My son has started learning javascript at school, but he is complaining that all the $ signs are ugly! Yep, they're teaching the kids with jquery.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry 😱😱😱

Gotta love npm open source packages

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js”

https://snyk.io/blog/...

https://theverge.com/platform/amp/...

https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/...

New project team name needed

Random team name generator suggested "The snowballers"

Errrr no I don't think so 🤢

https://urbandictionary.com/define....

More Evasion [of] Taxes Assured

All those developers complaining about how at their new job there is no source control process, no ci, no CD, no code reviews, no coding standards, no effective project management, next time maybe try asking some questions during the interview stage 🤔

Remember you are interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you.

10 PRINT "RIP Sir Clive Sinclair"
20 END

ZX81 was the first ever computer I wrote code on, sad day.

BBC News - Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81
https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521/

I'm so glad I got to choose my preferred language 🤔

What a difference being in the right frame of mind makes.

On Monday I had an interview for a role that I was really keen on, I'd completed a codility test before which I had killed, everything seemed in place. Then I didn't sleep well, had an urgent fire fighting call with my current employer 15 minutes before the interview, I just couldn't focus, I stumbled on some very basic questions, the whole process was torturous.

Today I had an interview for a different, but equally attractive, role. What a difference, I was focused, my answers were clear and thought out, the technical questions were fine, I killed it I think. Pma definitely makes a big difference.

Seeing this in my outlook fills me with dread - little can be worse than "corporate enforced fun sessions" 😩😭

Interviewer: what's your worst quality?
Interviewee: I'm scrupulously honest
Interviewer: I don't think that's a bad quality
Interviewee: I don't give a fuck what you think

Monday morning, login, check outlook calendar

Today I have a dairy buster meeting 🤔

Guess we're going dairy free 😂😂

If you have daily stand ups, don't let participants choose who speaks - we seem to spend 5 minutes of the 15 with people saying "no you go first".

First thing Wednesday morning, fired up the macbook, opened vs code, ran the same unit tests that were passing last night, 1 failure! FML.

For some reason an Angular form that was valid with the same data last night isn't this morning. Probably some crappy date issue in the mock data

Glad to see Brexit is taking us forwards into a brave new world!

https://twitter.com/billatnapier/...

Thanks Amazon for making me wait until 2029 to get a refund on my missing delivery 😳🤔

IBM's Urban Code Deploy.

Had to use it at a previous role. It is one of the worst packages. The Web based ui is a terrible, confusing mess.

For example, there are two levels of menus. Depending on which page you are viewing, you would have two menu items with the same label that do totally different things. Also you can set filters, but it doesn't remember them, so you have to recreate them everytime (they're not stored in the url or anything useful like that).

Not really a bug so much as ridiculously poor practice, about 15 years ago I was working for a car park company on their booking engine. In the sql server dB, there was a table called CreditCard, easy to guess what was in there!

Wait, how did I only just find out you can use the space bar on a mobile to move the cursor?

https://cnet.com/google-amp/news/...

It's probably too late for me to change.

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/...

This had potential to go horribly wrong.

For years I've been saying software is "depreciated" , today I just noticed that the term is "deprecated".

Not sure either term really means what we think it does when talking about old software though.

https://getproofed.com/writing-tips...

Dear recruiter

Thanks for spamming me with several emails for your AngularJs role paying £200 per day.

I'd rather stack shelves in Asda, probably pays better too.

Remembering that if I don't develop, my family and I don't eat!

When I wrote my first program on a ZX81, I was about 9, it was

10 PRINT "Hello"
20 GOTO 10

Annoying git cli inconsistencies:

git branch --list
git stash list

Lost count of the times I have entered

git branch list

Is it that time of the year again already?

Bought myself a standing desk (one that rests on top of an existing desk), a new chair with good lumbar support and a few other office bits and pieces before the end of the tax year in the UK. I didn't think I'd be able to put them through my Ltd Co next year because of IR35 changes, but they have been delayed now.

The only thing I don't have yet at home is dual monitors. Otherwise the setup feels great. 30 Mins sitting followed by 30 Mins standing is doing wonders for my old back

How to relieve the boredom when stuck at home and too tired to code?

I'm working my way through every episode of Father Ted (again)

https://channel4.com/programmes/...

Will be unpopular with some, but I'm loving vs code more and more with each update.

I just accidentally spun the scroll wheel while the cursor was over the file tabs, they all scroll, making it easy to navigate to files that are open but off the tab display

🥰🥰🥰

Not sure if it is a fav, but counting the number of times each day my other half mentally strangles me. I think it is going up more rapidly than the number of coronavirus cases.