so here’s the tea.

i’m a Chinese dev working in a Japanese company. they’ve got this decently sized project a full web app and backend stack and yeah, I’m handling both ends. full-stack life. not a problem. I’ve seen worse.

but the maturity level in this place? the passive-aggressiveness? is different level. have you ever worked somewhere where your coworkers act all sweet on the surface, but lowkey make it feel like everything is your fault in the most obvious way possible?

so here comes the fun part.

the Stripe exchange rate endpoint we were using? deprecated. not globally — just regionally in Japan.

i did my homework. contacted Stripe support. got the chats, screenshots, docs, confirmations, evidence, not .........vibes.

solution? easy. i integrated a third-party API that returns the same exchange rate data. built a cron job to pull and cache the values daily. stored it locally. frontend grabs the user’s currency via IP, backend returns the rate, no stress, no wasted API calls. boom. problem solved.

my manager? totally got it. said it was efficient.
but the founder? man acted like a toddler.

he flipped. said it was my fault.
told me i just "no communicate well...uh...very confuse..." like bro… what even? do I look like I own stripe or do I look like I secretly working for them? plus, i explain in full, still not understand.

he got heated in meeting, so I clapped back in the meeting: you want to argue all day and get nothing done? or you want to understand what’s going on, and let me go back to building stuff that actually works? pick one.

he didn’t like that.
pretty sure he’s shopping for my replacement now. well, doesn’t take a genius to see it.

but I’m not here to babysit egos. I’ll do my job clean, document everything, and keep it professional. meanwhile yeah, I’ve already started looking for something else.

Some people are the reasons that some company banned "remote-working", I am here thinking that "bro, don't abuse it, the last thing I expect is we all work onsite"

OK then

What in the Anus?

Ok...... Wtf

Friendly reminder:

Be irreplaceable. Don't code clean code. Codely it messy. Make it so fucked up that only you understand the codebase.

Make it LLM model can't understand jack shit.

Then ask for higher pay, otherwise resign leaving them a messy code

😅😅😅🤣
#motivation

I received a new gig (matlab), client want me fix the data visualization. Not an issue but WTF

Everyone heard of MERN stack have you heard of FUCK, SHIT and PORN stack?

When I build Low level app that required backend side I use the FUCK stack.

Flask
Uniapp
C/c++
Kotlin

For some LLM project I use PORN

PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Redis
Node.js.

and for some corporate project that requires OCR I use SHIT

Spring Boot
Helm
Interceptor
Tesseract

what stack do you use?

The most unrealistic deadline I got was the project must complete within 16 hours.

Setting: Freelance
Did I accept this? No
Client budget: 10 usd
What is the project? A iOS app which is the a combination of all LLM into one, like a clone of Poe. The API key must use my own because client refused to pay. I negotiate about the project, explain to him why this project, deadline and the budget is not aligned He said " Now everything can be done by using AI, why are yoh cheating me, i will report you" ( I was like report what?) I rejected the gig, then day's later my email junk folder is occupied with racist content and insulting me.

So yea. This is the whole story. This project is doable, just a wrapper. I don't mind if client will pay for all the API , the pay and dealings is logical.

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

Yummy.

https://github.com/johnmelodyme/...

This happen all the time ....

Guys I got something to tell you guys! Urgent!

https://tinyurl.com/53d8xue5

!dev

I am so sick of the Bumiputera 51% equity rules in the startup company. In order for the company to be public listed, 51% (or higher) of the ownership without ANY CONTRIBUTION is compulsorily involve a random assigned entity .

The person who set this regulation clearly don't understand how economic works. This will cause a ripple effect of more companies leaving this country due to unfair treatments if the founders & co-founders happens to be a non "bumi".

Regulation like this put my citizenship into a consideration and doubts.

Every action and decision made, there's always an opposite reaction. In this case, I believe in 5 years, we will witness a massive exodus.

Thats why I stop thinling of launching a branch in Malaysia.

Visited this website, and then…….

You: (you fill in the blanks)
Your manager: “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

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Beeeeep

What the hell? What would plug share do this?

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Yo meta sign out my instagram, so I sign in back realising I logged into some random god knows who account. I logged out.

But when I login again. The app says I have to login to the other account.

So I thought maybe I reset password might help. No , the reset password page is shit , they say they will send me an email and sms but it never arrive.

Ref https://twitter.com/johnmelodyme/...

Helloooooooooo

Is my crypto wallet trying to tell me something?

So uh... I got fired today. I asked them what could be the reasons. They told me that I am "capable" and a bunch of positive things. I asked them can't the reason they fire me is due to all the positive things. Is there a particular reason?

I asked them the reasons again and again. They say was all fine.

Then the email stated I am fired due to "Not working, not contributing and underperforming". Which I asked them to clarify.

They say they prefer someone who has a corporate mentality and is obedient. As more ideas will cause "unrest" for the company.

I am genuinely confused.

Anyway, I am back to freelancing.

Who else have this issue?

I got assigned approximately 20 tasks, all are high priority.

Coworker got assigned 2 tasks, (“like fix button sizes and padding”, “localisation “)

He completed.

I got questioned: “are you sure you are a senior developer? Are you doing your work at all? If your coworker can finish low priority tasks in a day , why you as a senior can’t? “

Me :”if you have the ability to see , please tell me how many tasks I have that are in high priority.”

“Exactly, I need you to complete it now , I expect more from you as a senior. “

Me: “why not you tell me which tasks are higher priority? Because can’t be all are urgent. If everything is urgent , nothing is urgent.”

“Stop giving excuses, be a team player.”

Me :” how is it making excuses for asking urgencies of the tasks?”

“Hahaha you called yourself a senior. What a joke”

Me:”likewise, you called yourself a Project manager yet can’t manage. What a joke indeed.”

I got a theory, @dfox is Thanos.

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jk

My company’s code base is so messy that the dev branch and master branch is so buggy. But they put the blame on me as usual.

I use git blame, I wasn’t the author .

[A thread for those who are curious]

Is monthly salary of USD 4,500 a below average or average salary in your country?

For a software engineer (full stack) (regardless of tech stack), experience more than 5 years.

(Please do let me know where you from as well, just want to know)

In my country (Malaysia) it is consider above average.

This is how it looks like.