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.

When I need to go and open my bowels, I don't have to go up and down stairs, trying to find a toilet with a vacant stall.

Although when the schools close, I will probably have the same problem at home.

In 9 months time there is going to be an enormous worldwide baby boom, which will cause panic buying, shortages, and mass maturnity /paternity leave.

And the new generation will be called the coronials.

I'm trapped in a sea of one line work requests. How fucking difficult is it to actually write down your requirements. If you can't be arsed, even after I have asked for clarifications several times, don't act all upset when what I implement doesn't match your expectations.

Thank you for submitting your pr, I shall waste no time in reviewing it

2020 will be either the greatest or the worst, depending on whether the newly elected government in the UK decide to continue to shaft freelancers and Contractors

The time the company had a bring your dog to work day.

Following on from my previous SQL script to find prime numbers

https://devrant.com/rants/2218452/...

I wondered whether there was a way to improve it by only checking for prime factors. It feels really dirty to use a WHILE loop in SQL, but I couldn't think of another way to incrementally use the already found prime numbers when checking for prime factors.

It's fast though, 2 mins 15 seconds for primes under 1,000,000 - previous query took over an hour and a half.

"I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". - voted funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Personally I liked one of the runners up:

"I've got an Eton-themed advent calendar, where all the doors are opened for me by my dad's contacts"

BBC News - Vegetable joke is funniest gag at the Edinburgh Fringe
https://bbc.co.uk/news/...

Inspired by this post
https://devrant.com/rants/2217978/...

I challenged myself to use SQL to get the prime numbers under 100,000

What branching methodology do you use and why? We've been using a trunk based development model, but I'm reviewing others.

Vs code today: IDE or code editor? Discuss.

Walked through a part of my home city that I hadn't been to for a while. Look what has opened up there.

1. It is a creative process that I can actually perform reasonably well at.

2. I get a buzz when delivering the solutions to the client and seeing their ideas transformed into a working application. It is, to my mind, a similar feeling that architects and engineers get when seeing their projects to fruition.

3. After 30 years, I am still learning new things, and I am still excited to see how coding will develop in the future.

Happy Father's day to all of the dads here.

!Dev. Just back from the supermarket. Seriously there should be a special place in hell for people who leave their trolley at right angles to the aisle. The place was full of them today. Still it was fun ramming their trolleys out of the way, preferably sending them scooting away down the aisle.

Well I did exactly what it said I would.

Thanks Visual Studio, very helpful.

We have company wide communications such as Skype and WebEx, so why the fuck do people feel the need to hold an ad hoc meeting right behind my desk? Thank God for NC headphones.

Is writing "payed" for the past tense of "pay" (as in to have given money) the most common mistake non native English speakers make?

It's "paid" not "payed".

3 LinkedIn messages from same guy in French. It's bad enough when recruiters don't read your profile and send completely irrelevant jobs, but to send it in a language that you never gave any indication of understanding is a whole new level

! dev. I had to pick up a parcel at lunchtime. Coming out of the shop, there was a parking enforcement officer (what we used to call traffic wardens) standing in front of the door, fiddling with his ticket machine, blocking my exit.

"Excuse me, you can't park there", I said.

He wasn't very amused, miserable bastard.

10 PRINT "Hello world"
20 GOTO 10

Emergency!

Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour.

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