• jtrek@startrek.website
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    Sometimes the manual steps grow like weeds. Where I’m at now, they haven’t invested in automation much at all. Now deploys take all day. Making a code change is a sweaty manual regression search process. It’s bad.

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      it’s worse when everything is manual because they don’t “trust scripts” due to them not fully understanding what automation means.

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    3 hours ago

    I know it’s supposed to be a joke how a nerd will spend six hours writing a script to automate a 30second task but… it’s not really funny.

    Working with less-experienced developers, I’m amazed at how slow everything is for them:  No keyboard shortcuts, no automated scripts, just slow, plodding mouse-driven tinkering.

    Automation, shortcuts, and scripting drive your ability to iterate and therefore learn.

    Train your fingers, and spend those hours automating repetitive stuff.  It’s worth it.

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      4 hours ago

      Two Spidermen pointing at each other meme

      I swear we must have started posting at the same time, but adding an alt text to the image cost me 2 minutes apparently. xD