I probably should learn how to take vacations more often, not only when I feel mentally exhausted souch that I can't really do anything

I guess it's a sort of a mix of depression and burnout right now. I want to do nothing and I am constantly procrastinating. Also, very frequent sleepiness.

PS: was going to post in rants, but it's sort of random stuff rather than a rant.

How to get a fast MR approval 101:
Tell the reviewers that you've had a trivial merge conflict due to other colleague adding unit tests in the same file as yourself, which causes the approvals in Gitlab to vanish.
They assume they had given the approval previously and just push the button.

Being a mentor stresses me a bit. It was nicer to work alone without the need of assigning tasks to someone else.

Quite an underwhelming rant. I know. I don't have much to rant about.

Merge request

Title: Fix bugs
178 files, +615, -743

And it had passed review by not one, but two (allegedly) intelligent people.

HOW. THE. FUCK?!

Luckily I am overtaking that domain and won't allow such bullshit. Mainly because I will be the author of the commits.

Why arePC cases so damn useless and ugly nowadays. It's either a cheapo metal box with perforation on the side panel (why?!), Or a decent one with filters but also with a shitty and useless glass panel formo reason.

Why can't cases be just functional metal boxes with filters? Why all that useless shit?

I really wonder who is that genius from API team who decided that a namespace with the name "main" is a great fucking idea...

Because of this shit I've had to resort to hacky pImpl implementation of the API.

I've realized something...

I am depression. The Depressman! 🐒

None. I think, I have no other skill I could utilize professionaly.

Pretty much a sort of research work. The first assignment was: "look, we have this CAD viewer, but we would want to eventually optimize the structure of the mesh, so here's this method of minimizing the memory footprint. Try implementing it and integrating it with our application."

PS: the method is using triangle strips, where the next triangle uses two vertexes of the previous one, theoretically reducing the memory footprint of the mesh by 2/3 if the mesh is fully optimized. In the end, due to memory and performance constraints (this had to run on the first gen iPad), and overall application architecture, on the fly striping was unfeasible and gained no benefit, because striping an arbitrary mesh is a fucking hard task.

Another one was an implementation of smooth shading by recalculating vertex normals in runtime.

And yet another blackout.

Yesterday it was a free day for me because of blackout. Today starts the same.

I guess I should take a vacation soon.

I've chosen system/embedded programming because I liked system programming and did not like anything connected with web, frontend or UI.

So far it seems like it was a good choice. Even though web was not such a clusterfuck before, it was already repulsive.

Blackout. I guess it's time to hibernate under a blanket.

Some rhythmic psytrance or full-on.

That's basically everything I need to good into semi-flow state.

Sometimes an energy drink can give additional kick.

What do you live for?

Week long fever. Hazy mind. Productivity level "mashed potato".

Sucks to be me lately.

IBMs Rational Team Concert.

Whole the VCS is okay for a semi-centralized one, the client was based on eclipse.

Who in a bright mind could possibly think that writing the client as an eclipse plugin is a good idea?

"Sorry, but nothing in this MR is as it should be (I don't even know where to start) - all you do here is waste scarce CI resources"

Much helpful. Such wow. Teach me how to make such toxic and useless merge request comments.

A very high chance of becoming asocial which will fuck up everything afterwards. Basically the same reason as with any other nerd work/hobby.

!rant

My colleague did a "btw, I use Arch" in the daily scrum meeting. 🤣

That feel when my solution runs way faster than world average

PS: the puzzle is SAWAYAMA WONDERDISC

Dafuq... My new position label is Senior Software Developer.
I do not identify myself as a senior even in my wet dreams.
I'm confused.

Did not pass an interview with management after passing a tech one.

Meh-man is sad. Meh-man needs sweets.

PS: well, at least I've got an actual negative reply (proxied via recruitment manager) rather than was left waiting for a reply.

I hereby congratulate you all with the end of Friday.

Cheers 🍻

Blackout

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Cable police anyone?

Wow, barista in an 8 floor office recognized me after 4 month of WFH

Have you ever felt like you don't want to fall asleep?

I do feel that quite often but I don't know why.

Pros of working at home:
Beer time at 14:00

Do you have a specific ritual for entering the flow state?

Mine is pretty simple: blast high BPM trance/psytrance/full-on trance to the headphones and let it consume all my thoughts