Me: *clicks Ctrl+C by instinct*
Oh no! It'll take a whole minute to restart...

Vue CLI: Are you sure you want to terminate the server?

Yay! It didn't terminate! No, I do NOT want to terminate the server thank you.

Vue CLI: *terminates anyways*

Idea for the next Tron movie:

There's a cowboy bartender called OData, "Yippe yay Oh Data", serving the best tailored drinks in the whole Wild Web.

That's what I hear when I read "Oh Data!"

When I started coding, I thought that TODO came from Spanish "todo" : "everything" / "all". As in, write all of your code here. The entire project has become a TODO

So management wants this:
As soon as a customer reports a bug, management wants to have an "emergency button" to let their inexperienced hands make production fall back to the last stable version, without having to pass through IT and wait for them to fix it. If the server catches a 500 error, this process should be done automatically. All because they don't want to give us more time writing more thorough tests...

So this rant:
https://devrant.com/rants/3969110/...

introduced me to the unicode's "zero width space". Lately I've been using it to cheat on "required" fields in forms. Hahaha thanks!

Executives today: trying to patent that we copied from someone else

*9 months ago*

We want this feature! Our clients need this feature! It's gonna make their lives so much more convenient, and perhaps even deprecate other features!

* nobody uses it *

* Today *

Someone used the feature and screwed up cause they didn't know how to use it (the feature was working fine). Let's delete it.

I love it when you take such a long time abstracting and your boss complains that you're not doing anything but once the flexible and beautiful abstraction is completed you finish the rest of the job in a mere couple of hours implementing the abstraction and your boss goes like "whoa how did you do that so fast" (more like "you finally finished fooling around!") and your mind is relaxed as you implement every option of that perfect abstraction

Oh now that I'm remembering, this is how I learned PHP. It's not my specialty, but I'm writing a small plugin for WordPress.

I was in a dinner with my partner's family. One of their parent's siblings manages the IT in their company, and we had this conversation:

family member: So what language do you know?

Me: A bit of C and C++, and I did a project last year in Java/Kotlin. But my current project uses mostly Python.

Family Member: Oh Python? But Python is a very easy language, even I could learn pretty quickly. That's why we don't use it in my company. We use PHP.

Challenge accepted!

Within a week I was able to learn PHP and some basic templating library, and replicated most their company's website into a new server.

Business logic:

Meeting starts at 9:45 AM. They only really wanna talk about the features they have on the horizon and how innovative and distruptive and rich we'll be. We spend 10, maybe 15 minutes talking about UI and details of the feaure. The meeting ends a few minutes before 12, so that's 2 hours of lunch (I wanna respect the schedules we had pre-covid to keep that rhythm). I start working again at 2 PM, but 15 minutes later, I get called again by one of the managers to hear more about this new great new idea they have.

So I work about 7-9 hours a day. But HR and management want to spend 3 of those hours. Suggestion: we'd improve our productivity by about 35% if we cut those daily meetings.

obj &&
obj.property1 &&
obj.property1.property2 &&
obj.property1.property2.property3

OR

(((obj || {}).property1 || {}).property 2 || {}).property3

It's mostly for projects that don't support Webpack 5 optional chaining (like Vue 2).
I prefer the second one since it's shorter

From one of the executives... the things I have to put up with

Why did I choose to be a web dev?

I didn't. That's the first job I found, and I didn't wanna starve

When the API returns 500...

a dream within a dream
a repo within a repo
a (virtual) machine within a machine
a machine within a browser within a machine

https://fossbytes.com/run-windows-9...

import { noop } from 'jquery'

So I let myself go by all of this talk about giving more freedom and autonomy to your team. "Don't micro-manage them", they said. "Trust them," they said. And that's the way I wish to be treated. That's how I personally work best.

Alas, this only works only when they're truly good at what they're doing. Sometimes I feel like we'd go faster if I did everything myself. These baby devs must be taken by the hand every damn step of the way.

Debugging WebRTC is pure hell.

For starters, it's JavaScript, so you know this isn't gonna end well. Second, it's still in kinda beta phase for some browsers so you gotta add polyfills. Let's talk compatibility now. During normal days, yeah, I could ask for a couple of computers in the office, each using a different browser. But, covid. One browser mishbehaves and doesn't wanna share the camera with the other browser, so I can't really test a connection with the only 1 computer I have. I can't take my partner's computer all day to debug.

Solution: ask the marketing department or even the execs to video chat with you to test it on a staging server. So I push my changes to the server, wait for them to build, call my lab rat, check all the bugs, clean the code, push the changes back up. No fancy breakpoints. I'm doing the old style like my great uncle did. Oh wait no, he was pretty intelligent, but my lab rat isn't. They probably don't know what a console is. So no baby I'm not only talking about console logging the problems, I'm talking `alert` the heck out of the bugs - okay no, I'll just display the objects in the middle of the screen. The screen is my console.

When you open a video from a friend, turns out to be NSFW, but it's okay cause you're at home, but when the video ends you realize you were still logged in to the company's Google account...

- Hey darlin, how about u n me go out for coffee on 2021-02-19?
- Hey lovely. I got an event from 2021-02-19T05:45:00Z to 2021-02-19T07:15:00Z. How about we meet at 2021-02-20T04:00:00Z?
- Perfect, there's a movie at 2021-02-20T06:10:00Z
- It's a date then

I've got a Python script that is running faster on VSCode debug mode than by itself...

Me: Hey I'm pushing the changes up

Marketing: okay.

*5 mins later*

Marketing: WTF what did you do! Everything's broken now! It was so embarrasing to show that bug to the client!

Me: *panik* *checks website* ....
Yeah, it is under maintenance... because the changes are getting pushed. It takes about 15 mins to do so. Like when you update an app.

Marketing: fix it ASAP please, and tell me as soon as you do

Me: There's nothing to fix. Just wait until it finishes updating.

And no, next time, I will definitely not tell you as soon as I push the changes. I'll wait about an hour so you don't have to see that mainenance page.

So management calls me at 1 AM. I have insomnia so I'm still awake... but I know I have to set boundaries, steer away from unhealthy and unproductive habits. I knew that this spontaneous meeting would not be compensated, and even if they wanted me to fix a bug, I'd be too sleepy to do anything really. I needed some healthy sleep. So I muted my phone and ignored them...

But I kept thinking on the call. What did they want? Did they found a bug on production? (We do have clients on the other side of the world.) Would this create a big fight? And of course, if they brought it up, what would I respond? I did feel guilty. I was worried about the company, since my future also depended on it... and my insomnia kept me awake for an extra couple of hours...

Restrictions are down! Let's get out to breathe some fresh air at last!

Outdoors: people smoking

I just learned today that GitHub is used for stuff other than programming

So you find out a bug in your own code... a bug that nobody noticed in the month it was out and about... because nobody used that feature the manager asked for in one of those mood swings... that yet you so had so carefully built with love...

Client A asks for Feature A. Devs start working on feature A. Client B comes in asking for Feature B. Management tells us to stop everything that we're doing to work on Feature B. Client C comes in...

We end up having tons of branches with half-finished features, and the product never improves

minified package.json

So Windows released a faulty update that broke the driver for my external harddrive. Now I don't have enough space for the update...

Python:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'tuple' and 'dict'

Ugh there's a comma somewhere. I kinda appreciate how easy it is to make a tuple, but at the same time I don't. If there's no value after a comma with only one value behind it, could the linter at least mark it as a warning?