In 2 days I will be the second oldest employee in the company, not by age, but by the time I've been here. How fun.

Tomorrow is a day off for the whole company
> Happy
I'm the only member of my department and there is a lot of work
> Stressed
Company event is coming up in mid-September
> Excited
The first day of activities is 1.5 hours away from home and it starts at 9am
> Annoyed
That sums up the end of my week.

To quote Charles Bukowski:
"and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"
I always have tendency to fall into feeling lonely and abandoned, but these days my life is tossing some of the wildest curve balls more than ever before.
The latest one yet just happened this Monday. My manager quit and there was no knowledge transfer, and it was not on the good terms with the company.
Now I'm the only member of my team, and I have to take care of some of the projects that I've never worked on.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not setup for failure, and there are no expectations for me to know how everything works, quiet the opposite. But working with our clients and debugging the projects that I literally setting up on the fly had been a rollercoaster.
Second time in this company I will be looking for a manager in my department, and teaching them how everything works. Fun times.. fun times never change..

FML, I am the most senior member of my department, everyone have a questions for me, everyone need input from me, everyone cannot exist for an hour without my input. Including my manager who picks my brain on the things that he tries to research. Send help..

Caught myself spelling name Jason as json. Send help

Found a reproduction to a bug that all the team tried to reproduce for 2 days. Damn this feels great!

So one of my co-workers had issues with his MKP 2010, it wasn't booting up, wasn't charging, basically acting as a brick. He went everywhere around the office asking other to revive it. I was the last person - my duty was to take out the hard drive and trash it.
I asked him if I can keep it, he allowed me to do so.
After a couple of days I got back to it, installed a hard drive, which I had from my friend from a while ago.
- Played around with charger, got it charging
- Boot it up to recovery mode (I was very excited when I saw that globe spinning)
- The Wi-Fi didn't connect, used LAN
- Formatted drive, installed OS
- Got to endless loop of recovery mode
- Found out that the digits on the keyboard type lower line of letters.. :/
- Boot to safe mode - worked
- Endlessly booted to recovery mode as I tried to get to boot menu
- Realized that the left Shift, Control, and Option does not work
- Used external keyboard and got to boot menu
- Still no success with booting to regular mode
- NVRAM reset!!!!
- Booya! It works!

Should I bother and replace the keyboard? I mean it doesn't matter that much, probably will give it to my mother :)

It all started with my father building a pc with win 98 in '99, first experience is a minesweeper lol

Unit test - done
Integration test - meh..

Hate when one of the devs get personally offended cause I log some bugs about his part of the app.. I know it is your child, nothing about you, it's a bit retarded, and doesn't do well with other kids.. :/

I feel like Stackoverflow is a fastfood for programmers mind. It gives you a solution you starve for. It may be not the best quality, but it works for now. It does not satisfy you in a long run, and may be too shallow for advancing. But it works and gives you more to think about.

I would never find a quick solution to parse a string with regex. I never thought it works this way. But hey, I'm happy.

Seriously interested in microcontrollers. Not sure where to start though. Any suggestions?

This feeling when you post question to Stackowerflow but nobody replies cause the issues which you have is uncommon and not as popular as some hot frameworks, or simple setup issies.

Booya! Keep up the amazibg work you guys are doing! @dfox @trogus

There are so many stories out there, I love how the stories always end at the most ...[read more]

Good code is like a good video game. When you read it first time, it feels like magic, and you feel like it does more than it actually can.

Things which make me feel badass tester (and dev too) are: dark themed IDEs, using command prompt/ terminal (still as exciting), and when my code actually works lol

Why the fuck appium is such a walk in the park for Android, and such nightmare for iOS... why...

Trying to convince my coworker to have a git repo instead of resending chunks of code in Slack... lmao

More and more getting myself caught thinking about the code more than writing it. I mean I draft it, it is usually very shitty at the first moment, and insted of refinifng and adding spaces to moments I just sit think, write some ideas in my notebook, search on Stack overflow, listen to the music, and wait until the code talks to me.

I know it sounds like some hippie shit, but it actually happens and really solves the problem.

Anyone has the same thing?

This feeling when you have 20+ devices which you use to develop and/or test have flash flood alert.

Oh crap seems like we will switch our automation from java to python.

Any recomendation to good recources or books to start with python?

Working with SSD is like working with an old man. It knows a lot, and tell you things right off the shelve, but it can die at any time.