lol someone went systematically through my posts and downvoted each of them, i'm down like 200 points from weeks ago

imagine caring that much

"he who angers you controls you"

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I have 16 Gbs worth of emails. I need to bring it to below 5 Gbs. Deleting from UI is taking a long time and is very frustrating (page is hanging etc). Any script or something I can write to automate it painlessly?

Worst coding procrastination story?

Not necessarily coding, but anything that has to do with writing support reports for an application/feature. Good news is we have a dedicated dept for maintaining reports now, but there was a time developers were required to write and maintain reports (Crystal Reports). Starts out as data in grid, but de-evolves into ..
U: "This value here...can you make that red if its a Thursday before a promotion release on Friday and I forget to update the promotional percent?"
<month later>
U: "Why is this value red?"
<explain why it's red>
U: "That is so stupid, I wouldn't ask for such as feature. I never forget."
<month later>
U: "OMG! I FORGOT TO UPDATE THE PERCENT AND WE LOST OVER $100,000!! THE REPORT WAS SUPPOSED TO FLAG THOSE VALUES IN RED!!! I HAVE THE REQUIREMENT DOCUMENT!! ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!"

Not to mention the hours...HOURS worth of meetings filled with "Can you move the value a little to the left, a little more..NO! Too far! Now, make it bold...bolder..uggh...I said bolder, I thought you guys knew a lot about computers."

I eventually ignored the report feature with "I'll work on it later". 'Later' never showed up. Users eventually exported the data to Excel to write their own reports and now exporting data to Excel is a standard feature of our apps.

Dafuq is this shit? Those fuckers don't get tired aren't they?

Just found out the opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire.

Was given a fancy looking pen for 3 years of “service” today.

Pen doesn’t work.

digital lock is broken so I'm locked outside the office. I'm the first to arrive by an hour gap, so I'm here waiting for maintenance to let me in 🤡🤡🤡

halloween error

4tb

riiiight....

After having worked at my current company for about 9 months, I finally feel like I'm contributing and less like a complete moron (at least less often).
It's nice! This week has probably been my most productive in a long time.

It's getting spooky

For a considerable number of days in a row, I randomly glance at my clock and it says 15:21.

Oracle is stocking me!!!!!!

So this is how my day is going.
How's yours?

Company upper management was asked of any plans for supporting businesses in the metaverse.

They said they want to focus on bussiness in the real world.

Absolute chads.

Got my bachelor degree today. I'm happy.

Manager: This button is too dark, you need to lighten it. Have you no sense of design?

Dev: …

Dev: Hows this for an adjustment?

Manager: Wayyyyy too light now, jesus you need glasses if you think that’s good.

Dev: …

Dev: How about now?

Manager: It’s close, make it just a little more dark. God why does this have to take so long, do I have to hold your hand through this entire process!

Dev: …

Dev: There that good?

Manager: Yes that’s perfect! Send me a PR immediately so I can approve, we need to get this out ASAP, it’s critical!!

Dev: I can’t.

Manager: ????

Dev: There’s no diff, you had me gradually adjust the colour back to exactly what it was originally.

Manager: THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE IT LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. HOW DARE YOU INSULT ME LIKE THIS, I HAVE A MEETING I NEED TO GET OFF TO BUT WE WILL BE HAVING WORDS LATER ABOUT THIS INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR.

Dev: …

!rant
I suddenly remembered that time when I was a junior, faced an issue in the code. I assign a parameter for a method for background-colour, where I have to declare a Colour value with the hexcode, then I got an error thrown at me. That's says Colour(); not found something something.

Took me one hour to realise most programming languages are American. Should be Color() not Colour()

Facepalm. That day I thought to me self, how stupid can I get in a day.

The worst part of being a senior software engineer for a team is that the legacy code of the company is not clear, and there's no documentation.

I love python... but Holy shit the way imports works is something I'll be ranting about for a looonng time

Y does it seem to be hard to get a real book for hacking online?.
Someone should please recommend a place and a book?.

Freedom is more important than lack of suffering.

C++ application running on Linux. If customer makes a mistake, I log CustomerIsDumb to kernel message buffer.

So I picked up learning perl.
Mostly using it for tooling and admin.

Kinda looks insane, but in a fun way.

Have I made a terrible mistake?

Article about "best chromium alternatives"

- First is opera
- Second is Vivaldi

Fucking zero brain cells. Entirely braindead. Not a single god damned thought behind the eyes.

convinced a friend to join devrant, have to read his every day rants anyway.

he: are you allowed to swear there?
me: are you kidding? THIS IS FUCKING DEVRANT
he: okay i'm in

Is it wrong that I posted this on LinkedIn? Can any of you truly say that it was wrong?

I keep a bag of cookies at my desk that contain rum. I only eat one whenever i get asked a really dumb question. (See my last rant)
On my way to become permanently drunk at work!

Q: "How high are you?"
Recruiter: "Yes"

Hey folks, I've just launched the https://okso.app - it is a drawing app that you may use to express, grasp, and organize your thoughts and ideas.

One key feature there is that you may organize your drawings/sketches into a hierarchical tree structure so that a large amount of data would be more manageable and less overwhelming.

I hope you find this app useful!

I graduate college in December and I got my first fulltime job offer today! I've been working in my university's oit department for 3 semesters, lol most of rants are about that job. I guess a lot of my frustration stemmed from being capable but hitting a wall in the sort of things I worked on. I didnt feel like I was growing and had no avenues to express concerns/feedback towards the end. Plus the job was not one where they could give me a job after graduation, so I just felt unseen and discardable day to day.

But turns out this job worked out for me! There's an opening in a whole other division that does api development and data warehousing with Snowflake/Attacama and they want me specifically for it. If the benefits/pay ends up being decent, I'm leaning towards accepting it.

Can anyone recommend any good IT / hacker related films that are not HACKERS or THE MATRIX. Thanks.