the level of github micromanaging my manager does is getting absurd. he will comment on PRs how many commits behind main they are. he told us to just choose "approve" on all code reviews, because comments have to be resolved first (i guess comment fixes don't need review)

this is why im at least suspicious of anyone that is in or positively interacts with phase connect

we should be doing resolutions to mark the start of spring, not the start of the year. its freezing outside, i dont even want to do the things i already do, much less new stuff

listening to an audiobook and i hear "end of side 5. ... side 7"

i plan to buy my offkai plane tickets in march, so now that ive got a gf i have 2 months to explain to her what a vtuber is and figure out if shes going to join me for offkai or not

the parking lot at work is less than 20% as full as usual. im definitely going to die of boredom today. but if i do survive, itll be unauthorized work from home for the next two days

people are talking about firefox going to shit now that they're adding ai, but imo its been shit for a while. sometimes a click a link and instead of just loading the webpage, the tab will lock and my cpu fan will spin up for a minute or two

i got some new curtains for my office that are the correct size (instead of just big enough to cover the window hole) and its crazy how much deader the sound is now. like it wasn't even echoing before because the room is full, this is a whole other level

me, in my house full of furniture, buying more furniture: "oh no, where do i put all this furniture?"

im trying only linux on my laptop one more time, and im feeling like this time it might actually stick. one day linux will have a ui as good as windows 25 years ago

i have to keep reminding myself that its impossible to time the market, because the market is really making me feel like i should shift my retirement investments rn

today i overslept and got to work 30 minutes late, and was still by far the first person. then everyone left before me. i suspect people may not be putting in a full 9 hours here...

today at work we got tasks for the next month and mine are stuff im already like 85% done with

im now in my permanent desk at my new job, locked in a secure room with no personal electronics. im going to be the most productive ive ever been, and also lose all will to live

work days being 10 hours after commute is sucking my will to live even more than before, but seeing my future of not even having my phone during that time could potentially be the kick i need to atop being so chronically online. id love to at least get physically active enough to lose some fat

my work schedule is 9/80 so i have every other friday off. but the on friday is also the one day we work remote, so in my mind its just two 3 day weekends, which 1) shows how seriously i took my previously full remote job and 2) is certainly going to bite me in the ass eventually

ngl i kind of wish i was getting furloughed tomorrow. at least my commute will probably be less miserable

my temporary desk at my new job is a cubicle next to the PMs, and its so interesting hearing them talk. i wonder what it feels like to be on a project without actually doing any of the work

this new job is so painfully frustrating. i was truly spoiled by the clean c# code that Just Worked at my last job - no warnings, no environment setup, good coding practices now im on some c++ mess with basically no maintainability where people are checking build-breaking typos in the main branch

i realized i at some point deleted my rct save files, so now im running file recovery software on a couple of old drives i have that might (but probably dont) have held the files at some point

i am not feeling good about my new job. im going to be working in a secure room with no personal electronics, va code is way worse than visual studio, and c++ is the absolute ugliest language ive ever seen. im gonna miss writing c# :(

i think 2027 will be the year i climb mt fuji. im not getting any younger so i really need to get on that. ill probably also go to comiket while im doing a summer visit, since the summer there is so miserable

i sure hope i haven't forgotten how to program in the last two months, because i have not been thinking about it AT ALL in this time also i suspect this new job is going to be c++ which... is not my strongest language lol

i passed my background/drug test, so my start date is definite; now that it's entirely certain im basically just standing here waiting for it to be monday and my new form of misery to start

im in my late 30s and ive still never felt any kind of passion or calling to something i can do that im just amazing at and that serves people and makes the world better. i just exist here, alone, waiting to die and trying to be as comfortable as possible

i got contacted today by two more companies id applied to, one of which would be similar to the job i lost, but better pay. i went ahead and scheduled the call, so we'll see. i would feel bad taking back an offer acceptance, even if its to an evil megacorp

the job search gods mustve noticed how low my mood is today, because the search engines have finally been delivering. ive submitted the most applications in one day (26) since i started looking

lol the interview i had scheduled for tomorrow got cancelled. it wouldve been a mega long commute so its for the best, but at this point im desperate for anything. i just need a job

ive initiated rolling over my 401k from my previous job, so if the market is going to crash, now would be a great time, thanks

its interview time 😬 i maybe shouldve worn a suit and tie for this one, but im already pushing it wearing a button shirt so if its not meant to be then its not meant to be but im definitely qualified for the position, hopefully the interview is focused on experience rather than technical questions

im so nervous about this interview on tuesday lol i feel like it might be the last chopper out of nam that i really cant afford to miss

i just got an email invite for an interview where their signature still had the company's google plus link in it. i think this company might be about my speed

"experience with APIs" is probably my least favorite job listing requirement, even worse than javascript frameworks. its such a meaningless expectation, something i can trivially do but cant say i have explicit experience in. sorry the only people that use my code is the company i work in?

how it feels trying to find a developer job at my age and skillset

this place i had a call with says they value speed over accuracy in their coding. like shit if you want me to write bad code i guess i can do that, good luck keeping customers

the job posting quality is pretty dire. pretty much everyone wants ai and/or specific web framework experience, of which i have neither

i got laid off :( the company lost a big contract, and failed to secure a couple they needed. they're gonna be in a rough situation tbh but im getting 8 weeks pay as severance, so hopefully that will carry me long enough if you know anywhere hiring a remote senior c# dev, hmu

one thing i love about visiting the west coast is how i get to sleep in for 2 hours and still be up on time. it feels like the right amount of sleep not sure if it makes up for food prices being double what i expect though

im currently on a call watching a coworker type our workflow into chatgpt in the hopes it will give us a new simplified flow

theres a bug report at work if us adding an escape character to some data that doesnt need it, so i ask for the exploit info that lead to this change, my manager says "oh i just added the extra conditions in addition to the obvious ones because chatgpt suggested it"

holy shit i hate ai i hate ai

if i see much more horse posting im going to give in and install the game just to prove the gacha game loop still does nothing for me

my employer wants to go in on ai :( i need to retire asap i cant take this world anymore

i was able to upgrade my offkai plane tickets to first class using miles, which is good because the joke about not being able to go back is true, even though i usually cant justify the price of it

i made a sudden decision to go to offkai next week. more than i should be spending, and im not taking pto at work that friday, but hopefully its at least as good as last year

i wasnt expecting to get a switch 2 anytime soon, but i heard you could show up at gamestop at 3pm to maybe get one, so now im #38 in line for 45 unreserved switches after showing up just 10 minutes early

its pure instinct that when an okie hears "tornado on the ground" we instantly go outside to try to see it

i wish i were outgoing enough to actually meet people irl lol

for the last couple of months, it's felt like my manager (cofounder and cto) was kind of detached during our one on ones, and i was worried he thought i was planning to quit, or wasnt meeting expectations. turns out its that hes quitting lol

on the big international planes the wifi was just good enough to listen to a 160p twitch stream, but on this tiny crj there isnt even enough bandwidth for the twitch app to load its front page lol