My boss started contemplating whether to start using styled-components for react.

I showed him Vue: "oh well, so we're basically recreating Vue within jsx?"

I'm not sure what problem we're solving anymore

Decide who I want to be

Will using Windows XP for healthcare-data be illegal under the GDPR?

June is gonna be a fun month full of lawsuits/investigations 🎉

Wanna be rich? Become an independent privacy officer! Rent yourself only to companies that have their shit together and charge thousands just for being a security expert!

Every larger company needs one, but almost none have an employee lawfully qualified to be one... 🤑

The joy of seeing the customer be extremely happy about stupid small things, completely ignoring the difficult parts

Recovering a Raid 1 EXT4 disk to a ZFS disk. Thank god for Adobe programs and their multi million file-based caching files.

recovery_time.add(4.hours)

3 hours in: "FreeNas doesn't support ext4? Ooooh that explains..."

Programming against a SOAP api, developed by the client in Visual FoxPro. Their whole system is in the language.

10 seconds API calls are "normal".

Luckely our backend rarely needs to talk to it 🎉

Start with it at age 4, learn children to protect themselves on the internet, but also show them the possibilities. It's not something I expect this generation to properly teach the next one

And name it something like Computer Security

Saturday morning 9:30. Alright, let's crack this case. Automated PG backups of DB in a docker swarm attempt 5.

WHY IS REACT SO POPULAR FML

Fuck Redux and sagas. Why can't you just be normal MVC?

My dad in 2002 to 7 year old me: "I got you your own domain, this is how you upload files to it. Good luck!"

But the first experience was him recording some of my first sentences. I love my dad <3

How do you make the browser download a file within a front-end JS framework?

You render an <a> with the data and fire a click event. Not kidding.

Fuck linux. I'll just bring my own macbook to work

I did a project that is way too advanced for me, as an intern at a great company.

Didn't finish in time, but got paid an extraordinary salary, compared to other students.

It still hurts

How rich could you become by selling secret keys found in open source github repo's?

Hidden requirements. Hidden requirements EVERYWHERE.

So much for a hobby project for my student association

I had the pleasure of rewriting some hacky rails code of a colleague yesterday. I love the way it looks now, but man. What a beunhaas

That 5 year deal I made for building and maintaining a Drupal website. Fuck, that shit's nasty. I even used a plugin to be able to create a custom model for some shit

Oh come on. Even the docs itself are a parody on the framework

Perfect first day on the job

Ever had to switch out a whole serializing layer in an API? Damn that's a lot of work :(

At least the 1952 tests are written well...

"This probably won't work".

Oh, that works. Neat.

When the bug is THAT big

Every bank employee I've met as an IT student: "I've never imagined myself working at a bank. I don't like banks, but I like working for them". Which means they pay well.

The worst part about the devRant stressball is that it makes the unlevelness of my desk very clear

Someone just spent an evening with me explaining how to use Ember and *not* fuck it up.

Ember is actually quite nice if you know how to use it :)

Being a total bitch to my colleagues for doing things different than I would've done

Few months ago: Need a new Macbook, I'll just buy the cheap 128GB and replace the ssd myself...
I hate myself as much as I hate Apple now

I always challenged myself to explain my work in a very approachable way. Everyone knows what I do and in a way how IT works 🎉