Based on your experience and knowledge, can you wager a guess on the percentage of dev/production codebases at companies are actual, beautifully written, architecturally sound constructions and not a nightmare of a (spaghetti) mess that keeps requiring new architects/ai engineers/senior devs/whatever to maintain (or rewrite)? In my personal experience... let's see.. about 20% or less of all the companies I worked at. That's sad. lol

First time I'm saying a good thing about MS :
Visual Studio (only the installer) !

It lets you install MSVC, gcc, WinAPI headers and Window's SDK very easily!

Also I started a second graphics project (go check and star the first, https://github.com/3dgoose/WIPE, https://git.sr.ht/~threedgoose/WIPE), a WinAPI+Direct3D engine (it hurts deep in the ass) !

there's only one sure way to quit smoking and it's called lifeand by life I mean coughing up some blood a second time

Ths is a rant:

My client codebase is a mess:
- Node version is not set, but it is "told to set it up at X version". They don't want to set it fixed because, and I quote, "it is too much of a nuisance.

- Backend has not a single fucking log, beside the mandatory error in the catch of each controller, and it states "error": error.

- Backend again: why the fuck you want typescript if all the fucking codebase uses 'any'. But the orm is sequelized and it is typed... by zod classes that are only there to check the body on the endpoints.

- Frontend is a gargantuan piece of shit with one.big state with all fucking stucl there cause someone started to do that and they just keep the snowball... touching one of the utterly big and bloated compoments its in itself an act of faith. The thing is so clusterfuck that we have some api calls duplicated like 3 or 5 times...

I feel like my dev brain is being rotten each day a bit more...

Rust is NSFW. Please keep this forum clean.

So pissed off at this job stuff. All promises and no resolve (async pun).

Any criticism on Stack Overflow's design? Not because of anything recent, I just thought of asking. Either about the design, and about the directions it's taking as well.

I think they are doing a good job. Everything gets better and better.

Comment your code? Nah. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.

ChatGPT Go is free for India for a full year.

Lord help the LLMs learning off of Indians.

I hate dark themes, do you? I suspect them to be more agressive on the retina.

I just bought some new device that has AA bateries included, already inserted, and obviously, already leaking.
Clowns.

How many of the following list did you commit?

So today I was reading a paper on different languages and I saw how good Zig is on the paper:
- same performance as C
- memory safety (underlined behavior, not trump's one)and rust
Basically the same with concurrency

Maybe I will need to switch languages;
Any arguments for C except the ecosystem, it's age/maturity and easy syntax?

i dont know frontend or react

now toss in nextjs and pandacss

why the fuck is some box from @styled-system/jsx' possibly squishing the height of an image

why the fuck is my color not being applied to the existing <Image , the existing approach could be wrong

how is it that there's new frameworks and libraries coming out all the time ,but front end development hasn't been solved to be retard proof so i can do it

New Job new me.

Looks like it's pure chaos. Randomly turning on aws features until things work. Lots of money down the drain.

Oh well. It's a job.

HDOOM!
Really a good version of Doom, many gameplay improvements.
Thinking of doing my own Doom maps !

Does somebody have the words to explain wifu that plastic shit goes in the trash and not in the sink or on the counter.

Like it's basic human decency idk

Everyone knows nVidia is a bubble. Even fucking Bloomberg is reporting on the circular flow of money between nVidia/OpenAI/Intel/AMD/Anthropic/CoreWeave/Oracle (remember, Oracle's first customer for its first 3 years was the CIA).

Even the US Government has put money into this scam by propping up 10% of Intel for .. national security or something?

So everyone can see this bubble clearly. Can anything be done about it? How do you keep a bubble from destroying everything when it's in plain sight?

Whoever is able to hold their shorts for nVidia is going to make a shit-ton (*not financial advice)

At your company, ever dealt with the situation where no one has any fucking idea who's in charge of what responsibility and there is a lack of process everywhere?

"Hey, I'm onboarding. I was told to contact person x for troubleshooting."
"Uh yeah we don't know but ask that other guy"
"Uh yeah that other guy is on leave so ask this girl"
"the girl says ask other girl"

Sometimes it gets deep and shit doesn't get done for at least a week.

I had to explain git merge to a senior level dev. It is 2025

Sigh. There are a number of 'app' makers out there that slap their website into a WebView framework and call it 'our app'. Are you fucking kidding me? If you develop an app, make it at the very least native, not a port. Lazy fuckers.

So, Sid got pissed about the ball-kicking and the elephant theft. He called me on the phone, crying like a baby. "Why you do this to me?" he say with his dumb accent. I laughed and hung up. But then, a week later, I hear he coming to my country for revenge. Perfect, I think. Time for round two.
I wait at the airport with a plan. He arrive, looking all sweaty and mad, dragging a suitcase full of curry powder or whatever. I follow him to his hotel. Sneak in at night. He sleeping again, this time with a burger wrapper stuck to his face from the one I left before. Gross. I decide to up the game. No kicking this time. I shave his head while he snores. Bald like a egg. Then I glue a fake mustache on his chin, but upside down. Looks stupid.
He wake up screaming in the mirror. I hide in the closet and watch. He run out the room, trip over his own feet, fall into the pool. Splash. Everyone laugh. I sneak out, steal his suitcase. Inside: nothing but socks and a picture of his lost elephant. Pathetic. I burn the socks in the hotel trash. Smell bad anyway.
On the way out, I leave another burger under his new pillow. This one with extra onions. He hate onions.
I fly home again, even more satisfied. Sid probably still bald and wet.
I swear on his bald head that this all really happened.
Also, I took his hotel toothbrush and threw it in the toilet.

"Bookkeeping" is the most Dutch looking English word ever!

How can one phrase things in a way that they won't be ignored? As in how to ask questions that will lead to actual answers and a path forward instead of being ignored or dismissed as "not enough"? Too frequently everywhere I work I've experienced the pattern that I'll be close to identifying a problem/solution but my mentions are often dismissed, and then months later when things are really bad someone else, usually a manager or higher ranking engineer, says the same exact thing and it is suddenly this huge revelation. Of course I can share links to previous meetings about the topic where I tried suggesting whatever this is, but it again goes ignored as "contextually invalid" or something similar.
Is this normal? Do I just need to wait until I'm a higher ranking engineer to earn this respect of opinions?

Fuck auto translations. YouTube, Reddit (that has TWO layers of auto translation), Google, Chrome (that for some fucking reason doesn't understand "NEVER translate...")...
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a11y, but LET ME OPT OUT.

It's dying! What rant platform are we gonna use...

Whenever I feel bad about my engineering skills, I take a look at what people build who work in enterprise or the public sector, and I feel like a fucking 1337 pro.

I wonder if OpenGL 2.1 will be supported in 10 years, 20?

Urgh, I can't get going on Mondays. Even in a calm environment and with a really nice project I can't get focused on my task.
What's wrong with me?

The mods are sleeping now. Let's party!