I almost got caught by this during an interview:

const foo = ['a', 'b'];

const bar = foo.findIndex(x => x === 'a'); // 0

if (bar) { // I'm an idiot
console.log('Do something');
}

🤦‍♂️

Amazon bot posed as a technical recruiter on LinkedIn. I sent it a captcha, see comment.

I had an interview yesterday with the CEO of a startup going into Series A for the position of Principal Developer, remote. I've only ever heard of 'tech-bros', but I was unfortunate to meet one in-person. It went something like this:

CEO-bro: Good morning.
Me: Morning.
CEO-bro: It says here on your resume you live in X. That place is a shithole, and I have to look down on you because of that, bro. LoL.
Me: ......
(40 minutes of self-promotion pass)
CEO-bro: Anyway, we don't pay high salaries but offer bonuses for high performing staff instead. I'll ask HR to send you an offer.
Me: Let me think about it.
CEO-bro: One question bro. You have siblings?
Me: One.
CEO-bro: Parents still alive?
Me: No...what?!
CEO-bro: Yeah, me too. People like us don't let anything get in the way.

I wrote them an email this morning withdrawing my application 🤦🏽‍♂️

I have an interview with a CEO and product owner next week for the position of principal developer. The job ad which got me here stated 'Any additional skills you have will be viewed favorably'.

I've had my ass burned by that crap at least once before. When they ask about private projects, I'm just going to say "I love my job so much, I do it in my free time too!"

Fucking A.I. resume filter bots.

As if tech interviews weren't hard enough, I have to fill my resume with keywords to get past a bot! Every damn application and cover letter has to be unique.

And when I get past a bot, a hiring manager replies with "Sorry, you seem to have more experience with Typescript than JavaScript, and we can't take that risk."

It's the same.damn.language.

Yes, I spend my spare time with C and Python. Why does that say "unsuitable candidate" instead of "versatile"??!!

$#*%!?&@ tech industry.

Take your "Good luck with your future endeavors" and stuff it up your ass.

I am mentally burned out from web development.

Physically I'm fine, but it's getting more difficult each day to open my laptop and write code, documentation or do code reviews.

Web development just seems so meaningless, where my day to day job has me trudging through one web form after another. I'm sick of implementing business logic on the backend and tired of listening to the product owner bitch about users who are demanding.

My productivity has fallen to the level where I'm feeling guilty for spending my time on nothing!

Don't give me advice, I know I need a change of scenery.

I just need to find the motivation to work on another hiring test which has nothing to do with the actual job.

I've been sitting on a Google Foobar Challenge invite for more than a week because I'm afraid of what it might mean if I fail 😟

I dislike the damage web development tools have done to my programming habits.

The rapid feedback provided from the development environment (e.g. hot-reloads) encourages me to constantly bang out code with very little consideration for its side-effects.

This tendency has become a handicap when I write instructions for hardware with much less resources, such as a microcontroller.

Comes with an Aston Martin.

I committed a terrible sin. I didn't have time for my portfolio site, so I used...

WordPress 😫

I'm trying to decide between a MacBook Pro 13" (2017) vs. MacBook Air (2018).

Specs are somewhat similar; but with a huge price tag difference. The MacBook Air costs a quarter more where I live. I can afford either; my dilemma is which model's usefulness will last longer.

I need it to build and test a React Native application with some custom native code 😟

If you've 3D printed your own drone, I'd love to hear your experience. I'm shopping for a printer at the moment.

Adding an ultrasonic rangefinder makes the robot I'm assembling resemble Wall-E.

!programming

Anyone else gets peeved when you're insulted in a language your insulter thinks you don't speak?

I was at the indoor climbing gym, struggling halfway up a difficult route when a fat idiot attached to a 'Intro to Climbing' class howled to her friends "Look at that blind idiot, can't he see that big red piece beside his foot?" (I was climbing a green route) in Cantonese (a Chinese dialect).

😒

It's here!

TMux + Guake = 🙌

The URL for Apple's password reset page is iForgot.apple.com.

Heh heh heh.

Might be good news, maybe not.

And.co was bought by Fiverr and the platform's software was made completely free.

I'm suspicious of Fiverr and every other freelancing platform out there, and am wondering what's the whole point of buying a SaaS and letting people get its services for 'nothing' in return.

Want to write WebAssembly code with C/C++ without the hassle of setting up the ecosystem on your machine?

https://github.com/wasdk/WasmFiddle

I had no idea 'white male conservatives' could be discriminated against.

https://theverge.com/2018/1/...

😐

React-Native's error messages are getting ridiculous.

Apparently I have to do yoga otherwise it won't compile.

At a workplace I was attached to, a colleague of mine taught and still teaches Actionscript 2/3.

She rambles about how coding is important to a modern career, while teaching students how to animate a circle. Management can't fire her because of a poorly drafted contract.

Worst of all, she refuses to update her skillset.

For React Native devs who want to release to the App Store but don't have a Mac: https://appcenter.ms/

Marketing email, from Stanford.

This wanker approached me via LinkedIn before new year to be team lead to a diverse team of devs spread over a few time zones.

The mission? Build a metacritic clone, but geographically constrained to New York.

Me : How much are you offering?

Him: <radio silence>

The next time you use Waze, try having directions read out by Liam Neeson's voice.

He's good at finding things.

I'm anti-social, but sitting alone in my home office day after day is starting to get to me.

Thinking of renting a desk at a co-working space.

Great, it's not one security flaw, but two!!

One's a flavour of ice-cream and the other is the title of a James Bond movie.

Bloody FUCKWIT(s)!!

The Linux kernel team working on the Intel bug considered naming their fix:

Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines, aka FUCKWIT.

😂😂😂

@BindView Thank you for introducing Scaleway to me (don't remember which rant you commented on).

Their rates for bare metal servers are really attractive!