Fancy title for the developer that gets yelled at when the CI pipeline is broken. Also a good chance they are the one that broke it.

“Made in USA” is well on it’s way from being a symbol of quality to implying a lack of. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big proponent of domestic manufacturing. But there are an outsized number of executives who don’t seem to get that when you make shitty products, you will alienate all your customers who will then no longer buy your shitty products. That kind of reputational damage is incredibly hard to recover from. Especially when you make airplanes that have a tendency to fall out of the sky which is sort of a deal breaker for people who want to buy an airplane. Hope it was worth jacking up their stock price for five minutes.

Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” gave a [somewhat] fictionalized account of the conditions of the meat packing industry in the early 20th century. It paints a gruesome picture. Federal agents sent to the Chicago slaughterhouses to investigate by then President Theodore Roosevelt confirmed the truth of most of the books details. And that was after the plant owners found out they were coming and had the plants thoroughly cleaned.

The market (aka greedy assholes) have conned people into paying for and eating worse things than sawdust.

I currently work on a NodeJS/React project and apparently I’m going to have to start pasting “‘any’ is not an acceptable return or parameter type” into every damned PR because half the crazy kids who started programming in JavaScript don’t seem to get it.

For fucks sake, we have TypeScript for a reason. Use it!

The MPAA should give themselves a great big pat on the back. They, and the studios they represent have done much to not only enable piracy, but also to increase the sophistication of piracy tactics and – somewhat by extension – the quality of the material being pirated. Turns out, fucking over your customers at every possible turn has consequences.

The next day:

Product Owner: “We need to prevent the user from yeeting their keyboard across the room. This needs to happen within the current sprint.”

Dev Team: “Uhhhh… That’s not possible. How would we even do that?”

Product Owner: “How many more devs is it going to take to make it possible?”

Dev Team: “The number of Devs isn’t the issue here. This is more of a physics problem.”

Product Owner: “Great. Keep me updated on the progress and reach out to the scrum master with any blockers.”

Dev Team: Updating resumes in background

I moved from primarily ASP.Net Core backends, which is a hell of a great backend framework btw, to NestJS. Not my choice. I do what the people who sign my paychecks ask for.

I cannot begin to fathom why anyone would willingly choose JavaScript for backend. TypeScript helps a lot but there are still so many drawbacks and poor design decisions that make the developer experience incredibly frustrating. Features that are standard in ASP.Net Core, Django, or other common backend frameworks just don’t exist.

Also, don’t get me started on GraphQL. Sure, it has performance advantages for websites of a certain size and scale. But 99% of the websites out there don’t have the challenges that Facebook has. The added complexity and development cost over REST is just not worth it.

Buddy, I can smell the straw from here. Ukraine isn’t attacking Russia’s critical infrastructure out of some need for retribution. If a grizzly bear attacks you, you hit that thing in any sensitive spot you can reach until it backs off. Otherwise you’re dead. That’s the situation Ukraine has been in from the start. They’ve been persistently outgunned and outmanned. The only way to get Russia to stop is to hit them where it hurts.

Well yes, but starting a war suddenly and without declaration isn’t is a war crime.

FTFY as well.

Power plants are Ukraine is not a valid military target though. No one should be attacking those it and it’s always wrong to do so.

FTFY

Friend, either you’re closing your eyes to a situation that you do not wish to acknowledge. Or, you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table critical race theory in your community. Well, you got trouble my friend, right here. I say, trouble right here in River City.

If only someone could have seen this coming.

Other than scientists who have been warning about the risks of excess space debris for years…

That asshole gets me every time.

God damnit! Who the fuck wrote this streaming pile of dog shit? Which ignorant fucktard has their head shoved so far up their ass that they would do something this stupid!?

Checks git blame

Ahhh fuck!

“Look how much money we can save productivity we can eliminate by outsourcing IT!”

Most of the time, management is looking for the next “silver bullet” that is going to magically solve all their problems. They will latch onto the latest marketing gimmick and run with it despite having no understanding of how the “silver bullet” works or the impact it will have on their business. A decade and a half ago it was “the cloud”. Now It’s “AI”.

Are there advantages to “hosted solutions” AKA “the cloud” AKA renting someone else’s data center? Sure there are. For example, It’s great for small businesses who need enterprise grade technology but can’t afford their own data center. Cloud providers also offer services and scale that would be very difficult and costly to build out in your own data center(s).

But is it cheaper all the time? The answer to that is a definite “No”. Like most other business decisions it’s situational and there are a lot of facets that impact the cost. In my experience, one downside to hosted solutions is that it’s very easy to make architectural errors that have high costs and no one notices until accounting is on the phone wanting to know why the Azure bill doubled over the last month and “Whoops!” Is not really a satisfactory answer.

I have a bunch of little Arbor Vitae trees which deer do not eat. They do however like to trample the shit out of them. So I imagine likewise, somewhere in a quiet pine forest, there are a bunch of Douglas Firs with all the branches snapped off on one side thanks to the careless meandering of a blue ox the size of a house.

Motivation: AKA, Chronic Insomnia.

One way or another, the interest on the technical debt always comes due. When you hear phrases like “we can’t do that without a major refactor” with increasing frequency, you’ll know that day is not far off.

…And I just realized that it might be time for me to start looking for a new job cause the credit line on my current project is about maxed out.

“Bad faith negotiator with no standing whatsoever declines to negotiate.”