Little long, but not too bad, and I FIGURED SOME SHIT OUT!!!!
Found a couple things that were just calculating wrong.
I figured out why some numbers were right one time, but wrong the next time! (Couldn’t nail that one down last week to save my life.)
If my dev can get the fixes checked in tonight, I may be at a point where I can run through more than 3 tests before finding a problem, LOL. (She works later hours, and I’m sure she’s enjoying the peace and quiet right now without me going “Hey, found something new!”)
Feel like I’ve got my feet solidly under me for all the testing on this app, and that is really making a big difference. From the outside, it may not look like I’m making a lot of progress, but the start of these types of things is always the rough part – once I’m over that first “OK, it all works with this calculation formula” then it’s pretty much off to the races on the rest.
The new and one size larger 3-in-1 jacket got a real world trial with the Starbucks run this morning, cause it’s 28 FREAKIN’ DEGREES OUT THERE. It was warm and comfortable, even over a very substantial hoodie, so, a successful purchase.
The overnight front that came through with all the damn winds at least cleared every cloud from the sky and it is a sharply sunny morning out there, and the LilyMonster approves.
Mmmmmm, sunshine
On the work front, yeeeesh, it’s gonna be a rough two weeks coming up, and I of course thought of a couple more tweaks I need to add to my scenarios – but the good part is that for the two I have setup already, I can just add to what’s already there, I don’t have to trash everything and start over. And, I thought of a better way to do the initial validation in my test spreadsheets, so that’s good, too.
But it also means I’m gonna work today – but, if I can get through one full test run for one calculation formula today, then I can use that template for everything else, and make life a little easier, and honestly, that will be worth it, as much as I’d just rather not.
And I’ll be perfectly honest – this particular app, I LIKE testing on it! It’s like a puzzle, but one where I know exactly where all the pieces are supposed to go, and when one doesn’t fit, I can see it right away. Now, figuring out WHY it doesn’t fit – that can be kinda hard, but it’s a…fun challenge? I know I like it better than new features where I have no fucking idea where the pieces are supposed to go in the first place, LOL.
But, in a nod to it being the weekend, I’m bringing my laptop downstairs and we’ll be working with spring training baseball on in the background.
And on that note, I’ve got a bigassed cold brew at my side, a very sunny room, and it’s time to change laptops and engage in my bad work habit of “Oh yeah, you screwed shit up, fine, I’ll do my job twice as well as I already do!” LOL. Retirement cannot come around soon enough.
You have a lovely Sunday, and don’t be like me, avoid work!
And I didn’t tell anyone to piss off at work yesterday! Even when someone called a 4PM meeting! But the meeting was good, cause we were able to tell a rather vexed client that we have a solution to their angst.
I will say, I am in between a damn rock and a hard place for the next two weeks – nothing BAD by any means, just…oof, it’s gonna be kinda ugly. In the next 10 days, I need to have all my app testing done for our newest version. But, I also know we’re gonna have one more feature dumped in to boot.
Thing is, it’s not like the testing and fixing will stop after 3/31 – I can (and will) test and retest and retest right up until we release this new version – this is part of why I’m making this comprehensive testbed that I can re-use over and over for this one particular app. And, I’ve wanted to do something like this for freakin’ AGES vs just “setup for the problem at hand” and just never had the time to do it.
And it’s not like I’m only just starting on the new version testing – we’ve been working on it for ages – but I’ve been constantly having to go back and work on the current version and boy howdy has that just sucked up time. Every week for the last three months, I’ve sat down and said, “THIS IS THE WEEK I KNOCK OUT THE NEW VERSION TESTING!” And…something in the current version goes sideways and that is where I have to focus my time and now I have a buttload of new version testing to plow through. The trick is gonna be “can I be left the fuck alone to just work on this one thing”?
And not a moment too soon, cause people are trying my last damn nerve. But I have tried my best to stir shit up at work, probably to no avail, but should it all hit the fan, I swear to god, I will be very I FUCKIN’ TOLD Y’ALL, I FUCKIN’ TOLD Y’ALL.
When the choice is between “narrow scope to meet an artificial deadline” and “go get more time to do the thing well” – the answer isn’t narrow scope. IT. JUST. ISN’T.
I’m in the process of setting up a new COMPREHENSIVE testbed to test my shit on this version so I can hit as many things as I humanly can at once and NOT narrow scope on this current testing round. Team lead’s “tell me how you spent your time” micromanaging shit be damned.
Welp, I’m gonna go fuck shit up. You have a great day and don’t compromise your principles if at all possible.
Get in and discover that on Thursday night, after I logged off for the weekend, I was assigned a 20 hour bug. Due Wednesday. On top of what I’m already doing that is due Wednesday.
Found a different problem last Wednesday, fixed checked in Thursday, warned team about said bug and to be aware of it – still broken this morning. Which means no one looked at it Friday or Monday-other-side-of-the-world-time, despite the fact that it should have been on everyone’s test list.
Dev fixes issue, I put in a ticket to get a build run – no one who usually does it is at work today. Another person volunteers, thank gawd. Except they just ran the deployment, but didn’t run the build first to capture the new code. There were definitely a few moments of “why is this still broken?” before I realized what happened. The build is running again now.
Client meeting. Now lunch. Another client meeting after that and I have zero idea what they actually want and I am praying I can just be quiet in the background.
Then back to the thing I was trying to test when I logged on 7 hours ago.
And the cherry on the sundae is that something I ate yesterday is making my stomach somewhat unhappy.
I will not be cutting my lunch short today, cause that sure as shit ain’t gonna shorten my day.
DST kicked in. It will be great tonight, I know it. At 6AM it is not.
Even that cat is all WTF, it is still dark.
I went to bed early two nights running. It did not help.
I forgot to turn on my sunrise alarm last night.
I did not fix the time on the thermostat yesterday.
I did not put in for today off last fall as I usually do. I DON’T KNOW WHY.
Oh, and it is the 3 year anniversary of Plague Friday.
And today I guess we start to see the full fallout from Silicon Valley Bank. The UK arm has already been sold off to HSBC. US pre-markets show a positive implied open – maybe that is a sign this shit will get sorted quickly. The last thing we need is for this to seize up the credit markets.
We also see that Tim Davie is an idiot, but we knew that since last week – at least he’s realizing he’s a dumbass. Glad to see Lineker’s colleagues stood up for him. Tim, a protip: Your employees are allowed to have opinions, especially when they’re calling out the government for being fascists. BBC needs to get their shit together.
And there is now a wee bit of light out there and on that note, it is time to go slog through the day.
I know everyone has a different day that the pandemic became front and center for them, but ours is Friday, March 13, and 3 years ago today was the last semi-normal-ish day we had. Little did I know I’d be watching the biggest public policy failure in my lifetime other than the AIDS crisis, and in real time.
I will never stop being angry about it. Between TFG’s admin pretending it didn’t exist – no testing, no cases! – and Biden’s fucked up pivot to “personal responsibility” via vaccines, knowing full well they didn’t prevent transmission, but hey, everyone needs to STFU and GBTW. They ALL threw us all under the fucking bus for capitalism.
1.1 million people died – 1,800 IN THIS PAST WEEK – and some folks have the fucking audacity to say the pandemic is over and that we somehow overreacted. These are the same people that can’t figure out why we have a damn labor shortage. Hint: The 1.1 million people that died weren’t all outside the workforce, but if you ask these assholes, it was certainly all old and disabled people who didn’t really matter anyway. Fucking ghouls.
And supposedly our county is down in the “moderate” transmission range, but we’re only testing ~600 people a day in a county with over a million people in it, because no one is reporting home test results, and proper surveillance testing was never a thing here. So, who fucking knows what our actual situation is here. Is it reasonably safe to go have a nice dinner somewhere? Who knows!
I know we were never going the Covid-zero route that China tried, but FFS, we couldn’t even hit a happy medium between that and “appease the right wingers and billionaires at any cost.”
It never had to be like this, and I will never forget and never forgive.
Yes, I gave the Roomba a name. It may get googly eyes at some point, too. I let it charge up overnight and sent it off on a 45 minute journey this morning and damn if this isn’t the cleverest household helper I’ve seen in a while.
There were a couple points where it got into kinda tight spaces that I thought I may have to rescue it, but nope, it just did some multi-point turns and found its way out again. I think I’ll need to take a little time to flatten out some of the creases in the area rugs in the parlor (they came folded up) cause I could see Iggy pause and try to figure out if it was going over a threshold or not, but that is easy enough,
When it finished up it’s 45 minutes, it was on the far side of the house from the base and found its way back like it was nothing. (Yes, I followed it, LOL.) I know it’s internal mapping and GPS and whatnot, but it’s very magical to me. SO COOL!
And it’s really quiet, too! The only time it’s as loud as my regular vacuum is when it goes back to the base to empty itself out. Even Lily wasn’t particularly bothered by it – cautious and curious, but no “oh shit, vacuum!” reaction at all.
It hit about 3/4 of the downstairs in the first run – and I’ve discovered it can do a pure “mapping run” and I just kicked one off to see if it can find the rest of the floors.
Look at him go!
Seriously, I have wanted one of these for such a long time, and I’m so happy I’ve gotten the house to a point where a Roomba can actually do the job, and it’s just so neat!
So, I went to the garden center, grabbed a cardboard box for my stuff, snagged my pots, and put the box on the floor to look at pot saucers. And one of the shop kitties came over because, box, and I sat down on the floor to scratch his ears while he mashed his face all over the box corners, and next thing I know, he was in my lap.
He is a sweet, delightful, chonker of a tuxedo cat, and stayed in my lap for a good twenty minutes. (Good thing we were off in a corner and there weren’t many other customers today, LOL.) I’d seen him before, but either sleeping or doing Important Cat Things.
Musings of a marginally sane feline-appreciating female. 