Well, not the whole of the ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash and Kibana, though the full stack size is much larger nowadays), but their watchers. A watcher is a piece of JSON with some search specifications on when to trigger and send an alert to email/slack/teams/whatever. We’re basically abusing it as an alerting system, and generally it works… Fine… Presuming Filebeat actually ingests our logs (which is partially our fault, as there’s a fix, but it takes too damn long to drag 3 teams along to implement what needs implementing to fix that problem).
Anyway, the problem is not the watcher itself, even though it is painful (heh) to learn the structure. It’s “Painless”, the JVM-based scripting language available in a watcher. It’s anything but. It is SO painful to write code, inside of a JSON object, making sure everything is exactly as it should be, having to use the DevTools in Kibana to try and trigger it, wait to see what enormous error comes out while praying it works. No IDE, no nothing. Ah, I lied. It does have Syntax Highlighting, for non-Painless code, IIRC…
Oh, having to dig information out of the data you get is super unintuitive too.
At least the UI/Kibana is good, and Elastic is pretty good too. Fuck Filebeat though. And Painless.
Sorry but FreeCAD, it’s just not made for professional use. I don’t blame it, I blame my boss for being so tight he had us on Linux cos of that and then plus wouldn’t buy me a CAD program.
Back then Web based options like Onshape didn’t exist so there wasn’t much else…
Maybe you have heard about a software called Ragtime. It‘s basically a combination of Word and Excel. However, there‘s no option to export any files that can be edited with any other office application, and you can‘t open .xls/.odf etc files with it. Oh, and the best part about it: You can always only undo one action.
Several decades ago, it must have been as good as other comparable products on Mac OS. And when there‘s no compatibility, the switch isn‘t that easy. You basically have to build your templates from scratch.
That being said, we have decided to switch to MS Office, but my boss will probably use Ragtime until retirement.
Ugh. Amy interaction I’ve had with oracle enterprise software has involved myriad scripts, package installation in a particular order (skip a step and start over, yay!), tech shaming, incoherent support and lacklustre results. How they are still in business is beyond me.
I think so many people are institutionalized into Microsoft office suite (especially for outlook mail and calendar) and it is just so RIDICULOUSLY bad - I’d never really appreciated gmail or complimented gsuite until my company was acquired and forced to regularly work in outlook.
I immediately took a 50% productivity hit and even daily success towards regular goals just doesn’t feel quite like success anymore because I’m always chasing my tail. Luckily I was already an overachiever, so my diminished workload is still good. Stupid company fucked themself out of a lot of wins for such a small, tone deaf decision.
The simplest way I can say it is that before with gsuite I just never thought about productivity apps - they worked in the background to support me well enough. Now that we’re in outlook, I have multiple bad interactions that I have to navigate around every single workday.
Previous company handled everything over email. No Kanban, no Git, no organization - everything was still handled as it was in a random accounting office back in the 90’s. I spend half of my worktime searching for who-said-what-and-when emails to code feature x, and then had to email it back to another dev.
There was also zero drive to improve anything. I was yelled at for 5 mins straight for suggesting to add a placeholder to a dateinput (which was declared as ‘<input type=“text”>’, instead of ‘<input type=“date”>’), because the correct format ‘YYYYMMDD’ was never mentioned anywhere on the form or in error mesages, and people keept having issues.
So many frustrations here! I just switched companies and forced back into outlook&teams.
Would you like to know who’s attending a meeting? We hid this very deep in the meeting options.
Want to see all emails sent to Jack? Here are all emails from Jack instead.
Want to see when Jack is available for a quick chat? Please schedule a meeting and use the scheduling tool just to see if he’s even in the office today
I didn’t really get it until you listed these. Yeah, I’ve run into every single one of these.
Btw, if you want to see who’s attending a meeting, you can just pretend you want to email them and reply all to the invite. Because of course these are the natural ways to handle these use cases.
VB apps running on IIS is up there; I'm happy to never deal with either again. This was pre-dot-net.
Early 2000s doing tech support in a house-built ticketing+crm system that heavily abused things in JS.
Speaking of tech support, all manner of software mentioned here already.
I spent a ton of time working in healthcare IT and there's all kinds of janky mess there. One was a house-built Perl script to handle certain things. It was like 15k lines (and before you blame Perl, we had a Java class that was over 30k IIRC). Never allowed to rewrite it because of how mission-critical it was, yet there were still bugs with it. Healthcare IT in the US tends to have lots of jank, especially the small clinics that had to start by doing everything they could with what they had.
I don't want to leave my current job, but they make us all use Mac (Apple Silicon) for software engineering and I hate it. Nothing works the way I expect, it's not consistent between apps, certain ML tools we use won't work on it (mostly because not x86 arch), etc.
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