I noticed a folder in Outlook called Conversation History that has a log of all my conversations from when we used Skype. It’s a proper treasure trove of banter and funny stories. I’ll definitely be posting some of these conversations in the future.
I found this conversation pretty interesting. It’s from 6th February 2019. I checked the date when I started this blog. 6th February 2019.
The Skype conversation starts off with me pasting in comments from a Code Review. Colin had fixed a minor issue, but hadn’t added a new Unit Test for this scenario. I had flagged him up on it.
I was ranting to a colleague about Colin’s response. Colin had thought I was asking if the existing unit tests have been run, rather than me asking him to write new tests for the new functionality.
Me 13:22: Me unit tests? Colin Not failing oh that's ok then. Just fix a bug and don't cover the missing scenario WHY DO I WORK HERE? Colleague 13:22: Why would you not write one?? Me 13:22: it may fail if you write one Colleague 13:23: Lol Me 13:27: I might write a book on my programming experiences Colleague 13:28: Lol, I'm sure it'd be a bestseller 😛
I think I did consider the idea of starting a blog because I thought I had good stories to tell, and was ranting about stupid things my colleagues did. However, I wasn’t 100% convinced it was a good idea. It seems like my colleagues’ reply was the final motivation for writing about my experiences as a software developer. 2 years on, and I am still enjoying ranting, and feel I have plenty more stories to share.
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