Maria WAAAH

I find it’s difficult to be around people I treat like shit, too.

B-but Metallica fans bad!

Until a traumatic injury. Then that fucker, along with angry soft tissues, will remind you how much you really don’t have control.

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!

We’re cooked

I’m so hungry, I could eat a whole octorock.

Mike Tyson visits Pennsylvania.

Yeah, fuck you, Olympics.

Slopmaxxing

Ooh, baby, when you talk like that…

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

Oh no theirye brian 😔

Roz could get it

Do you have a steamer? It doesn’t have to be fancy, just a little cheap Bissell steamshot will do the trick. Hit this with some steam and scrub.

If not, cover it with very hot water and let it sit for a few minutes. Try to scrub and drain. If it needs more, cover it with hot water again and add a cleaner like soap or Oxyclean. Scrub and drain after like 10 minutes.

You could also try cleaning it with Comet or a paste made of baking soda and water.

Lastly, you may also consider using a drill brush if the other methods aren’t cutting it.

Fucking spot on. I feel this way about most of my disorders, except ASD. My ASD is a part of me, though it does have its downsides.

The ADHD is the most significant, though. If I could just remove this anchor from my brain, my quality of life would skyrocket. I don’t find it a “superpower” at all. I am not exaggerating when I say that it has stolen my childhood and early adulthood, and from the outside it looks like laziness or a lack of discipline. Solidarity.

Speak for yourself

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.

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I have question marks over my head. Time to get my landline phone that is directly wired to IKEA.