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Cake day: July 30th, 2026

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  • Fun story: I’m an electronics engineer and have been working as a manufacturing engineer for the last 15 years. The company I’m with right now is basically forced me into software development. I learned c++ and python in school but never really did much with them professionally, work on a bunch of side projects at home but software development has never been a part of my career until the last year and a half. I’ve been asked to start developing production tests and other production applications in our electronics assembly department. Mostly this is creating small python applications that program and test pcbas, nothing large maybe a half a dozen files and a couple thousand lines of code. But now they’ve asked me to start developing an integration with our erp and they want it to real time push production data from each bench, operator scans a PCB loads it into a jig presses a button it gets programmed and tested, “my” software reads the erp and pushes all of this information back into the erp slowly moving jobs forward eventually closing them out as operators hit counts. My new manufacturing execution software was written entirely with cloud code and is now two dozen files and almost 100,000 lines of code. No one at work cares. But it all works, we haven’t found any real problems yet. I’ve been encountering bugs as operators use the mes but it’s dumb stuff like not understanding operator behavior and trying to code around that, ie I didn’t log out I didn’t scan a unit I forgot to do x y or z… I am both incredibly impressed and insanely worried. This new system changes money in our erp, and no one who actually knows software development has ever looked at this ever.






  • I just don’t understand why I keep seeing articles like this. “Dumb fat fuck shits himself and says something stupid!!” I remember when he started his campaign before his first term, I was just fucking blown away by how much news coverage he got. Its the only reason he won. He was on every single news feed on every single channel 24/7 for free.

    I get that he’s president of the United States, but please for the love of God can we stop making every single bit of diarrhea that falls out of his grotesque gaping mouth a news article!?!?!? I am sick to fucking death of this shit.











  • It is the VERY CONCEPT of technical debt! Shortcut after shortcut shortcut… The company is literally shortcuts all the way down. No left at the company even knows how to work the erp properly. Because the person who set it up and customized it didn’t document or train anyone and then left… Technical debt. How about the mountain of product SKUs that were forced out the door never properly tested, filled with bugs and zero documentation… Left of the next guy… Technical debt. What about all those products not having real assembly or test documents and there being a literal single guy that knows how to test and program everything? No way to pass that info on besides a mountain of manufacturing engineering work? Technical debt.

    What are you talking about dude!?!? Lolol.