When the build is stuck at 98.9% for, on average, 5 minutes out of 10 min total.

My computer goes "NOP" quite a lot...

Have to write ugly ass wrapper classes around a third party dependency since my team can't be bothered learning its vocabulary. A vocabulary which is very well thought and self-consistent. Apparently, defining our own which is only occasionally more descriptive is preferred. It's already collapsing under the weight of its own maintainability cost. And, if someone joins the team that knows the dependency they are fucked anyway as they'll have to use our wrappers.

Time and time again I've tried to oppose this move on several different merits: maintainability chief amongst them, but no one listens to the lowly new hire.

I should just pipe my thoughts to /dev/null and save my breath...

If I was independently rich I'd pay to work on software I use to fix bugs that it has.

Hello, Paradox Interactive, let me fix some of these roads for you.

Hello, Spotify, let me allow power users to make playlists be subsets of other playlists.

Hello, Github, let me create a tagging system to sort starred repositories.

Do you think your i5/i7 has any sense of how underutilised it is?

Got my first laptop burn today when working from home so I could cook dinner.