How much did I write in Sam’s Wasteland Within yesterday [This will be a bit of a ramble]:
I’ve been struggle to write more than a sentence for a bit. it has caused the rewrite to be a crawl which annoys me. So I set a goal on Monday to finish the first page of chapter 6 which was about one paragraph [roughly 10 to 12 sentences.]. Did I meet my goal? Yes and exceeded it by writing another paragraph.
I do have a goal for today as well but I want to keep it to myself for now and I’ll let you know what it was tomorrow and if I succeeded.
Something weird happened to my Firefox and I can’t explain it. The lounge tab for forum.0cd.xyz that I had open on my other monitor just randomly redirected to shop dot markcuban dot com and I’m getting a “Cannot load app” on that tab when I try and reload the forums but it works fine on any other tab
Microsoft tried to go the open source & linux with their update testing but without the linux & open source part. They want people to test the updates but instead of having updates be little tiny micro updates for a specific thing they instead have these big monolithic updates that are almost impossible to debug with all of the obfuscation.
The main problem I see with with that is that Windows was never really designed to be modular in the same way as Linux and pretty much everything is tied together. This is why most of the updates are in the gigabytes instead of a couple hundred megabytes at best.
I shake my head at the dev builds of windows 10 I poke at in VM. Oh look at the rogue code they’ll patch this right? goes to live… scrubs. Oh look it’s interfering with third party virus protection, they’ll fix this right? goes to live… scrubs. This kinda of sort of got fixed.
I still find it weird Microsoft thinks of me as a dev. I find myself saying scrubs at every windows update.
What gets me about this is that i know they don’t have internal testers but as you say you poked around and found bugs in the code so surely these were reported and Microsoft is tracking these issues? because you don’t push updates when you have open issues in your stack. So either Microsoft’s process for tracking the issues isn’t good enough or for whatever reason they aren’t fixed before the update was pushed because of incompetence?
The problem is there is no way to tell if they read the reports or not. I still send them though. I honestly don’t know what is going on at Microsoft this days.
This isn’t very reassuring. I’d like to think it’s an issue with the process and they take steps to resolve this because if its the latter Microsoft are in real trouble but either way they seriously need to take a very close look at whats going on over there.
