‪I use Linux because I enjoy unexpectedly learning how to mount an encrypted disk after a software update deletes the boot directory... on a Thursday night while other people drink beer.

When you've been slinging divs all day and can't get that image to center, and finally you type "text-align: center" and think, yeah okay, I think I'm done for the day...

... And then the image centers.

💣💥

When you go make coffee and return to your code and see

let foo =

and you have no idea wtf was going to come next...

"I found a shortcut!"
95% of the time, actually results in more work.

<starts writing post in browser about losing code thanks to procrastinating git commit>
<accidental click>
<loses post>

Would some Android devs please step up? At the rate all the cool apps are popping up on iOS I'm gonna end up with an iPhone again and I don't wanna go back to the ecosystem :/

"My code isn't working."
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's doing exactly what I told it to do."

When your latest, best project is your own portfolio site, and all the projects it was built to showcase suddenly seem sub-par.

When you spend an hour making code changes that have absolutely no effect and tearing stuff out to find out what is going wrong... Only to realize that you're serving a different file from the one you're working on.

Who successfully used position: sticky with z-index today??! This guy!!

When you don't want to go for your midday run, not because you don't feel like working out, but because it'll take time away from coding and you can't read devRant while you run...

Front end dev be like:
Me:
This is greatest design concept ever!
Why isn't it working? It was working yesterday.
This is the stupidest design concept ever.
It works! It works! The client is going to love this as much as I do. It's exactly what they asked for!

Client:
Actually, can you do something completely different?

In the middle of my workout and all I can focus on is this treadmill display's terrible UI... Looks like a zoom button but actually increases the speed.

You know you're a front-end dev when...

Open Ye Olde Dev Shoppe, where we hand-code artisian programs that AI could make, except slower, and for twice the price. And where we also serve coffee made by a human barista.

Me: *deploys site*
Someone: Hey, there's a bug in your site's css.
Me: ...
Me: *rewrites css with sass*

I somehow managed to turn on overtype with the insert key.

Welp, guess it's time to get a new laptop. Any recommendations?

Spent all day trying to fix my intermittently failing Wi-Fi connection on Linux. Error codes for wpa_supplicant are entirely unhelpful. -_-

Deleted part of my build template for no good f-ing reason while trying to back it up -_- Of all the irony

I began my first Linux / i3 install 7 days ago when I posted my first rant... And today I'm declaring it officially *done*! (Mostly because if I don't, I'll spend another week configuring the damn thing.)

Here it is. Few minor things to edit/fix (like the fact that it sometimes randomly logs me out after coming back from hibernation... Yeah, "minor") but the functionality is mostly there. I can ("should") get back to work!

!Rant: Achievement unlocked!

When you ought to be doing coding challenges but spend hours tweaking your i3 config instead...

(I'll stop when I get compton working, really I will...)

My poached eggs are a perfect likeness of the result of my programming efforts this morning...

How is notification-daemon not showing with `$ which` when it's already installed?!

Had a better day with i3wm and Linux. Did a lot of futzing with config files and got it looking pretty cool. My status bar is relevant, urxvt is transparent, I'm happy with it.

I would have taken a screenshot to share with you all but uhh... I don't know how yet. :/

!rant: Got VPN running and status showing properly in i3status! Yay!

Linux set up on laptop day 2: can't make the screen lock after resume from suspend, can't connect to my VPN, can't set key bindings in i3wm... But I did successfully set my wallpaper.

I set up Linux on my laptop today and connected to Wi-Fi. It took nine-ish hours.