#dev problems

Day 1: I’m not in work! This is amazing! I have a whole month to write stuff!!

Day 2: Well clearly the problem is my software

Day 3: Look at all these great words!

Day 4: Look how easy it is to rearrange all these great words until they cease to have any coherent meaning!

Day 5: ... and it turns out asparagus ranches have a hugely rich history! Wait, come back!

Day 6: Who are you and what are you doing in my fic?

Day 7: Am I writing a horror? I think I may be writing a horror. Or a rom com.

Day 8: Had to go back to work for an hour, entire day obviously a writeoff. Write off. Hah. Sorry.

My games: 

When you need to go somewhere fast and you can’t!

I’ve been up for an hour and a half. This is because I’m on call and my company can’t be arsed to get the people who deploy the software to pause the monitoring program when they’re deploying the new versions of stuff (so I’m getting alerts when they take the old version down and then an “everything’s okay” alert when the new version comes online).

It’d be one thing if there were no way to do this, but there is. The software allows you to “pause” the monitoring for various lengths of time. This is a thing that was created basically for this purpose. I don’t know why we refuse to use it.

Tonight I was woken up at ~3:30 am, I’d have gone back to bed after about 10 minutes but the deployments mean the on call phone will just randomly go off (it has a loud siren as all notification sounds). Yesterday I was up between 1:30-3:00 am because a server was inaccessible, and apparently the dev on call (me) needs to be alerted so they can wake up the IT on call person who is the only one who can actually do anything about it. Saturday-Sunday I was up at 1:30-3:00, and then at 4, and at 6 for various problems (I can’t sleep during the day so I was up for the rest of the day). 

Friday 11 am is when I go off of on call. I’m going to sleep so hard Friday night. 

Sorry for the rant. I know I follow a lot of parents, and some follow me back, and this may all seem minor in comparison to some parenting challenges, especially special needs parenting, but this is a job, the bonus for being on call is insultingly small ($150, and I can’t leave my house except to go to work for an entire week), it’s high stress, unappreciated, and in 18 years, I’ll be shocked if the company still exists (it’s the nature of the industry, not a comment on the company). 

resentment of the testers who find bugs in their broken-ass code

total lack of giving a shit about code quality even though nobody’s code is fucking readable bc there are like huge swathes of whitespace everywhere and like, what are you doing with your brackets?  what are YOU doing with your brackets????  and what about YOU what are YOU doing with YOUR brackets???  do we need to set up some kind of standard for capitalization or idk, how we format our uris?  NAHHH YALL BITCHES WANNA FIND AN ENDPOINT YOU CAN JUST GUESS BC FUCK YOU

total lack of giving a shit about test coverage even though they’re constantly getting pissed at qa for finding bugs in the code they didn’t even write unit tests for

total refusal to even attempt to write explanatory comments for their unreadable, incomprehensible code

what is a new line

we don’t need a package structure why are you so anal

not wanting a build for the project?  like even one that just runs the unit tests??

0 support for writing integration tests that cover even just a few paths for the whole stack

.........not deleting lines of commented-out code that they will never uncomment bc they don’t need it/it doesn’t work

not even building their changes and testing them like, once, just checking them in.  yes really.

*gets list of bugs back from qa* “ugh these fucking testers [eye roll]” ......did you write an endpoint test “what, why would i do that”