No raise. Not like I single handedly rewrote one of our weirdest and most complex legacy code bases or anything... Oh and even so they whined about how long that took that's probably reason they'll cite if I ask about this lack of raise thing.

I mean, technically I got a little more just because the tax rates are different for the new financial year but come on

If a vacuum is performing poorly, does it suck?

So I gots me an Android app I'm writing in Ionic Angular

Cleartext is disabled by default these days. However I need to make requests from the app to ESP 32's running in the same network. They will always be running in the same network.

Setting cleartext = true in the manifest hasn't worked.

"whitelisting" the ip hasn't worked

It works when usb debugging and keeps working after I unplug the cable but won't work if I close and then reopen the app

Anyone else suffer with an inability to compartmentalize?

Like f I have the slightest issue going on in my personal life, you can forget about giving a shit about your fictional deadlines on products that aren't even going live anytime soon

Did I ever tell you guys about that time I got a whole monitor for 1 Zar?

Probably but I shall again.

"twas the same auction at work where I got the R100 laptop. There was an LG Flatron W2243S listed with no reserve price. It had description "Faint line down middle of screen"

Figured what the hell, bid R1, mostly to see kif anyone else would. I won it. Literally just swapped out the vga cable and did a factory reset. All happy now. Only downside is that it's vga only but hey, what else are you gonna do with R1?

Feelings don't care about your facts

It is a meme but it's not a joke. So sick of this shit

In a world where you can be anything you want, why do so many people choose to be a poes?

Born to "Dues Vult" forced "As per my last email"

Any of y'all also constantly run out of steam halfway through stuff?

The visitor bays at my complex are all marked with Roman 5's. Can't out why

Found this line in code that's been in prod for 10 years

"int kak = object.getValue()"

There is no contextual reason for it to be called kak, which means shit in Afrikaans

I may have asked this before...

Freelancers, what do you do wrt marketing / how do you find clients?

Set this as my lock screen at work (3 days a week in office) just to see anyone would notice/say anything

Wtf is wrong with these people

Why must I as a man, fill out a time sheet for someone I could simply kill in nature?

"Admin is not admin"

The Machine
27 September, 2002

Oh, to live semi-off-the-grid somewhere in a log cabin just making simple apps all myself

What the poes

Set chrome as default browser, Teams still opens links in Edge....

Because you, that's why

Fuck it.

Anyone wanna start a cult?

Get back to work today, see a mail from yesterday when I was off sick

"Mr Colleague has tendered his registration. His last day with Company will be 31st Jan 2024"

Do they think we're stupid or something? We all know the guy got sacked. We're required to give a calendar month's notice. So when there's a same day resignation, we all know

Day 1 back from sick leave

Can't focus for shit, like even less so than usual
Not sure if it's the meds
General dissatisfaction here
The unengaging task
Personal issues
Or just sleeping like shit last night

Having trouble getting CSS to apply to a table in react. Thought I'd ask here. You guys are probably better than SO. Please and thank you

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

What if I'm the problem?

What if I just don't like working?

Anyone else want to improve at stuff but just can't find the energy/ambition/drive?

Lol so we had a meeting where basically the entire dev team got shat on for everything always taking too long... Now, I know a .lot of us suck at estimates but if it's all the time then do you think maybe we're not getting the best quality info to wok from?

Then they revised the WFH policy to 3 days a week in office. AND got pissy about the hours.

so I ask you all what are you hours?

Apparently I'm a C# dev too now... Things are different.. Like in some ways better.. But still weird and change is always a bit comfortable at first

How is t only Tuesday? Surely it must be Thursday at the very least?

What the poes

So the last while they've had me doing web/android dev in Ionic + Angular. I've more or less enjoyed it.

Brings me to a question, any of y'all work with that stack? Is it worth making that my niche?

So far I've always been the guy who is down for anything except Delphi. And there's definitely a place for generalists but I kinda feel like I'm too general. Like my knowledge on most of the stacks I've worked with has stayed too surface level