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FRIZT!
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You cannot fix sloppiness with courses. That's one thing a developer has to do by himself/herself and it's a never ending effort. Every person is sloppy to a degree, some more, some less. If you can't get a grip on it, you always will be a liability, coworkers will have to constantly verify and correct your work and nobody is going to be happy. So at this point it's a matter of maybe picking another profession like, I dun know, a manager or politician perhaps.
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Yay I did it! Also I don’t blame her coworkers, asynchrony is sooo hard. I know some coders who put async on every function and await on every line to make sure nothing breaks
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Rightfully so!
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My company subscribes to an online cybersecurity training service, but I've stopped wasting time taking the classes. They're all about obvious things like locking your computer/phone, shredding proprietary paper documents, how to recognize phishing email, etc. Nothing about how to write secure code.
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I worked for a popular online travel company, where were took classes on security every year, the first lesson was always "Never store passwords, nor send them to users when they forget". Of course, that's what we did (not my team, but the backend people). They are now just a marketing brand of one of the two big brands. Why take lessons if you don't learn from them?
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My previous company subscribed to a service called "phriendly phishing". Every so often, they'd send out fake phishing emails and see if you caught them or were caught by them.
This service consistently sent those emails from a particular set of domains, so I set up rules in Outlook: if the From: address was one of those domains (or a subdomain of those domains), send it straight to junk. Life's too short to have to deal with that crap.