I am drunk af so I apologize for this but the entire reason I work all the time is to keep myself from killing myself. My late girlfriend committed suicide because she couldn’t keep others from judging her. I love her so much… can’t decide if I’d be happier alive here or dead with her. 💔💔💔

Garbage collection incentivizes shit and cuckold programmers. Change my mind.

Reason is basically, it's easy to design a bad architecture, potential bugs are just delayed and waiting to happen later. There are still resources like databases, whose management is more or less like memory that you never learn to do properly because of GC

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.
— G.B. Shaw

Math is hard….

Almost a week since I became a dad.

I went into a sex shop once. They didn't have any sex. So I left.

Sufficiently advanced XML is indistinguishable from satire

can you feel the walls closing in on you yet

Floating point math abridged

Abs of the day: Chef
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef

should I do abs of the day? 🤤

I’m doing abs of the day!
Abs of the day — Erlang

Abs of the day: COBOL

oh look, another amazing location that i'll never get to on the windows lock screen

Story time...of how HR actually did its job of taking care of employees.

So, I started at this new gig on December, the boss was all sunshine and promise (big red flag now to think back). Then as time passed, he started seeming...off. To a point I considered quitting my boss just after 2 months of working for him.

Then one morning we had a project meeting. He started verbally abusing me, calling me incompetent, bashing my work (of which he knew ~nothing, his experience 30 years back). Earlier in the week he demanded me to make a presentation which he in this meeting told is complete bullshit without actually reading any of it. He told me 'I am your boss, you do exactly as I say' when I told him something is technologically impossible in the situation we're in. He *actually* told me to break the law with data protection...

This was like wtf dude. That's not how you manage people. So, I made an HR ticket about his behaviour. They were *shocked* and escalated the matter.

Long story short: he was a bully, he's getting fired, my team has a new manager. My workplace actually appreciates my expertise.

Bad thing in this is, now I actually need to continue doing my job. ;_;

mood rn

If you host a forum for dev discussions, make sure that, even in code blocks, every single or double quote will be replaced by quirky typographic quote characters that resemble their ASCII equivalents so closely that cut-and-paste programming will be punished by hours of searching the error in the wrong place.

The only person responsible for the server maintenance has put in his resignation period in.

The other person that has access to the servers does not know the difference between production & lab.

Fun times ahead

People responsible for closing threads on stackoverflow for "We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for software libraries" should die and rot in hell forever.

hey, i've got an idea

let's make the package format for browsers completely different than that of backend projects

fucking brilliant!

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

> Advice for new coders?

How much do you hate yourself?

.

(The code itself can be very rewarding)

Fuck. Mobbing really does fix everything wrong with development*

*Unless your colleagues are complete cunts

Change my mind

If you ever feel unwanted, just know that someone, somewhere, has wanked about you at some point

They're masochists ofc, but it still counts

TL;DR: I hate how management doesn't listen to devs (even Dev managers).

We need to sort out our release process where I'm at. It takes a Dev about 2 solid days to complete and it's hideously involved and ripe for human error. They're completely out of action until it's done and it happens once a week!

It's stopping us releasing business critical bug fixes and features that need to go out. Instead the work just sits in develop for days doing fuck all.
Can't be agile if it takes so long to deliver value 🙃

Plus makes any fuck ups by our department look worse as it takes an age until it's fixed which reduces their collective trust in us and our opinions.
Making any improvements we want to make harder todo as they're harder to convince 🙃

Has anyone had any success getting automated releases?
How did you convince management to prioritise it?

I need to convince someone who has some influence in my company and ask how they got that influence

I know I was one at some point, but juniors can be so frustrating at times.

After some pairing for a while they're quick to adopt the "Dev" mindset and think as far as they need to...

... but with this latest batch... that day couldn't come sooner 🫠

Having to explain how exceptions work again is the last thing you wanna do under tight time constraints 🙃

I didn't know they 'patched' the balding bug in men, but apparently there are real medicines now that can prevent + stop it in men?

https://nhs.uk/conditions/...

Looking at some of you guys 👀

ChatGPT has an "interactive speech mode" in their app so you can use just bidirectional audio to chat and it's incredible.

I had a deep and pivoting discussion on how data is stored/formatted at disk level for each database type and it responded wonderfully.

It even sounded annoyed when I was 😅

It probably will sell my voice data now though...

When you have high pattern recognition but get rudely ignored until the problem you warned about becomes a very serious issue days later 😪🙄

Fuck I'm so tired of feeling like the only one trying to stave off bad practice sometimes 🫠

🙃

Did anyone else notice that the weekly rant prompt stopped working two months ago 😬?