#coder life

[alectoperdita]

Every engineer loves to hear a combination of "they're our biggest client" and "they're using our product in an edge-case way."

[alectoperdita]

"Sorry, this is not a code problem. Before this test project, I manually pasted and copied 1000 style tags for testing."

i am dying

[alectoperdita]

Hahaha!!! Oh, this will be fun. Manually locking 160+ works by hand because there's no option to lock at the archive-level. Fuck, guess I'm writing a script tonight.

Sigh, this will break my discord notification bot too.

[alectoperdita]

When AO3 keeps chugging along because they own their servers, while the rest of the world on AWS infrastructure (including the product I work on) is limping: 👏👏👏

[alectoperdita]

*goes to order a fandom zine*

*sees that they made the default font a non-standard serif font, including on the payment page*

*facepalms*

god, i beg zine mods everywhere: don’t do this shit. it’s fine in your printed work and even then, like be careful with your print design. doing this on a website where people have to enter personal/payment details correctly? no. just no. you have no idea how much friction you just introduced into your checkout process. like if i could see your cart abandonment numbers i would weep.

just don’t. if you’re lucky, a customer will find it merely annoying/an eyesore. at worst, you just made this entire site inaccessible.

and this is not even touching on the abysmal color contrast used.

[code-is-pain]

*that moment when you delete a single curly bracket and all hell breaks loose*

[yi5h]

Bolt Hackathon Fourth Week

A last-minute custom worksheets feature addition! Dramatic video making! Hackathon submission drama! And some thoughts after dragging my fee

Final week recap (took me a while...)

[yi5h]

Bolt Hackathon - Week 2

I ended up getting distracted by a One-Shot Prompt Challenge Side quest (separate post coming). After getting that (mostly) out of the way I