@BordedDev agreed. However, I technically work for a consultancy firm but I am fulltime at the client. The project is with the client and they have no backup dev for my role. They have 2 devs who can learn it but it will take and they need to do their own work.

So yeah, this client fucked up in project management and has no backup plan if I get hit by a bus lol

Transferring my holidays to next year is not supported by my company.

How many AI projects do you have now? How do you even find inspiration to make something you want to use yourself lol

@BordedDev yea, just salary. If I don't take my days off, i'll get fucked by the government with taxes lol

This seems to be quite common. I started more than 4 years ago my professional career and so far, i did not have 1 senior who teached me in 2 different jobs.

My first 'senior' in my first job took anywhere between 2-5 days to answer a question (heck, there were pull requests that were not reviewed for 9 months. She did got fired for other reasons)

The second job, the "senior" developer has no experience in frontend development and i've been hired as frontend dev.

@BugsBuggy Thanks, I'll take a look at it when I got more time but have joined it for now. Good luck with your product

@Lensflare I remember in my first year of college that a quarter of the students dropped out because they thought they would be able to developer Super Mario after 1 year. By the last year, those people were struggling with css to the point they quit :D

The invite is invalid; mind sending a new one?

I was glued to the computer since I was a kid, mainly video games. I always have and still do wonder how some games are made. My first experience was reading a book about webdev when I was 11. Tried programming and got bored (and had no idea what i had to build). But a few years later, we had programming in school and that got me hooked. The year after I swapped to a different school with a more focus on IT & programming.

Maybe in the future I'll do a side project regarding gaming ':)

@afaIk Not a big company. It targets a specific set of customers. But i'm still confused, the clients that they target should be more data-privacy aware. Their main customer group is shit like auto garages, independent bank offices*, independent insurances companies*, vets, doctors, ...

* all of the clients are usually 1-5 people companies and are paying a license to work for one of the big insurances/banks.

@cafecortado Hard to tell. They also read as marketing/sales speech and not as a real review

The scrapped feature also had an amazing story that I want to share again. It was statistics and there was a "live" statistics page. It did an API request to our backend every 30 seconds. It was deployed to production and it worked fine (nobody used it). Our COO had this page open and went to take a shit, after around 20 requests... Our full platform was down because sending 2 API request per minute was too much for that shitty backend to handle.

It was tested on our test environment and the amount of lab data was a lot lower.

2 devs got fired because of this feature.

that's a lot of spam from the anti-spam bots :D

Thanks for the history lesson. I'm sad I found this platform when it was already dying. At least Linuxx was still active then :)

I don't recall seeing Alice. Never saw an April fools I think :(

@whimsical I think Netrikas probably wanted to respond on this. https://devrant.com/rants/19185230/...

@whimsical that implies anything dev related still happens :p

DR is just slow every single day nowadays =(

Oh yeah, I remember the weekly post. It still is fun to read through some older posts

Good luck with your future endeavours

@max19931 After 2 months at this company, I'm not even sure who the project manager is... or even if we have one, I don't think we do lmao

@TeachMeCode I hope the code is at least on his local machine and not yet pushed but I kinda doubt it

Idk what is worse. The state of this backend or the fact it took the senior a month to write this. Just checking the commit dates, he worked on it every day of March. 7 commits prior to March and 3 commits after March.

And even a lot of the code has some AI smell to it judging by the unnecessarily amount of comments describing easily readable code :D

@whimsical Oh no, it will be a real disaster to lose the product with the GUID that is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 /jk

@donkulator It's even more straightforward than that: anyone considering gambling is an idiot. :p

@D-4got10-01 Definitely. At least from the bright side, this job has fresh projects so now tech debt to fix/work around. The salary is a big improvement (but still average lol), at least I'm no longer far below the average :D The daily travel time is 25 minutes in total compared to 1h15. No work drama (yet). No 'mandatory' pingpong matches with a 2h commute.

But still a few other cons like more days in the office, product management still lacking, less health-focused mentality (previous job had free food and colleagues were all sportive, ..., this job offers limited free snacks, overweight colleagues and more)

Kinda planning to stick it out for a year or 2 and learn a foreign language and live abroad for a few years when I don't have any commitments yet.

@D-4got10-01 Haven't seen that comic yet, thanks for sharing.

No new tech stacks for me. They advertised that I had to write a tiny bit of backend code but that hasn't happened yet (and the needed sdk is not yet authorized to be installed lol).

I really dislike anything that is only controllable by voice. It sucks when you have a heavy accent & a speech impediment lmao

GenZ'ers are drinking less alcohol now but this concept still seems way too absurd lol

@Grumm We had also an incompetent COO at that company. Does his name by any chance start with "Se"?

@whimsical It's quite bad in my city which has a low amount of IT jobs/companies.

But Ghent / Antwerp or Brussels had a lot of job openings. I was looking semi-actively for the past 2 years and found a lot of jobs for those cities. Just barely for my city and I wanted something close-by (even if my wage would be a lot lower) :)

Since you have mentioned Belgium earlier, my previous job might be loojking for people if you have experience with telecom/voip. But they are a real clusterfuck.

Good luck in the job hunt

@BordedDev The expected features, at least for the frontend (my side), is not complex and there is a good amount of overlap. This project can do a lot damage to the core of the business with bugs related to our data. The deadline looks like there will be no time for testing

This is definitely one of the posts of the year