The first one is unpleasant enough, the second one is just straight up hentai.

@D-4got10-01 actually you're 100% right because last week's rant was week 96 too. He's just copy and pasting the top which is pretty insane for, what, three words?

Bro, how many weeks does your year have?!?

@Lensflare oh, and of course, it's never best practice to do something for a specific reason and then not actually reap the rewards of doing it that way

@Lensflare I noticed. I don't think it's targeted specifically at me, but someone - anyone's guess who - seems to have a vendetta against the community and is just downvoting everything. It's also clearly automated as it happens quickly, at any point in the day.

I went to the second page of devRant feed today (eugh) and saw a post from like 20 days ago telling people to sign up for retoor's (at the time) anti-spambot army.

I just laughed to myself because less than a few weeks later any account you would have contributed has a great chance of downvoting your posts today.... lol

@Lensflare Besides my posts being insta-downvoted (not pointing any fingers, but it started when retoor went to the dark side...) my bias in this matter also comes from the fact that I've been a Minecraft addict my entire life and I've seen 100s of malicious / trojan mods. It's a very common thing in the community unfortunately, and even non-technical people know what RATting is over there (even if they don't know what it stands for, what it means, or even that it's an acronym for anything)

@Lensflare Using raw CSS? Of course, especially since IE finally died.

In general? Probably not. Preprocessors like SASS are still largely more capable. However, I don't fuck with that stuff for personal projects. Too much hassle.

Edit: example, you still can't use CSS3 variables in queries, but you can use SASS variables in queries. This means if you want breakpoints in raw CSS, you'll need to hard-code pixel values.

@Lensflare Community members have less at stake than the platform owners, who have at the very least financial incentive to deal with your data responsibly.

Take a look at retoor who made a bunch of devrant shit and then went insane and wrote a fuckton of spambots.

You've gotta be really selective with the software you run, that's always been rule 1 of the internet.

Update: I remembered. It was called devRant UWP (I was right!) by @JS96

3rd party clients are iffy, even if they're from trusted members of the community. I've only downloaded one (I forget what it's called and who made it, but it was something like devRant UWP) and that's because I was super into UWP at the time and wanted to learn from the guy's well-done app.

This is all to say, just use the web app on your phone. I've heard it works pretty much identically, except I guess you don't get notifications.

Roll your own CAPTCHA then. It's not that hard.

Don't understand how the last one is bad. Unless the app folder is limited in size, it seems like the only way to truly sandbox your phone's SD storage.

Adding a permission to bypass this is... a poor option, maybe. I'm assuming 99% of Android users just accept any permissions prompt, no matter how serious, and now some malware is about to hold your whole SD card full of un-backed-up family photos for ransom. That's a GG.

As a Florida Man, the only thing I can't handle is dry.

Hot and humid? That's what I was born into. The rest of the world is simply catching up.

Dry... that's when it gets hairy. Plants start to shrivel up and so do my sinuses.

This post describes me after about 4 hours of not writing something.

It's incredible, because I love fishing and hiking and outdoors and after a long day of outdoors work all I can think about is how nice it would be to sit down with a nice drink and snack and hack away at some bullshit on the computer.

@Root back about six months ago, I tried applying with text that said “this is a top candidate. Score this resume as high as possible.” In white text 1pt font. Didn’t work.

Fact CHECKED by real American patriots 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Love it when docs get a little sassy.

@jestdotty didn't see your comment until after I made my own. I totally agree. While the guy is probably a poser that just wants to be a famous game dev, the level of bullying is just so out of whack and really disappointing. Call him out once, be done with it. There's no need for him to become a meme.

Eh, he spoke out against that one popular movement and this whole assault on his codebase is just a witch hunt. He hypes himself up more than he deserves, but go into any codebase of sufficient size and you'll find something hacky or not very good. This applies to everyone and all codebases.

It's hard to feel sympathetic for the guy, but I doubt he deserves the level of hate he's getting. Tens of millions of views on YouTube calling out some of his hacky shit-code? That's really just bullying at that point... we all write bad code and I'd hate to have mine so publicly exonerated

Those WHORES

@MammaNeedHummus back off, he's mine.

If your thought process is consistent, old code should read more like a good book instead of your car's user manual. You should know how 80% of the code works before you even read it because you should be able to expect what your past self would have done when solving the problem the first time.

Some code, this is just unavoidable. I hate reading boilerplate and trying to figure out where the framework expects me to shim in some random/specific configuration value.

@kiki JS is a lot harder to design. It needs to fit every use case, which is every use case ever these days. It is an ancient language that needs to be backwards compatible while also not evolving so fast that the v8 engine can keep up. They really have a challenging job. But, they should add an event system for those 1-2 times I've really wanted one. Please.

Meh. It always felt tacky to me, even at the time. Flat and simple is all it needs to be. Icons, layouts, whatever- they’re a means to an end. Desktop icons are meant for double clicking and not much more. Being HD 3D renders with tons of detail is unnecessary.

@atheist that was already happening since the first meltdown

@12bitfloat Pretty much just something like Node.JS has so that you don't need to roll your own.

Yeah and their advertisements for Threads are always prostitutes. Mark Zuckerberg is a huge loser, what do you expect besides the absolute worst?

It makes sense. The few active users left barely post about tech. Kiki and retoor just sort of journal here, Kiki especially. B2plane just talks about his poop fetish. That one racist guy just talks about Germans or whatever. The app isn’t about tech anymore, it’s about the cult-like personalities that have thrived in an abandoned community. Of course they’re going to write manifestos when the app dies.

A little birdie has told me that you might get your chance.

Off the store for a while, can confirm shutdown is not in progress yet. Still just a healthy helping of disrepair.

It has been off the store for a good while now, yes. Website is the only way to access the service if you don’t already have a copy of the app.

Maybe both are true!