I hate phishing texts...

Programmers - The blue collar of the future

Locking issues are the bane of my existence...

Stan Lee will make cameos no more... 😭

I think we need a TCL duck cape; I want my coworkers to know I actually LIKE it!

Going to China with work soon to provide on site support, anyone done this before and have any tips/experiences?

PSA: Just found Jim Browning on YouTube, he's a spambaiter who gains access to their machines and shuts them down properly, you should check him out

Airport security sucks ass

"What possessed you to do it that way?"

What tool/process/concept saves you the most time in your day-to-day work? I'm looking for things I could integrate into my own work that would make me or my team more efficient

Ever suggest improvements and get shot down at every turn? I was discussing automating our release process today and suggesting that instead of having to do everything manually and babysit the build, we should let Jenkins deal with releasing and the attitude was that we shouldn't even try because we'd spend more time maintaining the automation and wouldn't gain anything. Obviously I disagree, but it seems like I'm always coming up against shit like this.

Our requirements gathering is another point of contention; I think we could be way better at it if we invested more time talking to customers before a project starts but the attitude is to get straight into development and deal with that later.

I don't know why I even bother sometimes...

Cleaning up code warnings in a 3rd party piece of software and found a function that was returning a pointer to a local variable, who wrote this piece of shit?!

3D printing is operational at my AO!

Always remember to "git submodule update", I spent ages debugging a build today because the build system's submodule directory was empty.

Not code specifically, but I've made a lot of friends where I work that I would have never known if I didn't code:)

How do you motivate yourself on your own projects? I tend to start something, then never complete it...

I got enginerd.co.uk:

What should go on it?

My mum - "Something to do with traffic lights"

Because I told her I was designing an Ethernet traffic generator device.

Porting from VXWorks to Linux is not fun...

I've been writing tests all week.
I quite like writing tests in some respects, but I absolutely detest it if the thing I'm testing is a moving target! Stop changing your mind! Either we support the feature in it's entirety or we don't support it at all!

I know it doesn't really apply because we have widescreen monitors now, but regardless, I hate seeing code that runs the width of the screen, I'd much rather have more lines than more columns. Viva la vertical!

I just wish phone manufacturers would put the charge port on the back of the phone instead of on the sides. Don't they know everyone rests the phone on their chest in bed? It would also solve the problem of replacing knackered cables.

I usually sit amongst the summer placements in the office, but now that they're gone I'm so bored! I should move seats but don't want to end up regretting it, I like having people around me to talk shite with.

Starts project*
"Oh, that looks cool!"
Starts new project*

Are we all victims of self-inflicted poor posture? Or are there gods among us?

How far back do the rants go?

Dev memes usually make me cringe. It's like the people who make them are trying too hard; the lack of social skills just jumps off the screen.

I feel like I should pick up a hobby that doesn't involve a computer, something outdoorsy. Anyone else feel the same way?

Don't you just hate it when you have some of the best programmers in the office with you, but none of them can fucking spell! Imagine having to spend more time decoding comments than actual code

Attempting to access my colleague's NFS directory on his VM, don't know the VM's IP address, hostname or password:

- 2 minutes with nmap to narrow the possible IPs down to ~30

- Ping each and look for the one with a Dell MAC prefix as the rest of us have been upgraded to Lenovo. Find 2 of these, one for the host and one for the virtual machine.

- Try to SSH to each, the one accepting a connection is the Linux VM

- Attempt login as root with the default password, no dice. Decide it's a lost cause.

- Go to get a cup of tea, walk past his desk.

- PostIt note with his root password 😶

FYI this was all allowed by my manager as he had unpushed critical changes that we needed for the release that day.