Roy Ramos

Geek, informático, hombre esquizofrénico del siglo 21

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@SSBMMELEECLIPS Ban cody. Unban mang0.

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@KB7lol Ban Cody. Unban mang0.

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@aMSaRedYoshi When drugs finally hit

[Mukesh Murugan @iammukeshm]

The clock code in most .NET apps is a static call your tests can never control.

That one fact causes more flaky time bugs than any library ever will.

DateTimeNow reads the local clock of whatever machine happens to run the code.

Deploy that same service to a server in another region and your timestamps quietly shift. Nothing throws. The data just starts lying.

Then daylight saving flips, and your "run at midnight" job fires twice or skips a day. Nobody wrote a bug. The clock moved and the code had no say in it.

Switching to UtcNow kills the region drift - one timeline for everyone.

DateTimeOffsetUtcNow goes a step further and stores the offset with the value, so you never have to guess which timezone a saved time came from.

But all three are still static calls. In a test you can't say "pretend it's 11:59 PM on the night the clock rolls back." The time is whatever the machine says right now.

That's the gap TimeProvider closes in .NET 8.

You inject it like any other dependency, then call GetUtcNow() instead of the static one.

In production it's the real system clock. In a test you hand it a FakeTimeProvider, set the exact moment you want, and even push time forward to check what happens after a delay.

The rule I follow now: no DateTimeNow near anything that makes a decision. If the logic depends on what time it is, the clock gets injected.

Make the clock a dependency, and time stops being something that happens to your code. It becomes something your tests get to decide.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

This is the type of shit I pay my phone bill for

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@RexProfessor @Missingno_Mastr And what's wrong with that?

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@krikzz When are they shipping?

[noyaw @noyawassalam]

Look at the numbers on that ruler, they can add detail to the drawing 📏🔢🎨

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Last year my son got a job offer from OpenAI in San Francisco

$450,000 total compensation

While my whole family was celebrating, I sat in my basement analyzing the offer

Something wasn't clicking for me

First of all, $450k is an impossible amount to make

Will my son be required to perform illegal activities to earn that salary?

But that's not the worst

I looked at pension contributions

"We offer a 401k match"

I had never heard of a 401k

I did some research and nearly vomited

It's a retirement account that depends on the stock market

His entire future would depend on gambling

I called the OpenAI recruiter on behalf of my son and declined the offer

Fast forward a year, my son now works at SAP making a crisp €47,000 a year

He has 32 days paid vacation and his pension is guaranteed by the state

My wife keeps saying I "threw his life away"

She could not be more wrong

I actually saved his life from being destroyed by America

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@vkrajacic @Windows It costs way more than windows though

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@fernandopalomo Y el repechaje? Jamaica y Surinam

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@BarronSports @c_sandovalp comentó en sus programas lo prepotente que fue miguel herrera en conferencia, pero no lo vi comentar diciendo lo irrespetuoso que fue este periodista que le dijo que se fuera también en conferencia

[Jesús Barrón @BarronSports]

En Costa Rica quieren “crucificar” a Miguel Herrera por perder ante Haití, selección que 9 de los 11 titulares juegan en Europa! La prensa tica trae la realidad bien alterada, imposible que el Piojo gane una carrera de caballos 🐎 montado en un burro 🫏 … #CostaRica #Ticos #seleccioncostarica🇨🇷 #PiojoHerrera #MiguelHerrera

[rvivek @rvivek]

I created the opensource library that all of your developers use and you still want me to reverse a linked list in the interview?

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@CentroLeaks No remakes?

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@SmashCentel The guy has a girlfriend?

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@JoeMerrick @SerebiiNet Just clone them. You're welcome

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@CentroLeaks I've seen stores giving away clones if you buy them random stuff XD

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@CentroLeaks Just clone the stupid pokemon

[Roy Ramos @yorsocr]

@KingTargaryenn Pero si en latinoamérica usaron "obstruye el corredor" 😅