Went a couple months without much beyond form letter “we have decided to move forward with candidates who better align with our needs” rejections. Got one internal apply going now for the sad mega Corp I’m at (but a better team, I’m told), and one referral got a call back.
I think referrals are still the way to go. Sadly even that only goes so far.
I’ve used heroic on my desktop. It’s fine. Haven’t tried it on a steam deck though
When I tried Percy it was really bad. I think it wasn’t even doing real screenshots, but some horrible serialization of the dom nonsense. Some of what came out of their tests just wasn’t accurate at all.
Every time I’ve tried to implement visual tests it’s a bad time.
A good unit test encodes intent. This kind of test, and snapshot tests, tends to be too broad. Something changed but was it on purpose? I dunno maybe just accept it. People don’t look at it closely. It’s numbing.
As others have said, you probably want to stop having shit randomly shared in multiple places. If you change something used in more than one place, probably manually check.
Interesting. I find that where I work, often the biggest problems are non-technical. It’s the upper manager that says “we don’t have time for automated testing” and then our releases take two days of manual testing and bug fixing.
Interesting. I dislike writing bash scripts so this might appeal to me, but probably not before a stable 1.x release.
but take any increased productivity for themselves
Many people seem confused and this.
Worker makes charts and reports. Owner sells for profit. Worker suddenly is making double the charts. Owner makes double the profit. Worker… ???
Just like… What do they expect to happen.
I wouldn’t do it based on join time. Age doesn’t always map to quality, and it might encourage people to make sleeper accounts to age up.
I would do it based on a graph of trust.
Let’s say you’re user 0. You trust yourself. You can then invite or vouch for a user. If they misbehave, it should reflect badly on you. If they post good content, you should share some of the glory. If one of those users invites someone, the good and bad flow upstream.
People no one has vouched for have very little power. You can filter them out with a toggle.
You’d be able to see the web of behavior. If someone keeps inviting or endorsing assholes, then they’re a problem.
Endorsing is different than upvote. You can upvote whatever, but endorsing is saying you trust this person and you’re willing to put your own reputation and access on the line.
Something like that.
Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.
|| has a similar “oh that’s how it works in other places” behavior. I didn’t realize that for a while.
That’s a good point.
Though sometimes people are just sandbagging. Like I know one guy is just watching Netflix instead of working. I’m downstream from his work, so it’s a little annoying that I have to wait a couple days to get started.
I wouldn’t rat him out because my labor solidarity beats out my annoyance, but the annoyance is real.
One time we spent like more than an hour in a horrible meeting to plan out how long the next step of a project would take. 4 weeks, we said. Management came back and said to do it in 2. Well, why did we fucking have the meeting if they had a deadline in mind already?
On the other hand, at my current job I have seen a lot of “oh that’s going to take a couple days” protests for things that are 20 minutes of work.
Seems like the solution is to get rid of out of touch management.
I deeply dislike sarcasm. It’s neither funny nor helpful.
There was a guy I worked with that was pretty much always sarcastic.[1]. I’d ask him if he’d written the run book yet and he’d say like “Yes, it’s written in the style of a sonnet with hand drawn illustrations”, and I’d be like “I don’t know if that means you wrote it or not”. Everything with him took extra steps because his communication was such a swamp of insincerity.
[1] well, when I asked him to stop being sarcastic he said it wasn’t sarcasm. He was merely being ironic. Nonsense.
Interesting. We used the free localstack at a previous job and it kind of sucked. Mostly we were trying to do S3, and it made adding a lot of files kind of painful. Looks like this has better support for “I need to load a bunch of files into S3 when I start working”.
Can you map a directory and subfolders to S3 with this, or so you need to make calls to “upload” everything?
Still happily using Linux.
I did switch the DE to kde plasma because the cosmic desktop was giving games a lot of trouble. Opening in weird window sizes, mostly. I did some light trouble shooting but decided I didn’t care that much about the desktop environment, so I installed the 2nd one.
Cool. I’m so tired of management huffing their own farts about AI.
I started using bruno for lazy gui “make a request” needs.
But for anything serious python requests is right there, so I mostly used that for testing.
I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of
create_user("Bob", True, False)
it’s
create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)
JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it’s better than nothing.
I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.
Still on Linux. Updated to the new pop!_os LTS. It’s been pretty good. The new desktop environment has had a few quirks where I had to fuss with hitting alt+enter to get some games appropriately full screen, but generally it’s been good.
Worth it to be free of microslop
Fuck. Fuck all this AI slop.