The senior advisor assigned to my support case at Apple was called... Siri.

I am immature.

In the Netherlands they have a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" culture around wages, how is this in other countries?

You ask for what you think you're worth (and are happy to work for) and if the company agrees they pay you.

There's no guarantee you'll be paid the same as your colleagues working the same job because they might just have the confidence to ask for more money.

I have no idea how my wages compare with my colleagues but as I am happy with what I earn it doesn't matter. Seems to solve a lot of the dick waving issues that stem from everyone comparing salaries.

Be a 17 year old intern with 10 years experience in a language or technique which was invented 6 years ago.

The suggestions from the new AI based IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2022 flip-flop from "haha that's an adorable suggestion" to "yikes that's exactly the line I wanted" on an almost line by line basis.

I got more interested about the technical side of bugs in video games.

Really didn't understand the Pokémon hype as a kid, few months ago watched an entire YouTube series explaining the Old Man Glitch and ACE exploits in the game. 🤷‍♂️

Trying to fix an urgent issue with our Xamarin iOS app and a known bug in Xamarin "IOException: Sharing violation on path /Assets.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconset/Icon-1024.png" is blocking me.

Luckily I still have my old laptop from my last upgrade on standby, boot it up and it's not using the affected version of Xamarin. 😃

Instead this one has the also know "/ios/release/mono/mini/mini-arm64.c:5439, condition `native_offset % 4 == 0' not met" blocking issue when debugging. 🤦‍♂️

I just want to do some work. ☹

Agreeing to work on supporting someone else's legacy code instead of insisting on razing it and rebuilding.

Unemployed socially inept hermit.

Learned almost entirely from online tutorials, and this was starting 12+ years ago.

What little official education I had was barely any practical programming.

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.