@electrineer it's not, though. He said he didn't know how to gather requirements from teams that already use this data. This is well within his realm. If he said he needed help getting it that would be one thing. But he straight up told me he couldn't /wouldn't provide that info.

@legendre-ary yeah I'm not sure I'd trust the dev in question to fix it at this point

@PaperTrail I have no interest in going into management. I just can't stand people who don't even make an attempt to do their job.

@ComputerToucher oof that sounds super familiar to what I'm running into. I don't know why the trend lately has been to ignore advice and continue on with a crap method just so it seems like you know what you're talking about, but I've met a LOT of devs over the past few years that do that.

I don't CARE if you don't know something. Just be honest and I can help guide you, but don't pretend you know when you don't. It's incredibly obvious to folks who are more experienced

This is compounded by the fact that reviews in this area of the code take centuries to complete. I'm lucky if I get one or two looks at my code a WEEK. Yes I have brought this up. No it hasn't gotten better.

@sariel While I mostly agree, and that's what I strive to do, I think the mentality of "become irreplaceable" is flawed.

Do I want to be recognized for my work? Yes. Do I want to be compensated fairly for it? Also yes. Do I want to be the ONE person everyone brings all of their problems to? Hell no. I've been in that spot before and it sucks. You're constantly overloaded and people start having unrealistic expectations of you.

I want to build a platform that others can use and expand on while focusing on the problems that actually matter and will help people do their jobs more effectively. I don't write code for me. I write it for the person 5 years from now who has to support the shit I wrote.

EVERYONE is replaceable, it just depends on the timeframe the company needs. Depending on one or a few people is a terrible business decision, despite how much capitalism banks on it.

While my mostly sarcastic comment of "Anything other than PHP" applies, if that's a requirement I second using Laravel. It's the most sane framework I've found for PHP so far.

Ha. I pretty much just told my boss to find me UI work. I think he's nervous about losing me because now he's going to try harder. Convinced him of some preliminary work that needs to be done before the work that keeps getting delayed. Turns out you just need to be more firm.

@sariel The annoying part is that the work culture itself is amazing, but we keep getting top down directives from upper management and our parent company, and my teams PM keeps moving things around. I like the company but holy shit this is starting to really grate on me.

They're not enabling me to succeed. In my performance review, my boss said the only thing I need to do to get promoted is show I can mentor. Well I can't really do that if I'm not working with people on things I actually CAN mentor them with.

@sariel it's not even HR. I tried to move teams but my manager and PM said we had too much to do to let me move. I was with what they told me for my current teams work when I got hired and then they immediately changed priorities on me.

@jespersh Domain knowledge is gained through documentation and experience. Ticket details are part of good documentation. You should be able to gather enough info from the ticket to at least get a starting point, and the reason for this rant is I have one team member specifically who does not include those details.

"SCIENCE CANNOT MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT HEAPS" -Professor Farnsworth

@billgates While I agree that titles don't directly mean experience and knowledge, in my particular case it does. There are two Juniors on my team that routinely try to pull this shit on me, trying to sound smart and then I have to spend the next 20 minutes explaining why they're incorrect. I'm not against people suggesting things, I'm against people talking as if they have the solution as an absolute when they don't have the true knowledge or experience to know for sure

@ArcaneEye I've been waiting. It's not going well. It's a constant source of frustration. I'm a front end dev who hasn't touched the front end in over a month. There is still a TON of work to do there....

@gitpush Using this should get you at least most of the way there: https://npmjs.com/package/@types/...

@gitpush Sure you can! https://facebook.github.io/react-na...

@gitpush That's part of why I also pushed to convert to Typescript for our front end. That or FlowJS are life savers.

@alexbrooklyn We are updating our legacy stack to go to 7.3 for security update reasons, but for the product we provide, PHP is the wrong choice. Plus it still lets you do too many stupid things. I'm really not a fan of it.

@Russian But I'm salary =(

Custom skill database and and player tracker for my LARP group. Just got done with a skill calculator

There is a decent functional reason for doing this. If you are binding event handlers in inner methods, but still need a reference to the parent object, self will then reference the parent. You can get around this other ways. However just renaming "this" for the sake of it is beyond annoying.

@Skayo I know. Was just hoping there was an alternative for VSCode. Something about sublime bugs me.

@runfrodorun Yes. They call it firmware but it's really just the backend to control server processes. Don't ask me why they chose PHP. I have no idea.

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@magusd fair point

@magusd they wipe all the computers and reimage them anytime someone leaves :( wouldn't do any good.

Rude.

I would have just walked out. No hackathon is worth me not nourishing my body. That's just asinine.

@TheInitializer No, you really don't.

And I got a raise!