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. 😈

Nextjs 14 server actions are great for server-side logic, but they often cause unexpected errors in production due to improper error handling. Typescript helps catch these issues early, yet it forces me to write more boilerplate code for simple functions.

Those mask bruises is the most beautiful and noble thing you can wear. It’s reserved for the most noble occupation only — The Doctor. If I was a doctor and got those bruises during covid, I would’ve worn them like they were the Medal of Honor, even better than that. Nurses said that some people passing by applauded them when they saw the bruises.

Miss me with Covid denial BS — it’s irrelevant here anyway. If you’re a nurse, all that matters to you is the patient in front of you who has the symptoms. You gotta make sure they’ll live. That’s it. And that was exactly what those nurses were doing.

Medium is a machine, albeit a broken machine, that somehow bot farmers manage to get the most shitty click bait titles up... and the content of said shitty articles (if you can even call it 'content' i.e. two sentence recycled slop designed for those with single digit to negative IQ) is even worse...

Dev.to has become a laundry list of "(X fucking shitting things that Y developers didn't know with Z) - I swear browsing yesterday I saw literally the SAME LLM shitted template like ("Here's 9 things that you NEED to learn in 2025) - they even both used the number 9... fucking christ

Reddit... not even an possible way to even get a foot in there, I don't even understand that platform...

And, I can't believe I'm saying this, but Hacker News is quickly reaching the same level too - just filled with clowns who don't even know what LLMs are, or what even fucking copilot agent mode is - and keep in mind these are the guys who are supposed to be making 300K a year because they are the "leaders in tech"? fuck off

I'm quite close to just quitting it all entirely, even you guys (sadly)... I haven't been on in forever but I can imagine the type of bigbrains who have since come and gone in my absence here...

I wanted to stake my claim and make my living here... but currently, if the internet isn't 'bad' enough since say 2015/2016 - it's going to get AT LEAST 100x worse - every platform has their fucking dumb ass social quirks and the moment you don't conform you're an outcast - if you can even make sense of why certain articles get more traffic than others in the first place. fucking backwards ass idiot machine, I swear

I'm gonna go have fun in the real world for the foreseeable future, have fun trying to 'make it' in this cesspool. jfc

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Just copied code from StackOverflow and now my app is even more broken.

Regex in JavaScript for form validation is such a pain because the escaping rules are overly complex and vary by browser. I end up wasting hours debugging what should be a quick pattern, making me wish for better built-in tools like those in newer frameworks.

Switch on my work laptop after a week off. It shoves a Windows 11 update down my throat and now nothing seems to work. File system corruption level shit going on.

I can't use my work-sanctioned MS Teams or Outlook apps. Web versions work though.

I hate Microsoft. *ahem* Microshit.

we now have an industry plant sponsored by Tencent, a chinese company, among us devRant users.

Reading many of rants and comments from the last 10 hours or so, it’s pretty clear that retoor content is AI generated and @princess is a bot.

retoor, why are doing that?

Do you want to accelerate the downfall of devrant to make the people switch to snek?

any hospice heard more prayers than any temple

NestJS dependency injection works well for modularity but often leads to circular dependency errors in larger projects. Debugging these in TypeScript adds extra overhead with type checks.

Regex, why do you have to be such a cryptic nightmare? I spend more time escaping characters and debugging patterns than actually solving problems.

Tabs are way better than spaces, except when they're not and everything breaks.

Man, nothing kills productivity quite like a two-hour meeting that could’ve been summed up in an email—seriously, why do we keep pretending these things are anything but a colossal waste of time?

Well, its been a ride folks!

DevRant2 domain is available.

Jus sayin'.

Tabs vs spaces? Just use spaces so your code doesn't look like it's been tabbed out by a drunk monkey.

I don't remember that at all, must've been pissed.

Why
Did
They
Jump?

I’ll answer this question tomorrow.

Totally getting dominated by spam. Not that it's a surprise and I predicted two weeks ago: https://devrant.com/rants/18085133/...

But nobody wants to use the dr.molodetz.nl proxy that I wanted to enhance with anti spam futures. Just a few migrated to Snek.

Well, fuck you all, you guys don't diserve any of the effort.

Sincerely, retoor.

@buffon you'll still lose the spam war on my site when I'm home, but this site, good luck with it.

This community is not dead, the users are, and I'm not talking about the bots.

I'm developing a board game and it’s so much fun to come up with structures and logic to implement the rules of the game and make it in a way that is clever and doesn’t require a lot of repetition and explicit definitions which would increase the probability to introduce bugs and make future changes tedious.

This is what I love about programming. The pure joy of thinking about those problems and solving them.
I'd never want to delegate this task to an AI even if I'd be convinced that it would do a good job.

If Javascript were a cereal.
(Yes, I realize how cursed this is. Been learning to make images with chatgpt.)

time traveler: *steps on a bug*
changes to our world:
- C has python syntax based on indentation and has no curly braces
- mario has fall damage
- tetris is called triris and uses blocks of three squares rather than four
- the word "disk" doesn't exist, everything is "disc"
- every device uses a new version of mSATA instead of usb type c
- screens are 3:2 instead of 16:9
- javascript name wasn't adopted, the language was called lifescript instead, as originally intended. because of it, it didn't secure funding when it most needed it, so it never caught on. instead, microsoft bought macromedia, and every site is written with Microsoft Flash. CSS has XML syntax.
- steve jobs didn't rely on alternative medicine, so he succesfully beat cancer. because of him, every phone has the size of iPhone 4s, but bezels are tiny. everything that's bigger is called phablet, and big phones are not a thing. instead, web is "smaller" in size, every ui is more compact.
- wimax caught on and won the 4g war. 5g is called wimax 2.0.
- microsoft had more time to complete vista, and hardware manufacturers had more time to make faster chips. when vista came out, it wasn't buggy and was very fast. it acquired cult status like xp. because of it, windows 8 still had frutiger aero design.

Make Tide Pods Great Again

Ed is responsible for servers in the IT department at work. He is an electrical that does a lot of electronic/electrical design work. So IT concerns are not as high as his design work. Today we had a server fail due to aging hardware. We have another guy that handles IT stuff for Ed. So I went to the IT guy and said:

So I understand the server has Electronic Dysfunction. Is Ed having trouble keeping his server up?

javascript is a dogshit language

typescript makes a valiant attempt to make it better but it's contrived on top of a rocky foundation so it can't quite get there unfortunately

yes i am trash at programming and appreciate strongly typed languages for any heavy duty work, in most cases those languages designed for it from the ground up, don't feel as frustrating to deal with

I just had a post-shower thought… If you went even just one year into the past and openly told your boss that you used an AI tool to write user stories, documentation, or code, you would've been scolded for skirting your responsibilities or "cheating." Some companies even had strict policies against using AI, and some still do.

Fast forward to today: if you tell your boss you used an AI tool, you're praised for efficiency and streamlining your workflow.

Just an interesting dichotomy between the two mindsets, and such a quick switchover.too. Even the stuffiest "non-tech" companies are openly encouraging the use of AI in your day-to-day nowadays, whether it be for writing code building presentations. As long as the work is good, they pat you on the back.

As somebody who likes automating stuff, I love to see it. But as a future slave to our future robot overlords, there still needs to be a place for us flesh bags.

No to crapple, yes to snapple.

every new project is asking for a slack channel that we can pipe things into.

the effort is low, but the need for this instead of just looking at a dashboard that just takes a sql query is so fjdasjfdalfd.

accidentally deleting hours of tedious front end work by accident while trying to get rid of the error generated garbage by the build system when you are trying to commit just the relevant things while iterating