I straight up ask any job I apply and interview with why they didn’t proceed. One time they were actually taken back and ended up hiring me (after some convo).

If a company cannot communicate to you why you didn’t make the cut, they’re a shitty company and not worth working for. I realize that’s easier said than done to swallow, but it’s true.

I set an alarm that went off earlier today and I totally spent the next 5 minutes trying to figure out why I set it…

…which made me late for a meeting.

wtf that price is insane

Well, this will be my next party trick somehow.

This is why I take all my PTO and Vacation days and do no more than “meet expectations” at my jobs.

There is no reason to do more. I’ll take my extra time and enjoy relaxing.

God the memories. Lived in a house surrounded by banks of ivy and for whatever reason it attracted those things like none other (Giant House Spider).

The house at the time was also poorly insulated or sealed from outside. I’d find 1-2 every 2-3 days inside. They’d teleport across the house using the vent system too. One snuck inside my bath towel. I’d find them in the sink just chilling, they’d crawl across the bed sometimes, ugh.

Look, I know they’re harmless (to humans) and I know I’m being dumb, but spiders for some reason immediately cause a fight or flight response in me. Like, there were nights I’d see one and then I’d be unable to sleep the rest of the night and I’d have to keep the lights on just in case. My brain just absolutely breaks down when spiders are involved, it’s dumb, I know it, but I can’t seem to stop it and those particular spiders are just so unbelievably large that it scared the shit out of me.

Roaches? Snakes? Ants? Beetles? Scorpions? Literally anything else? I don’t care at all. Only spiders. No clue why.

I have a handful of Raspberry PIs collecting dust. I think I told my wife I’d do something cool and automated 1.5 years ago and…well…yeah.

In their defense (maybe a stretch) it could be 1-tab indents with a 1-space display?

I’m trying for their sake.

I worked for a company that refused to use TypeScript because it “slowed devs down”. It was…a laughable period in my life.

And then I realized it’s python.

At my org the security is so heavy that it’s a multi-step, multi-tier fix (meaning the one Helpdesk person has to escalate, the first tier that gets it has one password but not the other, that has to go to second tier, etc.)

They announced weekend hours all weekend on Friday and given we’re talking tens of thousands of potentially impacted systems, my guess is it absolutely won’t be done by Monday. That doesn’t necessarily mean business is dead in the water, but it’s definitely more chaotic and slow moving.

That’s what I did locally.

But a lot of this JavaScript wasn’t even transpiled/compiled for prod, just uploaded to a bucket and referenced directly. It was painful.

Typo’d property names when accessing was the biggest one. Assuming a property was one data type instead of another and not casting or handling it appropriately. Accidentally calling something like it’s a method when it isn’t.

I ran a bunch of plugins on my end to help with some of that, but many of the older or stubborn devs refused and would refuse anything but, like, vim with no add-ons.

110% agree. But…

One job I worked at wouldn’t let us do this because it created too large of a QA impact (lol). We were only allowed to modify code in the smallest section possible so that testing could be isolated and go faster.

At another job they mandated that TypeScript wasn’t allowed because it “slowed down development”. It was soooo laughable. The number of bugs introduced that could have been readily caught was absurd, but management never put the two pieces together.

In my defense, the backend contracts change so often in early development the any just made sense at first…

…and then the delivery date was moved up and we all just had to ship it…

…and then half of us got laid off so now there are no resources to go back and fix it…

…rinse, wash, repeat

At my primary day job, no, they’ve already announced weekend hours to all employees to resolve issues one by one. I feel for IT/Helpdesk.

At two of my friends day jobs, yes. Everything was fixed by late afternoon.

At another friend’s day job, no, and things aren’t looking great as their disaster recovery plans, staffing, etc. were not prepared for this. It’s sounding like it could extend into next week for them.

For another friend of mine…he got turned away at Starbucks this morning because their computers weren’t working. I guess we’ll see if he gets turned away tomorrow? Haha.

I presume he couldn’t pay it? What happens after that? Do you get blacklisted from power companies?

$0.058 / kWh here in rural Oregon, it’s pretty awesome.

What would be even more wild is if you edited/replied to yourself and said, “nvm figured it out”…only to later discover it and not remember what you did

I wonder if it’s possible that they’re paid money by Google to not support Firefox?