Another day, another struggle with time zones.

How many fucking helper methods do I need to create for dates and time zones? How many components, pipes and services do I need to wrap just so two datetimes line up? Apparently another one today. At this point I'm ready to accept flat earth theory if it means no more time zones. I'm fucking sold on it if so.

It's not even the time zone that's the issue. It's business needing it formatted, but also offset properly, based on your browser locale, but with points that cross into DST observing time zones of a different locale simultaneously. Sometimes those times are the same, sometimes they're different, sometimes they're different but only in winter. And despite a plethora of libraries to help with these calculations, nothing ever seems to just work out of the box. So here's to another layer of abstraction, because time zones (and DST) are bullshit.

What's a fun habit you do as a developer?

When I'm introduced to a new codebase I like to string search curse words and slurs. Bonus points when I get more than 10 hits or at least 1 slur.

i said "damn this thing is huge" when gazing at a 3k LOC file and not a single person at work clapped back with "thats what she said"

am I just old fashioned?

Docker containers are actually awful garbage that should never have seen the light of day.