mapgie

@mapgie.co.uk

(She/her) Software Impostor. Collector of interests. ADHD af. I regret most of the things I say. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 #BLM

It's too fucking easy for Visual Studio to wipe all my custom syntax highlighting options, and all the backups are a filthy lie. Foomin.

It should be a criminal offence, prosecuted to the full extent of the law, to have your computer unmuted and pinging away in an open-plan office.

Having been a part of one of these before... Women in Tech panels need to be less excruciatingly dry to not risk doing us a massive disservice.

"Experience of Uniface 10 at least" And indeed, at most, shirty recruiter who thinks 70-100USD p/hour on a 12mo contract is an appealing proposition to me.

There's a special place in hell for people who make web forms that don't allow pasting in password fields, and who validate input before the user has completed the form.

> 52 vulnerabilities (4 low, 12 moderate, 36 high) `npm audit fix` > 53 vulnerabilities (4 low, 12 moderate, 37 high) *sigh*

Why is not wooorking mama? Turn it ooon mamaaa. On Friday I need to go to work. On Friday. Friday. Hello, Mr Gruber, yes, and my favourite sandwich. What do you want for tuba, tuba tuba? Watchoo want for tuuuba?

Overhead photo of a toddler sitting on the floor in front of a white macbook connected to an external keyboard, and mouse, appearing to mimic a computer workstation. The child is holding an analogue landline telephone. The child's face is obscured by a yellow smiley sticker.
To the side of the image, the edge of a standing desk can be seen, with papers and a mousepad. A foot is visible to the bottom of the picture, making it clear it's a standing desk.

Why does it seem to be a universal constant that clients actively resist efforts to make their lives easier? "can I automate this scheduled button click for you?" - no! "can I give you a simple way to access error information in situ?" - no!

Why do these bastard ticket machines default to tickets that would, were I to buy one and board the train with it, result in me being fined for paying an inappropriate fare?

South Western Railway ticket machine
Screen reads:
Top left:
"Ticket base data info:
Return ticket valid for date shown,
outward and return time restrictions apply Mon - Sat, including bank holidays"

Center: "Please select your fare"
Yellow 'attention' bar reads: "Any permitted" with an ℹ️ information button.

Two buttons occupy the rest of the screen:
Green top button: Off-peak day return £16.40 (selected)
Blue bottom button: Anytime Day Return £19.10

Make DACPACs make sense! Give us a pre-deployment script that runs pre-pre-deployment script and before the deployment plan that is calculated on a outdated state. And stop people committing atrocities to bypass the absence of this feature. 👇 Thanks @drewsk.bsky.social

Quote: "A pre-deployment script is executed before the deployment plan is executed but the deployment plan is calculated before the script executes"
Drew Skwiers-Koballa@drewsk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yep, it has a limited scope of useful scenarios. If you're interested in a fully pre-plan script vote/comment on this item - github.com/microsoft/Da...

DACPAC be like: "A pre-deployment script is executed before the deployment plan is executed but the deployment plan is calculated before the script executes." Make a plan based on a state that may change. Genius.

I perpetually return to ponder the universe's greatest unsolved mystery: How is it possible for the human body to generate SO MUCH SNOT?