Your momma is such a bad programmer, she gets compiler errors when writing Javascript

There’s no rule saying that you can’t pronounce 10 in binary as ten.

When you get rechargeable batteries, get yourself some good ones! Usually it doesn’t matter, but input devices are the one big exception because weak batteries can cause lags and sluggishness. VR controllers run on batteries too and some games turn into motion sickness hell if you have bad batteries, so a lot of people in the VR community have strong opinions on what rechargeable battery brands are good (iirc, the consensus is Eneloops and Eneloop Pros are a good choice, but that might have changed in recent years)

Wireless has gotten pretty good over the past few years. I have a super cheap wireless mouse from Aliexpress that I use to control my PC while I’m on my couch (I have the PC plugged into my TV to watch Youtube videos and play the occasional game) and I only have to charge that thing every 2 months or so for like 20mins. The much bigger problem is the annoying latency and random connection breaks, but that might just be a factor of the mouse being super cheap.
My keyboard does both wired and 2.4ghz wireless with a physical toggle and it’s super reliable, but I have no idea how long the battery would last because I use it wired for my work Laptop during the day and wireless on my couch at night, so it’s basically always at full charge.

Recently had to call out a coworker for vibecoding all her unit tests. How did I know they were vibe coded? None of the tests had an assertion, so they literally couldn’t fail.

Ok I admit I didn’t get it at first because I expected the joke to be that the IP is 127.0.0.1 and didn’t look closer at the digits

Well yeah, why would I learn html when I can learn React?!?

(/s but I actually did learn React before I had a grasp of semantic Html because my company needed React devs and only paid for React-specific education)

My team has moved to a thing we call “ScrumBan” and it’s worked pretty well. There still are 15-min Dailies, and a Review and a Retrospective each Sprint, but we cut almost all meetings that are about sitting around and “planning” tasks (aka awful 7-hour meetings where everyone just zones out and guesses random story point numbers). Instead, tasks are planned and moved to the board on demand and never in the presence of the entire team. It gives everyone so much more time to just focus on their work.

It’s surprisingly good as a backend language, if you don’t really need OOP all that much. The perfect case is probably using it in microservices that only really need to do a bit of data manipulation and some database interfacing.

Maybe not as a dev, but those qualifications make you perfect for tech support. The support people where I work have their own beer fridge plus dedicated lockable containers for their liquor and no one would ever dare mess with that. And if you’re good at support, there’s a high chance you’ll get promoted to the Product Owner role pretty fast!

Not to spread concern or anything, but the electrical grid is managed and controlled by software. And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS. I’m probably not allowed to say more than that.

Oh, those AIs just really love that 2013 Hannibal Series!

It’s all right there in the Figma prototype that hasn’t been updated in 7 months!

Gross, I only date people who are Views or Controllers

The switch to winter time was last sunday, it’s been a fun week at work so far.

- “Oh, DNS issue?” “Yup.”

(DNS has been around since 1983)

We were having pretty big problems with our yarn configurations a few weeks ago because the default npm registry is now blocked for security reasons and we’re supposed to only use our own internal registry. The coworker who was supposed to fix it asked his AI whether he can override the configuration for the location for the default registry and the AI said no, so he closed the ticket as “can’t do anything about it I guess 🤷”. A few days later, another coworker just went and changed that configuration by looking at how custom scopes are defined and using common sense. Worked instantly, we haven’t been having any yarn issues since.

Something like Stackoverflow is probably the biggest source of code to train a LLM on, and since it’s based around posting code that almost works but you got some problem with it, I’m absolutely not surprised that the LLMs would pick up the habit of making the same subtle small mistakes that humans make.

Holy shit, it actually works!

It’s beautiful and very handy, if you use it exactly like they want you to! Getting it to play nice with custom components is so fiddly though ;_;