Wise words from Mr. @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social. And let me tell you, it's not the only software development role that's "romanticized af." ANYTHING startups were clamoring about five years ago was like this behind the veil.

You won't see me play FPS games live often, but Dusk was 70% for a bit.

This was supposed to go up yesterday for #Caturday, but I feel asleep before I posted it. I guess we were both tired.

If I ask you about open positions and you redirect me to your career portal, I'm already moving on. How can you expect me to have soft skills if you don't have them?

Iiiit's #Caturday!!!

Does it mean I'm getting old if all of my bookmarks are doctor's office appointment cards?

This is sad, bro. www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general...

The birbs have risen, therefore I must rise.

The full moon reflecting off the snow while it's 10° outside and crystal clear has an otherworldly beauty to it tonight.

Colleague dropped the ball all morning then said to me, "Training that new lady really threw me off. Today's usually my relax day." I'm sorry, your what day? Ma'am, walk away from me, right now.

Gonna get my face punched a bit in Tekken 8. Come see. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

Let's try this Go Live imitation of LinkedIn's Open To Work cutesy ring around my profile pic thing. Oh, also, I'm live. I'm playing The Room 3. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

Damn.

Don't buy cranberry Sprite. Buy Ocean Spray cranberry juice. Fill a glass with 3 parts cranberry juice to 1 part Sprite. You're welcome.

Cold brew.

Testing the multi-playlist support I added to my chat bot and pushing penguins around. Come see. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

Anybody remember these little guys?

I think my setup does a Godsmack tone better than anything else. Kept rushing the beat. Maybe this is one of those times I should have went with the feel instead of the metronome.

Torturing myself with some more Discolored 2 tonight. Come see. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

I put it off for six years, but I can mark implementing my own suffix tree off the todo list after absorbing the black magic that is Ukkonen's algorithm. www.engineeringdeck.com/index.php/20...

"As somebody stuck to the bottom of the employment ranks, she couldn't help noticing that . . . holding your spot at the bottom was getting harder all the time, because more 'bottom' kept arriving."—Sandford, J. (2022) The Investigator

The weather here be like 50-30-50-30 And my arthritis be like 😬-😬-😬-😬

Porn. Just not the kind you're thinking. Live. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

Penguins and shit. Live. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

Post-holiday Monday got you down? You're welcome to come decompress in my channel while I point-and-click my way through The House of Da Vinci 3 (and sip on Death Wish coffee at 9PM because I have Tuesdays off, suckas). XD www.twitch.tv/observerherb

lmao! Sometimes it just be like that. www.twitch.tv/grimreaperwi...

Pirate Mysteries: A Tale of Monkeys, Masks, and Hidden Objects... glitchyione's chat was plugging this game this morning. Looks like one of those old gems. Might have to try it out. www.bigfishgames.com/pirate-myste...

THIS SONG SLAYS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTP... I mean... this K-Drama's whole score slays, but this song in particular.

Going shopping retail and small-talking the staff and watching the light slowly come back to their eyes as they realize I'm not a zombie NPC and they can interact with me is wild.

You do not know patience until you've untangled an inch plant.

To whomever restored the power on this hillside at 2AM last night, THANK YOU! You are a true hero.

PowerShell doesn't suck, btw. www.engineeringdeck.com/index.php/20...

I never want to know what passing a kidney stone feels like because literally everybody puts it at 10/10 on the pain scale.

For every 1 openly disagreeing with you, there are 100 silently agreeing with you.

TIL about the "null-forgiving operator" in C# and this the funniest thing I've ever read about a programming language. "It is also colloquially known as the 'dammit' operator because it forces the compiler to ignore potential nullability warnings."

Sneaky Eddy.

I haven't played a good classic-style RTS in ages. Seems like the game dev world went all 4X. So when I saw Tempest Rising I said "take my money." This game is amazing! And Michael Markie and company knocked it out of the park with the OST!

C++26 isn't even here yet and I already love me some reflection, so I wrote an article about it. www.engineeringdeck.com/index.php/20...

Winter.

My toxic trait is I dry my hands on the dish towel.

DOSember on the Observation Deck starts tonight with Amazon: Guardians of Eden. www.twitch.tv/observerherb

No matter how good you get at anything, there will always be someone who'll tell you you're not good enough, someone who'll call you dumb and lazy and frame it as some kind of motivational speech. Don't worry about that person. You keep doin' you.

Me: I want to buy an Arduino but what's a simple project I should do with it? Her: A remote starter for your car that you start from your phone. Me: Brandee, I said SIMPLE!

I wasn't going to stream this week but I might have to check this out.

Yeah? The sky is blue, too.

A consequence of being a good listener is I know exactly who I hate, because they told me why I hate them.

People who brew the coffee at work with twice the amount of grounds and brag about how good they make it because they make it strong are a special kind of stupid.

TIL that if you have hardware virtualization enabled in your BIOS and Hyper-V enabled in Windows your base OS runs itself in a specially privileged VM. I am mortified.

Stellar Blade, No Man's Sky, and Tekken 8 all run faster and smoother on my Fedora install over USB3 than my Windows install. NMS, which crashes all the time on me, hasn't crashed once. Make it make sense.