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.

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.