Hacker's ramblings

In Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2024 there was a question (I'm paraphrasing here):

As a part of your work, how many years have you coded professionally?
(NOT including education)

Today, this date, my answer is 30!
For this achievement, I'm awarding myself an AI-generated trophy.

This is an uncommon achievement. Looking at 2025 statistics of developer coding years (including education):

The draw to stop coding is strong.

First: This is hard and difficult work. Most people on this Earth can not do it. Even less can keep doing it.

Second: There are so many tasks near coding that don't actually involve writing nor reading code in product management, business analysis, design, QA, operations and support. It is so easy to sit next to a coder and tell them what to do.

Third: Getting promoted. It is very hard to resist new responsibilities with more pay without need to do much hands-on technical work. To most people it is. To me that's a no-brainer.

I keep resisting. I'm not promising another 30 years. I promise 10 good ones. 20 if I'm lucky.

PS.
Including education and hobbies before turning pro, the real number is over 40.

Like the Dire Straits song says: "I want my ESU!" Or maybe I remember the lyrics wrong.

14th Oct came and went and I'm still not able to get my Windows 10 into Extended Support Updates -program. What gives!?

I meet all the criteria, but no avail. Apparently they changed something in license agreement and I haven't approved that yet. Going to my Microsoft Account:

There I'm first greeted by a hey-we-changed-something-you-need-to-approve-this-first -thingie. I just clicked approve can came back.

Hey presto!

Now Windows Updates offers me an "Enroll Now" -option. Following that path:

I'm eligible, my PC is eligible, and all this at zero cost. Nice!

I so wish somebody had put any effort on this one. There are published videos and screenshots of people getting their ESU instantly. For me, nobody bothered to tell I'm missing some sort of approval.

Yeah, Windows 10 still end-of-lifed and not getting any updates.

Can you guess what happened next:

There were six new security updates. Let me repeat: after not getting any, I got 6! That's what I'd call inconsistent.

Pressure is still high. After installing those security updates and rebooting:

After login, I didn't get a login. Instead, there was a force-fed dialog on Windows 11 upgrade.
No thank you!
I love my "last Windows".

Additionally, any mention of ESU is gone from Windows Updates -dialog. Running 

ClipESUConsumer.exe -evaluateEligibility

still yields ESUEligibilityResult as "coming soon".

Today is 14th Oct 2025. End of support for the last version of Windows.

Good thing is, I can go for a paid support model, Extended Security Updates (ESU).

Oh wait!
The text says: "Enrollment for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will be coming soon."

Looks like I'm not alone with this problem. "Enrolment for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will be coming soon." still showing up not even a week before end of support - Can I fix this?

People are trying all kinds of registry tricks, in style of

reg.exe query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\ConsumerESU"

to get sanity on this one. My thinking is ESUEligibilityResult value 0xd = ComingSoon - EEA_REGION_POLICY_ENABLED

I'd rather get clarity on this one rather than guesswork.