@purged I've found that talking positively not only in front of the person but also behind their back is really good for building positive relationships. If you think someone isn't performing the only right context is 1-on-1, though escalation may be required depending on how the 1-on-1 goes. Even still framing those conversations as trying to understand their execution/behavior can often still leave an good impression despite the tension.

If you've tried changing the culture (say for example THIS is our style guidelines, they are now enforced via pipeline once an PR is created), there isn't much you can do. Bail once you got something else. (market seems a bit rough right now though, so make sure you get something locked in)

But yeah sounds like your average nonces at an company that don't understand what adds value to software development process compared to what fills excel sheets for management to look "like they are on top of things".

Shitbox engineering, because we take our shitboxes serious. That 1200$/month cloud hosting bill? We'll do it on a shitbox for you!

Why did you have to mention this, now I'm mad too. It should be an tactical shovel meant for throwing.

@wojtek322 I'd say what the fuck. Sadly there's plenty of mud slingers in high management generally. We often get blamed for the "maybe we shouldn't ask if it could be done, but if it should be done" but management isn't much different when it comes down to it.

I've had a junior of mine work a whole ass year for an system, he was close to finishing it, I helped him finish it off. By the time we committed it and said we can finally use the system they said "well sales isn't ready for it, so put the feature in the freezer for now".

Market sucks right now, starting my own business actually doesn't sound bad compared to my current job, and if done shrewd negotiating I'd earn more.

@antigermanist I've technically been an CTO when me and a buddy did an gamedev startup we didn't get traction. I was young thinking if I build it they come. If I put that on my CV I'd probably be put through the ringer cause I was just flinging shit at an wall, and wouldn't have anything useful to say on the matter.

We just use them to make read-only tags for release versions, which technically makes rollback easier. Shame we never actually do rollbacks cause our database would crap itself.

Yet we still do it. 🌈

We did really go through an roller coaster where during the pandemic you'd be hired if you had an pulse. To now companies refusing to hire due to AI. I'm expecting an correction to come once companies realize AI is just an tool and needs to be used correctly. Thus right now the market's down the drain but it'll bounce back in a bit once the AI hype cycle cools down.

So basically you timed incorrectly and got fucked. But it should swing back.

@AvatarOfKaine I get just enough to pay the bills. Sorry man.

@AvatarOfKaine I am the thing they hide in the back. ;)

@AvatarOfKaine I'm serious its either in office ot they wont hire you.

@AvatarOfKaine its either be local or no go. Its an old company

@AvatarOfKaine i've not gotten my second wfh day in 2 years. But sure lemme sell you on this remote cunt. 🏌️

@AvatarOfKaine now now. We talked about this, this gets you an interview with HR not for the job

@AvatarOfKaine would have to be local sadly.netherlands

@AvatarOfKaine not sure if this company will spring for remote. Otherwise I'd try honestly.

@AvatarOfKaine did you not read the mess I'm in? U sure bout that three fiddy?

Ansible is qute till you need to release an actual production env.

Frontend still less spicy then backend. We get the org on our backs. 🙂‍↔️
Wanna trade?

@AvatarOfKaine yuh

@AvatarOfKaine 3300 euro before taxes

@retoor yep async php feels weird at first. It's slowly getting more popular though you got OpenSwoole, Swoole, FrankenPHP etc.

But the amount of data throughput is very nice as well as doing things as (web)sockets is much easier imo.

Just wait till there is a mitigation or till you are fired. Either way your issue is solved. Alternatively stop using broken tech.

@AvatarOfKaine sure, have mine.

@Demolishun well we try to query that table but half the time we don't get a response. Super cheap sql cluster tho.

@cuddlyogre really depends on usecase tbh. If its just some endpoint getting hit like sub 50 a second it's just whatever you feel like as long as the consumer is okay with it. But specifically deserializing json is slow generally speaking. Most languages drop down to soms c/asm impl to keep it somewhat speedy.

@cuddlyogre JSON has always and will always be a pile of crap for serializing and deserializing. It's an obtuse format.
Doesnt matter how fast my DB/logic is if json gonna slow me down.
Still beats excel/xml/text formats in DX tho.
GraphQL is kinda nice in theory, but most implementations go rogue or are a hassle.
I do like grpc, but it's too niche/rigged to expose an API with it.

@antigermgerm I guess front-end is a lot lighter on the org BS. But I just love back-end work and find it much easier, except for dealing with org BS and office politics... I don't get paid enough for that shit lmao

@retoor Laravel + blade/vue front-end. Before here I was using Symfony. Still kinda miss it but slowly begrudendly falling in love with Laravel.
Still going to Symfonyconf this year tho. Woo

I'm currently on Linux, but soon moving to Windows because IT can't/won't figure out an VPN or jumpbox for Linux. So I'm giving into their shortcomings. I hate Windows so much tho..

C# is okay if it's dotnet core or w/e its called, but it would be windows dotnet framework, which sorry, but ew.

I've been playing with OpenSwoole in my free time though. It blows my socks off in how fast it is. :)

@retoor it's in PHP. Tho they were trying to get us to move to C#. Because one of the 4 companies use that and our head of IT is buddies with the dev there. *Screams internally*
I was able to shut that down tho.