Added .travis.yml to my repo.
Worked first time.

I am a god.

Such coincidence.

I'd love to just work on GPL software all day, filling gaps in the free software world.

So after joining devRant I discovered that some people have an issue with people touching "their code"...

This hasn't been a problem anywhere I've ever worked, with any person (that I know of).

Is this a vocal minority, or have I somehow avoided this subset of people through sheer luck?

Does devRant depend on any Google services, sure as Google play services?

I'm trying to get Google out of my life, but would really like to keep devRant 😞

So. Many. Irrelevant. Emails.
STOP IT.

It's getting to the point where I'm considering running a course for recruiters called "how not to annoy the fucking shite out of the people you're trying to hire / not be be reported as spam".

URGH.

I was making games for fun in C++, learnt from random internet sites, then my other half said something like "you could probably make some money doing that".

I did.

LibreOffice Impress

I spent half an hour trying to centre a fucking word in a fucking text box today and then just gave up

* Customer reports bug.
* I fix the bug.
* This highlights another issue that I haven't got enough resources to fix.
* I revert the fix.
* <insert hacky workaround here>

We have code that invokes undefined behaviour (freeing memory twice), but somehow people have managed to build around it and now it depends upon it to work.

FML.

Part of one of the workarounds for Dirty COW is to disable ptrace.

ptrace is generally needed by debuggers.

I am team lead for L2 support at a company which makes a debugger.

RedHat are now shipping this workaround.

*ducks for cover*

* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* Switches to working on it.
* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* Switches team member to it.
* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* Gets dev team to help with it.
* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* Asks CEO to help on ticket.
* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* Cries.
* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* Prays to Mecca.
* Urgent support ticket comes in.
* ...

I then find out two more urgent support tickets are about to come in.

And then another one.

Help.

Just implemented BigInt multiplication in terms of division.

I am going to hell.

My food-loving other half just said this to me:

Her: "I love you more than pie"
Me: "Aww, that's nice"
Her: "I love you 4.173692 out of 10"
Me: "..."

It has arrived!

When you see a +175 rant and ask yourself, "why didn't I think of that"?

W...w...wha...whaaat?!

Ask someone.

It'll be "really obvious" or the problem will disappear when you try and show them.

The problem with working on a debugger for a living is that you can end up debugging a debugger debugging a debugger that is remotely debugging a debugger which is debugging a program...

...only to find out there's a bug in the first debugger and you need to debug it.

The surprise and suspicion you get when something works first time.

Technically ... it's a random number.

Documentation? That's the stuff of dreams for us.

Instead we have ancient code written by people who have long left / forgotten with no idea what the cryptic mess they left behind does.

Every sprint, the beast grows.
Every sprint, we'll sort it "later".
Every sprint, we suffer more.

We warned them, but they did not listen. The technical debt rapture has begun.

When you pull from master and have to do a three way merge

Me: "We should do X!"
Client: "I think Y would be better."
Me: "If you're sure..."
Client: "I'm the one paying you!"

*much development time passes*

Client: "We should do X. Isn't it your job to think of these things?"
Me: "..."