Installing and setting up a toolkit on a VM should not take roughly a week. Why isn't this just an image?!?

!rant
"The joy of discovery is one of the best things about being a software developer."
~ Eric Elliott

It's official. I've hit javascript ~fatigue~. *Burnout*. STAAAAHP with all the frameworks and libraries and weirdly named stuff. To quote Abe Simpson: "I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you...".

I need to switch gears.

Fundamentals. Fundamentals. Fundamentals.

Seriously, though, don't cut corners. It'll bite you in the arse eventually.

Sometimes, y'gotta do what y'gotta do.

Ugh. Just found some really old script where I was using UA sniffing to change content. Super-restrictive CMS FTW.

Asshats in QA,
Kindly please be leaving me the fuck alone so I can work.

Fuck off,
-Rowsdower

(Sorry, 'ol Rowsdower's grumpy today.)

THIS is a rant. Somebody send this person a stress ball. “Fuck You Startup World” @shemag8 https://medium.com/@shemag8/...

I work with the human embodiment of C-3P0.

!rant
We've got a small army of foreign contractors working with us both in the office and overseas. Syntax has become the thing that stands out to me the most. We can all speak the same language, but our partners don't quite have the syntax down, resulting in some rather amusing email exchanges. I can't fault them, if the shoe was on the other foot, I guarantee I'd be butchering any other language's conversational syntax. Overall, the experience has been a bit of an eye opener for me.

MacBook silicone keyboard cover, yea or nay?

Informal poll: how often do you find yourself looking up trivial things, even if you're a seasoned vet? I know I do almost every day.

This week I learned exactly what I don't know.

When you're dead tired and keep making stupid mistakes...
git commit -m "ugh..."

log into my dev VM, instantly forced into a "critical restart". Productivity: Killed.

I can't think of a better way to start the morning then 'critical restarts', said no one, ever.

Feck. My brain bluescreened during a coding interview and I had a major panic attack. No clue what or why it happened. FML.

Another weekend, another relic. this one happens to be my wife's old standalone flatbed scanner, circa the late 90's

Rowsdower's recipe for coding:
0. Open Spotify
1. Search 'Lazerhawk'
2. Start Artist Radio
3. Enter "The Zone"

Check out this relic I just found in my old messenger bag...

The first of (likely) many.

I'm torn -- shiny new macbook pro, want to keep it pristine for as long as possible, but I've also got a burning desire to sticker it up.

!rant
'Ol Rowsdower's got some of the major players interested. Deep down, I know that I know my sh--, but I'm worried that I'll get a bad case of impostor syndrome. Anyone have some words of advice?

This... I always swore that this would be a sign of the apocalypse. Mainly, I'm just curious how the other half lives.

I used to have a "Dinosaur Plant" from ThinkGeek, that was always good for a "WTF?" when the biz folks would come by asking for favors.

When you smudge your glasses immediately after / while you are cleaning said glasses. FML.

Let's build this form out of a bunch of divs and <a> tags, instead of, oh, I don't know, ACTUAL FORM ELEMENTS?!

My view for the next week... My 1st thought? Now I've got time for personal projects!

Another day, another dozen bugs to fix thanks to offshore's ineptitude.

JIRA queue just dropped into the single digits for the first time in weeks. It's getting me right in the feels.