Look up a good article on coding fonts and pick your camp! At the moment I have DejaVu installed but I’m not a purist. As long as it’s properly designed for this I’m happy. Ligatures are particularly nifty in some languages but no big deal. I recall one author picking a font so that the italics would be cursive rather than monospace, so that his comments would look like handwritten notes in the margin, but I never got a chance to try it myself. Looked great though!

That reminds me of SEO shite introduced into HTML invisibly for the readers.

Disparaître du jour au lendemain ? Oh non les pauvres choux, c’est des emplois précaires en fait! Quel stress. On se rend pas compte.

I bring swag from my previous employers to whatever employer I am currently at :)
Let them know how much I care about company spirit.

Could probably use a Bible from the way things are. Doubt they actually ever open those.

But can you shoot it down?

I’m actually curious what they even import from the US that they can’t find elsewhere or make themselves.
I’m wearing NB bought in a NB shop in Wuhan at European prices and they’re… made in Indonesia. I’m guessing it’s gonna be some really unique luxury shit like alcohol? Or cars? So nothing that’s gonna affect Chinese people significantly, except perhaps to send them shopping in the EU and reinforce the Belt and Road and the railway connection with Europe (well, if Putin doesn’t fuck things up. That’s another story)

“Another fals positive? Woops! Whatever shall we do?”

Aha! It is I ! L’Éclair ! Don’t you recognise me?

Ma remarque finale c’est pour le fait que c’est comme ça partout, en vrai. L’enfer c’est les autres. Y’a toujours du drama peu importe où tu vas (j’ai bossé dans plusieurs régions et pas mal à l’étranger). Le truc c’est de se mettre bien avec les gens autour de soi, de se plaire à son poste, et le reste en /ignore.

Tried to do a proper analysis of a bug in homologation that’s preventing our future customer to test the product, while N+3 and N+4 demand twice-daily updates through video call with ten other managers on it. Two weeks of proper madness, that was.

Stopped the meetings for one fucking day and we had it fixed before 5pm.

For real.
I joined this team two years ago and at 46 was the oldest with our PO. The tech lead had to leave after my first year. Then the PO jumped ship after 19 years at the company. Now our N+2, who’s mostly responsible for our PO leaving, is off dying in some hospital. The tech lead he finally got us, a mate of his, has done exactly 4 tickets in four months (I did 50 in my first four) and with good reason since he knows exactly none of the tech stack we use. At all. He’s ready to quit, just hasn’t found somewhere else.
The N+3, who joined at the same time as him, and knew the shit he was getting in, admitted to me this morning that he’s having a tough time honestly. The guys around me, all in their twenties and with one or two jobs under their belt have never seen shit like this and are all on the verge of ragequitting. Only thing keeping them is the difficulty of finding a job here as we’re in the arse end of France.
The (paid) students are kinda all taking it in mouth agape.

Meanwhile I’m just like “eh, sure it’s not perfect but it ain’t so bad. You should see the last place I was at!”.

And I still have to swallow twenty odd years of this shit?
Fuck me.

I can’t wait to meet the two people who just did a round of interview…

Shit sounds about right

Well, he could just show his birth certificate, right?

Je l’ai vu passer dans la journée et c’est juste le genre d’histoires dont je me passerais bien de savoir qu’elles existent. Quelle tristesse quoi.

How about get a mechanical keyboard with modified switches for your combining keys? I’ve been wanting to do that for mine for gaming.

That’s true yeah. The seed of all the problems is assuming.

My teammates assumed System.DefaultEncoding must be some default value (UTF-8, they assumed, again) that would carry across all servers so no worries. Except no, it’s “whatever encoding is configured on this machine as the default code page”.
Which was the same across our networks, lucky them.
But for this one machine setup by an external contractor who had UTF-8 as default.
That one took me a while to track down…

In my experience things are fine while you work in a single environment, or you have control over the entire pipeline of data. Things quickly turn into a story from the Bible when different systems start trying to communicate.

You’d think things would be simple, otherwise the existence of UTF-8.

And yet for the last 17 years, every company I’ve been in has had some sort of horrible mess involving unicode and non-unicode and nobody either recognising the problem, or knowing how to solve it when they did recognise it (“well, the £ turns into a ? so we just replace any ? in the filename by a £”).

I wonder what he’ll say when he realises what the French motto means. What a muppet.