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Men r so nonchalant (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/Couplememes@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 111 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I work in tech. No one cares about my updates to the client SDK. It would make for boring dinner conversation and it’s not like there is office gossip…I work from home. Do you want to hear about my chat about updates to the corporate PPT deck to illustrate the new logical flow of connectivity? Because marketing was on that call and they didn’t care either.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't have the luxury of working from home, but def feel this as a tech guy in a no - tech family.

    No one cares about how I found some crusty old code that was not at all optimized that I trimmed an order of magnitude off its run time, nor how I fixed some dumb debugging logic a coworker inserted that caused a race condition once in a while; hell basically no one would understand unless I explained ELI5 style.

    The especially hard part is that the dynamic OP is meme-ing on is the reverse of me and my fiancé (I'm the male and I want to talk, she's the female and wants to forget she even has a job the moment she's out of the office).

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Actually they might (in my experience) be interested enough to listen if you can dumb it down enough: e.g. I found this thing that wasn't very well written and I re-wrote it and now it runs 1,000 times faster. You probably need to ELI5 to manglement anyway, so why not for the family too? Hopefully they'll respond to your enthusiasm if nothing else.

    Your dynamic is perhaps different, but you do have the empathy (or whatever) to know that it's different.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Tell me about that SDK. Which technology do you use? What do you think about the latest supply chain attacks?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Finally someone who gets ME! I maintain the Go SDK and leverage Snyk and GitHub to perform dependency checks. I’m mostly using the standard library but I like feeling like I have someone over my shoulder double checking things. I maintain the things built on top of the SDK as well like the Terraform provider so it’s really nice having the foundation and the building. No one else cares but I rewrote the back off/retry logic this week so folk don’t overload the API. Supply chain attacks are scary. I run as few dependencies as I can without having to reinvent the wheel. I’ve have spent so much time double checking package signing and key security it’s insane.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Oh my god I know exactly what you mean. Even when I'm more of a terraform user. I've been interested in go for a while, but my last boss, who was a giant jerk, wanted me to check it, so I decided to go for rust instead.

    Fick dich, Christian!

    I didn't dive deep yet, because my daily business is Java/Kotlin and C#, but it seems nice.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    I really feel that last statement. Our company has been working on internationalization for years and I've told my management at least 3 times what we have left for the portion of our product. It still hasn't been prioritized and now I'm in meetings about internationalization for the company and it's a waste of my time.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Contribute to any open source software today?

    OSS always gets people hot and bothered.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Everything I do for the company is on the public GitHub and GPLed. Not overly useful to anything other than our product suite but it feels good to have it all open source. I used to contribute to Linux PAM but it’s been a good long time. Nowadays I just submit the random merge request for bug fixes. One day I shall retire and contribute to the networking stack. One day….

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