error)

--is a lot different than--

if ( condition ) {
callback(data)
} else {
callback(error)
}

callbacks are not return statements 🤦‍♂️

Spent most of my day trying to create a new project that looks like the rest of our old projects. A quick GitHub template would go a long way please.

There’s just no love for XSLT. Some people tell me it’s not even a language.

IT Crowd... Automobile edition.

I was driving 80/mph when my car’s transmission locked up and wouldn’t change gears. It was scary, my kids were in the car. I solemnly had to admit that turning off my car, and starting it again fixed it.

I’m older than C++

I feel old, given how fast our industry moves.

How I got better at programming ... Hire people smarter than me. They’ve taught me a lot.

* Create S3 Bucket
* Enable versioning
* Setup lifecycle to delete small temporary objects after 7 days
* Wait 7 years
* Say "Wow, I was fucking stupid, and I've learned a lot since then."
* Write devRant post
* Profit with lower monthly AWS bill

PHP now has named arguments. Welcome to the 20th century.

Worst enterprise software experience... I was fresh out of college, and needed money. I was working in a call center, fielding IT helpdesk calls for a major US telecom company, who had just acquired a competitor. One day I got to work and about ten of us were given a new desk, new phone number, an an email address at the newly acquired company. My manager said to us "We have no clue how any of their proprietary systems work, what servers they run on, or how to login to them. Your phones are ringing, make sure you take good notes so the Tier-1s can help out next week. Good luck."

Trial by shit-storm fire, all while trying to convince the caller that yes, I did know what I was talking about. It was a lot of cold calling random employees whose job title in the corporate directory looked even remotely close to somebody I could escalate a ticket to. They didn't use the same ticketing system we used, so it was a lot of copy/pasting between two ticketing systems. To this day, I still have no clue what happened to their original call center staff. I'm sure they must have had one, but it seemingly just dissolved overnight.

That job was the springboard to my development career. I left for a gig in software helpdesk, then to quality assurance, automated testing, and now I'm a senior DevOps engineer. It was worth it.

AWS Cognito failed today. So did my internet provider. My holiday just started early.

Looking forward to the postmortem on this event...

React devs.... would you ever work for the marketing team, managing their landing pages ?

When I see a blog post advertising “best practice for _____” but you didn’t write it, and I’m pretty sure I’ve been using it longer than your company has existed” ... I feel angry and don’t trust what you say, even if you’re right. You can share what your experience has been, but nobody died and made you god of the technology.

- Family (and you) first. We’re all human, despite what our product manager is about to say to you.

So this new fitness tracker includes "tone of voice" analysis, and I'm supposed to believe you're not recording every word I say all day long? Riiiight. I know what's in my production log files, and I only work in the textile industry.