Jussi's 10Centuries Playground

Today is the Independence Day here in Finland. That means a couple of things:

1. The majority of Finns will be watching the TV broadcast of the Independence Day ball hosted by the president and judging the dresses the guests are wearing¹, and
2. There will be demonstrations and marches in Helsinki assembled by various groups, including far-right nationalists (from whom the police confiscated Nazi flags [yle.fi])² and far-left anarchists.

Of course, there are other ”traditions” that will some people just have to follow. I personally could not care less about those things.

1. I will roll my eyes so hard that it will make the Earth reverse its spinning direction.

2. Insert another eye-roll here.

Doing small changes that are not technically that difficult but that will delight¹ the end users makes me happy, especially after all that shit I had to bear last week.

1. I know, the word has become annoying. It annoys me too, but there is no better word to be used here.

It’s not fun to start your day at the dentist. This time it was a planned dental check, so no drilling or anything like that. But I need to go again in a month to get those small issues fixed.

@matigo Yeah… I am willing to admit that I fucked up. The follow-up meeting was all about quality assurance and the workflow process. As if those could have saved this thing as the mistake was introduced by the lack of documentation from where I could have checked if the parameter I was about to remove was needed or not.

Fucked up a major feature in the app when I fixed one part of it. Now the customer is in total panic mode, even though I have fixed the issue and the new version is being rolled out to the users. Yay.

The root cause for this problem was that I removed one parameter from a message that is sent to the backend because that was no longer needed by that one part of the feature. Apparently it is indeed needed for the other part of the feature, hence, this major problem.

@matigo But I don’t a padlock between me and my data! ?

Support for SOAP over HTTP is deprecated, but it is still available over HTTPS.

Why should I use REST when there is SOAP available? ?

It has been cold for about a week but we haven’t gotten snow until now. The cold air also means that the sea has cooled a lot and the grass and tree branches form pretty nice ice art.

What a beautiful view from our living room…

@matigo Yep. I had to debug the issue with a developer of the feature who noticed that the documentation was wrong. No wonder the app was not behaving correctly.