!rant

The best story I've read in a long time.
https://teamten.com/lawrence/...

I just spent an hour debugging my company's web app. More specifically, I was trying to fix a bug that made a label on a comment I just made say "Posted 3 days ago".

After confirming timestamps on the server are correct with a calculator, fiddling around with the js debugger, and ruling out weird timezone-related shenanigans, I came to a conclusion.

The bug was in fact sitting, quite comfortably, between the chair and the keyboard.

Yesterday I had moved the date on my computer roughly 3 days into the future, because I was testing out some unrelated code that was dealing with Redis, and I wanted to expire all of the keys stored inside of it.

Don't blame me, my parents told me I had fallen onto my head as a child.

Making sure you can't be fired 101:

The docs for your code should closely resemble that creative writing assignment you turned in a week late in college.

Well... I recorded my boss's talk at a small tech conference. Everything went just fine until I tried downloading the video from my camera.

It turns out under-priced 32 GB SD cards from eBay may actually only contain 256 MB worth of memory, while quite happily accepting recordings that are far larger than that.

Contrary to popular belief, HP laptops do not have air vents. They do, however, have dust vents.

A sign in front of startup office:
Do not feed the developers! We keep them on a soylent diet - eating real food might make them question their life choices.

import pyos as os

del(os.spyware)
os.start(bluescreen_enabled=False)

Hey kid, wanna try this new JS framework?