I’ve been working in the software industry in Belfast for over 17 years, and I’ve been to a lot of university careers fairs in that time. I got to attend more at UUJ and QUB over the last couple of days and it got me really enthusiastic about the future of software engineering in Belfast. As a hiring manager, there were so many people that I wanted to take on straight away, and can’t wait to talk to them all in the upcoming interviews.
That said, I definitely find it harder to get moving with VS Code. Some of it is overcoming muscle memory, but some of it is a clunkiness that I thought they’d have sorted out by now. The extension installation UI is abysmal for a start, and opening a new window results in a soup of stuff on the screen that doesn’t feel conducive to getting started.
@noodles I prefer mostly hating OmniPlan
@nivrig shite, I missed this one the other day. I know what you mean about the startup/funding thing. I’ve been waiting for a year now for a place to get funding cause they “really want to work with me”. I’ve officially given up as I’ve since been promoted beyond any level they could offer me.
@nivrig please don’t have been Robert Redford making the offer. https://nitech.online/media/JjB7Q-mVNJrK2zQYFn4
@nivrig did you quit?
@andz welcome to the instance!
@markxa it means that if you feel like treating Mastodon as a chat environment today you can, and if tomorrow you want it to be more like Twitter, it can be.
Much of yesterday was spent bashing my head against #python not being able to find it's packages when invoked as a subprocess from another Python process. Every time it was run it would report an `ImportError` for the module `site`. We even set up the `PYTHONHOME` and `PYTHONPATH` through the env with no luck. Today we're hoping that using a `venv` gives us more luck.
@marramgrass I see that Webpack is already in the master branch for Phoenix, but no release of it yet. I figured I would try to understand what is happening with Brunch so that I could see about replacing it with Webpack myself (we use Webpack in work - though when I say “we”, remember that I’m a manager now 😉).
That said, I reckon that the problem is that we rely on too many abstractions for this whole thing. NPM, Brunch, Elm, Phoenix and so on. It all adds up to me not knowing what exactly is being done on my behalf.
I suspect there's a bit of spelunking in my future to figure out how the plumbing is actually hanging together. Then maybe I'll appreciate what is broken.
@interdev £5 per month, or in total?!
Well, that's my purchase done. A nice new Series 4 Apple Watch to replace my venerable Series 0.
Toyed with the idea of dropping down to the smaller size, but didn't want to sacrifice my existing straps/bands.
So is anyone ordering new #apple devices at 8am this morning? Going for a new watch myself, but passing up the phone this year. Just not enough changes to justify the money when I'm wanting a new laptop at some point.
What about you @stuartgibson?
@nivrig I want a new MacBook - work usually provides the necessary MBPs.
@d3z ah right - not using anything specific for that. It's going to be running inside a Phoenix app so I'll probably just use whatever they provide (probably Less)
@d3z when you say styling, do you mean auto-formatting of code in an editor?
I'm Maurice Kelly, a software engineer who sold his soul to management. To redeem myself I try to make music, but in reality what I'm doing is making a big pile of synthesisers all in one place and changing how they are connected on a regular basis.
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