Opened devRant after exactly 4 years. Brings back so many memories!!
Hello again, devRant community! What's life like rn?

If your manager is an asshole in unrecorded 1-on-1's, buy a dictaphone.

Tetris is an inventory management survival horror game

Let me present you a new term: Boomersoftware

Definition: As long as it has an exorbitant licensing cost it is good software. Whether its used at home or by IT in the office does not matter. Specifically when a foss alternative exists.

Examples:
Microsoft Windows (Especially server or embedded)
Most types of antivirus software
Software
VM-Ware/Hyper-V
Allen-Bradley Studio 5000
Most WYSIWYG document editors

AI tokens are just microtransactions for programmers

390.8 MB worth of app just to change the brightness value of a single non-rgb led in my mouse.

been working in the same company for 7 years, founder removed all our remote flexibility, told us people who dont come to the office can be replaced with AI, we have no excuse to being late to the office, etc...

feeling violated i began applying to other companies, and im very surprised that after 8 years of development experience, many side projects and curious endeavours later, i keep getting rejected or ghosted... wtf is this job market? i used to get interviews at least in almost any company i applied for before...

how tf do you land a new job these days?

Reactive state tracking in JS frontend frameworks is just ridiculous

This is a language that encourages you to create huge trees of objects but from what I can tell most frameworks have real trouble detecting any change more complex than a direct assignment

Am I missing something? I have a reactive list of objects of which fields get updated. I have no idea how to make that trigger UI updates.... This is just torture

I’m so annoyed that the word “throwel” exist but doesn’t even mean a tactical shovel designed to be thrown.

Want to know a sad story? I had a great idea for an internal application that would optimize a process in the company. My idea gets approved and.. guess what? Later it gets cancelled because Change Management didn't see a reason for me to get API rights on the company pipeline, which was what I needed to get my application going. I pitch my idea and they don't care and shut me down quickly because it's just another ticket they want to close asap.

Another guy in my company, openly incompetent but big buddies with the higher-ups gets his idea approved without effort. They open the doors for him and talk to Change Management to get him in. Then he's seen as Mr. Big Ideas while this guy doesn't even know how to use a terminal (I'm not joking). Even the girls admire him but he's a complete idiot who just smiles a lot.

It's whom you know, apparently. And bureaucracy is a piece of shit. So are cronyism and corruption.

Fuck, my company is doing an all-hands meeting / Division townhall... AND EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD IS DOING SOME STUPID D-DAY REFERENCE.
Cringe.

How in the ever-god-fearing FUCK am I just now learning about git tag????

https://git-scm.com/book/en/...

I know exactly what I’m doing! I just don’t know what effect it’s going to have.
— Fantastic, Fallout New Vegas

Speed, quality, scope. Why managers dont understand that they can pick only two and expect all three?

Last time I try EXWM as my window manager.

What a time to be alive!

So, I got attacked by a lot of spam-repositories on molodetz. I'm sure it's the same spammer as we have here since the severity. He also mentions me often here on the platform under the account of a spam bot to troll me. Anyway, dear spammer, it took me 2,5 minute to resolve the issue.

Software Development 2025 everyone:

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...
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Quote of our co-founder today: "Recently I've learned we should be doing market research before building something"

Explains why we are so much in the red now...

using a built-in terminal in vscode instead of your custom dedicated one is like buying your phone from a carrier. Or like marrying your first gf/bf and living with them together without ever trying to date someone else first. Or getting your sprite from mcdonalds.

ISP throttlin
they raging
wreckin my deadlines
so shamelessly
so I'm cancelling
fuck yeah I'm cancelling
eat it sick fucks

I'm currently exporting the designs & the scrapped iterations i had to make for my job in the past 4 years.

My first boss wanted to have an iteration saved per design and have already multiple 'final' options available per design meeting.

Now my current boss is asking to export them all but the bulk export functionality is broken. Never realised I spend so much time designing this shit application. There are over 16.000 designs to be exported by hand.

They now want to get rid of this tool since nobody else will do designs.

Wtf is up with some education providers? Even the de facto industry leaders have half-assed courses. Not many are super high quality. They sound like they are speaking into a mic, forced to do it. Nothing like YouTube, more like middle-aged, depressed men with no life with no energy. I'd much rather learn elsewhere. This is akin to how some university professors give some lectures. Where are the passionate teachers of our world?

The ones that I enjoyed were: MIT, Harvard and Stanford. Perhaps it has to do with money. lol.

intellij why do you no longer have a default sensible junit test runner config out of the box?

fucking project view neeeded to be on

A friend of mine asked me to help him develop a simple ios app. After spending few year with lisp Swift looks so syntactically difficult to understand how to write code. I feel I have to learn Swift, SwiftUI and their specifics before.

But preview in XCode is fantastic btw.

There is some construction works going in my street and they just cut the internet cable by accident... for the second time.

I love having no internet to get work done :v

Tbh, ostream is a nice guy. Once you get over his

- Racism towards Germans
- Racism towards Jews
- Closeted racism towards anyone, really
- Psychotic episodes of rage
- Borderline criminal tendencies
- Bipolar disorder

It's actually fun to talk to him. You have to invest time and patience though.

Love you ostream bro.

Ssooo.. Turns out, I'm starting a new project in less than 2 weeks. Gotta go to Dublin for 2 weeks.

Fuck.
I'm not a traveling kind of a person...

the only thing more terrifying than a chainsaw is the person who's not terrified of it.

homebrew, asdf, pre-commit, pip, pkg_resources, setuptools

as a group i have no idea what the fuck is broken with you all trying to work together

For fuck's sake, management is now asking us to provide data converted in % as to how genAI is actually making us more efficient as developers. How the fuck do you even measure that empirically?

It is already BS enough that they track how much we query these AI tools everyday in our development environments, but now they want genAI to produce most of the code templates in our SDK. It can barely produce a working regex or a working python script, let alone a small piece of code that won't stack overflow itself into oblivion. It sometimes takes more time to debug and refactor than to do it myself from scratch.

They ask for our professional opinion, we tell them, they don't give a fuck about it, proceed to think all is rainbows and unicorns, and still ask us the same moronic things as if they were the new messiah's on earth.

Don't get me wrong, genAI can be useful, but why the fuck does management think it will magically solve all our problems when they don't even understand how it works even on the surface.

The only thing that would make sense is a lot of them got money at stake in some AI investment sales pitch bullshit and they try to jam it up our collective throats because otherwise they will loose their investments like there is no tomorrow.

Fuck all of this, I just want to do engineering and build something useful to society. Is it too much to ask?

I need a polite way to ask someone if they're brain damaged.