I just replied this to the parent comment.

Furthermore even if a card is skimmed these days, at least in the UK, it’s still unlikely transactions would be processed online.

That’s because it’s become so commonplace now for transactions to pop-up in the banks app on the owners phone and they must confirm the transaction and / or receive a code via SMS. Some just use SMS as a means to confirm a transaction.

I guess one vector for attack still remains and that is SIM swapping, but even that is more difficult these days due to widespread awareness from carriers.

Furthermore even if a card is skimmed these days, at least in the UK, it’s still unlikely transactions would be processed online.

That’s because it’s become so commonplace now for transactions to pop-up in the banks app on the owners phone and they must confirm the transaction and / or receive a code via SMS. Some just use SMS as a means to confirm a transaction.

I guess one vector for attack still remains and that is SIM swapping, but even that is more difficult these days due to widespread awareness from carriers.

You’ve seen me write SQL haven’t you.

Then randomly reboots anyway even though you said don’t install updates and reboot.

We use it on Azure, but I don’t always want some files in version control. I might just want things for myself to share across both machines.

Plus I really don’t care what Microsoft is or isn’t tracking on my work machines. If my company is satisfied with us using everything Microsoft then who am I to complain.

For reference on what we use of Microsoft:

• Azure for Git, BlobStorage, hosting, database storage, etc
• Office Suite - never imagined I would work so much on excel as a dev, but every project so far has required reading from or writing to excel.
• Visual Studio Professional
• C# .net and entity framework
• Typescript mainly with React
• Teams
• One drive
• CoPilot integration in Visual Studio Professional, which saves countless hours in writing code, as it learns your standards. It’s like Intellisense on steroids.
• SQL Server Management Studio

There’s probably more that I can’t think of right now. We have an honourable mention of GraphQL as a wrapper for our API.

We have a list of approved software we can install and that isn’t one of them.

Not always an option.

We use windows at work, which is annoying as a software developer, and I WFH three days a week. I need some files available on both machines and cloud is the best option. I’m not about to be taking a flash drive between home and work.

I agree. I mean I am biased as I’m a software dev, but at my company we use Windows so not too much terminal work, but I prefer it, particularly given that the web browser to find things is becoming more difficult with SEO shit.

Who wouldn’t want to type one line to install something vs clicking loads of buttons and downloading a file, then opening the file, then following all the prompts etc.

Even more so if you’re installing Linux then surely you’re more on the tech savvy side or at least e have a desire to be.

What’s wrong with the Terminal? It’s all I used on Mac. I hate the windows command prompt.

Minecraft Java runs awesome on Linux. The only Minecraft version that matters.

So my first role as a developer I’m working on an application that runs various classes for children, the parents sign up but it’s children they’re booking for.

We use reactstrap and there is a package called buttonasync and it has a method of executingChildren, let’s say I was a little confused.

return (
            <Form onSubmit={onSubmit}>
				<FormGroup>
                    <Label htmlFor="name">Name</Label>
                    <Input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" value={props.name} />
                </FormGroup>

				<ButtonAsync type="submit" color="primary" isExecuting={isSaving}
					executingChildren={<><FontAwesomeIcon icon="spinner" spin /> Saving...</>}>
					<FontAwesomeIcon icon="save" /> Save
				</ButtonAsync>
            </Form>

What does it offer that would make it better? Just curious and I’m not in a position to change out tech stack at work though.

I got my first software developer role last year and it was the first time I’d written C#, I was more TypeScript. Now we use both but I must say I really like C# now that I’m used to it.

Ah, just a typo. Or my alter ego almost escaped.

Yeah.

My company starts all new projects from a skeleton of the last project including shared directories of usual functions we’ve created over time.

Isn’t that the idea. Like you know that you had a viable solution to a complex problem previously so why go through the trouble of solving it again if you already did. Even if you have to modify it, it saves time for new novel problems. I’m

Silly. This is how the ‘cat file name’ command work. You type it and the cat spits out the contents.

When you do this using Word online it be like “chill dude we autosave here, we got you” and I’m like “brother I do not trust you”.

Autosave on focus loss dude.

Reminded me that I apparently once painted the TV with nail varnish.

So much this.

I’m in my first professional role and the first project was completed and aside from my boss I was the only other dev. So I was naturally excited for their (clients) feedback on it.

Well fast forward a couple of months where they really didn’t interact with the application much and then came the queries and then not understanding how to use it. Find boss sets aside 10 days for me to write some documentation with screenshots of all the journeys (free of charge).

Again, tumbleweeds. Then all of a sudden it’s boom emails a plenty.

Can you fix this, this is a major bug kinda emails. Like it isn’t a bug, you don’t know how to use it.

Now we are dumbing down the software to make it more align with what the business is used to, which is fine but even my boss has said (as I over think and want to reply to things instantly) that just because they have come to life doesn’t mean we drop everything else to tend to them now.