A react package has a transient dependency on another library (date-fns), well that transient library is used throughout the code base. Now I need a slightly newer version of date-fns. Everything runs fine, create PR, build fails. Have a look, react package doesn't import date-fns properly, ok well lets update it, spent the morning updating a shitty date picker component, that is wrapped in a shitty wrapper that doesn't keep the generic/union exclude info so now it has type issues. Finally fix that, everything looks fine.

Runs build:
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 3221225501.

Why is it always with react that these issues exist

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It's a public holiday (I follow company's country's public holidays).
Wake up. Feeling good.
See message wishing me that I don't wake up - lol.
Msg peeps hello, and go help mom she's in a rush.
Qt says hello.
Help mom go to work (garage door is manual).
Wish qt good luck with stuff today - no reply, guess I just missed her
Go back to sleep
(buddy using img-gen #awesome)
(client messages for standup)
Wake up again, Life's still good™️
Reply back, it's a public holiday but if they want other/extra days just let me know - all good.
Make brunch - bread has just gone bad, whatever got another. Ends up being heavier than expected.
Watch an episode of a show while eating, bit of a zzzz.
Jam some guitar, do decently but not quite getting it right - but it's fun so it's all right
Qt updates about day - sounds like fun
Check in with friend, seems to be doing ok, he's been dealing with a bunch of things atm.
Create fun project for a sudoku solver, set up the initial part, realise that the parsing is a bunch of boilerplate (decided to map each section to a variable with bit packing), realise it's easier to work with arrays instead.
Decide to nap
It gets too warm to stay in bed, doens't matter, feel physically even better (aka bags under eyes are much less)
Qt back online, shares cool pic of castle
Realise I can get best of both worlds using pointers... This is getting stupid, whatever.
Getting warm, qt sends pic of temp by her.
Oh, right, ice cream. Open it, clearly melted and refrozen slightly - it's ice cream doesn't matter.
Chat a bit with qt
Bot battle spams img-gen
img-gen randomly gets stuck because watching YT vid
Chat a bit with peeps
Order food for mom and I - because why not. Hmmm a bit pricey.
Chat a bit more with peeps till mom is home.
Go chat with mom food should be here soon...
App says food is on it's way, great I'm like 2 minutes away.
20 minutes later, (1 hour after ordering) call up, "um yeah, that will still take a while"
Friends messages, he's been made redundant after CEO explodes and fires managers
Mom getting annoyed, if she had had to work she'd have been in bed already.
Now 2 hours after ordering food, call up again. "Yeah it ready we're sending it over now" - great hang up.
Get food, it's good. They included an extra beer - they offered, and I picked, spring rolls, but whatever.
Finish the first beer, look at the bottle, it's grody - at least the neck is clean, same with the other bottle.
Chat with peeps
Realise that it's not as good as the one I remember. That's export vs local version, I guess.
Chat with qt
Realise it's late and didn't really touch projects I wanted to #ItHappens
Starting to get tired again
Me still happy. Glad I woke up chipper. Let the happy flow

Also, my PC randomly started having lag spikes today - should probably just reboot #WindowsProblems

Not really a rant, since I'm just kinda shrugging it off, but I know if I didn't wake up in such a good mood I would have been pretty annoyed. Perspective is everything or some other philosophical shenanigans, you guys tell me the right term/saying

Started reading during meetings. The description of `elegance` vs `marketable` in "Hacking: The art of exploitation" hits home. Probably also why I hate the client work I need to do so much right now as well, there is nothing elegant about react

Thanks for the recommendation @retoor

So many meetings, how could one be lonely

That moment in the morning you realise today is going to be a shit day

Just saw this in an email about 1password:

Automated system restarts. You can automatically enforce restarts on employees’ devices to ensure updates install successfully.
We are adding support for the MSI command-line option /norestart for situations where automated system restarts are not desired.
If system restarts are enforced, we recommend scheduling deployments during off-hours to minimize disruptions.

If my PC restarts without me asking I'm going to smack a bitch (windows does it enough already)

Why do people who put camera's on always insist others must do so as well? I don't mind when it's a special meeting like a retro or some form of team building thing, but I cannot be assed during standup - that MFer is meant to be over after 10 minutes. You guys go on an hour-long tangent, while I'm busy writing code, chatting to people and getting shit done, do you really need to see me not paying attention to the issues with the PHP project that are there because client X did something stupid. I'm already rolling my eyes while listening right now. Also, I don't want to put a "good" shirt on for 20 minutes to an hour meeting.

Oh no I'm not handwriting property/key checks and just checking that rows are written to the CSV (since that's not the job of that test, but test of the serialising function)

Dude must be really happy at home 🙄

That heart attack when important data isn't showing anymore, and you missed the note as to why, so now you're stressed out because you don't know what and how hard you fucked up

Also, fuck the dude for saying he did the deploy, telling the testers to test and only an hour or 2 later saying he didn't deploy to the right env

WHY THE FUCK IS DJANGO RETURNING A STRING FOR A DECIMAL FIELD WTF

Finally got enough coverage on an urgent PR, update from main. Can't merge because of -0.32% coverage on code that has ~95% coverage.

Well, I guess they're not getting that end of day feature they wanted.

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God I hate admin, need to transfer booking between software that looks like it was written in the early to 2000s to that was made 1998 or some shit (new bookkeeper). FUCK I HATE ADMIN

Apparently, caffeine is now considered harmful.

Thanks, EU

(I know it mostly for pesticides/non-food right now)

Why did this world have to curse use with bootstrap 2.0, sorry I mean tailwind fucking piece of shit v4 upgrade shenanigans MF <hr>s aren't changing colour

Still haven't watched the matrix but I'm pretty sure the story is just this:

Manage to lose 5kg in a week - which is great but definitely doesn't feel normal 😅

Saw this meme, and was immediately reminded of the bad spam times here

Did you hear about the AMD microcode getting pwned? Time for the ultimate OC is now!

I'm so fed up with my current work, I'm actually considering doing WordPress work...

Old client asked if I could do DNS/MX maintenance so she could refer me but didn't mention WordPress...

I don't think it would be "fair" to charge full rate for it, but I will - was hoping for a ~2 hours a week side thing, but they need 20 to 30 websites maintained

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Decided to update my vcpkg version, and ran tests for my networking tests only for it to return QUIC_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED/E_NOINTERFACE for loading the config. Turns out someone decided to switch the default SSL implementation from OpenSSL to Schannel on Windows and didn't enable an option to put it back.

Now it returns an error if you provide a certificate file. Luckily if you enable 0-rtt it still forces OpenSSL 🙄

Anyone else ignore the obvious signals that you're sick until you sound like a batman impressionist?

So many meetings today I missed lunch

When you have 2+ separately scaling services (not HTTP) that need to communicate which each other, what do you do?

I'm leaning on putting Redis in the middle since it's mostly seeding data once per login, but I'm curious about opinions/alternative solutions (one creates a session the other reads the info)

People always complain about node_modules, at least it works most of the time, unlike god-damn python AI packages. I can't install https://github.com/shashikg/... because for some inane reason it requires a LLVM wrapper that in turn wants to compile LLVM manually. Not just manually YOU, the filthy dev that wants to use this holy library, must go and compile it yourself. And don't you forget to apply the holy patches.

God the code in AI projects always sucks - last time I looked at voice gen it required me to figure out what the fuck it was doing and go hunt down the libraries manually and still have to vendor in half the library because they used a library that had a minor migration but was 2 major versions behind or similar issue.

Why do science bros write such shit code that always wants to reach into things completely unnecessarily. Just write your shit properly.

Is this why they always have docker image...

Seeing a commit come past that includes an env variable for the backend named so that it will also get sent to the frontend (PUBLIC_*)...

Someone broke boost and modules, at least I managed to make a workaround but come on

Does anyone else ever drink too strong coffee in one go because they're tired only to get a headache and still feel 10 years younger

Anyone here ever add hardcoded sentry environment names, no I don't mean hardcoded names, limit the allowed ones? (e.g. not "dev" but "Dev")

Am I the silly one that realized that this is probably not a good way of handling it and created a PR to remove the check?

That moment when you can re-use code you wrote years ago, and it still just works

Anyone in NL have any good suggestions for finding job? Currently, I'm working at a software house doing fullstack (node + python) + mobile (android + react-native 🤮), generally one of the 2 categories per project. I do have ~10 years of experience. Currently, I'm all the way at the German border, I'm up for moving, especially if it gets me near people I can actually talk tech to (even to another country, but I only know Dutch and English fluently).

I do get offers on LinkedIn with one semi-success, but it came with several strings attached (e.g. can't find a new job with in 80 km kind of stuff).
Game dev has always been a hobby-wanna-go-pro thing for me, so I want those to be excluded from any type of “you made this in your free time, well, it's ours now” contracts.

Part of me wants to go into the game's industry because that's what I've always wanted (it just didn't exist back where I lived outside of gambling/shitty mobile games). I'm crazy enough to like C++ but with the current toxic culture in the game's industry, I wish to avoid it at the same time (+ just being exhausted all the time makes me think I wouldn't be able to keep up in the beginning).

Which makes me think I should rather go for “saving for the future” but the passion I had to just sit and programming seems to have 404ed🥲

My mind has been Ouroborosing on which way to go unfortunately as well

I moved back a couple of years ago largely unplanned timing wise, for a couple of reasons (safety and family mostly, the whole reason/process would take a while to explain). Which means I couldn't start to get things organised until now, including re-doing my driving license since I'm not allowed to convert it since I missed out on the 30% ruling (and my “old” country's license isn't good enough).