I got my tubes tied. (It was a LONG hunt before I found a doc that would do it.) I’m fortunate periods don’t bother me a whole lot, so the risk of vaginal prolapse doesn’t seem worth it at this time. But I may in the future.

They do not typically give local anesthesia for implants (at least IUD) in the US. I hear it is common outside of the US.

I did the whole thing white knuckled. Both insertion and extraction.

Mine was trying to expel itself and it was so painful I was apparently “ashy colored” according to colleagues and sweating due to aforementioned pain. The cramping was about as bad as labor pain.

The string was wrapped around the device and wasn’t accessible from outside of the cervix, so the doctor had to dig it out with forceps (?)

At least after it was out, certain symptoms I had for years disappeared… So yay for that!

It turns out that level of pain is not normal. Oops.

My friends told me I should try the arm implant. After the rotten luck I’ve had with hormonal birth control, no thanks!

Herbs? Like, leaves from plants? 🤮

I was told about a bug in a specific tool. It was being used in production. Apparently we’ve gotten a lot of complaints about it over the years, and they would complain if the site was actively used it always failed.

I couldn’t find it in the development branch in source control.

I asked if this tool was purchased from a third party. My boss, who was not a developer, said no. And he was very sure of that. But he didn’t know where the code was.

I was the developer with the most seniority, and I was there for less than a year at this point.

I looked again. I finally found it… In an unapproved pull request from a few years prior.

The meat of this tool basically took information to make an order and create an order in the system.

Any time we needed to insert a record, it would find the highest Id in the table, increment 1, and insert the new record, id and all. It did this for every entity that needed to be inserted. Address, customer… Everything.

Worse, very little validation was done. Want to order something but it’s out of stock? No problem, this tool just pushed it right through.

Want to ship something using a shipping method that doesn’t exist? You got it.

Want to ship something to an address that doesn’t exist? Sounds like the warehouse’s problem.

Knowing about the level of knowledge here, you know that there were no transactions. All sorts of unused records were left in the database when there was an error. The users would get a generic error and try again several times, too.

The worst part was, we have an already existing function that would take order information and try to make an order. And it would give you actionable errors!

Unless the school that has the software dev program forces all their teachers to use this stuff…

Roz could get it

Tar, ash, and plant resins

Ah, so they can show off their boo-bs.

I worked with someone that I later found out used AI to code her stuff. She knew how to code some, but didn’t understand a lot of fundamentals.

Turns out, she would have AI write most of it, tweak it to work with her test cases, and call it good.

Half of my time was spent fixing her code, and when she was fired, our customer complaints went way down.

I knew people from bigger cities that had metal detectors in the mid-aughts. I think they’re wider spread now, but I don’t know much about schools now. Not sure about X-ray machines, never heard about those in a school.

In the sticks, we don’t have any of the machines. The textbooks are usually older than the pupils too and a lot of the stuff is in poor repair, so it may be an issue of funding.

Break things… Just not the things that affect me!

Ooh la la

I hear that’s what the Internet is for