rant: Been an Apple user for 5+ years and I haven't been too excited about the MacBook Pro lineup's direction. Not a huge fan of a gimmick like the Touch Bar, the fact that a $3,000 laptop only has a 500gb SSD, or the questionable commitment Apple has to OS X.

!rant: That said- anyone else here taking a serious look at Linux? Are you debating it? Made the switch? I really want to make the jump when I get a new laptop.

My rubber duck.

Because talking out loud has kept me from making a lot of mistakes. Sometimes ideas are just dumb if you try to explain them. Even if it's to an inanimate object.

Rushing to get a feature completed for a client presentation tomorrow has turned my Sass sheets into a nightmarish hellhole of classes, nesting, and questionable specificity. This is taking a huge liberty with "if it works, ship it."

Chrome handles CSS animation on an SVG element with 500 nodes like a champ with an SVG graphic with outline animation over it.

Firefox barely animates the SVG then has tearing issues when a part of the SVG leaves the viewport and re-enters. Annoying AF and now a changed design.

Internal team changing specs because they don't understand how much work went into the project.

This is generally accompanied by the statement "that shouldn't take you very long."

New MacBook Pro: one type of connection port, no MagSafe, base drive is 256gb, and they killed off the goddamn physical esc key.

Apple you dumb.

Good friend, Jay. Helped level up my understanding over the years, JS patterns, using APIs, best practices, etc.

Also helped kill off anxiety about the community by proving we work together and share knowledge.

Many thanks and I hope everyone has a Jay in their life.

Angular 2 has had a rough year. Team announced that they "won't have breaking changes for 6 months" the day of 2.0.0's release. I just started studying it. I'm concerned about the adoption rate at this point...

Co-worker (in another department) has a friend in LA that hired someone in another country to build them an exact replica of another company's site. The developer is having trouble and he wants me to get on the phone with them for "just 5-10 minutes" to help them.

So- you refuse to support local business and freelancers to save money, then expect me to help you for free when they can't deliver. Got it.

Client won't get us assets so we've replaced a lot of images with pics from placecage.com and we're presenting it to him today.

This website design PSD is bullshit. If I hide the group of layers labeled "Nav" half of the page disappears.

I'm over this whole "coding while hungover" bullshit.

Someone posted a rant referencing a story out of The Pragmatic Programmer about "duck debugging". I've leveled up with a duck.

Our own company website. Everyone got involved, the process broke down, and because all of management and company owners were participating- it was nearly impossible to get anything done.

We are our own worst client.

I enjoy reading the rants. I also enjoy seeing how some rants end up with solutions from fellow developers who have had similar experiences. It's a huge reason I love our industry. Keep kicking ass everyone.

/non-rant

7th grade. HyperCard on a Macintosh LC

Making the switch from SublimeText 2 to Vim. Any tips?

Also, because this is devRant, rant freely.

Even my office has a dark theme. Needs more LEDs.

I hear we're posting pics of mugs. Right?

When you're the one that works over holiday weekends while the people responsible for fuckups and delays enjoy their time off.

How's the site launch going? Fucking started drinking scotch at 11:15am. That's how it's going.

This "rootless" OS X El Capitan security feature is bullshit for developers. Just found that one out the hard way.

Everyone has project builds. Boss comes in and says we need to build 12 landing pages on 12 new domains by end of day. Repurposes PR for content, my designer, and 3 devs.

Happy goddamn Friday.

Web site has taken so long to build due to content delays. When the site is in partial preview- the managers involved forget the direction we were taking content and tear it apart again- demanding new content.

Square one never felt so familiar.

Clients who still think the number of pages a site has is where its value is.

Can someone please go have a stern talking-to with the developers over at Apple?

No. I won't "just hack into the account" because you don't have the password.

I was given two lists of values in an excel spreadsheet and I needed to compare/find duplicates. I wrote some JavaScript to handle it. I don't know how to use fucking Excel.

Code. Scotch neat. Happy Friday ladies and gentlemen.

Inherited a trainwreck of a site with multiple CSS files. The deadline for changes was BS. No time to remove unused rules, so I left a sorry note for the next dev.