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I had an early morning presentation with a live demo so I took my time preparing it but at the last minute MS Teams decided I can't share my screen. It would just go blank as soon as I click on sharing option. Good thing, I had the presentation in my drive so no problem but had to skip over the demo which definitely put me in an embarrassing state. 
Now I can't decide whether I should blame MS Teams or MacBook (At least this never happened with windows  )
Might just go to the beach now to have my sorrows taken away 
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I woke up with slight headache and body pain. Spoils the entire day 
MehreenTahir wrote: Might just go to the beach now to have my sorrows taken away
You have a beach to change your mood 
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: I woke up with slight headache and body pain. Spoils the entire day
Feel you right there.
Sandeep Mewara wrote: You have a beach to change your mood
Yes! Its about half an hour walk away. Of course we can't get into water as of now but a walk on the beach could be pretty calming as well. 
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MehreenTahir wrote: can't decide whether I should blame MS Teams or MacBook
Always blame Apple if you get the chance
My morning was spent as mornings are best spent, in bed
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Sander Rossel wrote: Always blame Apple if you get the chance
Learnt my lesson the hard way
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I woke at 03:32 to the sounds of the cat using the litter tray.
The day has got better since then.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's Sunday morning, log in my work PC to manually push an artifact on Azure DevOps. (it's over now, so shutdown work PC)
I'm multi tasking by making breakfast (eggs, porchetta,coffee ... )
I'd rather be phishing!
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I hear you. I worked for 12 hours the other day because I got a deadline thrown at me 2 days in advance. I had to hand off what I'm building so that a demonstration could be created for the client. Keep in mind I'm 4000 miles (who knows how many km that is?) away from my fellow creator (an electronics engineer).
Well, I get the code running great on my hardware and deliver first thing in the morning so he has time to prepare. He doesn't get back to me until almost end of business to tell me the touch screen bit isn't working on his end. Well that's one of things we were supposed to demo.
Since I couldn't reproduce the problem on my end I didn't get a fix in until the next morning.
Who to blame? the dodgy touch screen driver by Adafruit? my cohort for not getting back to me? Myself for not anticipating the problem?
Meh. I've found looking for blame is so often a mug's game. Life throws us little plot twists and its our job to navigate them. Mistakes are made sometimes. Hopefully some learning happens in that case. All the rest just follows from there.
Although I'd still blame Microsoft, on principle. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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An hour late getting to the beach (cold here in southern Florida) so the good spot   was gone. Now all I can do is binge youtube for Mean Mary and Post Modern Jukebox
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Volunteered to help clean up the front of our neighborhood yesterday. Big mistake, woefully underestimated the work load. Ended up with 35 large piles of leaves and pine straw.
This morning I had to mow up there, then when I was in the shower, the neighbor who I think has OCD issues and was decorating the front, came knocking on my door looking for me. I, of course, and in the shower now. Wife comes in... "who is this lady...."
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: "who is this lady...."
That's the lady on the door
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Don't know what to think of it!
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Followed closely by, "where were you thinking?"
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Reminds me of that quote from Pogo: "Sometimes I sits and I thinks, and sometimes I just sits."
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I gives me hope that someone else knows who Pogo is, and (presumably) who Walt Kelly is. That is a dying pool
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Yes my friend. I am OLD! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Well I'm not that old (56), and I know who Pogo and Walt Kelly were.
They're much more memorable than any politician on the planet over the last few decades. If that's not a judgement on us all...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hope not...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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No. Every time some tool like this comes out, it's always written by people who, well, think like developers.
What they don't think about is not everyone does, or even can, think like a developer. If you want to use their tools, you still have to think like they do. You're still locked into how they want you to use the tools.
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I very much doubt it.
Learning a computer language has never been the hard part of software engineering. The hard parts have been analysis of the problem, design of the solution, and extreme precision in implementing the solution.
Very few people are capable of taking a client's requirements (usually expressed in vague Marketing term), and turn them into a useful specification for a product. It is immaterial whether the product is software or hardware. A larger set of people is capable of taking a specification and turning it into a design, paying attentions to issues such as complexity, memory and CPU usage, etc. An even larger set of people is capable of taking a design and turning it into code, paying attention to the syntax, code structure, code and data coupling, etc. required for development of a non-trivial program. It is this group of people that "low code" solutions attempt to displace.
The promise of "low code" programming it that the user will specify a set of requirements. and the system will "magically" create an application for them. The problem with "low code" programming is that the "programmers" typically have no idea what to do when their code does not work properly - how to discover what is wrong ("debugging"), and how to correct their specifications so that the "low code" environment will give them the application they need ("programming"). For that matter, very few of them have any idea of the testing required before a non-trivial program is released.
I expect that this will end up like most similar fads in the last decades - a few success stories, and a vast number of failed or flawed applications, hidden from the light of day by their implementers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I agree. At best you're making a higher level language, but it still requires a programmer's mind to operate it effectively.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Most unlikely. I know at least two business people who created Excel spreadsheets where they manually calculated the total fields and typed them in by hand. So every time some value elsewhere was changed they had to go through the same exercise again. When I pointed out that spreadsheets could do automatic totalling they were amazed.
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Judging by some of the questions on this site, absolutely not.
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