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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Changing stuff and seeing what happens. If you change two things the universe will let the problem be fixed, because that leaves you uncertain which thing fixed the problem.

[–] HootinNHollerin 20 points 3 months ago

The ol Heisenburg’s Uncertainty fix

[–] InternetCitizen2 29 points 3 months ago
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The guy who wrote this is gone

I've gotten about 1,000 alert emails in the last 8 hours because of this

[–] SpaceNoodle 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The trick is to be the guy who is gone

[–] pdxfed 9 points 3 months ago

Guys who are here hate this one trick!

[–] robolemmy 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I retired about a year ago, so the left-most book on the middle row is about me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That one is my aspiration too. Is retirement as great as it seems?

[–] robolemmy 4 points 3 months ago

I’m enjoying it a lot so far. I haven’t missed working at all.

[–] Skullgrid 4 points 3 months ago

congrats wisened/enrichend early retirement one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a mention in forward with a note being "the only documention left was a series of desperate sounding emails that the documentation was still on the now quarenteened work computers and something about a README"

THIS HAS HAPPENED TWICE TO ME, like I appreciate my bosses and PMs being chill and not wanting to overwork me on my way out but seriously guys I needed to hand this off to someone and put it somewhere. shrug

[–] robolemmy 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I asked people to take handover for a full month before I left and nobody cared. On my last day they kept asking if they could call me with questions. I said only if they had their credit cards ready because I wasn’t going to work for free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

100% like can you message me? Sure. Will I help or hell respond? Probally not tbh. Work, chores, and hobbies keep me busy enough.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

blaming the user, it's not necessarily their fault, but gaslighting worked for Apple so why can't it work for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I'm going through Rustlings so Trying Stuff Until it Works

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Ain't nothing wrong with that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Forgetting how your own code works over here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm definitely writing useless git commit messages

For work, I at least include the Jira ticket id

For personal stuff, it's sweeping features stuffed into one commit that barely describes what was changed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

"Fixed stuff"
...
"Fixed for real this time"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What was the git flag to basically rewrite history again?

I've definitely been guilty of this, but if I can redo my changes in narrative form before I push I bet I won't have to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

git rebase -i

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forcing myself to write in the format of Conventional Commits has helped me a lot to write better commit messages.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody going to admit to being the pigeon? Because that's me.

[–] Entropywins 3 points 3 months ago

I'm sorta like the pigeon but more just a vague understanding of the last critical thing that was asked of me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It's probably going to be a kitten sort of day; I'm stress testing and trying to address the pain points (which so far is mostly on all the other services outside my code that can't keep up; not a bad place to be).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Mine is not in the list.
"Click here and there, because no documentation..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just picked up the latest version of "Copying and Pasting". This edition discusses copying and pasting from various AIs. Looking forward to digging in

[–] InternetCitizen2 2 points 3 months ago

Glad to see they keep it up to date.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Customer facing, so I think I wrote the one with the cat..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blaming the user. Always

^I'm^ ^the^ ^user^

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Frog, dog, and kitten, over and over and over in completely arbitrary orderings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The "Forgetting How Your Own Code Works" is real. I've looked at code, thought to myself "what fcking idiot wrote this garbage", only to see my own name next to it. It's a very humbling experience

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

i like the last one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

All the purple ones

[–] SlippiHUD 4 points 3 months ago

2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are my usuals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's a weekday, but I'm not a pro, so either llama or hamster. Maybe sloth, we'll see where today's project goes.

Does anybody know if there's a standard method to do a 1-way broadcast from mobile wifi hardware? (Or Auracast, it looks like the same thing) It's for a sort of mesh network where links may change very rapidly, and so a handshake doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Changing stuff and seeing what happens!

The best part is remembering every change to revert it after XY change does it right.

[–] grue 4 points 3 months ago

I'm going for the Dr. Venkman combo: "Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm too seen here. Time to hide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fuck, I would love to rewrite the front end.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Works on my machine.

[–] Phoenix3875 3 points 3 months ago
[–] tomkatt 3 points 3 months ago

I spend a bunch of time in log reviews in my current role. “Googling the error message” image is literally hanging on my office wall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Writing Useless Git Commit Messages, no doubt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The best Git Commit message I've ever seen was for like 35 files and a few hundred lines and it just said "Please work"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm the donkey today - but it's okay since I'm writing some automated tests over the incomprehensible thing I wrote on Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
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