Hi, why y'all switching to Rust?
I mean real question. I used Rust for a year, before learning C.
It was pretty good but the compiler was driving me mad;
The syntax was a bit verbose.

Both are pretty fast as long as you don't use cargo.
It's not a bad concept (a memory safe lang) ut most codebases end up like :

unsafe {
dologic();
}

Do you think one day rust will be better than C?

How do you help coworkers that gaslight you about their understanding and skills? If they outright refuse help, yet their work is consistently low quality and unacceptable?

You ever fix a bug by doing absolutely nothing?
Like, the code just decides to work again.
No changes. No commits. No reason.
Just vibes.

And now I’m terrified to touch anything because apparently my codebase has emotions.

https://realmofdarkness.net/sb/...

I think people should secretly use Al Pacino soundboards during meetings. lol

See button 'Waste time', Angry, second row. Every time someone says something pointless.

An other week without a backend, an other week closer to the deadline... Less than 2 months to go (excl 2 weeks of PTO :D)

Do any of you here have a relation to Firefox?

I posted a rant like 9 months ago about a VERY small specific bug in Firefox.

And since the last update, it's fixed lol.

The bug was:

When in Firefox and pressing WIN + F11, Firefox went into full-screen mode (probably just checked F11 without the WIN modifier).

Now it does not lol. Well, win for me, win for Firefox, and feels great.

(I have a custom global shortcut for WIN + F11.)

fake knowledge era

100 new lines of code. 6 of them are new, the rest are tests. 30 comments and 100 commits later, changed code still not getting touched by tests. Who tests mocks?

I've enrolled in a language class of a niche language. We had to do our first homework and there is a grandma that wrote her test via Gemini.

What is the purpose of paying for a language class if you don't do the effort to actually learn the language yourself lmao

Fuck my life, it's storming and something in the building is resonating after each gust of wind. Constantly tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut

fucking tinnitus simulator

Chad windows weak linux

Saying this = posting on r/roastme

I’m making an iOS app "WTF Meter", which tracks the amount of phrases like "what the fuck", which you say to your rubber ducky while you review code or any other pieces of work.

It’s supposed to be a gag app for entertainment but it also accurately measures the "WTFs per minute" value, which we all know to be the only true indicator for code quality ;)

Phrases can be customized and there is a history of sessions for later review.

If you are interested, I’d be glad if you could test the current TestFlight version and give me any kind of feedback.

I’m particularly interested in what you think about the design and how intuitive the app is.

Gif showing the app in action:
https://gifyu.com/image/b33tJ

TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

Let me get it straight.

There's devRant, then came Element (Matrix), then came snek and now there's mydevplace.

Pretty soon we'll have more platforms than users using them. Everyone will sit alone in their chatrooms talking to themselves.

It's sad.

For the people who run a small server at home, what are you using it for?

Called the doctor this morning.
Hi. I'm running low on my sleeping pills and would like more.
Ok. I see that you haven't visited us for a while and would like a meeting before we can prescribe new ones. The next available slot is in three weeks.

Guess I stay awake until then.

omg tabloid are so dumb.

BREAKING: American woman uses chatGPT to pick lottery number and wins!!!!!!

They all have the same probability you fucktard that's the POINT

journalists should be IQ tested seriously

:O... On modern displays, a browser pixel can span multiple display dots. Well, that sure demystifies layouts acting strange sometimes.

tmyk

My new place to visit while my Github actions is doing its thing:

https://pointerpointer.com/

TFW you think stating your intent and what you want will get you discriminated against for funsies so they can pull you around and make sure you never get what you want

Those wankers at Microsoft have totally ruined Notepad in Windows 11. Now, when I open a text document with Notepad, it attempts to open any text documents from some previous session as well - some of which might not even exist anymore. It's so fucking annoying!

Regarding coding style, would you rather prefer:

1) Mutating state
This one sounds intuitive and performant because you are working with only one memory segment in place. I think that if you are skilled enough to efficiently modify the state without bugs, then everything should be efficient and powerful.

2) Copying state and modifying the copy
This one seems counter-intuitive to me because it sounds like you are doubling the resources it takes to perform the operation

Funny enough - at least for React, Python and my experience at work - it seems approach 2 is gaining popularity. Does this also apply to C? I would think not. Hm.

What a disastrous deployment: instead of deploying one thing, 50.000 unexpected other things had to be done before. When the "official" deployment was done inside our own network, nothing worked as expected, servers had to be reconfigured, errors everywhere. Mind you it was tested multiple times by multiple people in a testing env. Difference between test and prod, classic.
When it was finally deployed, other errors started emerging, things that weren't considered before came to surface.
On top only the main dev knows the ins-and-outs, no substitute in case anything happens.
Deployment was rolled back in the end.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

The 'vibecoder' skit
:trying hard not to laugh:

Week: 110 (Year 3)

How is the weekend going?

Question: What is something only an immature adult would say?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19333684

https://vibe-coded.lol/

Have you ever asked yourself: "Do I really want to be a dev?". Maybe one wants to be an artist, y'know.

Android dev here.
Been working on this team for one year now. Greatest collaborators I've ever worked with. Feels like we're all working off of the same brain. But this is not about my team. Parallel to ours, there's the iOS team. And if I said they're disfunctional, that'd still be underselling it.

They're atleast 2 sprints behind android on the same features, the junior devs are trying their best to sync up and code their way. But the senior guy has a stick up his bum or something. Keeps shooting down prs left and right. The iOS guys come up to me (I'm the only one in office, rest of android is at a different site) asking for logic changes or UI changes and the like. Although I do have some iOS experience, I can't really get involved, because it's a different codebase and team. Feels very much like office politics.

I feel sorry for the team. Really makes you grateful to have good team members. Any advise I could give them would be welcome.

If you think about it, you really just lost the game.

I'm starting to wonder if the modern job market has changed in such a way that they now require you to have Senior skills if you apply for a Senior position - the old 'apply anyway' does not seem to hold true anymore. This is the experience I have been getting from my latest interviews. If they ask for someone who's a guru in C#... well then, you better be the greatest living legend in it, and no less will do, neither any amount of sales talk.

It's just that; they're asking for real skill nowadays, obviously because the job market is going downwards again and companies are taking no risks... the effect is: either you're really good or we're not hiring you. That must also explain the lack of junior positions... I used to see much more of those around. Now it's all spammed with Senior in the title.

before, when I was younger, whenever I knew someone was wrong and I could prove it, i would do it... Nowadays I don't a fuck, let them burn