Passwords stored in cookies, resetting passwords by just knowing the user's DOB, not even having passwords. This all kinds of tom-fuckery
A wifi enabled stove top sounds great until someone finds a security flaw and starts turning every burner on full while the owners are out of the house.
Hard: software development
Harder: solving complex problems involving natural language
Hardest: explaining why an idea a client has is terrible and should never be done without sounding like an condescending arsehole
Maintaining bad code is unhealthy for your sanity and how you end up a psychopath
TIL owls have long legs
An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans could be next
Power metal is the best music to code to
Just web dev things
Up at 3:30am
On the boat at 5:00am
Home eating fresh fish by 9:30am
What a good start to a day
Monkey reboot
Not sure how I feel about this, the picture looks like a still from the old Hercules or Xena series.
I'll probably still watch it because I love Journey to the West stories.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-20/monkey-magic-to-get-a-reboot/8457782?pfmredir=sm
Fun fact: I sit two feet away an autoclave
Not so fun fact: Autoclave alarms are really damn loud
#dev #work As the years go by I have less and less patience for the total disregard of cowboy/enthusiastic/code-churner colleagues for project management procedures and conventions. Things such as non-descriptive commit messages, missing version tags, debug output statements pushed to the repo, bug-tracker tickets not updated... have become quite irritating.
Am I being overly rigid or do you fellow programmers feel the same?
Things full of beans that shouldn't be full of beans
Database engineering is hard.
This also seems like a good use case for Neo4j and Cypher
Every time a change request comes through for a legacy project
How do they expect anyone to go for that...it's VB
