breaks tests

leaves me to fix them during approval

I’m sorry, what? If he broke it, he fixes it. There should be guard rails that prevent him from merging his code until all the tests pass, and you as a reviewer should refuse to even start a code review unless the build is green.

4 years later: "this button is the wrong color. fix it ASAP"

• Installs antivirus on servers that wrecks application performance
• installs content filtering proxy that prevents developers from reading “hacking materials” like OWASP documentation
• won’t let developers install anything on their own machines without filing a ticket and waiting 6 weeks
• pushes unannounced antivirus updates that pop up OS security dialogs like “Netscan Antivirus would like to monitor all network traffic. Enter your password to approve”, and is surprised when users don’t enter their passwords.

Your corporate IT guy

“I could rewrite this in a week!”

~ junior dev, 3 months ago

I tend to think people shit on Musk more than they should, but holy shit does it bug me when a CEO talks about engineering problems with such bravado.

You’re supposed to wait until they re-release it on a new console with the same graphics for $70, then pay for it then, dummy.

Now include links to their preferred lemmy alternatives

Avatar The Last Airbender has the same amount of lore as Star Trek? How are we measuring this?

Who says you have to drop it? I've got stuff from 2007 in there somewhere.

Pretty cool. It’s great to see so many clients on the market.

One minor feature I wish every iOS client had is better password manager integration. Normally on login forms, the app can provide a hint to the OS of what domain you’re logging in to; then when you click the password box, the password manager can suggest to autocomplete that domain’s password. Currently every time I set up a new app, I have to type programming.dev twice. Once in the “which lemmy instance are you connecting to” box and once in LastPass’s search bar. It’s. A minor inconvenience, but I wonder if clients could pass along the lemmy URL to the password manager after I’ve typed it the first time.

Value watching is just printf; change my mind

My favorite pastime is arguing about which JavaScript runtime is faster while I wait for my app to finish running O(n^n) table scans of my database.

Every time I’ve heard somebody referred to unironically as a rockstar, they’ve treated the company’s code base exactly the way a rockstar treats a hotel room

Usually I mind when lemmy surfaces 2 year old posts as "hot", but this is pretty fascinating

console.log counts as “a debugger”, right?

In the end, they both end up learning effectively the same lesson

If that's a 16oz glass of ranch dressing, and you're planning on drinking what's left, I'm all for this

I always wondered if those rocks they’re sitting on (and the one he was skipping, I guess) were changelings who lost a bet.

I’m old enough to remember when Rick Berman was the guy who ruined Star Trek.

Several years ago I made an ill-advised trip to the ATM in a strip club. My bank did the smart thing and cut me off, so I called the number on the back of the card but an automated recording told me they’re closed and to call back during business hours. Went home with enough money to still pay rent, but still needed to unlock the account, so I called first thing in the morning. The entire process was automated. “Press 1 if this transaction was from you or 2 if your card was stolen”.

Not sure if the automated system takes the night off, or if there’s just an extra rule that lies about it to help you avoid certain mistakes.