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Just made a very strong pot of coffee and had some left over cheesecake slice.
Decadent afternoon before my day off. They are deploying a fix to one of my bugs as well so need some caffeine kick before retesting.
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September 24, 2026 at 1:43 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Raised my first official critical bug. Technically that is the second.. I noticed another one and someone else raised it.
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September 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
The Feature that were supposed to start testing today was not properly done. They only updated the tables and not the data. The get out for the Dev was that backlog stated only information on the tables and no mention of the running a script to update the data.
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September 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
This morning is turning into a bit of Cntrl X, Cntrl V day.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
My old brain is but numbed from checking the same doc for numerous variations. Good thing did find a couple of clanging issue: which the BA said rhey need to fix.
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August 11, 2026 at 3:59 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
I sent a team message to someone I don't work with. It was simple query about something and I said if you are not the person who can help me with this do you know anyone..dah..dee...dah. That was about 11:45. No reply. If this was me I would get back asap.
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February 26, 2026 at 2:23 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
We were supposed to start our 'testing' today. No environment. Also still have no word on getting access to the database when the environment is there.

Did I say I am on 3 day week this week.

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February 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Crikey getting access to any VM machines/ data bases you have go through a bureaucracy that would make the Vogons cry.

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January 28, 2026 at 10:10 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Well that was a reasonable 1-1. LM is an upbeat kinda guy. Barring the client making any crazy strategic changes (ie dumping us) I am going to be one busy person this year...I am up for a Senior role and just need to 'cross them T's and dot the i s"
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January 13, 2026 at 3:13 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Finally having my annual 1-1 today with my LM ( That's if he isn't dragged off for one of those project crisis meetings). I have half an hour to reflect on what happened last year ( a lot of What The F-) and explain what I want do this year, then not doing it cos I'm busy.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:53 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Fookin' love it when comps spend wads on test management tools and then everyone uses spreadsheets cuz no one has told people how to use said tool correctly. been seconded to a team that no fault of their own has had to do this because of the utter mess of the backlogs.

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static.klipy.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Why is that most software development projects default setting is "Crisis Mode". Asking for a friend.
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April 13, 2026 at 8:24 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
On Monday I am so looking forward to dropping a showstopper crit 1 bug, which will then block all our testing. Thene sit back and watch cats and pigeons....

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February 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Another week of us waiting to get a hold of technical solution document that will tell how this thing works, that has not been built yet, while there is no environment or developers, that we are supposed to be writing tests for.

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January 12, 2026 at 7:58 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Fed up o'clock. The person who was supposed to be sorting out my access has gone radio silent on me & not replying to any polite asks for an update. I have another name that I can reach out to, and through the whole rigmarole of explaining what I want for the 4th time. Joy.
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August 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
I am in the process of trying to get access to something and I am now being bounced from one person to next. Everytime I go to the next person I have tell the whole story again. The joys of working in IT/Software in 2026, it's akin to a knight on mediaeval quest.
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July 24, 2026 at 12:42 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Ahh nothing like the smell of freshly raised critical 1 bug raised. That will certainly wake up the defect manager.
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February 17, 2026 at 1:54 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
This project I am on had all the feels of "last minute dot com' written all over it. Supposed to release this feature by the end of March-no sign of any dev's being assigned to do anything either. I still have no access to the databases either...going to be a wild ride.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:29 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
I feel such a fancy pants. I have just written "don't be afraid to fail" in my PDP doc. I also added a smiley at the end of that. Wonder if my LM will appreciate that. I am about to find out when I send it over now.

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February 2, 2026 at 11:03 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Dev Ops is a process not a job title.

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February 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Nothing like trying to come with stuff to put in your Personal Development Plan for upcoming year. Knowing that the project you are working on is going to derail the majority of it.

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January 19, 2026 at 9:54 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Heard today that this client does not have any mechanism that alerts them that any of their public APIs have stopped working. How they find out is when one of their customers tells them something isn't working...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
I have just told a teams chat that the word "Should" be banned from Requirements- I am hoping things will kick off.

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January 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Morning Monday People.
I am full of the New Year optimism for the next part of the project I am on. I bet that will get knocked out of me by 11am.

Our team is now just called 'Data' which of course opens up a lot of interesting challenges....
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January 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM
brimcrob.bsky.social
Good Morning. Going to be an interesting week, there is sure to be some fall out from the "big bang" that happened over the weekend. I am about to log in and see what emails have been sent. Was told last week that we will be part of the "support team" whatever that means.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM