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Off Topic / Re: re: new year's resolutions?

« on: April 09, 2024, 08:19:36 AM »

Quote from: carolcat on April 08, 2024, 11:01:09 AM

huge props on the weightloss, that stuff is hard. are you doing diet or exercise or both?

Thank you for the props--I'm doing about an hour to 90 minutes of walking a day combined with a 20 hour fasting period. It definitely hasn't been easy, and since I'm not doing anything particularly interesting or difficult, it's been kind of boring.

Now that the weather is getting better, I'm able to take weekend day trips for hiking, which is definitely better than the weekday strolls through several parking lots in a corporate tech park. I'm within an hour-ish drive from Mt. Wachusett and Mt. Monadnock. The 2-4 hour hikes there end up burning around 1200 calories, and the views are nice.

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Off Topic / Re: re: new year's resolutions?

« on: April 08, 2024, 09:00:10 AM »

Quote from: log on December 24, 2023, 09:47:28 AM

I want to get into a non-junior software engineering role, release one of my personal projects, and start making contributions on at least one open source solution on GitHub.

I'm still in a level 1 role--I was told in November that I would be promoted, which ended up just being a change of managers with a new set of responsibilities (I retain all my old responsibilities). I'm considering switching careers to get into at least a level 2 role, but this field is just so competitive.

I'm almost done with one of my personal projects--it is a suite of software to run an imageboard using Blazor WebAssembly, SQL, and S2 compatible storage hosting. I will probably release it, and set up a prototype website in the coming months. Only moderation and anti-spam capabilities are left to develop.

I had plans to contribute to WebRTCme, the .NET repository for WebRTC, but the core developer beat me to it. I'll probably try again with a different repo later this year.

My resolution for 2023 was to lose weight, and that carried over into this year too. I've lost around 55 pounds since then, and am 40 shy of my target weight of 190 lbs at 6'2". I'm currently at 226 lbs with a historical high of 284 lbs. I genuinely feel so much better. Being obese felt like wearing clothes that were too tight, but the clothes were my skin (if that makes any sense).

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Off Topic / Re: Just checking in for the first time in many years, how are we all?

« on: March 21, 2024, 06:59:06 PM »

There have been a few check-in threads the past couple of years; it's still crazy to me that my professional career started with a couple offline html saves of KINEX's torque script tutorials on the scattered space forums at a labor day party I brought a laptop to as a kid. Whatever the opposite is of falling down the alt-right pipeline--I hope I'm in that 30%?

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums

« on: March 19, 2024, 08:41:10 AM »

Quote from: Master Matthew² on March 18, 2024, 04:48:06 PM

ftfy

welcome to the team. forget the other types of gay

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: March 16, 2024, 07:59:52 AM »

With what Microsoft is doing with new Teams and their WebView2 runtime--is that still cross-platform? I actually didn't mind that upgrade--the upgrade from Outlook to new Outlook was really good too.

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Off Topic / Happy international women's day everyone

« on: March 08, 2024, 07:53:45 AM »

/title

reach out to the women important to you in your life, and let them know how much you appreciate them

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Off Topic / Re: What happened in your birth year?

« on: March 06, 2024, 04:48:37 PM »

The original StarCraft was released :)

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: March 04, 2024, 05:02:58 AM »

Quote from: DurkaDude on March 04, 2024, 01:22:47 AM

If an app doesn't explicitly benefit from device-level APIs such as biometrics or Face ID, I don't see why I should download it. Reddit specifically is a huge loving nag, sometimes even mandating you download the app and make an account.

The bloated apps I feel are crazy, for multi-platform apps, there used to just be one runtime installed per system, but now apps are packaging their own runtimes. The base install for a .NET MAUI app is like 150 MB because it has to ship a portable version of the .NET runtime with it.

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: March 03, 2024, 12:37:20 PM »

I'll admit I like the way Swift handles nullability, and Apple's cryptography library definitely outpaces Android, but if I wanted to develop an Apple app for one of my own personal projects, it would have a cost-to-entry of like 2000$ since you can only develop Apple apps on Apple devices, and you require a /subscription/ to do even some basic development tasks...

Quote from: Foxscotch on March 03, 2024, 04:13:11 AM

how can you love ruby on rails. have you used it

real

Quote from: Mr Queeba on February 28, 2024, 04:21:40 PM

the proliferation of electronjs and every program pretending to be a standalone application but actually being a glorified version of chromium or webkit
computers may be faster but you should still aim to have optimized code damnit

That's the program manager special sauce right there lmao

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: March 01, 2024, 01:49:40 PM »

Microsoft claims to have server and client side SCIM support, but their server-side support documentation involves "developing an endpoint for the client to consume." They can't keep getting away with this...

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Off Topic / Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: February 26, 2024, 02:00:00 PM »

/title

I'll start with my two favorite:

Company x deprecates their thick client for a web app, if customer is lucky, they get an Electron app
App with no help docs implements a help chatbot that is just OpenAI

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