I just do the javascript.
If you’re trying to build a testing culture where one doesn’t exist, I could see wanting any new hire to be a big testing proponent. Because it’s freaking hard and you have to have a critical mass of people on board.
CICD I dunno unless you’re like Netflix or something where the devs do all their own CICD for features?
The venn diagram of react/js people and CICD experts is 2 circles. If you want a full stack guy put it in the job description. And FFS back end testing importance is about 10x more than front end. The job is for an internal project! Be happy if there’s any tests 
Oh well an internal project fuck that lol. Front-end testing is a huge pain. Definitely not worth it for internal.
For CICD though I was just assuming that the cool kids were all having every dev do it nowadays. Maybe that’s what your company thinks/is trying to pretend they’re doing?
But still - if we were going to have a front-end dev do CICD, I’d rather just train them to do it exactly how we want. I wouldn’t want necessarily want someone who has their own ideas about CICD. Don’t need a dozen special snowflake CICD flows and buildspecs.
Is there anything else about this candidate that you think they might be unconsciously keying on? How long have you worked at this place? Do you understand all the unspoken political BS yet?
Nah its just that the tech lead (principal) has a big hardon for “CICD” and docker in particular. I wanted to ask him how much React applications he’s written himself or how to center a div in CSS but of course dropped it. Pretty infuriating though.
I’ve successfully scheduled a different Zoom session for this Tuesday night. Also was able to transfer all necessary Zoom info into one box on Zoom site, including Meeting I.D.#, Join Meeting link, and password. Then I clicked a link under that box which copied that info to my “clipboard.” A Zoom “Help” bot told me that the clipboard on my computer is where I can cut/copy text or images from one location and paste in other location. To paste the invitation, I click where I want to paste the copied information; then press keyboard shortcut Control V on Windows.
OK, but how do I find and access that “clipboard” on my computer? When I do, will I find that box of Zoom info. already there to cut/copy/paste? If so, how would I paste it as an e-mail to send out through Mozilla Thunderbird? As you noted, this would be the surefire way for me to avoid messing up again by laboriously recopying all those letters and numbers from the Zoom site to a group e-mail.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Trying to teach my Dad to copy and paste - season 12, episode 9. He actually had it for a while, but then he didn’t use it so he lost it.
Hey Dad, the clipboard is just the term that something has been copied and is now ready to paste. One item (some text, file or image) lives in your clipboard at a time.
So when the site copied some text to your “clipboard” for you, it’s like they already did the Control-c part for you. All you have to do is go to wherever you want to paste the text and type Control-v.
If you want to paste the text into an email, first create the email you want to send, then click into the body of the email exactly as if you were going to type in it. You should probably see a blinking cursor. Then type Control-v. Remember to hold down the Control key as you hit the v key.
I think I’ve covered every way he can get mixed up, but he often still finds some new way to get confused that I wasn’t able to imagine.
For example, at first I had “just hit Ctrl-V”. Then I realized Ctrl might confuse him, the capital V might confuse him and even the verb “hit” might confuse him. Now I’m wondering if he knows what the body of an email is, and if there’s some better way I could explain that to him. Somehow at one point he forgot he was supposed to hold the Ctrl key down, and was just hitting Ctrl then C. So I always make sure to remind him of that. This is a very exacting exercise.
It’s crazy how much sites take something for granted a basic working knowledge of stuff like “copy to your clipboard”. Once you remove any baseline of working knowledge it becomes a lot more difficult to explain things to someone.
Shit, now I’m thinking he might actually type out “Control-v”. No, I don’t think he would do that. He knows it’s a two key combo.
Finally found my “clipboard”–something I knew about all along, but not by that name. And there I see the transferred Zoom info–although to show it clear, I must first OK a little tab which states:“OWASP csrf Guard was included from within an unauthorized domain.” Not sure if and how that affects my subsequent failure to get much further, because I can’t OK that when I just highlight the file name for the next step. Up top on the clipboard page I’m given the option to copy the Zoom data to any file, and I choose my Mozilla Portable Thunderbird. Going there after, I can open the file under documents; but then only to make an attachment to an e-mail, not to include it in the body of an e-mail (which I have seen done when I’ve received Zoom invites from others). Finally, sending Test e-mails to myself with that attachment, I discover what comes through is a huge long attachment with the entire Zoom Web page on it, and the relevant info I only want to send scrunched up near the top in a little oblong box. Trying to send the Chrome html to my picture file instead, and pulling an e-mail attachment from that, I still get the same skewed results.
I know there must be a way to do this, but after spending hours trying, I’m about ready to default back to Plan Z and just laboriously transfer the data one letter or digit at a time to the body of a group e-mail, trying like hell this time not to mess it up. The “paste” option is not activated atop the clipboard screen. Right clicking doesn’t seem to get me anywhere with this puppy, nor hitting Control V.
Round 3 and it all falls apart. Way to go Zoom.
Hey Dad, you should be able to highlight (similar to how you make the text turn blue in a document) the text you want to copy from the zoom web page. So you have to click the mouse button, then drag the cursor over the text you want to copy. Once the text is highlighted, then hit Control-c. At that point just the text, not the entire file, should be in your clipboard, You can do this for the web link you want to copy and a password you want to copy (in separate operations) and then paste each into an email using Control-v.
Give that a try and see if it works.
Giving it one more try.
Your principal dev sounds like an idiot.
@Deuce - I dunno but your daughter might get a kick out of this as something cool you can do with programming (he spends a decent amount of time explaining the software).
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Does anyone have any experience/wisdom about hiring freelance web designers? There seem to be a zillion platforms advertising on Google, but I’m struggling to find any objective advice. The priority would be finding someone who is genuinely good over saving money. Also, if anyone is a freelance web designer, slide into my DMs!
What specifically are you looking for? Web design is a pretty broad category.
Sorry, fair point. Interface/UI design for a modestly complicated SaaS application.
Feels weird to make a PR to my own side project but did it for the first time. Some kid has more or less done all of the busy work in the last year on it i.e. dealing with nonsense for free. It does have 600 stars!
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This is the thread were I discover that every ex-online poker player now works in IT. Not sure if I should feel proud that I found my tribe again or just feel sorry for you guys.
I think studying compilers and programming languages in school has helped me a lot. We’re learning go lang on my team and I have been able to pick it up very fast while my teammates seem to be struggling.
Anyone have experience with go lang? Interesting language, seems like something I’m going to need in my career in DevOps. I was focused on bash/python mastery (not quite there with python yet) but go lang seems like the new hotness.
Jmakin, what kind of stuff are you automating?
Infrastructure. Been dabbling in key/secret management lately though (just poc work, they wont give me the keys to the kingdom anytime soon lmao)
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Any experience with hydration scripting? What kind of VM you spinning up in automation, Linux, containers? Most of my experience is with Windows Server but don’t think its very well suited for this kind of automation.
Hydration - is that a windows thing? Sorry no. I am mostly a linux guy that knows mac weirdness pretty well.
I spin up linux vm’s when I need them but a lot of times deal with managed kubernetes clusters, like GKE or EKS clusters.
A lot of my automation has to do with making repeatable actions on these clusters.
It’s funny i was pretty much a noob to terraform and kubernetes before this job but now they feel very much like core skills
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