One of my coworkers tried to pass off a 300MB PDF as acceptable, which was weird. I know people are at different skill levels, but spending 5 mins reading the docs he would realize there’s a compression option. When you turn that on, it turns the PDF to a more reasonable 3MB… Sigh, I still love him, but man, he gets on my nerves sometimes because either intentionally or unintentionally he does the bare minimum while also constantly saying he wants more money. I would never use this against him, though, or mention this to my own manager. Instead, I try to focus my energies in mentoring and setting a good example but frankly some people are worth more energy than others and there’s only so much I can do if he doesn’t want to help himself. But I make it a point to never give up on people. Also, I don’t keep secrets so he knows where he stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He reminded me of another coworker that bounced between teams because nobody wanted him. I guess I was the only dummy willing enough to take him in. I personally value diversity of opinions and skill levels and I don’t regret that decision but it’s been a great learning experience for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news, I thought the construction crew working on my house would be done today, but there’s still a lot of stuff here, so I guess not? I need to text the engineer to see what the deal is. I did give him his last check, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Started the PDF work for Fiber Club. It shouldn’t take long, since the same infrastructure I set up for image uploads can be re-used for PDFs. However, it did cause me to reconsider my UI design for this form. I’m not going to change it now, though. I am behind on things. But I will talk to Liza about it and decide how we want to proceed. I am a little worried that Liza will just concede to changing things (which is ironic because I want to…). I need her to push back a little because while I understand not wanting to release things that we know need work, I also think you get better by learning from your users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of that, one of my hangups with releasing Fiber Club code to open source is that I don’t want to accidentally leak secrets. A bad actor can really abuse things since we use AWS and mistakes can theoretically cost a lot of money. Anyway, I found a nice tool called Aikido which is completely free up to 10 repos, https:\/\/www.aikido.dev\/pricing<\/a>. It would go a long way to ease my concerns about releasing the code. This isn’t very high on my priority list (or at all to be frank), but it’s nice to know such a tool exists. I’ll likely use it at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh yeah, the former president got convicted of a crime. That also happened. Oh god dammit, I forgot to request my Jury Duty time off again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve typed too much. I’ll stop here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my coworkers tried to pass off a 300MB PDF as acceptable, which was weird. I know people are at different skill levels, but spending 5 mins reading the docs he would realize there’s a compression option. When you turn that on, it turns the PDF to a more reasonable 3MB… Sigh, I still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}