Thanks, good folks! Took a little while because I ended up moving before the letter arrived, but it's finally in my hands. Look at my shiny new devRantBook!

Can we make the devRant gang sign into a thing? Can it be a secret way of recognizing other devranters, say, at conferences? Please?

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Behold, Windows.

Berri-UQAM Station, Montreal.

I got 99 problems but encoding ain’t one

Starting to learn rust... It's hard! I've never worked with a language this low-level before, there are a lot of concepts to learn. It's a good hard, though.

I did an engineering quiz yesterday as a way of introducing a new database the school recently got access to. You had to sign up for the site.

- Passwords were max 20 characters (which is better than 10, but still, why???)
- You couldn't use special characters, but there was NO INDICATION ANYWHERE THAT THAT WAS THE CASE. It would just silently fail to log in. I had to open the browser console to figure out what wasn't working. FUCK

Spotify, I don't think "changelog" means what you think it means.

i'm starting to consider taking back what i said about gitlab... ARGGHGHGH

!rant

It's my birthday! Guess I'm just born to be a programmer 😉

[when starting out with web dev] Just use bootstrap!

Please don't. I teach web dev now, and when people learn a framework initially, they often get a warped and incomplete understanding of how things work. They spend their time learning the framework instead of learning the systems they're actually working with, and then when the want to do something the framework can't do, they're just at a loss.

Don't get me wrong, bootstrap and jquery and so on have their places, but those places aren't when you're just starting out.

"Don't bother reading the docs, they're just technical crap"

Well guess who knows how the framework we're using works 🤔

First rant!
Ah, npm... Lots of packages use ES6 syntax because it's nice to write, and then transpile to node-compatible code either with CI or a precommit script. Just spent a whole day trying to figure out what was wrong with my project, when it turns out I just had to tell webpack to ignore node_modules *except* for this specific package. Sigh.