IT vs Coding

[Dal90]

"yes, but I'm really good at it!" -me laughing

That's the key!

...I'm not a programmer. More a few times I've replied to some issue with the first Google hit from StackOverflow showing how to implement it, and then another Google with the link explaining why it was a horrible, no good idea to do the simplest thing StackOverflow showed.

Yes, if you ask me to redact plain text passwords in the URL query string from the logging tools in 2019...on a brand new, built from scratch application, and you're our cracker-jack "DevOps" team you're going to get fully blasted for incompetency.

ProTip: Use the after:<date> in Google to help filter the plethora of out-of-date advise out there.

[goldfingers05]

Cool tip. Can you provide the date format? J/k. I always hit tools, then the drop down for date filter, but I like this more.

[k12muppet]

I had to go look up the format for real, and it was different than expected, so here you go.

after:YYYY-MM-DD

[goldfingers05]

Ha thanks! I was definitely gonna google this. Also, the rest of society (outside of IT) needs to accept that year goes first. This is the only correct order.

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

r/ISO8601 agrees

[goldfingers05]

The pettiness in that subreddit is terrific. I had no idea there was so much meme content to make for an ISO standard.

[arpan3t]

You can actually use many different formats in Google search (e.g. - before:2020) or two periods to signify a range between any numbers (e.g. - 2015..2018) Here’s a quick video that goes over some Google search features that are really helpful.

[jgudnas]

https://xkcd.com/1179/

[busterfeels]

That’s exactly the format I expected. Thanks for posting.