Personally, I prefer learning from examples, trial-and-error and official user manuals over teachers or online courses.

That one game on a ca. 1998 PC games collection where you choreograph a halftime show marching band

The human in me knows casting a datetime to a decimal(20, 12) is fairly future-proof.

The dev in me is worried someone working at the same company in 273669 years will get mad at him.

Would like to try realizing a game idea or two I've had a while ago.
I'd also like to put some more work into that webapp I built last year.
Then there's a couple old projects that never went anywhere but I could polish them up a bit.
Kinda want to learn some new languages and CG and digital art and finish 7 online courses I bought years ago.

There's just not enough time in the day.

So, there's a browser game named Death Roulette that lets live stream viewers bet on how a streamer will die on their attempts in roguelike games, including Spelunky.

Last year, when Spelunky 2 was announced, Vinesauce streamer Joel who'd been playing the first game with chat betting against him for months, expressed several times he'd love to have something like that for the new game.

There had been no activity on the old site for a while and the Twitch API it was using for player login had been deprecated and removed months earlier. So I decided I'd make a new version of Death Roulette from scratch, using Node, Express, React and MariaDB. I learned a buch of stuff about DB design, SSE and load balancing, this thing would have to deal with thousands of simultaneous clients after all, and two months later, I announced the finished project to the stream. After some obligatory server issues, I got it running with help from another chat member.

So yeah, did my first fullstack project on a whim for a guy streaming on http://fecalfunny.com

I just LOVE how our service desk takes emails and reformats the fuck out of newlines so they look like

Hi

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problem is fix.

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kywbye

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mr. dev

Some Java code I looked through to figure out how to accurately rework a mapping of value intervals to status colors:

• 16 levels of indentation
• Calls an instance method one line before a null-check
• Assigns that same value to a new variable and null-checks it again
• Insistently loops over existing HashMaps' entry sets to find a value by key
• Stringifies a Gson object, parses back the string and then null-checks the result.
• Mixes up the 'leq' and 'geq' comparison operators twice, which is why I went to check the implementation in the first place.

And this wasn't even legacy code. It's from last year.

I prefer the best ones. The worst ones usually aren't very good.

Started with flow chart programming in a robotics club after class in middle school.
Joined another club where I spent the first 3-4 weeks learning Python and JS basics on freecodecamp.
Programming classes on algorithms and frameworks in high school and college.
Beyond that, mostly reading documentation, stackoverflow and some udemy courses.

"No you can't use Java 11's `var` because other developers will [be boomers about it and unable to check types by hovering over variables for half a second]" - my team, basically

What does it really mean to be a dev anyway?

Here's one.

substring, substr, slice.
Choose wisely.

Parsing my college's terrible classless html float left div mosaic timetables so I could hide lectures I wasn't taking.

Oh my god did you know the Windows registry has a folder for icon overlays, like the little checkmarks on OneDrive and Dropbox files?

Guess what. Windows only loads the first like 13 of the registered overlays *in alphabetical order* which has programs fight over the top spots by prepending spaces and whatnot on their registry keys. What a great system...

I made the mistake of stepping into the lift when I already saw our branch manager walking down the opposite hallway, joined by some guy in full suit and tie who's clearly just been interviewed. So of course they get into the lift as well and as the doors closed, manager asked me

"Well, is it worthwhile working here?"

Shit. Way to put me on the spot in front of an applicant. I just stuttered "Yeah... sure..?" and went silent for the rest of the ride. Like what the fuck kinda question is that, noone would work there if it wasn't. Why would you ask me of all people, their only working student at the time, doing different work on different projects for different pay than any actual employee?

My PC just stopped working and I can't figure out why. There's absolutely no feedback to pushing the power switch. I feel like I tried everything the internet recommends, made sure the button works (it does, and so do the connected pins on the MB), held it down for a minute with the PSU unplugged, shorted the power pins manually, re-plugged all the cables, changed the CMOS battery, tried turning it on with just one RAM stick at a time.

I'm out of ideas.

Fixing some terrible rushed code from a group assignment last minute. what could've taken hours to compute, finished in under a second afterwards.

TIL 'echo -n' is a thing.
Time to replace all those unnecessary printf's

Do you keep misspelling 'install'? npm's got you covered.

New password cannot be one of your four previous passwords.
Password must conatin upper and lower case characters, at least two numbers and two special characters
Password cannot contain five or more consecutive letters of username.
Password cannot include any _illegal patterns_.

Locked out of your system? Drive over to HQ and ask the admins to reset your password in person.

A friend frequently asks me for help with Java homework.
Today we spent half an hour figuring out how to use some ass-backwards linked list implementation his lecturer provided.
The list itself acted like an iterator, keeping track of a 'current' element that had to be reset to the list's head manually every time you want to iterate over the list. There were insert and append methods that call each other for no good reason and most methods would throw the same generic checked exception.
Also they're told to use BlueJ which has the ugliest debugging tools i've ever seen.

Editor, interpreter and debugger of sorts for esolang Piet
https://dustincompetent.com/piet

There's lots of room for improvement but it was fun to implement

Gonna prank myself tonight by getting 7+ hours of sleep like some kind of functioning adult

Just pushed directly to master & going home now while CI is busy

Wish me luck

Keeping Excel sheets with diagrams of my progress through different series (TV shows, comics, etc.)

Trying to test this React app my team is working on with selenium. There were no classes or ids I could've used to find elements.
I ended up looking for elements by attributes and contained text using XPath.

If they want me to play with a stable connection so bad, maybe they could've not put the weakest available wifi antenna in their console?

Anyway I finally found out I can use my phone as a repeater so that's nice.

Anyone else ever write a couple paragraphs long rant and then delete it because your superior might find it 😑

Nothing makes me more suspicious than when my code runs and works on the first try