I'm leaving my job.

That had already been decided when I learned that the only other front end guy at the company put in his two weeks notice. I immediately decided that I was morally obligated to put in my 4 months notice to give the company enough time to find a replacement (because, contrary to the beliefs of some programmers, front end plays a critical role in web dev).

With only 2 weeks left, I was put on his project to do some "simple design work".

Jesus christ in heaven alive and dead...

I've never in my career seen CSS with such an intense level of specificity -- nobody on that team should have ever let that code get so out of control.

I've spent the past week cursing, walking out of the room, whispering "I can't believe you've done this", ranting to non-developer friends.

Here's an example: the application has a panel used all over the place with a header and a body. Every Single View has it's own duplicated panel, each with its own unique class names and CSS. And that's just one element.

Every view has hundreds of lines of duplicated CSS. Every button, link, list, all with unique styles.

To any junior developer reading this, please hear me: Write one block of CSS for any element that will be reused. DO NOT duplicate your code when it can be used over and over.

/rant

I wrote a function last week that makes no sense to me today.

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got a new phone last week, just realized that I didn't re-download devRant!

Hello! 👋

"Oh" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

theres.no(code(function(){
like(pseudo_code);
});

The best part about being a junior developer is meeting veteran developers.

For example, my friend's father is an old world Linux guru. I've known him for a really long time, but never understood why he lived in a mansion.

Every time I see him now I make a point to bring up some small Linux thought. He always responds with some ridiculous history lesson about the origin of a command or how he still uses a regex alias he wrote 15 years ago.

Programming language context switching is going to be the death of me.

"it's gonna rival facebook!"

throw away thread, move along

@dfox @trogus That was truly wonderful. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and perhaps it's because I'm a part of the community, but that was a really really good show!!

It's not easy to make me laugh in a podcast but I was fucking rolling

!rant
@dfox How do you feel about an update to the profile page? I want to link to my personal website, perhaps some regex black magic to override the github link if it matches a URL?

Or just a new input?

what the fuck, elliot.

Whooaa, @dfox shout out to that subtle UI shift

what the ack, elliot

c'mon Zillow!

I work remotely for a team that works together in an office, and this morning on the conference call a team member said

"one thing i think we need to do with this is stay on task, because while these things that have been added are cool we don't need to be doing anything not outlined in the MVC requirements"

Okay first of all -- this is a completely foreign technology to this team. It's not like I diddled around adding fancy animations and no function. The problem working in a new technology with an old mindset is assuming that it's going to move linearly from step 1 to step 2. And that drives me fucking insane.

- Progress in paid contracted work is done by staying on task.

- Progress in research isn't done linearly. You have to try shit -- and figure out what doesn't work.

I feel bad because I'll chime in and shoot down ideas with a fucking guided missile because I know the answer and I've done the fucking research -- I'm not a dick about it, but replying with a simple "no that's not possible, because of this or that", the call becomes silent for 30 seconds because I've shattered their understanding of the technology because nobody has taken the time to understand anything about how this thing works!!

So until they either listen to me, ask me, or learn the smallest amount to get on my fucking level, I'll keep progressing -- because whether the old world idealists like it or not -- that's my job.

Progress.

</ rant>

Internet went down at the office, was 10pm so probably time to stop working anyways.

Get home, Internet is down. Text friend, their Internet is down.

The isp for this entire area is offline.

Third time a photographer has been at the office. devRant.conf opened on the monitor for good measure.

Mr Robot making classics to the beat

Browsing various log files because I'm easily distracted. Found this masterpiece after running `grep "commit -m" ~/.zsh_history`

"init commit to GITHABS"

wtf, younger me?

I can't get any work done because I can't stop playing with Bash for Windows.

DAMN YOU MICROSOFT

sitting at a bonfire right now talking to a guy that used to write in g code.

!rant
There's a camera man in the office again today.

devRant.conf opened up on the monitor for good measure.

A legacy java project in which I was brought on to do "only UI".

Just cleaned up my legacy projects directory. Deleted all node_modules, bower_components, and distribution directories.

Deleted hundreds of thousands of files, freed up like two gigs 😑

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good luck

Had a couple of beers with some non-terminal friends, started talking about devRant.conf.

Started explaining why some post was funny.

Don't make that mistake, friends.

let poll = "favorite dev podcast";

Upgrading my parents' Windows7 laptops to Windows10.

Waiting...
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Browsing devrant.

I'll get to the first post by the time 86% turns to 87%.

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