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grmpyprogrammer

@grmpyprogrammer@phpc.social

Wrote 6 books about testing PHP code. Staff Software Engineer @ Ziff Davis Shopping. Conference speaker, organizer, and first WurstCon sponsor. Baseball fan, Magic the Gathering commander player, board game enthusiast, plus all sorts of other assorted nonsense. Probably started working with PHP before you were born. Endlessly roaming the snowy wilds of Canada.

https://grumpy-learning.com

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preinheimer, to random
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The Brits aren’t okay.

grmpyprogrammer,
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@sarah @preinheimer No, it’s oil, water, egg yolks, and vinegar

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Happy Ferris Bueller Day to those who celebrate

grmpyprogrammer,
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@mrbase It is my all-time favourite movie

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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I have been finding I enjoy the meetings I have with other developers who are at the same level as I am — it allows me to see what other teams are doing and see if they have solutions to problems I come across because it does help if the org as a whole decides on the same approaches.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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I am starting to believe that a lot of tech companies think the product they make is their stock.

jmichaelward, to random
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Car key fobs should be extremely difficult to activate in one’s pocket and arguably remote start should be the only thing that functions beyond like 10 feet. Or the dang things should be configurable.

grmpyprogrammer,
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@jmichaelward So I am gonna be That Guy and point out that this is not a tech issue but a process issue. Setting aside that it was a key fob, whenever you change the battery on a remote don’t you immediately verify that it’s working correctly?

grmpyprogrammer,
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@jmichaelward I am in agreement that what happened to you sucks. My own process for when I change the battery for my key fob is to go out to my vehicle and verify every button works as expected. Is it annoying to do it? It absolutely is even though it is a 30 second walk to my garage.

grmpyprogrammer, to baseball
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First of many to come but MLB banned a player for making hundreds of bets on baseball games while on the injured list.

In every single MLB clubhouse there is a sign that outlines the punishments for betting on baseball games — lifetime bans. That is why Pete Rose will never get in.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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I wonder if I could get rid of my beard and just have a moustache without looking like a white supremecist?

grmpyprogrammer,
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@Daddaniele For a little bit in the early 2000’s I had what I called a “palm tree” — moustache and then thin strip down the middle of my chin

maxalmonte14, to random
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If people are not going to the movies anymore I have a crazy idea, hear me out, what if studios start doing small, well thought-out romantic comedies and dramas instead of the 300 million dollar CGI shit fest we have been getting during the last decade?

grmpyprogrammer,
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@maxalmonte14 @ramsey You are giving them too much credit. They are just copying what worked before because they have no concept of a future for their industry.

grmpyprogrammer,
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@maxalmonte14 @ramsey No, it actually a lot more complicated than that. Check out this video https://youtu.be/m9AvT6mS0xE?si=dgfh3IQa5JFpI75_ — it is about Magic The Gathering content but touches on this issue in film.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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“Black labs are the F150 of dogs”

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Shoutout to @ralphschindler for his mostly-successful attempt at winding me up about ChatGepetto during our engineers meeting

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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It’s yet another Friday. Need anything from me?

maxalmonte14, to random
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Everytime our 15-minute standup meeting goes longer than 15 minutes I want to kill myself, which is every day BTW.

grmpyprogrammer,
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@maxalmonte14 Bro, c’mon.

grmpyprogrammer,
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@maxalmonte14 You never know what might be relevant from a meeting. I’m here to work too and those meetings are opportunities to find out what other folks are working on. Maybe it will impact you later. Shit-posting about meetings is fun too

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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American friends — if your former President is saying that he did nothing wrong, what is the explanation his lawyers gave for the payment that was made to Stormy Daniels? I haven’t followed any of this stuff because I cannot vote in American elections.

grmpyprogrammer,
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@jason Thanks for that

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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I have been on this work project long enough that the answer to “who wrote this brittle code” is almost always me. Brought to you by “I think this is a one line bug fix but I need a test and OMFG who wrote this brittle and coupled code?!?”

derickr, (edited ) to random
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One week ago, I watched "20 Days in Mariupol", a gripping film when Russia started the full scale invasion of Ukraine.

At times, I had to pause watching it as it way too much.

The extraordinary cruelty of targeting civilian infrastructure made it even clearer to me that we're doing way too little to help them. Restricting what the Ukrainians can hit is stupid policy.

Any strike on a civilian target MUST be able to result in an appropriate response. Make the suckers pay for it.

#SlavaUkraina

grmpyprogrammer,
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@sarah @derickr Your own country’s army has committed war crimes for 40 years and faced no consequences, in fact passing a law that says they will invade The Hague if any US soldier ever faced war crime charges.

Other countries see that and now understand how the game is played.

sean, to random
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Plunge deep into full enshittification mode and then ask me about recommending you, 1Password?

grmpyprogrammer,
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@sean I switched all my personal stuff to Apple password stuff and it went smooth across my devices 🤷‍♂️

amici, to Funny
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Been sitting on this #funny golden #programming #meme forever

grmpyprogrammer,
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@raganwald @amici PHP version is accurate. No notes.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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I look older today than my 87yo father does (I have a scab on my nose from wearing a KN95 mask at home to try and avoid infecting everyone else and you can’t see a cold sore that was an early warning of illness).

SecondeJ, to random
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A lot of people* ask me "if you still DJed now Jim, what on earth would it sound like?" Well, I sold my decks earlier this year, so that's never happening again, but Spotify does exist. This is what it would sound like

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6FB00YXHu1K0v5NzXoYikm?si=596f4134de584d93

*just one of my mates

grmpyprogrammer,
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@SecondeJ I disagree — that is an outstanding name

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