Previous employer demanded I work on Christmas Day or risk being terminated. Wasn't the final straw (I was young and needed the work) but did start the slow spiral.

I'm grateful now, happy in my current job for about 9 years with plenty of career growth.

Spent my Sunday building a container program for the Minecraft Bedrock dedicated server because I wanted to run it as a Windows service so my partner could play our local multiplayer realm while I am offline.

If you just run the standard executable as a service it risks world corruption on exit and requires a restart when changing whitelist or permission settings.

Pretty happy with how it turned out.

Another plug for my collection of free games.
https://github.com/kwilliams1987/...

If you see something you like it's yours for the low, low price of a pull request.

Anyone who left their workstation unlocked and unattended would come back to find their background replaced with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Best experience: working from home.
Worst experience: working from home.

Top tier documentation, Apple. 👌

You guys got good?

LCARS 👌

200 Stack Overflow epeen points for anyone who can fix my problem:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Inspired by @COD4's rant here: https://devrant.com/rants/3080528, I decided to go overboard a bit and catalogue (almost) all my unused Humble Bundle keys.

Given that there was well in excess of 300 of them I decided a more structured distribution mechanism was needed.

If you want to see if any are interesting for you, check the repository here: https://github.com/kwilliams1987/...

I have 5 more months of Humble Monthly to do still but need a break now...

Got a recruiter trying to headhunt me yesterday.

For the company located in the same building as where I work now. Three floors up.

Decided to swap ISP.
Arranged that my new ISP started today and my old one would end next week so I had some wiggle room for issues.

Today my old ISP just disconnected my house in the middle of the day.

Then my new ISP failed to connect me and _might_ have it fixed tomorrow.

Looking forward to working remotely over 5G...

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.