Website designer has decided that as I'm not paying for broken goods, they're sending my account to collections. Good luck with that. I wonder if their collection agent knows that their own website (by the same designer) is also standards-incompliant ( Read more... )

Look, programmer-person ( Read more... )

As something of a minor incarnation of chaos, I do honestly try to keep it under wraps. I mostly play by the rules, even if I'm somewhat free about where I choose the rules from at any given moment. I go out of my way not to turn people's carefully constructed views of the world into bubbling, dripping insanity. I try and leave them approximately ( Read more... )

Another work-related post.

What's worse than a workplace where everything is the absolute antithesis of a place I want to be?

A workplace where there are multiple carrots of potential fixes dangled in front of me every day, just slightly out of reach ( Read more... )

So ( Read more... )

May, at work ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like being told bluntly at a job that significant proportions of their code are royally screwed ten ways to Sunday because they previously hired someone who (a) couldn't program, and (b) decided to hide this fact by creating the most convoluted, spaghettified, fragile, bug-ridden code around ( Read more... )

Just a handful, from the last couple of days ( Read more... )

The politics at work is much more fun than the work itself, which I have largely given up on as being worth precisely zilch ( Read more... )

Some of this is universal. A lot of it, however, is simply that the way things are done at the current workplace is massively incompatible with my own psychological preferences ( Read more... )