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Jul. 22nd, 2022 12:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWell. I didn't take a year or two to get back to writing in this thing?
In my defense, life hasn't been too terribly exciting. I had a weekend of crappy sleep where for whatever reason I couldn't sleep, couldn't stay asleep, and ended up almost switching night for day entirely but I've managed, mostly, to turn that back around. Work has been particularly interesting this week in a very unwelcome way, but it's mostly working out.
So, when I signed up work was transitioning from one system, which we'll call Old and Busted, to a new system, which we'll call New Hotness because I am nothing if not a product of my time. (I made a supervisor laugh by making test strings, things that are supposed to print out if my code runs, from Sneakers and Jurassic Park references.) This is causing some interesting problems when things get moved from Old and Busted to the New Hotness, and in the past week I have had:
1. Only my code OR the scanner working on New Hotness for one website, but I couldn't have both at once. Which I kind of needed to have in order to tell if my code was fixing the errors kicked up by the scan.
2. Code fixes only applying when I refreshed the page through the scanner, not on its own. (Annoying, but work-aroundable, but still curious.)
3. New Hotness applying my code, but ONLY for my computer. If anyone else looked at it they only saw Old and Busted's code. This is when the test lines came up, I was on a screen share call with the supervisor and explained "okay, if the Old and Busted system shows up it'll print "Mr. Hammond, the phones are working." and if the New Hotness system shows up it'll print "My voice is my passport, verify me."" and it did get a chuckle. But .. well, it helped us figure out what the fuck was going on, which was nice because I was starting to feel like QA thought I couldn't be trusted to fix one (1) heading level. An H1 tag, for those of you who know even a tiny bit of HTML.
And then today I had a QA person ask me for a quick fix on a bug that somehow one of my fixes had caused to break in a different way. Just slacked me out of the blue asking if I could fix it, if it was a quick fix, so she didn't have to reopen the task again. Turned out it was a quick fix but I may have asked her to test it because "I explicitly told its tiny mind" something rather than saying "I added some code to do a thing manually". Bit punchy today.
I think other devs are also running into their own problems with Old and Busted vs New Hotness. It's just all a mess. But at least for now it's a somewhat predictable mess and there's only one bug that we're going "I have no idea what the fuck is going on or where the fuck it's going on, ARGH." What's worse is not all of QA can reproduce it. It's going to drive us bonkers at some point. Tomorrow I will play One Of These Pages Is Not Like The Other and see if I can track it down.
Other than that... IDK. It's been a week of routine medical appointments. Monkeypox has arrived in my local area, and that prompted a televisit with my doctor to talk about vaccines, but mostly at this point what I want to talk about is the HPV vaccine. When it first came out I was too old to get it and then the guidance changed fifty times and all I know is I would like not to get cervical cancer. Or any of the other cancers it's supposed to prevent.
And I'm painting minis. I painted a whole squad of Janissaries with their base coats and then did one as sort of a test soldier to see if I picked good highlights/shadows. I think I rather did? I'm not too sure about the snood hood thing highlight, I think it's a bit too bright white, but overall it turned out pretty cool. So over the weekend I'm going to see if I can do the rest of them and finish that up, because I've also accumulated two fairly large boxes full of terrain stuff. Tools, materials, I've been watching a ton of Youtube on the subject, and in a nice coincidence of timing the Janissaries have really tiny bases unsuitable for setting on a gaming table. So I'm going to be supergluing or pinning them to larger bases, on which I will have practiced Terrain Things. Yesssss.
Things are going pretty well. I feel pretty good. For now, things are okay on the homefront.
In my defense, life hasn't been too terribly exciting. I had a weekend of crappy sleep where for whatever reason I couldn't sleep, couldn't stay asleep, and ended up almost switching night for day entirely but I've managed, mostly, to turn that back around. Work has been particularly interesting this week in a very unwelcome way, but it's mostly working out.
So, when I signed up work was transitioning from one system, which we'll call Old and Busted, to a new system, which we'll call New Hotness because I am nothing if not a product of my time. (I made a supervisor laugh by making test strings, things that are supposed to print out if my code runs, from Sneakers and Jurassic Park references.) This is causing some interesting problems when things get moved from Old and Busted to the New Hotness, and in the past week I have had:
1. Only my code OR the scanner working on New Hotness for one website, but I couldn't have both at once. Which I kind of needed to have in order to tell if my code was fixing the errors kicked up by the scan.
2. Code fixes only applying when I refreshed the page through the scanner, not on its own. (Annoying, but work-aroundable, but still curious.)
3. New Hotness applying my code, but ONLY for my computer. If anyone else looked at it they only saw Old and Busted's code. This is when the test lines came up, I was on a screen share call with the supervisor and explained "okay, if the Old and Busted system shows up it'll print "Mr. Hammond, the phones are working." and if the New Hotness system shows up it'll print "My voice is my passport, verify me."" and it did get a chuckle. But .. well, it helped us figure out what the fuck was going on, which was nice because I was starting to feel like QA thought I couldn't be trusted to fix one (1) heading level. An H1 tag, for those of you who know even a tiny bit of HTML.
And then today I had a QA person ask me for a quick fix on a bug that somehow one of my fixes had caused to break in a different way. Just slacked me out of the blue asking if I could fix it, if it was a quick fix, so she didn't have to reopen the task again. Turned out it was a quick fix but I may have asked her to test it because "I explicitly told its tiny mind" something rather than saying "I added some code to do a thing manually". Bit punchy today.
I think other devs are also running into their own problems with Old and Busted vs New Hotness. It's just all a mess. But at least for now it's a somewhat predictable mess and there's only one bug that we're going "I have no idea what the fuck is going on or where the fuck it's going on, ARGH." What's worse is not all of QA can reproduce it. It's going to drive us bonkers at some point. Tomorrow I will play One Of These Pages Is Not Like The Other and see if I can track it down.
Other than that... IDK. It's been a week of routine medical appointments. Monkeypox has arrived in my local area, and that prompted a televisit with my doctor to talk about vaccines, but mostly at this point what I want to talk about is the HPV vaccine. When it first came out I was too old to get it and then the guidance changed fifty times and all I know is I would like not to get cervical cancer. Or any of the other cancers it's supposed to prevent.
And I'm painting minis. I painted a whole squad of Janissaries with their base coats and then did one as sort of a test soldier to see if I picked good highlights/shadows. I think I rather did? I'm not too sure about the snood hood thing highlight, I think it's a bit too bright white, but overall it turned out pretty cool. So over the weekend I'm going to see if I can do the rest of them and finish that up, because I've also accumulated two fairly large boxes full of terrain stuff. Tools, materials, I've been watching a ton of Youtube on the subject, and in a nice coincidence of timing the Janissaries have really tiny bases unsuitable for setting on a gaming table. So I'm going to be supergluing or pinning them to larger bases, on which I will have practiced Terrain Things. Yesssss.
Things are going pretty well. I feel pretty good. For now, things are okay on the homefront.