I personally don’t mind the wave of “back to the office” as long as transports costs are added to my income and I can start 1h30 later and leave 1h30 earlier.

MacOS and their custom keyboard layout drives me crazy. I will have once again to remap keys.

I wish we could stop to push candidates to do TDD or even asking questions about it during interview. This thing is a lie, has always been and will ever be. It is cool for small coding exercises but nothing else.
Let’s stop gatekeeping with stupid concepts.

Petition to rename this app “engineer therapy”

Fuck antiviruses making your PC so slow that you cannot work. Need to find a way to disable it, fuck security guidelines.

I can’t anymore with those companies hiring unicorns only, reposting the same job offer for 6 months while they could have hired someone more junior and taught them. 1 year my girlfriend is in the “no experience” death loop while she outsmarts me by far.

“The local build is broken, run it with Docker” isn’t a valid answer, period.

The bad thing about high turnover is being forced to remind people constantly that you don’t like physical contact.

Fuck react, fuck nextJS and fuck frontend unit testing, it doesn’t work and will never work.

Dumb tests are a form of intense intellectual masturbation, causing a lot of lost time as a side effect

My kingdom against a work laptop able to handle docker and VS code at the same time.

It takes days to get a review. 3rd notice unanswered. So today it will be merged without review of 5 MRs. We’ll see what breaks in prod anyways.

I am so pissed at all the shit I have to do to publish a simple app on the playstore. Every 2 phrases is a threat to ban my account, and target audience, and privacy policy, all of this for an app that is absolutely not serious. And I am not even started with the Apple Store because I am too broke this month to throw $100.

Fuck Confluence and anyone telling me to write anything there. From now on, documentations will be in the repo, written in Markdown

2 years ago I would have hoped Discord would have started an enterprise version of their software but now it’s bloated with stupid paying gifs animations, activities and other cringe micro-transactions
Problem is there is no alternative of their role-based permissions system, or their open audio channels, or even the audio quality.

3 weeks to make a full mobile application. As a junior. Beat this.

Honestly tired of those "let's put a bit of random AI here" talks. All it does is eat money for pointless features, and with the average trend duration in 2k23 it will not even have the slightest impact.

The next one who tells me “MacBooks are superior” will take mine in the face at a speed no benchmark ever recorded.

The test setup is broken and prevents me from running my test? Fine. I remove the test. Can’t be bothered by this anymore, it’s just a waste of time.

Why don’t we create a worldwide union? We are in every companies, by being coordinated we could obtain anything

If you participated in creating jest I wanna test the colour of the wall after I smashed your face on the it, please contact me.

Make a child now so he can tell you in his 20s he wants to do a masters degree in AI prompt and it’s gonna cost you £150k

Am I the only one tired to have to work on a laptop?

I left my country (France) because of the working conditions that are absolutely terrific in software engineering.

Basically, 80% of the time you will be hired by agencies which rent you in a dishonest way to other companies. Half of the later use the agencies services because they are scared by the work code, which is tough but fair, and the other half can’t hire because the agencies put a lot of money to get the engineers and make money by renting employees.
Most of the companies you will work in in France will have outdated stack, and an awful bureaucratic hierarchy.
Your boss will suspect you do nothing.
There is also an untold competition taking place in every companies : who will stay the longer in the office, sometimes taking place until 8pm.

I moved to the UK, the country is absolutely awful, but the working conditions for engineers are a way better, more realistic.

Are you team

console.log(“retrait de la réforme des retraites”)

Or team

alert(“Macron démission”)

I will never rant enough about Windows. It is so aged. I have 6TB of storage, 2 SSD of 1To and 1 HDD of 6TB

But windows doesn’t care, it will pack everything in the same disk in this damned AppData no matter where you install your softwares, making main disk full.

Wanted to build a rather big docker image, but yeah, because I guess that the guys from Docker have other things to do than caring of a 90s OS with a fancy UI, they use an emulated ext4 file system, it filled my disk, Docker is crashing because of that, letting me no other choice than removing the emulated disk.

Those days, I have a lot of companies reaching me directly on my professional mail to sell to me their shit. Should I randomly visit one to ask for an explanation in person?

So, I've been reading all this complaints about micro services which started to be loud thanks to the mad CEO of Twitter.
Keep reading but I am curious about your opinion as well

To me all the point of micro services has never been about improving the speed, in fact it might have a negative impact on the performances of an application. I think that given the calculation power we have nowdays, it's not a big deal

However on the other side, it makes all the rest so much easier.
When there's a problem on one service, I can just debug the given service without spending hours starting a huge slow turtle
If something goes down, it doesn't make unhealthy the whole app, and if I am lucky it's not gonna be a critical service (so very few people will be pissed).
I have documentation for each of them so it's easier to find what I am looking for.
If I have to work on that particular service, I don't have to go through thousands of tangled lines of code unrelated to each other but instead work on an isolated, one-purpose service.
Releasing takes minutes, not hours, and without risk of crashing everything.

So I understand the complaint about the fact that it's making the app run slower but all the rest is just making it easier.

Before biting my ass, I am not working at Twitter, I don't know the state of their application (which seems to be extremely complicated for an app deigned to post a bit of text and a few pictures), but in a company with skilled people, and a well designed architecture.

With his last tweets (and the last days), Musk has shown he is a total fraud.
This thousand requests story was possible to check just by installing a Wireshark-like on Android.
And I remember having a CTO exactly like this. Always an opinion on every damn technical thing, often making no sense at all and all the time totally off.
Which drives me to this conclusion :
If you are a CTO/CEO/C Bullshit O, go back to your damn office, fill your paperwork and for the sanity of every engineer, shut your mouth.

Class-action started against Microsoft and GitHub Copilot

Please don't fine them, just force any code written with Copilot to be released under GPL