When a shady recruiter who had tried to poach me from my company, when also contracted as a recruiter for said company.

Spent almost four days trying to reverse engineer a feature the previous developers failed to document but a sales lead from before the take over was counting on.

Turns out it was never made and the whole exercise was a waste of time.

Managed to reduce a file from 1155 to 288 lines just by converting the 50 or so methods all calling the same API library with similar setups to use one line helper functions.

Hard to say, as the best tool for one job might not be the best for another.

However between Visual Studio (for big solutions and full .NET development) and Visual Studio Code (for smaller projects, NodeJS and basic file editing) I've not had issues with any projects I've needed to work on.

In the porch of a local supermarket, in the rain, leaching thier WiFi to fix a live bug.

The developers.

Got a payrise in my annual review without asking for it.

Wasn't even a big payrise but feels good that they thought I just deserved one without asking. 🙂

I'm starting day three trying to solve a Dependency Hell issue which is preventing a bug fix being deployed.

Please help.

Do more with game development.
Maybe get something simple with OpenGL written in C# .NET Core 3.

Can't get pestered by the PM when we can't find one to hire. 🤷‍♂️

My office has a "Friday Memes" playlist full of all the songs too embarrassing to play the rest of the week.

Something breathtaking about a smooth transition from Linken Park to Default Elevator Music.

When you're on the way to a client with two colleagues and take the back seat... so you awkwardly stare out the window for an hour because it's too noisy to speak to the guys up front.

Taxpayer funded UX design.

Spent a whole day building custom OnDeserialize events for a complex import project... Find out Microsoft XmlDeserializer completely ignores all serialization callbacks.

Fucking cunt.

About 8 years ago I had a choice, go developer or system administrator. I chose developer and never looked back.

Then I've spent the last week or so - on and off - perfecting a Boxstarter script to setup our Software Developer laptops, right down to the Visual Studio Code extensions and Visual Studio Code Standards.

Boot up a new computer, join it to the domain and start the script. It's therapeutic to watch.

I actually enjoyed it... am I a closet system administrator?

I told my boss I'd been offered a job somewhere else with a better position and pay and he presented a reasonable counter-offer in under two hours which included an on-paper promotion and matching payrise.

I stayed. 🙃

I recently discovered Chocolatey. I like it.

The feeling when you receive a screenshot of a window, and try to close the screenshot with the window close button.

Been asked if we can make a few "minor tweaks" to a Visual Basic 6.0 application last worked on in 2013.

I haven't coded in Visual Basic in approximately 20 years, the project can't be opened in Visual Studio 2012 or above and the code I've seen is a dumpster fire.

Please send help.

1. Needed to access an old SVN backup.
2. Didn't have an SVN client installed.
3. Realised GIT comes with an SVN proxy included.

Cool, I'll just quickly download the repository via SVN.

> git svn init

... git sequentially downloads each of the 1800+ revisions and applies them individually.

It's cool, I didn't want to do anything productive today anyway.

Straight to the point.

McDonald's starts it's arrays at zero.

Actual patch notes from one of my companies repos.

Just got this gem from Facebook.

Shameless memery.

Sick of my colleagues letting the door slam right behind my head when they leave.

Apparently the fire hose in our building wasn't connected to the water main, because the legislation stated the building owner had to install a fire hose, not connect a fire hose to the water main.

Thar feeling when you have more LinkedIn connections than Facebook friends.

Updated my Azure aide project to ASP .NET Core 2.0.
Works perfectly in develop in Debug and Release.
Deploy to Azure.
502.5
No error logs, no feedback, no explanation.

K den.

Thursday lunch time.
Seems like a good time to update to Windows 10 1803.