work complaints
We are in the middle of migrating from one language to another at work and are supposed to be writing X% of the code in the new language.
Which is already a concerning kind of thing to have as a metric we are supposed to achieve; but it gets worse.
I have been addressing technical debt by writing tests around various bits of untested code in the old language when I need to modify it and I basically got the team in trouble for writing too much code.
I have calmed down; but I doubt I will stick around long term at this company.
I can't believe I got pulled into a meeting yesterday to talk about and justify line of code written.
meta cw
I have been avoiding the news.
Just recognizing that I don't have the capacity to engage with it. And I have been really, really appreciating everyone using cw to talk about, so I can avoid reading about it when I just don't have the capacity to deal.
I just want to say thanks for doing that and for making my timeline easier to handle right now.
work, tech debt
So, I am trying to find a place to put a new variable we need to carry around and I finally find the code where I need to add it *and* there are no tests.
It is gnarly 80 line method calling into multiple other places and doing some fun data munging.
So writing tests for what I have been doing all day.
birth, usa
So, this is my first time being on a team where someone has a baby in the US.
Our manager announced that 'Alice' had gone into labour a couple of weeks early and so would be off until further notice.
Without even saying congratulations, the tech lead asked 'When is she coming back?' in a tone of mild annoyance. 'We need to know this to plan our quarter'.
Fuck your quarter bud. Nothing we are doing here today is more important.
'Well, the average maternity leave is about 12 weeks'
And I just stared at the camera.
Writes codez. Haz Feelingz. Is Skwurl. I talk about ABBA more than is reasonable.