RIP QA engineers

In Europe this would have been a completely different story. It's highly unlikely (compared to the US) that a SWAT team equivalent would kill anyone. The guy could have got away with 5-7 years max. I know it's a museum, but I prefer to live here.

I'm still on Pixel 2XL. The battery is not that good anymore but has no issues with the phone. I'd definitely not spend 1k on a phone. A Pixel 7 Pro is now a much better deal.

Oh, man, can't wait to send it to the UI team who write dead slow React apps. JS is blazing fast. Especially if written well.

I've never seen anything like this before. They've got 8 showrooms in the Netherlands, so it's not even a small company. This is the translated message on their website:

"Dear visitor, Thank you for your interest in our organization. From our belief we keep Sunday as a day of rest in honor of our Creator. For this reason, all our business activities are shut down on Sundays. We hope for your understanding and are happy to welcome you on our site or in our showrooms on the other days of the week."

Awesome! I've added this to CJS Chrome extension and randomly (2%) it will throw me to the site. So during the day I'll do some breathwork to manage stress and get into focus.

I recently bought at a physical store of a large chain an "open box", unused HP LaserJet printer. I asked why it was returned, they said the buyers could not activate it. I was like "okay, lol, I'm a sw engineer, it would take 30 seconds to do that". I bought it and spend like 2-3 hours installing-uninstalling HP's crap software just to make it work. The quality of the prints are great and it works fine now but I'll never buy a HP ever again. I just want to plug it in and print. If I need additional settings, I'll install the related HP software but forcing it is very bad. Also still has not figured it out how to connect it to the WiFi so I use USB...