📓 Notes

Well hello there, nice to see you're still checking in, it's been a while since I have so thank you. Don't worry I haven't been sat in a dark corner of my on sad, I've just been busy with a few things and generally not thinking about being on-line.🏖️

📚 Reading

I'm back reading Hairy Plopper and the sippy cup of vindaloo by she who must not be named - 37% done. It took a backseat over December and January while I read the far superior Murderbot Diaries, but I really need to finish the series just to get it out of the way. Though I expect I'll be back to Murderbot when the new book Platform Decay comes out in May. 🥰

🖥️ Dev Log

I've been playing around with making stat reports from the log cutter I built last year. It's been a fun distraction from working on SystemX, but I'll probably get back to that soon.📊

👷 Work

It's been a strange time at work, they seem to be running headlong into using AI and don't seem to be thinking of the problems it's going cause.

Take last week for example. I had a piece of work to do and I was getting on with it but then the API I needed to call was found to be "Not fit for purpose". Yes, they did use AI to make it, how did you guess? So I was told to stop what I was doing and they'll let me know what I should do next.

Well next was they wanted me to rewrite my working system in GO because C# was the problem. In the meeting I said "That will put the project plan at risk because I know nothing about GO" and the response I got was "It's not a risk, just get AI to write the code for you". 🤦‍♂️

Luckily that wasn't my team lead, what he told me was:-

"Take a few days to learn GO while a senior developer uses AI to convert the project. That way at least someone will know how to maintain it".

It took me 4 days to get to the point where I could give a reasoned argument as to why GO was a terrible language, and another day to prove that I had already done the work in C#. So everyone could "Go Do One".

All in all a positive result:-

1. Learned a new language well enough to hate it. Even if I did find one thing I like about it, it's not enough to make me want to use it.
2. Found out one of our senior developers is hard of thinking, unless he can write an AI prompt to find out what it is he needs to think.
3. Have shown that all the delays on this project were unnecessarily caused by another department, we're talking months wasted on things that will never be used.
4. My code is awesome and worked fine in the first place. 🤓

Doesn't mean I wasn't stressed AF, regularly, this last few weeks. But it's all worked out well in the end.🤡

🗺️ World

With America televising public executions and rounding up undesirables into concentration camps, I'm doing my level best to avoid news from the tinpot republic. I've stopped watching the nice news channels I used to follow on YouTube because even they're starting to feel like something out of the DC universe.

There are more than enough personnel blogs around to keep me amused and they're not all by Americans screaming into the literal void. There are quite a few Europeans doing it as well.🇪🇺

Don't be mistaken I'm not burying my head in the sand, I have opinions and I'll share them with you if you ask the wrong question or make a stupid assertion.

That doesn't mean I have to fill my daily information feed with the same oh, look how bad things are "news", I'd rather be playing with puppies.🐕

Anyway, I'm off to continue my binge watching run of all Pixar films, I'm currently on Onward. 🧙‍♂️