• glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    15 hours ago

    it’s a nice day out, who wouldn’t want to nap on the roof? I call it multi-functional.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    19·
    17 hours ago

    meanwhile in the b2b world…

    engineer: we have had an experienced technical writer on the team for a year and involved them in every user-facing process, we did six rounds of A/B testing for all documentation and operation, and we’ve produced a manual which basically qualifies for a pullitzer.

    later…

    it’s broken
    is it showing an error?
    idk it’s just broken
    what did you do?
    nothing! it just broke
    how did it break?
    we needed it to go faster so we connected it to the 480V line and then it just broke
    it’s a 12V device…
    yeah it’s an even multiple right?

    i have been on both sides of this exchange.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      8·
      16 hours ago

      At one of my past jobs I wanted to institute a “put a dollar in the jar” rule every time someone made a useless bug report.

      “The site is down” -> dollar in the jar.

      “I’m trying to access the site via the public internet in firefox 136.0.3, and I’m getting a 500 on [request], and then the whole page is blank. Here’s a screenshot.” -> good

      Sometimes people don’t know. Sometimes they don’t care. But if there’s no consequences, people aren’t going to change. And if they’re not going to change, at least we can do a team lunch every week with the jar full of money.

  • KatLS@ohai.social
    171·
    20 hours ago

    @The_Picard_Maneuver If anyone thinks their interface or instructions are idiot proof, I’m the tester for that. My ND brain invents ways to overthink instructions and I can mess things up they think are foolproof. I have a black belt in the fool part. Like this dog here.❤️

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      I love using interns for this type of stuff at work. They are most likely not idiots but still young and dumb to discover issues in my process…

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    20 hours ago

    Me maintaining packages that depend on Java and discovering all the bizarre ways that you can install different versions of Java and have environment variables misconfigured or missing.

  • Una@europe.pub
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Don’t be fooled, there is a car 😺 inside hissing and not allowing god 🐶 to sleep in a house