"Hammers Head Into "Decline To Self-Identify""

"Hammers head into "Decline to Self-Identify""

I COULD answer "Male" because I am not trans ( Partners are though) and I will NEVER do so when any version of "Fuck off, that is no business of yours" option exists.

There is 2 things a company can do with that information. Nothing, and illegal discrimination things.

And I will do my own small part to make the information as useless as possible. Otherwise "Decline to identify" easily becomes the "Trans people out yourself so we can discriminate against you" button

Folks, it has happened again on another job I applied for.

I am so happy for you! Congratulations! I hope it will be an awesome place to work!!!

Here is a good tip for whenever you join a new company, no matter which number of job it is for you

Write down things you wished to had when you started. List of Libraries to download, instructions, tutorials in how to do things, set up ID. Virtual machines...Whatever.

And then offer to your supervisor after some months that you spend a few work-hours making those ressources.

From then on, make it a task of every new hire to update this packet.

That way it comes easier and easier to be a newly hired person at this company.

This trick takes advantage of the fact that YOU are right now the best and most experienced in the company at "Being the newly hired person", and so are by far the most competent to do this.

First day at new job!

Monday 8th January 2024

OMG today was the best! The new job’s office (not in the picture background, I'm at the doctor's there...) has so many cool chill people in it, so far I wanna stay here forever!

Had induction meetings, and a tour around the office, everything was so cool! Another 2 people joined so I wasn’t entirely nervous thinking I’m the only one who would be confused on the whole onboarding process. Work’s in an old-like building with a Grunge aesthetic vibe going on, absolutely love it! And music plays in the background which is so much better than the old job which was in complete silence 🤐

I'm just super excited to start working on the project + the team seem, and are, super friendly and helpful! Thank God for a smooth process getting here, yay!

New Years Resolutions #3: Work hard and do well in new job!

And code coverage is not at 100% ( Making it useless) and the company says there is no time for making automated tests because we are too busy fixing all the constant bugs

This is freaking amazing. And I think you are making good choices in simply cutting away what is not working so you can make your deadline.

I am still curious though.

Power banks are freaking temperamental little bitches ( There is NO standard for when they should give charge, other than the vague " When a phone is connected" ). How did the environmental sensor not like it?

And did the programmable RGB have a datasheet to explain the logic of how to address LEDs?

And would it be possible to adjust the addressable LEDs by powering them with a PWM signal? ( IE, is it powered by 5V? )

Servo skull integration is underway!

I have run a few tests and the core functionality seems to be working fine - so I can press the button and it'll take a picture with the camera embedded in the left eye socket, briefly illuminating an led that's in the right eye socket and playing a buzzer briefly.

The green led turns on when the program I wrote is running, and if it's connected to a network the orange led will also turn on(so I can tell whether it's accessible to get the pictures off of it)

So it should be all good for MCM London on Saturday at this rate, just need to check that the cranial casing for the left hand side won't affect the picture too much

Had to remove the environment sensor as it didn't like that it was being powered from a power bank - so no temperature alert when it gets too hot for me(It was going to light up the remed if the temperature got above 30°)

Also had to take off the programmable RGB array, as whoever wired that integrated circuit was clearly on a great many things when they designed it - Trying to just access specified lights was madness. The first led was accessed through (0,1) whilst the 2nd was (1,1) and the third (6,0). And having all of them on made it looks like the skull was about to self-destruct with how bright they are

Stop teaching top down!!!

So I am trying to learn GoDot because... Well, a game engine can make games, sure... but it can also do a lot of other things when you realize it really is just a GUI renderererer (help! How do you stop spelling renderererererer???) + physics engine. Anywho, so I started following the "official tutorial" (In quotes because I am honestly not sure... It is a big open source project so it can get muddy). And... Once again I am faced with a tutorial that teaches me the larger constructions and the orgenization before telling me anything about how the smaller bits work... This is called top down teaching. And it works, WHEN (And ONLY when), the person you are teaching, are already familiar with what the smaller things can do. It can work when teaching someone who already knows object oriented programming, functional programming. They already know how functions, variables, processes and code execution works. It does NOT work when people haven't gotten the faintest idea of what these boxes and structures you are describing are. We do not teach kids algebra before they know division and multiplication. When writing tutorials like this you cannot write for everyone. You have to go with assumptions of the majority. And it is not a great idea to assume that the majority of the people who tries to learn GoDot are veterans of game development. Sure, your tutorial will be slightly better for veterans, but you have just made sure that newbies have an even harder time starting learning your engine... Whenever I start feeling like I have a solid grasp on this, I will start a tutorial on this... BOTTOM UP!

OMG I LOVE IT!

What is the dumbest thing you have coded and gotten to work?

a discord bot in my friend group server where it would scold people if they swore XD

An example hehe