The maintenance part crushed me. Most of my other self hosted home setup, I fiddle with at most 2-3 times a year. Next cloud, I logging in at least once a month because something wasn’t working.

Thanks for sharing that. My job set up NextCloud for cloud sharing and I thought it was pretty cool. Tried to set it up at home for sharing on a home network with my family and felt really confused. Every week there was a new problem that I had to solve and ended up going back just network drives and sharing.

I went with eleventy and pure markdown files and I never looked back.

I say this as a person who loves WordPress and contributes to the open-source project.

How are you bad?

You got a green verification checkmark on the same day! That’s a win!

GPU, render my 4.2 MB json file!

But they said there isn’t no racial profiling.

Why would the police lie?

I mean, ignore the thousands of times when they did or victim blamed and ruined their life…

PHP does that. I think a few others too.

Or maybe it was my IDE. I don’t remember. Not a issue I deal with frequently.

I memorized all 151 pokemon before the second generation came out.

I also write Jira tickets.

The post literally above this one is about a manufacturing job with shit hours and pay and I work a 8-4 (sometimes longer) but im paid abnormally high (we start new devs at 70k and average dev is six figures).

But the other stuff like free time can absolutely suffer as even at the senior level, I’m taking so many courses and outside education to stay relevant.

We’re you thinking like Doom Lan party, or some weird supercluster with the pure focus of running Doom?

Oh wow I did not know that.

That’s absolutely terrifying. Like resetting the speedometer for used cars.

As a senior dev, it’s accurate only because I’m rarely coding and always in meetings. 😭😭😭

Yes! I noticed if it’s faster than 2.5mph, I struggle to type.

Slow it’s usually pretty low.

Hell yeah. Make the windows difficult to enter, and now you have a singular point of entry.

Then put a gun turret there.

Ah PHP 5.3… totally understandable.

Pretty much. I try to tell juniors that the things I’m teaching you is things I made a mistake on. I have a decade of failure and I’m trying to help you shortcut it.

Soy milk exist. Almond milk. Rice milk.

To repeat: plastic bagged milk is more eco-friendly than cardboard?

I mean it already happens in my industry. I absolutely choose who I work for, or based on their reputation, ensure I get compensated and control.

The indie game industry is pretty inexperienced overall, and publishers do take advantage of that.

First thing I explain to new hires is to never fall in love with your code at work.

It’s a means to an end. You can absolutely love code, but never ever your work code. Because at the end of the day, you are expendable.

Generally when this starts to happen my team lead puts his foot down and says, no more changes until you sign off on what we have and we’ve released the MVP.

I had a situation like this where I shut down production because a project manager didn’t understand MVP and kept trying to grow the requirements with every meeting, and getting more and more agitated and even bothering my staff.

He forced me into multiple meetings with my boss and HR to hear “both sides”. By the end of it, he relented, the project finally shipped, and then they fired him.

It sucks that he was fired, but I don’t understand how anyone is confused by the term MVP.

Yeah wtf is happening here where the data shows you have a story point average and you boss is like, can we go higher?

Like no?

In my opinion working on Scrums really burns down people

Maybe im old but the old way was worse.

Building a project for a year without any feedback then suddenly having to pivot burns people even more.

It’s not that we want to ignore warnings. It’s just that most warnings take time to fix.

There’s only so many hours in a day. And we have to accept technical debt in order to deliver, and then pay it off later.

My job does it well by doing a “spring” and “summer” cleaning where we can turn out 100+ warnings into the single digits. Then busy season happens again and we’re back to 200+.

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Bulky. It has so many features and many times, it’s missing just one or two more things from being good enough. Its like Excel, where it tries to predict/outsmart the dev but all that does is annoy them.

I use jetbrain at work.

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It’s usually 10 mins to debug, and 3 hours explaining, categorizing, identifying the scope of it exists everywhere else…

A single architect to move the mammoth of a software?

Oookay

Incredible! Thanks for sharing this. I now need to keep a look out when I visit Europe to see if I can attempt this.

Public toilet till machines - we don’t have that in the US. Can you show a example - potentially even fishing out some coins? Super curious!

I have like 15 over the past decade and now I realize I am an ant to OP

I am a contributor and I frequently bow out of decisions and because it gets pretty brutal.

But I feel like a ant compared to giants because their conversations go way over my head.

When I checked in 2019, they definitely cleaned up.

But I still won’t use them as primary resource. Not even secondary.

If I was a noobie dev today, I’d rather ask AI and get sources.

I’ve been developing for WP for over a decade and I’m just blown away when a grandma who can’t use her phone for some reason knows how to use WordPress.

Content changes or disappear.

For fun, I booted up a old 2005 laptop with windows xp on it. The bookmarks were all dead. And most weren’t archived in any way.

There’s were many browser games I used to play that is completely lost in time.

Huggingchat for image generation is beautiful beautiful nightmare fuel.

I seriously love it.

To be clear, when a developer submits a finished game for publication, it’s supposed to reveal all of its cheat codes, but this particular one was never disclosed for the simple reason that Sony would’ve undoubtedly kicked it back to development for removal. Apparently, Piper isn’t too worried about letting his secret out into the wild more than two decades later.

There’s a bunch of debug/dev features hidden in production software that I stay quiet with from companies i worked for. Revealing them would probably make me unemployable. Or worse, slapped with a lawsuit.

So I’m glad this guy was probably retiring or switching careers.

One of the first things I did when I lead my department was tell HR that I want veto power to anybody they added to my team.

Rejected. They said they need to be in the loop.

I then said I want the power to help filter applications.

Rejected. They didn’t want me to feel “burdened”, and even when I said it’s important, they rejected.

I went to the CTO to hire a handful engineers without HR approval. I needed them for a specific project, and going through HR would take weeks. He approved and we went above HR’s stupid hiring process.

It’s a endless battle against HR.