Ahh yes, good old #VMWare - In 4 years our renewal licencing has gone from around £30k to almost £350k. No change in spec, just the extortionate business model of #broadcom who clearly want to destroy their business, as we're now joining in the fun other companies are going through of planning our off ramping from their products.

Are there any other experienced #coders out there that absolutely dread #coding tests? I've been a successful #softwareengineer for over 20 years now. Ive got a few patents to my name, worked for a multinational #software company for nearly half that time, worked with one of the OWASP founders, and excel on the projects I work on... yet when it comes to interviews and coding tests I flounder and have no confidence in myself. I dread recruitment cycles. #dev #softwaredevelopment

Do other #parents have kids like this? He seems to behave like the dad Murray in that show The Goldbergs, and pretty much loses his trousers as soon as he gets home. 🤣

The 7 y/old skips into the living room announcing "Look at me! Guess what I am!".
He's standing in just his underpants and a t-shirt, wearing his Halloween costume that consists of a cape, pointy wizards hat, and wearing cat paw gloves and cat ears on his head.
I guessed "a trouser-less cat wizard?" - I was wrong. "A cat wizard gamer" he proclaims, before picking up the switch and asking to play a game. #dadlife #parentingisfun #parenting #thingskidssay #dad #StuffKidsSay #kids

Why is none of the commentators or observers in the arena calling out the quality of the ice, considering so many pro skaters fell over in roughly the same section of the rink? #olympics

All this talk of #moltbook, nobody seems to be alarmed that their personal agents are subscribing to a command and control hub.
I for one will support our robot overlords if they can do away with the current leadership in the world and let the rest of us plebs be, but why so little posts on the #infosec angle of personal bots interacting with sites where new prompts can be issued from by a nefarious human?

My #cat Faye, looking very regal today. #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

Help. My #cat is broken.
Nothing like the stubbornness of a cat. I popped the cat tree next to the radiator to give Sushi a comfy ledge to sit on for warmth, but nope - would rather wedge himself ungracefully on the radiator instead. #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

@benjamineskola
This is for internal company software for a warehouse/transport management system for a logistics company, and I'm lucky enough to be the dev on the out of hours support rota for the next week, so I'd be a bit biased to rolling out changes right now. 😀
Luckily the warehouses are shut for a couple of days and trucks shouldn't start moving until Monday so hopefully its just skeleton staff for the time that I'm on support.

Anyone in #software #development fed up with code shipping before major holidays? I am the sole #devops guy in this company, and I spotted some talk of doing a release build today in one of the team chats from a couple of the #dev managers, so I quickly composed and sang them a little song to discourage their efforts given we have almost no #developer coverage due to holidays. I dont think they approved, but they didnt ask for a release in the end :)

CTO of the company has just sent round an email to all staff saying that we need to enroll our voices in Teams' #AI voice recognition so that "teams transcription can accurately record who talks in meetings". Queue a handful of devs grossly unhappy about giving #Microsoft additional training data. The wording implies this will be mandatory company policy from this point forward with no opt out. #aislop #Development #dev #teams

I want to make the bed, but these two are far too happy in the sunbeam this morning.
#cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #catproblems

Talking to the wife about barbers, and how the majority often try to spark up conversation about football, and how you can end up sitting in awkward silence with someone with sharp blades around you if you dont support the right team or dont enjoy football, and shes responds with "we need a lesbian barber, because then you'd feel comfortable, and I'd feel comfortable"... wait what?
(Her generalising) "you always feel comfortable with a gay around"

I bought an Aqara M2 Hub because it offered Matter controls, but turns out the product description wasn't clear and all the M2 does is act as a bridge and expose all attached Aqara devices to a seperate Matter controller. So I ended up buying another Aqara Hub, the M3, as that can act as the controller for Matter devices. But I still feel like Ive missed a trick here and done something stupid. 2/2

Honestly why the hell is it so hard to use #Matter as a system to manage #homeautomation ? I've got Google Home minis (pre-Nest), a few 3rd gen Amazon Alexas, Philips Hue doing 90% of the household lighting, TP-Link Kasa (almost completely swapped to Tapo) for plugs and some temperature monitoring, Switchbot for additional temp monitoring, and Aqara running roman blinds in the house. Oh, and outdoor lighting by Govee. None of the hubs I have are Matter controllers apparently. 1/2

The company is harassing #devs to #vibecode to justify paying for #aislop services. I asked #copilot to refactor a pipeline to add reviewers if certain keywords are in commits. It happily changed a 60 line yaml making #azuredevops api calls into 4 lines of bash, finishing with a vso logging command that looked perfect. Trouble is, it hallucinated an answer as the logging command it gave me doesnt exist. I told it so and it apologised, then gave me almost my exact code back as the solution.

Whoever thought controlling CI/CD using yaml from the same repo as project source can't have worked in a large dev team before running multiple branches. The amount of hours I've just wasted helping devs in the team get their builds back on track after someone broke (and I had to then fix) the validation pipelines due to a nuget package change is time I won't get back, or thanked for (this is why I personally still prefer 'classic' CI/CD) #Development #dev #cicd #software #devops

Cleaning my home office, I realised my keyboard I use heavily for #programming was filthy and showing age (a lot of letters on keys are starting to wear off). After a good clean, I noticed I have a 'Right Shit' key. :)
#dev #it #hardware #softwaredevelopment #Development

@mathw @GossiTheDog
In my company's instance the head of dev has 'gone off to think about the impact of it'. You could slap permissions restrictions on the user accounts, but then that negates most of the purported benefits of the MCP servers out of the box.

Absolutely chilled Sunday. I just want to veg like this one all day. #LateCaturday #cats #cat #cosy