vendor spyware code i've been directed to inject into every page is nuts ... makes redundant calls, pollutes the global name space, wonky arse looooong regex that trys to detect every possible bot UA.

if i try to cleanup any of it and wrap it in a function to at least contain it... i will be responsible for this shit and blamed even if fails for completely unrelated reasons 😮‍💨

#whinge #WebDev

Thought I'd toot a whinge about whinging, not long, maybe a few laughs at my expense. Hehe. Best draft in a text editor, & check it properly, this one's definitely going viral.

🤔 Needs tweaks, & I'm writing about being angry over that 1900s thing with a shop, visualising the argument. And then there was the other thing when the other place... Instead of a few grin worthy lines, I'd fallen into the old trap of getting hung up in past whinges. They're gone, mate, let them go. Forget.

#whinge

I’m back on the juror roll runs after 5 years not thinking about it.

It was good while it lasted but they found me. I might have to move again.

#Whinge #ShitPost

spent the entire day trying and failing to migrate issues from one jira space to another.

would be really nice if atlassian could stop flogging ai slop for 5 seconds and fix their actual product and documentation.

tldr: team managed spaces are a foot gun (i think... still not 100% sure what the issue is).

#whinge #atlassian

medium blob spam is the new experts-exchange

#whinge

Wow, the keyboard of the 2024 Dell XPS16 is atrocious...

I have a tradie in my office, so I'm working in the garden. Away from my ErgoDox. It's the first time I really use the laptop's keyboard as it was clearly terrible in the first place, but...

Well, it _is_.

It doesn't help that the extra attention needed to finding the keys seems to trigger the same shift as typing on a QWERTY keyboard instead of my usual dvorak. So about half the time when I hit the right key, it's not actually the symbol I want....

Also, the stupidly useless Copilot key takes the spot of the practical and now bitterly missing right Ctrl key.

#Dell #keyboard #whinge

the best websites are the ones with javascript that prevents you from clicking buttons when their shit analytics JS doesnt work.

#webdev #whinge

What's with the rubbish kiosks they have in subway now? The interface is high latency and has bad touch detection. My wife wasn't able to order her normal sub because she couldn't de-select some of the ingredients.

They could be better for people who can't or don't want to give their order to the person behind the counter, but they're worse in every way in my use-case.

A colour-in-the-dots paper form would better than these dumb things. It's electronic voting all over again.

#subway #whinge