I was told about a bug in a specific tool. It was being used in production. Apparently we’ve gotten a lot of complaints about it over the years, and they would complain if the site was actively used it always failed.

I couldn’t find it in the development branch in source control.

I asked if this tool was purchased from a third party. My boss, who was not a developer, said no. And he was very sure of that. But he didn’t know where the code was.

I was the developer with the most seniority, and I was there for less than a year at this point.

I looked again. I finally found it… In an unapproved pull request from a few years prior.

The meat of this tool basically took information to make an order and create an order in the system.

Any time we needed to insert a record, it would find the highest Id in the table, increment 1, and insert the new record, id and all. It did this for every entity that needed to be inserted. Address, customer… Everything.

Worse, very little validation was done. Want to order something but it’s out of stock? No problem, this tool just pushed it right through.

Want to ship something using a shipping method that doesn’t exist? You got it.

Want to ship something to an address that doesn’t exist? Sounds like the warehouse’s problem.

Knowing about the level of knowledge here, you know that there were no transactions. All sorts of unused records were left in the database when there was an error. The users would get a generic error and try again several times, too.

The worst part was, we have an already existing function that would take order information and try to make an order. And it would give you actionable errors!

Unless the school that has the software dev program forces all their teachers to use this stuff…

It’s based on the snack, Chex Mix. Chex Mix is made of pieces with several different consistencies, like salty Chex, mini pretzels, mini breadsticks (small oblong cracker things), and rye chips (the round things).

The rye chip part of Chex Mix is really popular.

If they want their own space, they are just bigots. That’s what they called me when I excluded them from the general space in the past!

-the people arguing against that comm, probably

They would do it to us in a heartbeat with no remorse, fuck 'em.

It’s a problem when people just generate the code, see if it runs, maybe test it once or twice, and… That’s it.

Same issue with people blindly copying Stack Overflow and other code snippets on the web.

Like you say, the value we bring is in our review and understanding of the code, as well as our ability to make judgements on things like architecture.

Him: “do you enjoy your job?”

Me: “eh, it’s alright. I don’t hate it.”

Him: “you should enjoy it”

Me: shrug “ok”

No need to really engage. No need to give a lot of details. If he pushes just kind of blow him off.

I sometimes get miffed by people that are more privileged than me telling me I should take it easy like them, when that is not an option for me. I remind myself that they just don’t get it and move on.

Puppy, it checks out. Nothing is spared from those tiny little developing teeth!

The drawers I’ve seen in a bathroom like this, in my experience, are part of built in cabinetry and not easily movable.

You are not your work, hobby or even friends.

Oh yeah

Are you kind, empathic, do you help to elevate others; that is how we should define ourselves.

Oh no

Oh man, I haven’t had Burgerville in nearly a decade and a half. Bummer.

GFS scratches a little of that itch for me.

Water.

Maybe a chai latte, yogurt, a piece of fruit, or chocolate oat milk.

Ey, it rhymes with fuck.

And it also gives a lot more opportunities for double entendres in the game of hockey.

This one is fun!

Thank you!

Understandable, but that’s not my problem.

I answer honestly. “I intended to do it, but I could not force myself to do it.”

When I am having a bad pain day, I don’t make anything else up either. It makes little sense to answer “why didn’t you go up the stairs?” with anything other than “My legs hurt so bad I can barely walk,” so why make something up for ADHD?

Have you tried wool or cotton socks? I’m talking socks with NO polyester or anything else like it in there. It might help with that damp feeling.

Yeah, and the sandwich too.

Mmm… Baskin-Robbins roast