@matigo Indeed… The project has been pushing a lot of stuff to be done on the client side that should have been done on the backend in the first place. I have rejected every single one of those requests. You can imagine how frustrated our meetings have been…
This week starts in a great way… Have a meeting at 0830 about the status of the chat feature. I ask a question about the text formatting returned by the backend, and it would seem that it can be either HTML or plain Markdown depending on the chat status (HTML for chat bot, Markdown for agents). When asked if we could get HTML also for the agent messages, the backend provider replied that they probably cannot provide that because the other frontend solutions have parsed the Markdown themselves1.
So, either we would need to add Markdown conversion somewhere or the backend provider would need to provide the texts as HTML. I would not hold my breath for the latter, but this needs to be resolved first before we can go to production with this feature.
A really stupid decision, if you ask me…
8 years ago today I joined the company I work for. Also, yesterday our youngest had his 11th birthday, which means that it is also 11 years ago when I joined App.net and met many of you online.
@matigo I believe she will. I will also read the course notes and learn the language alongside her.
@matigo She just wants to learn the language for fun, she has not desire to become a translator or anything like that. This might set her timetable a bit back, but a year or two should not matter that much.
My wife had the kick-off lecture of her beginner's Japanese course yesterday evening. During the lecture it turned out that she should have taken a couple of other preparatory courses first. This was not clearly communicated in the course description, so she has to postpone her Japanese studies a bit.
Turned out that it was actually my mistake. The notification setup sends the payload as JSON that uses quote marks (”) as the delimiters. Then the data that was supposed to be in one of the fields included quote marks, making the JSON invalid.
// @variablepulserate
Spent the week setting up and testing an automagic notification system for our CI builds to find out that when it is actually used it does not work when it is actually triggered. The CI build reports the notification being sent but it never landed on the receiving side. FFS…
@matigo Well, I wonder who this ”hero” would be so that I could pay them a visit… The infrastructure should make things easier, and this is a great example of things not being easy…
Getting really irritated at work. Our code is hosted on Azure DevOps that seems have intermittent issues with their CI/CD pipeline hosts. The jobs are failing due to the host disconnecting at some point, sometimes it takes only a minute or so while sometimes the job is almost done.
Yes, we know our jobs are not the fastest, but could you just keep the infrastructure up and running so that we don't end up wasting everybody's time by re-running the jobs while keeping our fingers crossed…