all the senior leadership is acting so cold...

i didn't think it was such a big problem until they started talking about like "compensating for missed revenue goals"...

They can live with it, honestly. I doubt it's as big a deal as they're making it seem.

How are you doing though?

i'm just totally overwhelmed

thx for asking 🙂

i don't really know what's going on with everyone else...

the progress update meetings are so tense.....

PM is holding it together but pretty stressed and feeling kind of in the dark.

pissed?

Yeah, sort of

What happened, exactly?

i only found the right commit this morning

i mean yesterday morning

the bug I wrote was in tje file parser

when it processed the group files, instead of appending to the individual data, it overwrote it...

Oh fuck... okay, so you're missing like several months of data?

yeah...

Why can't you just download it from the API?

it hit the rate limit once we pulled a few dozen records and it blocked us for a whole hour

we did the math

pulling all the records we need, pausing for an hour after every few dozen, would take 3 months...

we have 2 weeks..

i really don't know what to do

can u help me?

sorry

Yeah, I will

I talked to PM. Let's join a group chat

Hang on, I'll send you a link

thank u

irc://root.er:6660/conspiracy

Sorry to see you go.

Thanks. And sorry, I guess lol

Actually, yeah, genuinely sorry about being extra annoying near the end there

It's fine. Not much more annoying than usual.

Lol thanks

Slightly disconcerting to find out I was equally annoying before and after I stopped giving a fuck

Sorry, I was joking.

I definitely noticed when you stopped caring about work.

And I was pretty glad that you noticed it too, and decided to solve it.

Yeah, that's the jist of it. I stopped being able to self-motivate, became more distractable... to me, those are the signs that it's time to move on

You are probably right.

I do miss having someone who knows the system well though.

The new dev is coming along, but slowly.

Give it time. JD is clever and dedicated

I hope you are right.

Hey

Everything okay? JD seems really frazzled

Hi, sorry. I've been putting out fires and writing so many status updates that I really didn't have the energy to do it again.

No no, no problem

I was just trying to figure out if it was fallout from something I did

Or forgot to do

I think I know what's going on though

Oh? Was it something you forgot to do?

No

I found a group chat server, if you want to talk about it with JD and I

Can't this app do group chats?

It can

But I'm not really comfortable talking freely in a corporate app

Ominous....

irc://root.er:6660/conspiracy

When you're missing a comma in a list of strings, python concatenates the strings

It's still an array, but it has length == intendedLength - numberOfMissingCommas

woooooow

lol

thats dumb af

ok I caught that bug

thx

did u find that out the hard way?

Yeah obv

That little nugget cost me almost 2 hours

Lol

get a linter u loser

I mean, I have one now

This was when I was a baby dev

Also, fuck you, you just had the same damn bug lol

yeh

but Im working on my own shit lol

u were wage slaving

and I can just ask someone and save 2 hrs ;)

wish Id done this in lisp tho

Why didn't you?

all the rpi apis are python

Im using some adafruit hats

theyall come with python libs

Right, yeah

Oh

I need a favour

yeh?

There's kind of a thing at work

I mean, my old job

yeh? u finally wanna burn it to the ground?

No lol

We might need your help. Some of my old coworkers

union??

Of tech workers? In Canada? Alas, no

To start, we definitely need a server to talk on

Freenode is fucked, so I wanted to ask if I could use yours

yeh sure

gimme there ips so i can whitelist

One of them doesn't know a lot about tech

Could you just whitelist everyone until they join, and then tighten the whitelist once they've connected?

i guess.. sure

u still have the address?

Yeah yeah