How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?
Give me your best guess.
(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)
Options: (choose one)
@alice_watson more relevantly “it was determined certain technologies” is a masterpiece in passive writing. It was the technologies, we had nothing to do with this.
@alice_watson whenever I read the name Kaiser Permanente it takes me a second to remember they’re a real company rather than the cause of something terrible happening in a survival horror game. (Although let’s face it, if anyone does end up causing that it’ll be a US healthcare company)
Me: “Why am I feeling so off this morning?”
Also me: Has consumed nothing but caffeine since getting up.
Due to the small Python program I wrote to solve one of the puzzles in Botany Manor I’ve decided the player character isn’t whichever made up Victorian Lady the game thinks she is, and is in fact Ada Lovelace herself, who enjoys a bit of botany when not helping Mr Babbage out with his analytical engine.
Botany Manor is a charming little game about finding the growing conditions for plants, just what I needed this evening to finish off the day.
@mia what on Earth is this witchcraft? I had no idea you could placeholders in Activitypub.
I’ve spent a significant amount of today 3D modelling the main room of my flat and the furniture in it to try and find an optimal layout. I have now concluded the current one is as good as it gets while still being able to look out the window while working.
@internetsdairy congrats, I never managed to recover after wining the mug in 2018.
@norm but also yes, everything old is new again. Welcome to Web 2.1.
@norm depending on what you need to do, and whether you need to support older browsers, vanilla JavaScript without a framework is fine now.
I left my previous job a year and a half ago and I’m still getting emails from GoCardless saying direct debit mandates from test transactions have expired.
@herdingdata @pieceofthepie@social.n8e.dev @FroggyMakes @jonty @John I for one would love to fax fax facts facts.
I got given this 80 minute video of beautiful engineering by YouTube just as I was about to go to bed. It’s now midnight and I regret nothing https://youtu.be/AHUUXfB0qHY
@chewie yeah, it’s gorgeous when the laser is working (not tooting my own trumpet here, I acquired it from a local social space which was forced to shut down)
@chewie it was coming back from EMF, sadly I didn’t get a photo before the laser died (probably full of dust)
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY! Calpol syringes can be used as a crap slide whistle.
Amongst other things I just took delivery of a satellite dish with a laser mounted on it, much to the bemusement of the guy driving the truck.
@CuTEL if you get one and put it outside the info desk I’ll love you forever.
@pikesley what do you mean you still don’t understand how it works. TRY READING AGAIN, SAM.
I'd like to talk to whoever decided these two hour delivery slots should have single minute precision at either end. 12:14 to 16:14. Your pickup will be somewhere in this four hour window, but by God it will not be before 14 minutes past the hour.