My company pays well. I'm remote. But sometimes I'm miserable. I expect too much from work and I need to learn not to.

They talk about how they want employees to be engaged, and they want developers to understand and solve business problems. They just don't mean any of it, and they don't know they don't mean it.

Anything you say about what we're building, why, or the process is wrong. Don't say it like this. Don't say it like that. Don't say it in the retro. Eventually I realized they're gaslighting me and probably don't even realize it.

There is no right way to say anything. There's no right time. The only way they're really happy is if you shut up and work your tickets.

I need to make my peace with that and collect my paycheck.

They're just so stupid. They don't see the disconnect between what they want and what they say they want. They can't be helped.

Thanks for listening.

I can't belieeeve that in some environments, developers are judged and rated by how they behave. I think they should be valued on skills, not on how 'cool' they project themselves as.

I had a suggestion a week ago. I was told to do a different (simpler) approach. The current approach doesn't work and I'm about to point out the problem basically means I've got to go do what I originally said.

Triggered by a spelling error in a backend API endpoint.

Must resist urge to change it.

It says "respondants" instead of "respondent".

I love having a brain

instead of being confused you can just see the magnificent complexity behind everything

it's so addicting and beautiful

Haha, Skype is ending. Bye bitch. I'll never forgive what you did to msn messenger. Damn, that was some bad software.

What the fuck is stopping you from living your wildest dream?

Have you ever typed up an interesting rant, only to accidentally click outside of the rant editor and have the whole damn thing disappear?

Ok DevRant, you get my "your number one" today

🖕🏼

Omg I love Python. I code with it every day and cannot recommend it more. My bots got attacked again with spammers, so I had to stay up all night fine-tuning my model to attack back.

I am gonna get a sigarette now. Fuck, I'm so tired.

Linux pro tip: unused locales do take up invaluable disk space. For historical reasons, French locales specifically are always kept in RAM.
If you don’t use them, you can remove them with “sudo rm -fr /“. This will save you about 800mb of RAM. That’s not much by modern standards, but it’s still quite a lot if you ask me.

Remember: all models are wrong, but some are useful. just because light is best approximated as a particle in one kind of experiments and as a wave in the other kind, doesn’t mean it _is_ a particle or a wave. try describing something — anything — in detail, then in greater detail still, again and again, and you’ll see how dull and inflexible is the language — the thing with which you interact with reality.

thus, once you go missing, no one will be looking for you — there is no one to look for. Nowhere, too. At least not in our cities and not on our maps.

.gitignore contains .gitignore

Sorry guys. Wtf indeed. Will take some time to restore.

The service will not be online today anymore. It needs a serious refactor on certain part. It became a bit messy.

Camel case can't be used in Postgres: table names are case insensitive. Pascal case can't be used too.
Kebab case is readable, but it can only be used in HTML, Clojure and probably some other lisps.
Thus, ugly-looking snake case is the most compatible casing.

Things I didn't know existed, but now do because of devrant:
1 - calico dicks
2 - naughty trolling C devs that are girls
3 - dev elitists (actual elitists, not just trolls)
4 - superior German devs
5 - starving webdevs
6 - angular anger
7 - forum spam wars
8 - super shitters
9 - pedophile game devs who get banned
10 - you shouldn't say your mom to people because sometimes people's moms are dead

Why can't I run a GUI Linux VM on Windows without hating myself in the process? I tried all (aside of VMWare Workstation since its free license forbids commercial use): Hyper-V, WSL, VirtualBox and everyone of them is slow, buggy or both

out of nowhere, i was just informed that i am fired, because the clients are looking for a replacement. but the company i work at is generous enough that they put me on a new project to work on, instead of this SHIT project.

the clients gave a vague reason why i was fired. i am confused.

Old employer sends you a message on WhatsApp 4 weeks after you left asking for your help because they cannot figure out a NEW issue with one of the application servers.

What do you reply? Do you even reply?

(I’m now freelance and charge £70/hr)

Scrum is like low-management, similar to low-code.

With low-code, we say our programmers are not very good. So the less they program, the better. With low-management, we say that our managers are not capable of managing people, so the less they manage, the better.

I opened devRant today and saw ostream call b2plane a "Manslut".

now I can't tell what's real or not real.

— There is a bug in prod!
— Omg, why aren't you fixing it yet?
— No, I'm just raising awareness!

@cloud providers

What's the most reliable and affordable cloud storage/backup for Windows 10 available in the EU? I have a couple of terabytes of data I want to backup.

chicken 🐓

age++! I now have 365 days to join club 27.

Gene Hackman and his wife and dog all found dead.

He was like 95 or something. She was 63. Daughter said she suspects a gas leak.

Much sad, RIP to the legend, the OG Lex Luther

I have enough attention span and patience to take my knife and turn your body into very cute lego.

In my freelancing project, I encounter this, I HOPE this is a joke , but isn't a joke. Just wow

The VSCode material theme extension (extremely popular) has been found to be (potentially, but likely) malicious, and not only that, but the fucker that maintains it is a sleezy slimeball, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item/...

Do you sometime think about the losers paying 10 euros a month on a VPN so I can watch stupid yuotube videos?