midasz

I do the same on Linux, I install software that I always use (DBeaver, Intellij, Spotify, 1Password, browsers, postman, docker stuff, etc) with my 'personal' user and when I switch clients I just create a new user and copy over my licenses.

Then I use firefox for everything client related (their outlook, jira, etc) and just login to my gmail on chrome or brave or something.

My wife was diagnosed with ADD (ADHD-I) at 20 (no points for H at all, literally none).

When all stimuli hit you at the same level it's really tiring. Someone clicking their pen, bird chirping outside, someone coughing in the hallway or the classroom next to you, someone picking his nose in the corner of your eyes etc. She isn't able to filter them at all.

I've come home to the place being flooded because she ran a bath but remembered she needed to do something in the kitchen, and that prompted something else, etc. We've fought because of little things, but those little things combined with having to process every single stimuli the world throws at you is difficult. If you're focusing on work, or just sitting around do you even register the things going on outside? She does. At the same 'volume' as the thing she's trying to focus on.

In high school she missed more classes than she went to. She was deemed lazy, dumb, and uncaring. We have three levels in the Netherlands and she barely completed the lowest one. Mainly because she was home sleeping, or just wandering off with her mind, migraines - you name it.

When she had to write school reports for a specific class the teacher would be baffled by the report. It went from the actual subject to a few pages of an English report, then a chapter of economics. I always imagined it as her having to go to the bathroom, coming back and remembering 'Shit I needed to write that book report for English class'. Because, obviously, this was only started just before or even after the deadline.

You'd think the schoolsystem would raise an alarm right? Nah, she wasn't exactly 'trouble' as in being busy / shouting / name any typical bad behaviour. She was just chaotic and 'dumb'. Real easy conclusion, especially when you have kids getting in fights and smoking joints - at least she was trying to do her homework.

So she missed a lot of opportunities, felt really bad about herself to put it lightly, and the migraines are a bitch too. I don't know if that's how bad it can be when undiagnosed but yeah. When the psychiatrist did the sessions / tried medications they also took an IQ test which indicated that when the world is not throwing stimuli at her (well it still is, but with the help of the meds she can filter it) she's actually really fucking intelligent (remember the lowest level she barely passed, could've easily done the highest level and moved on to university). After years of hard work catching up she did complete a BA and I couldn't be prouder. It's not easy believing in yourself after so many years of people saying you're dumb and lazy.

This is exactly how I feel, I just wonder if they can work together? If a company wants some basic CRUD / form / report functionality, please use a tool to build it - it's absolutely mind numbing to develop. But what if it needs to integrate into another system, or needs to be combined with an external source and produce results (trying to name things possibly outside of the tools scope) - how can we as developers hook into it? Are they stuck with the tool unable to fulfill their business needs / weird hybrid things / move away from the tool?

It's gonna be interesting when it happens.

Honestly? I hope so. Problems that can be solved by 'low-code tools' are boring. There will always be more difficult problems to solve that fall outside of the basic use cases (e.g. CRUD / forms) and I'd rather be working on those.

Though I do think there will still be work for programmers, there will always be some point where the business wants something that isn't supported by the tool - just wonder if those low-code tools allow for customization (e.g. plugins).

> My father and I tried to convert our family chat to Signal. Didn't work.

Oh damn, did they just continue the whatsapp chat without you two in it?

> convince my coworkers to switch away from Whatsapp

You don't have to convince them to switch away from WA. You personally just need to switch away from WA. The reason it worked in my case is because I just simply stated I wasn't going to use it anymore and that they could reach me in different ways. The value is in the network effect, at the start they used Telegram just for me. But since they already had Telegram open for the group chat, they might as well use it for PM's to each other.

> at least for the time being it's simply not happening

There's really nothing that will change though. WA will keep working, WA will keep becoming more shit, and 99% of people will still not care as long as it works. The only difference is the people that you can reach through the medium.

> would mean a daily inconvenience when you want to talk to the people closest to you

I did exactly that and it wasn't hard at all. I still have a phone number which they can call or text. I let them know the alternatives I was reachable on, and they installed them. My family group chat is now on Telegram, my wife who still uses whatsapp says the WA family chat is basically dead.

Even when I was in contact with a recruiter for the job I'm currently in it wasn't that hard. She said I'll 'App you' which means to send a message via WA. I quickly said something like ah sorry I'm not on WA but you can Telegram or just text me instead. And you know what she said? Ok. And then we texted.

If it's really that big of an inconvenience for those closest to you, you have to wonder how close they really are.

Would an android emulator work?

> Job hopping is a giant red flag for lots of companies

I noticed that after a year or 2 I get bored because things become a bit too routine. After the third job I decided to just become a midlancer (in a few years want to go full freelance) so I can hop whenever I hit that wall.

I love working from home, especially not missing the commute. The only times I've thought 'damn I wish we could be in an office right now' is when:

- Refining stories, it's a bit easier to read peoples body language. Not everyone is super outspoken which is required when you're in a videocall.

- Retrospectives, also a bit harder to do online - though the tools are genuinely improving.

- Working together on architectural issues. Me and a colleague were using draw.io to think up a design and it just wasn't as easy as standing in front of a whiteboard together. I really miss that.

Not OP but I settled on Deck which is a NextCloud plugin, good enough for me and my wife.

More efficient how? Rather than registering the domain name via a registrar there's now another middleman and that's efficient? What are you, a manager?

Concert ticket scalpers also provide the same value, keeping culture available for people with more money. I just don't get this mentality - it's a negative for the world.

What could be a legit reason that could've given credence to a lawsuit?

If the reason was: "You're a woman" then they should've been sued.

I'm as white as it gets. Blonde, blue eyes, and I've never had a problem getting a job. This victim complex is based on nothing but disinformation from alt-right actors. We're not the victims, not in any way. Just because people are trying to make opportunities more equal doesn't mean we are suddenly oppressed.

> being slow to remove it

They just didn't. There's a difference between being slow and just not doing it at all.

> We have 3 features we want to develop. Lets aim to complete them in the next 2-3 weeks.

I never actually saw it that way. It's more like we know the velocity of the team is about 25 to 30 points based on past estimations. The team has estimated the following stories and the product owner decides which stories he'd like to see implemented. So he picks a few stories totaling 30 points with the knowledge that it may not get done. And that's supposed to be OK. The more and longer you estimate with the same people, the closer the estimations come to reality. So he has 3 stories totaling 30 points, he definitely wants 2 of them to be finished so he puts them at the top - if the third one doesn't finish then that's too bad but it should be close to done at least.

I've never worked nights just because a PO decided he needed a feature in the sprint. But I'm also the type of developer to say something like alright you want this feature in the sprint that's going on? Sure pick one that's going out or I can assure you it's not going to be finished. I'm not trying to be a dick, but just communicating and managing expectations.

No offense but it seems like you're part of the problem then. I've also had retrospectives where bland statements were the norm but as a team you should be able to say to each other, alright nice that the teamwork was great but is there anything new?

> any actionable items getting discarded immediately after

Except that, that's bad and honestly I've never experienced it that way. Maybe because I'm vocal and harp on about things if they don't change but yeah. An actionable item either becomes an email (which we will follow up on during the sprint, if nothing happens it comes back next retro) or an issue in a sprint / kanban board.

> And there's always one or two people that talk out the entire meeting

You've got to claim a stage here. Or if it doesn't pertain to you specifically, help teammates who do get snowed under by explicitly asking them.

I'd really not want to work in the environment you're describing, but I think I'd give it a shot to change it before leaving.

> have to pay attention to 4 different technical discussions

Seems like a mistake to have actual technical discussions in a stand-up. So yesterday I've worked on X feature, I've gotten pretty far but I'm being blocked because of a dependency on Y feature. I'd like to continue today, developer Z (who is working on Y feature) can we discuss this after the stand-up? Of course, I could've communicated this before - and maybe I've already done that, but the rest of the team doesn't know. What if they want to pick up a new story that has a dependency as well. Should all this communication just happen in emails or slack messages? That's fine I guess but it doesn't hurt to have 15 minutes to get a good view of what the rest of the team is doing.

Once you get into the nitty gritty you should honestly just say hey let's take a subset of this group and discuss it after. Works for us. Non-dev people shouldn't be there, or at least shouldn't get turns unless they're actually working on issues in the sprint.

>Stand-ups tend to be too much of a status report to the manager

Why is your manager present at the stand-up? It's just for the developers.

an entire website with people saying things about terfs but not a single sentence explaining wtf a terf is, i'm too old for twitter feuds

Highly doubt that, and wonder why you'd even think that - it's a pretty big movement with vocal users, submitting a review because you got scammed (which is what happened) is a very low threshold.

If you're just doing simple stuff where bandwidth matters I'd look into OVH/kimsufi, it's cheap unmetered dedicated servers.

Sounds like a really healthy mindset.

> serious things happening in the shadows that prevent him from pardoning them

It's money, or the fact that they're not explicitly in his fanbase

There's usually just something missing from sentence e.g. "No politics (that I don't agree with)!" or "That's censorship (when they do it to people I agree with)!"

In the USA, yeah, because it's a left and right divide. Nuance gets completely lost and it's hard to find common ground because you may agree on one thing but then you'd have to 'give in' and lose face.

A couple of things honestly.

The project I'm closest to 'finishing' is https://list.futbol, which aggregates silly titles found on /r/soccer. It originated from a post called something like 'It was the saddest backflip of my career...'. After that post users started keeping track of 'the list' with comparable posts. The list started living in comments, and eventually a subreddit was born (/r/saddestbackflip). What I'm doing is twofold:

- A static site built on hugo that has markdown posts per submission, it's on github here: https://github.com/midasvo/the-list so that if I get hit by bus a bus someone else can easily fork it or take it over (or if I add things that people don't like they can start their own). It also offers a really simple JSON endpoint so others can do what they want with the data. It's the communities data after all, not mine.

- A reddit bot (https://github.com/midasvo/the-list-bot) that checks top-level comments on /r/soccer for callouts (e.g. !addittothelist), creates a markdown post from the submission, commits and pushes it to a separate branch on https://github.com/midasvo/the-list, and creates a pull request. Once the pull request gets accepted, github actions go to work and the site will be updated. It already does this.

What I still want to do is to add a threshold to the parent comment, e.g. if the !addittothelist comment gets 100+ upvotes the pull request will be merged automatically.

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Furthermore I'm working on self-hosted recipe application using Spring Boot and React. Honestly just want to use it for me and my wife, but the philosophy is that people should be able to self-host it using a container - the data is yours. If I have the time/motivation I want to add the ability to 'connect' to others instances so you can retrieve their recipes and add them to your own repository. But firstly I'll work on exports/imports.

I'm not doing this on github, but on my own gitea instance + build street using drone-ci and other stuffs.

> the next four years is going to be very bad for the rest of the world

As someone from the ROTW I can tell you we're thrilled that Trump is leaving. It's been 4 years of uncertainty, foul rhetoric, blatant lying and cronyism. Trump sought the line and the line was drawn. Would it be better if it hadn't come to it? Yeah I think so. But we're waaaaay past that.

You don't have to pick a messaging app for life.

> The key was being stubborn and banking on them eventually wanting to talk to me.

This. Same for me. I just put a message like this in the family whatsapp groups and then deleted the app/account: 'Hey everyone, I'm not going to be on WhatsApp anymore - you can call, text, signal, telegram or email me. Talk to you later!'. It was that simple. It took a little while but now my family is on Telegram. I know they still use WhatsApp but it's honestly not my problem or issue that they use the app - I just don't want to.