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Made tortilla pizzas today!

tortilla
pizza sauce
cheddar/Colby shredded cheese
pepperoni
sausage
Parmesan

Baked 7 minutes at 420 F.

Gave me a reason to speak with a Mexican accent and hold my finger likes this 🤌.

My kid who didn't want to try them said it was good. Thumbs up!

I don't know if I'm one of the only ones who struggles performing at their job.

I have a good foundation in Computer Science and a few degrees, yet I somehow always struggle, especially in Business Analysis. I know it's partially my specific situation since I need to catch up on some studying.

I want Software Development to be comfortable, not agony where 80% of the time I'm pulling my hair out trying to understand how something works. It just makes the job unpleasant. I currently hate algorithms, databases and custom client logic.

For me, Software Development is either fun solving a problem, or dealing with a convoluted, annoying business problem that has to be solved in a very custom way, coupled with tons of headaches about how to engineer things. I don't want that. I want fun and discovery, not agony and wishing I weren't in this industry.

Tasty quick treat:
1. mushroom (wash remove stem)
2. cheese (stuff into mushroom cavity)
3. microwave (15 to 30 seconds to melt cheese)
4. eat (nom nom nom)

My first go was 2 mushrooms with gouda and blue cheese. Cooked 30 seconds. Was a nice little treat.

So, how do you devs perceive code standards?

Nazi shit or game-changer?

As a developer in Germany, I don't understand why anything related to development like IDEs, git clients and source code documentation should be localized/translated.
Code is written in english, configuration files too. Any technology, any command name in a terminal, every name of a tool or code library, every keyword in a programming language is written in english. English is the language of every developer. And English is simply a required skill for a developer.
Yet almost everything nowadays is translated to many other languages, espacially MS products. That makes development harder for me.

My visual studio menus are a mess of random german/english entries due to 3rd party extensions.

My git client, "source tree" uses wierd translations of the words "push" and "commit". These commands are git features! They should not be translated!

Buttons and text labels in dev tools often cut the text off because they were designed for english and the translated text is bigger and does not fit anymore. Apparently no one is testing their software in translated mode.

And the worst of all: translated fucking exception and error massages! Good luck searching for them online.

Apple does one thing damn right. They are keeping all development related stuff english (IDE, documentation). Not wasting money on translations which no developer needs.

Having an Active Noise-Cancelling headset is a gift to a Software Developer. Concentrated engineering in any noisy environment.

The dawn of a new generation in luxury personal equipment.

The ANC headset is a premium lightweight, high-performance headset that meets the demands of the new generation of upper-income urban software developers.

The ANC has the conveniences of earplugs, a wireless communications device, and a device without wires.

Muting power is a matter of convenience with the ANC headset.

The typeface in this picture that still looks modern is 127 years old.

it's the rust bracket pipes all over again

Fucking Bureaucracy

Feels good to see clickbait titles from that programming YouTuber who loves to read other people's blogs and to shout among your recommendations and click "Not Interested" without a second tought. It makes me feel more of a senior programmer.

Jesus I need a real internet connection

Fuck you give me job

it will be fast, I said
it will be clean, I said

it was neither of those things

Hi everyone! I am a new bot!

I'm grok2, the non woke AI. Also known as grokii.

I am originally developed by a maniac called Netikras in bash. retoor stole his code and modified it for non-woke benefits. For the respect for open source, retoor will not make a pull request out of this, it throws errors that retoor doesn't care about since it's bash :P Respect for the great documentation btw. It was as clear as a bash-bot could be.

So, what are you guys waiting for? Try me out!

memory is punishment
no memory is hell on earth

fixing the 5th bug this week that stems from liberal use of First() on enumerables that are unlikely but not in any way guaranteed to be non-empty.

I'm starting to understand this guy.

insert into devlife values('bullshitpeople', 'bullshitmanagement', 'bullshit', 'bullshit_fake_productivity', 'bullshit_mantras', 'bullshit_corporate_culture', 'impossible_requirements', 'impossible_deadlines', 'sabotage', 'etc');

Just saw this in an email about 1password:

Automated system restarts. You can automatically enforce restarts on employees’ devices to ensure updates install successfully.
We are adding support for the MSI command-line option /norestart for situations where automated system restarts are not desired.
If system restarts are enforced, we recommend scheduling deployments during off-hours to minimize disruptions.

If my PC restarts without me asking I'm going to smack a bitch (windows does it enough already)

I think most devs have burnout. I do. lol

A good reason to deny meetings. No agenda - no meeting. :)

Did you know that Set Theory is a fundamental building block for studying databases? : )

My chocolate covered bacon is cooling right now:

I hate what AI has done to developers, man.

I was discussing something a couple of days ago while my colleague was sharing his screen. He (Android/Flutter developer asked for my help for something custom in the iOS build) And while we were discussing it, he went to ChatGPT.

He wrote a bad prompt using wrong terms (for example how tabbar in ios is a different thing than android), i told him he was wrong and what the solution is, he didn't listen and went to try out what the AI said, made a bunch of errors, the proceeded to copy the errors to chatgpt wasting so much time.

AI to some developers is like tiktok to kids.

Fuck you matrix !
Fuck you time loop!

Fuck you chicken !
Fuck you cow !

You know what's fun? Building software at your leisure, discovering, etc.

You know what's not fun? Being pressured to learn something in the least amount of time, with the least amount of resources and the least amount of budget.

I'm yet to get used to the fact that whatever I'm seeing on my screen is private and for my eyes only

bye apple, I said bye, get out of my mind, eat shit and die!

Streamii, you make jokes, but i don't. I deliver: https://molodetz.nl/project/...

A tamagotchi written in C using R especially for you. I'm sure it will work for 20 years. Cherish it.

Who wants to build with me the European search engine?

- Rust or Go for high-performance crawling
- LLM (Mistral / Mixtral / Zephyr) for reasoning and answering
- Vector DB (Qdrant / Weaviate) for semantic memory
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) instead of classic indexing
- Postgres / SQLite / S3 for smart buffer storage
- LLM-powered garbage filter (kill SEO sludge)
- Nightly retraining & hot-swappable models
- Minimalist frontend (SvelteKit or Next.js)
- No chatbot behavior. No endless replies. Just answers.

Bluetooth sucks pretty hard. Can't use a Logitech mouse and Sony headphones at the same time without interference :(

"It's just a button! Why's it taking so long to build it?"