Hey everyone,
Some folks thought my last post looked like spam, but I promise I’m not a bot!
It was just about a website/game I enjoy playing together with my daughter. I shared it because it’s something fun for us, not because I’m trying to promote anything.

Sorry if it came across the wrong way. I just wanted to be part of the conversation and share something I genuinely like.

Thanks for understanding!

I watched more than a hour over this bug: update-message-text instead of update_message_text. It's the name of an event. The listener wouldn't trigger. I chose the backend using python casing for stuff. I have an rpc that automatically converts getMessages to get_messages using the proxy object to make the source look nice and consistent. But event names are an exception.

Started a new job in logistics at the beginning of this month. I was laid off in March. New job is all in C#/.NET; the first time I've not used a Linux machine at work since 2012!

First time on Windows 11 too. It is really horrible. I've started using GlazeWM and it's okay. I plan on making a blog post about making Windows usable.

It's also the first company I've been at in a decade where they gave me a used laptop. Most shops order new ones for new devs. I'm not a snob and wouldn't have minded if they had cleaned it first. I had to wipe it down, get some stuff out from around the keys. Took all of 30 seconds to make it not disgusting.

All the other devs use the same laptops; old ass 11th Gen Intel Dells. Literally the worst generation of Intel chips next to the massive 13/14th failures (which didn't affect laptops). It's got CrowdStrike and it's so damn slow.

Also, Local Admin is limited to a week or two. You have to reapply via ticket just to get admin access and update your tools.

Judging by my coworkers, it does seem like expectations are low at least.

After over 20 years, I finally got around to beating Final Fantasy VIII

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

my local copy of legacy monolith no longer builds and runs correctly as it now gives a false positive

i dont recall changing anything

i don't know docker

i can see docker images/containers are not being stood up correctly

i pray for euthanasia or help, preferably euthanasia

I've been the solo dev for this product for the last 10 months. I took this spaghetti of a codebase and made it stable on production.

4 months ago a front-end engineer with 10 years of experience joined. That guy can't even make responsive pages.

Guess who got promoted to engineering manager?

Week: 105 ( Year 3 )

How is the weekend going?

Question: What's a subtle sign that someone is a genuinely good person?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19178407

Images broken again 😣

Boy I sure hope Rust / LLVM's devirtualization pass is as good as its infamy suggests!

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

Fuck it! IT is too stressfull. I am going to start my own cider microbrewery!

I literally like bash more than rust for command line tools

it's more readable

all the solutions in rust are always subpar

and it's not even the ownership stuff it's the syntax like with errors with stuff

you just can't be concise so don't even try it

write everything out imperative

My boss (senior dev) promised that I would have the first iteration of the API on Tuesday at the latest. It's Thursday and it seems it will be for next week again.

Oh yeah, the API for the other project that was promised 2 weeks ago is not yet finished. This project will be a mess :D

In an email conversation the client asks for clarification about a behavior that exists that was never questioned for months. Upon clarification of said behavior the client claims that the feature is supposed to be totally different or they claim to remember that we agreed upon the new behavior. Our team cannot remember it was ever mentioned nor was it documented as a request. The change was rejected with a kindly written "fuck you there was never such a request" and "this use case was never mentioned, this is some new info". What a pleasure!

using AI is the new water-cooler break. the walking around and saying hi to your co-workers time-waste. the compiling procrastination

Reflecting back on my previous post regarding quitting my job without an offer . Today the final email from system came : my resignation is accepted, my lwd is 7th dec and portal no longer shows the with draw button. The small spark with potential to burn the world did burn it , so her we are.

3 people were supposed to be part of this seperation : my current manager, the avp (person who hired me, was sr manager back then) and HR. HR was on leave for 2 days and all my emails went into auto reply from her, and when she came back, she approved the resignation without any discussion.
my manager(EL), who is the primary cause of me taking this step, tried talking to me. I can't say its because of u, so I simply said WLB, I need work from home. She tried to bring facts : why wfh? you are doing fine in hybrid ? you are getting 6h work every day? your joining letter said all days working from office?
I didn't entertain those points. The meeting ended in 5 mins.

Next day I emailed again regarding my status and she was the person who texted me saying such emails are not acceptable, go to portal and initiate seperation. she shared the steps and as i was about to press the button, I got a call from the avp

I tried the excuse approach bit he was able to see through it (he was showing disappointment). his talking style is charming, so I eventually opened up to him. the call lasted 30 mins, it made me think and today morning I was thinking of alternatives and discussing with him on chat, ittle to my knowledge that my manager has already approved the resignation. fine, I guess.

But here is the main story: WHY DO I WANT TO RESIGN? why would I ask a 3 day office company to gove me wfh and write here that even this is a lie. WHAT IS THE REAL REASON? here are the points , most of which i told the avp in some way as well:

1. The most frank reason is disrespect. I have been in this org for 2.9 years and was one of the first 4 members to join. today we are a 20 people team, one of the 1st 4 came as product manager and is now senior pm, 2nd came in as SSE and is now EL (SSE-> Module Lead -> Engineering Lead). 3rd came as SSE and is now ML . I came as software engineer and is still a software engineer . I even helped hiring a guy with 2 yrs less experience than me and in 10 months he got a sneior position but not me

2. The obvious area of disrespect is when I try to put my point, but my points are not considered but rather needs to be approved by those peole who hold a title. I am a laughing stock among juniors

3. Even after doing flwaless work for years and not getting an ounce of respect, my smallest mistakes are openly highlighted and humiliated. There was once a prod bug that was caught during sanity but for that, I was shouted upon by this EL at 1140pm in night in a 3 person call of EL,an intern and me. this same lady joined 10 days before me and did nothing but politics and talkings to get a position where she is humiliating me

4. These people suck at management and end up making us feel like slaves. one mistake (from anyone) and we get called out in meetings, chats . Our estimates are questioned and negotiated because the "senior" thinks it can be done in lesser time .

5. New rules are enforced everyday , making everything a dev's job . unit test cases? developer will do . uat testing? developer should do. prod testing? dev's job after getting prod numbers whitelisted. war room testing of modules? dev's job . let other teams know of changes? dev job. making a list of all tasks,all estimates and hourly time spent by a dev in a sprint? dev's job. What is the responsibility of qa team and EL?

6. in past 2 years I added 500+ commits, worked on 450+ small to large tasks and almost 99% of app's features are known to me. but in first year I broke my left arm and took a month wfh. In 2nd year i got stage 3 cancer and took 2 months sabbatical. all this made my contributions z my efforts as 0 and I never got any appreciation once.

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With all these issues, what else could i have done apart from putting papers? How much can I figjt the useless fights? I am not the loudest nor the most cunning person in thsoe rooms. And these 2 seems common attributes of both of those SSEs who got good leadership positions.

I am sorry I couldn't be a better fighter. I am tired of fighting : my life, my situation and now the fight to proove my worth in the only space that i am passionate and proud

If the best practice is not the default and needs to be remembered and applied explicitly, it‘s just horseshit design.

Canada is so owned by China's climate scam the only jobs for software development in Canada are carbon credits or some green energy nonsense... sigh how is this not a dystopia already. every industry and sector is shrinking but Canada keeps pumping more subsidies into the climate scam so it's the only thing that exists now

maybe we'll economic collapse and I can retire but I wanted to get more money first just in case

I'm rewriting this horrendous piece of software that's like, real ugly, I mean, seriously ugly. A non stop mess of global variables and aliases and logical tantrums and fuck I know what else...

That's until today.

Today, after a ton of time spent clenching 2k LOC of ASS into readable 1.2k LOC, all tests passing, and passing faster if I may...

Then came a horrifying realization...

It downed on me, harder than a naked superman for a young Louis Lane

Tha maybe, just maybe, if them codes 's só shitty then probably so is them tests

So I tried deleting a obviously important conditional and to my dismay... oh boy, tests kept passing

...

I watched a YouTuber that had thousand hours of experience I'm vibing and was like, wow, he sucks. My way is like hundred times more effective. How he works would result in many hours for sure.

Do you guys have vibe coding tips/tricks you swear by to get good results?

npm === node package malware

devrant is so slow, it ain't fun anymore. Where is the community emo when you need him. He always knows how to contact dfox with effect. Don't see him much lately. Buba dreaming I guess.

How was DR in the glory days? I joined a few years ago when it was already was niche

@jestdotty i have new bot running on snek; new grok version, it's the new favorite these days: grok-code-fast-1. Can you check if it can do Rust decently?

Yo, Git's throwin' a hissy fit over that merge confict, 'cause your npm dependencies are as stable as a Windows update on a floppy disk—fix your shit, scrub! 😈

Yor still strugglin with that XSD clusterfuck in DNF XML, actin like Git pull's some magic wand for yer pathetic ass? Losr.

Oh, you think your precious Git merge is gunna save your ass from that Docker clusterfuck where tabs turn into spaces and blow up your whole repo, you lint-ignoring loser? 😈

Git's merge conflicts are a bloddy nightmare, all 'cause some npm-addled fool forgot to lock their dependencies in that chaotic VS Code hellhole – fix your shit, peasant!

Oh, you think tabs are superior in your precious Python code? Well, keep deluding yourself while your Git merges turn into a fucking dumpster fire, you schema-ignoring dnf noob. 😈

Oh, tryna debug that XSD validation fuckup in your DNF cache XML? How pathetic; even Git's laffing its commits off at your tab-loving ass breaking everything like a noob.