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AboutMy name is Felix, I genuinely hated my life and programming was my coping mechanism. Things are getting better. In a few months, I'll have finished my apprenticeship and have become an actual, genuine software developer.
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SkillsJavaScript/Node, Typescript, C, C#, T-SQL. I like snakes, but fuck python. Digital Logic as well, kind of... ...and anything else, if you pay me to learn it. No risk no fun.
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LocationNear Bielefeld, Germany
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Joined devRant on 11/11/2019
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Are we overengineering everything in modern frontend dev?
Okay, serious question (but also low-key rant):
How did we go from “just load a page with some content” to entire frontend stacks with build pipelines, 300 dependencies, and five levels of abstraction just to render a freaking button?
Do we really need a separate config for everything (webpack, eslint, prettier, tsconfig, package.json, and don't forget the .babelrc and .env.local)?
Or is it just modern dev trying to look smarter than it is?
Is this the new normal? Or have we lost the plot?
Would love to hear what others think — devs from all backgrounds welcome. Bonus points if you're building sites without frameworks and surviving17 -
How bad would you say it is to have plain javascript in the root of a functional React component lifecyle loop scope.
I sometimes do hardwired modifcations right before the return because I know it needs to run everytime and the performance hit is minimal... Or is it ? 🤔
And sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of all the dependancy management just to save a couple of operations ..?
See pic attached .. Even looking at this picture now I realised I've accidentally added another React hook BELOW this code, luckily only 1.
I think my reasoning for this was to allow some provider functions to be passed around and used anywhere in this app which accesses the context. Is this a no-no too?5 -
Piratesoftware's "2D Raytracing" code is just shitty radial light diffusion with collision checks. The worst part is he's individually checking each pixel and manually adjusting the lighting pixel by pixel😭 🙏
Does anyone else feel like Piratesoftware's content is just dedicated to people starting out with coding and game dev? Should this piece of shit be the person these newbie devs look up to? What a fucktard. This is the dude who has "DECADES OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE" hacking windmills and sending emails like "please let me hack you" in blizzard7 -
DOM custom events, and the Node.JS Event class are both so easy to work with and intuitive. Why doesn't JavaScript have native events? It was literally made for UI.
Also: I asked ChatGPT this exact thing before I posted because I had a sneaaaaking suspicion AND I WAS RIGHT. He called it a fuckin quirk.
ChatGPT is a 14 year old that just learned a new word and won't stop using it.6 -
I'm a slow developer because i try to think things through before i start coding and end up not doing anything or taking a long time to do simple things.
I dislike just jumping in and writing code because I end up not understanding why things work27 -
We will see how much spam I get I guess:
devrantfuckers @ demolishun dot com
You know what to do. I would hate to never talk to people here again. Well, at least the non-assholes. You know who you are! lol2 -
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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Some people laugh at this statuette, but it was probably made by someone who had seen his and his tribe’s kids die of malnutrition.
No matter what you do, you can’t look like this if you barely make ends meet food-wise. Also, your body won’t produce as much breast milk.
In some tribes of rural Africa, the more body fat you have, the sexier you are.
This statuette is a powerful symbol, and I can see all the pain and tragedy behind it.5 -
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.3 -
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?8 -
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.1 -
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.20 -
Dark Humor
Lets try some seriously dark dark humor. Lets find what lurks in the hearts of men.
My Kid: I was adopted.
Me: We wouldn't have picked you.
Oedipus: <whilst banging his wife> You remind me of my mom.
What do you call Rock Hudson in a wheelchair?
Rollaids
What did Christa McAuliffe say to her husband before the launch?
You feed the dog, I will feed the fish.
Some I found from searching web:
What's worse than a baby in a dumpster?
A baby in 2 dumpsters.
If we had mosquito nets in Africa we could save millions of mosquitos from getting AIDS.
Down syndrome in military is called special forces.
Mom told me to eat my vegetables, now where do I put the wheelchairs.
Whoever thought white men can't jump obviously never watched the 9/11 footage.13 -
We have a bug.
I fixed it, then I said it was a super tricky bug, a race condition in the library code, and that I had to put on an issue and wait for their answer.
Boom, day off.
God I'm a genius.19 -
here are things that prove god doesn't exist:
- trie (non-binary tree)
- nybble (half a byte)
- .DS_Store
- .Trash-1000
- tsconfig.json
- Electron
for if he existed, he would have never allowed those hubris monuments to be erected in his kingdom.21 -
It's so funny sometimes to tell americans facts about their country that completely demolish the whole "America is a free country" bullshit.
Once upon a time, there was a guy that took his car in for service. Then, maybe he was creeped out by the people there, or by something else, but he felt like something was fishy. Lo and behold, when he went back home and inspected his car, he found a weird little box retrofitted where it can't be immediately spotted. He figured out that it was some kind of a tracker, so he removed it, and you know what happened next? I kid you not, he got IN TROUBLE for TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENT PROPERTY!
If you're a US citizen, you're not allowed resentment. You're not allowed to resist oppresive measures like whatever the fuck happened to that guy.
The US of A is not a free country. It used to be, but it became a police state at exactly 8:46:40 on September 11, 2001.
It's so sad that some of you go on and on and on about their gun rights, but when it's time to use them for the purpose stated in the second amendment ("A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state"), they do nothing.4 -
What kind of music are you listening to while coding?
Is it instrumental or lyrical?
Sometimes songs with lyrics districts me18 -
If ChatGPT calls my problem a "classic" or it's solution a "subtle quirk of <framework>" one more fuckin time I'm gonna be the first human to murder an AI9
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dev communities can be the most toxic as well as the most welcoming at the same time.
just depends on what your timing is. You can get a bunch of links to help debug your issue or you can get told to "kill yourself".
You never know.7 -
What have I done today?
Nothing. Stayed naked all day and smoked weed.
Well I did my budget for the month and send my bills.
Tomorrow I'm paid.
Can't wait to receive my 8 strings guitar omg2 -
spent the whole week working on a bug fix last week.
implemented a method to filter some data to make it easier to use in the HTML template.
friday's session with other programmers to review code went well, they said the method is pretty good and works nice. (I must admit there was an elusive bug that prevented the component to render and none of us could figure it out)
i get back on monday to a message from the lead saying the code is unusable and they reverted to the previous (convoluted) way of doing things and i should do the same in the future. just copy their work.
i check the typescript class. fucking method that was used (which he told me not to use and I should copy and work off of), he went and just changed the method's name, and the body is EXACTLY the same as his existing method.
this code base is ridden with re-used methods (I managed to extract two reused ones into a service some time ago), the use of any for 90% of method return types and variables...
WTF. I am losing all of my respect for seniors and faith in this company.
This is why I am burned out. You are farting against a hurricane and everyone else's shit is coming back onto you. This is fucking insane. Or am I insane?9 -
when you end up in the ER with excruciating pain early on a Saturday morning from persistent inflammation from chronic job stress and getting sick more than normally, you gotta change jobs.
no amount of money is worth your health.
(the drugs they gave me were pretty fun though, but not something I ever want to go through again)5 -
In my latest installment of "Swift, WTF?", we look at the "if" conditional in terms of the Swift convention of:
if let x = y { /* ... */ }
so what this does :
1. declares x in the scope of the braced code
2. sets x to y (an ahem, "optional")
3. decides if x is not *nil*, then executes the braced code.
This is very similar in both the visual and the operation to the C code of:
if (int x = y) { /* ... */ }
1. declares x in the scope of the braced code
2. sets x to the value of y
3. if x is not zero, then executes the braced code
which is considered *exceptionally* poor style.
Neither the C nor the Swift construct result in a legitimate boolean value of "true" or "false", although C comes closer than Swift.
In the Swift case the *imaginary* "nil" value has to be interpreted as "false" and thus there must be extra code is for the conditional to check on whatever constitutes the **actual** value of nil in Swift and then set the condition to "false".
(remember boys and girls, "optionals" are not real, they are an imaginary language construct of Swift and have no legitimate counterpart in the CPU operations with memory and registers)
At least in the case of C, if the value of x is zero or NULL (which is 0) then it is technically a "false" which in C is 0. Regardless, it is really poor programming and anyone doing that on my team gets an ear full.
But in Swift this obfuscation of code is common and condoned! Well, why not put more of the program in the condition of the if? In fact, stuff the whole thing in there.. why not? 🙄
This just reenforces my opinion that Swift is not a bird but the stuff that comes out of the underside of the bird. 🐦💩33 -
Typescript being built around js forced the creators to build a really powerful and flexible type system so much that no other language type system can compare to.7