Tim Fish

Tim Fish

@timfish.dev

Freelance software developer • Maintainer of the @sentry.io SDK for @electronjs.org • ❤️ JavaScript, Node.js, Electron and Rust • https://github.com/timfish

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Our internet went down this morning. I followed our fibre until I found a guy in a JCB who denied any knowledge of how the cables came down 🤣

Smashed half a bag of sweets that I thought were wrapped in rice paper. Wife saw me eat a few and then pointed out they are wrapped in plastic 🤣

I will not buy your car unless I can turn off lane departure and speed warnings with a single button! They're not fit for purpose in much of the world.

I swore I'd never have any home automation because I didn't want to maintain it and I didn't see the point. I take it all back. Today I turned the air conditioning on 4 hours before I got to the house and it was blissful by the time I arrived!

Today we visited the local "snack bar", the closest place to our house that serves alcohol. They sell bottles of beer for €0.80 and a large white wine is €1. There were 3 tractors with ploughs parked out the front

I rescued these frisky frogs from our empty pool and moved them down the road to a pond. He was hanging on through the entire ordeal 😂

Debating on how to get an ethernet cable through a 40-50cm stone wall. If I buy a long enough drill bit will I ever find a mortar path through? How much of a mess am I going to make? I've been putting this off for weeks....

2+ hour queue at border control leaving Portugal for the UK. That is unless you walk to the front waving an EU passport or resident permit in which case there was no queue!

Taking prototype circuit boards in a plastic container through airport security caused a bit of a scene. Apparently it looked like a "classic device". My bag was put aside until a manager came and checked the x-ray and questioned me before anyone would touch it!

You don't need to pay Jony Ive the big bucks to find this out. Just ask any of your customers. Next Jony will be telling us that capacitive touch buttons don't work on steering wheels 🤦‍♂️

If accidental publishing of your sourcemaps would be embarrassing or would expose your IP, you should probably have a test for that!

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I have worked for 11 different software companies over the last 14 years. Each had their own challenges, but the biggest ones were never development speed.

dax@thdxr.com

right now everything in the world is telling you to go faster, ship more, add that feature, start another project so i'm actively working on feeling ok not doing any of that

I have an Electron app that apparently crashes on Linux arm64 so I need to debug this myself. I have both a MacBook and a Windows Surface that are arm64. Apparently people have messed up their Surface by trying to dual boot them. Do I use a VM? On which machine?

The Electron app communicates with USB hardware and that has always been super painful with VMs so I usually like to boot into the OS proper 🤔

We had our house well water tested and the results are in... it's not safe to drink without boiling. Some bacteria levels are too high. Maybe caused by the recent heavy rain and flooding but I guess UVC treatment might be required. Maybe a good idea to call in the experts!

I never pay for extra insurance with rental cars because I have my own yearly policy which covers the excess. I didn't pay enough attention when picking up a rental car today and opted for not paying extra and now I'm reading the documents I see the maximum I would need to pay is €23,000 😱😱😱😱

My yearly policy covers up to €7k so I have a €16k gap. I've already driven the car so I now cannot change the insurance with the rental company or take any extra insurance. I'm stuck with a possible €16k bill hanging over me if I total the car in the next two weeks. Wish me luck!

@tolin.ski loved the @syntax.fm video about your Electron app. Are you using the @sentry/electron SDK? Also, what do you know about international digital sales taxes and how horrible it makes selling apps these days?

Finally got the fibre installed and the usability vs 3G is night and day, especially at peak hours. 1Gbps symetric was only €31/month! Now I just need to get a ladder so I can remove the overhead copper wires the installer couldn't be bothered to remove 🤦🏻‍♂️

Love how Quickbooks accounting software now has AI transaction classification that's useless and they've also messed up manual classification in the process.

I'm working all week on 3G with an antenna up a pole outside until our fibre gets installed next week. Can't even get HSPA+ and AVERAGE latency is 600ms. Might even have to telephone in for meetings 😂

Rather stupidly booked standby tickets not realising it's school holidays so all the flights are full. At this point I've already been at the airport for 12 hours and in 90 minutes I'll know if I'm on the next flight or if I'll be here for another 18 hours 😭 Lesson learned!

This plane gives me 15 minutes of free wifi but I can get another 15 minutes by disabling mac address privacy. Enabling and disabling mac privacy doesn't seem to get me any more time 😔 I can use my other 2 devices to get another hour of free wifi on top of that 🫠

Oh no! I can change the mac address on my macbook and get free wifi forever. Just need to script this now!

Our broadband provider says they can offer 10Gbps but if I upgrade all our networking equipment it's apparently going to cost an extra 2-4 watts PER PORT used vs 2.5Gbps 🤯

I spent half a day trying to work out why I couldn't generate the specific 16bit CRC in some communication examples in a specification document. I emailed the doc author and they told me the document was generated by AI so not to trust the examples 🤦‍♂️

The flight we needed out of Vienna today was overbooked and a hotel for another night was crazy money so we jumped on a train to Bratislava!