I have been lucky that my (dad's) first computer did not run any fancy games unless you coded them (or re-typed code from printed magazines).

Later, still in the 1980s, even for running commercial (or pirated) games, you needed to type something in the console, like

LOAD "*",8,1

RUN

but the other way round, when contracting gets too successful you become more and more like an employee.

/me cries in frontend

fucking "frontenders" who don't understand frontend

As I said, we could replace C# by anything else that enough people could agree on. https://devrant.com/rants/9396213/...

I consider giving up my old nickname every other year. It shouldn't be hard to guess which real-world person it's connected to, but then again, you can never be 100% sure, so at least there is nothing against me legally, whatever I will write here.

And there are some other people and projects with similar nicknames, which lowers the probability even more.

Last but not least: a company that would criticize any of my devrant posts will probably be wrong about other things as well, so I wouldn't sign a contract. And I'm self employed so I mostly deal with people who don't even know (or care) about devrat

@electrineer I turned in several declarations last week and I'm sure they will ask for clarifying documents etc. and I hope that they will do so before I forget where I put those and why I chose to put certain numbers in certain form fields.

I will continue to complain for sure, but maybe I won't do it in public again, or I will find a way do disguise my rants as technical questions that comply to the board rules of forum.elster.de

That sounds much more credible than "I discovered your GitHub profile and want to ask you for your sincere feedback as a senior developer" though.

Never again am I going to complain about the German tax system. I feel sorry for you!

I just donated some money to the Thunderbird project although I don't like the UI update that they just released. But I like free and open source software and I don't want to miss Mozilla tools when it's too late.

More like I didn't feel fit for traditional jobs that require skilled hands, physical strength or being ready for work in the early morning. Working in a hospital for 1.5 years instead of compulsory military service proved my doubts were wrong but still it was very challenging and my coworkers said I should got to University (bad advice) and use my brain to earn an income (good advice).

So in a way, I took an "easy" path but what's the point of choosing a hard challenge as a daily job when there are choices?

And it turned development isn't easy either, it's just hard on a different level and now we have daily standups and toxic work culture apart from the "actual job".

Dark mode is nice but someone had better prioritized high availability instead.

@ostream I have to disappoint you, but someone had the same idea before you did

https://gamingdebates.com/2020/02/...

@DotGreen that's exactly the problem. I understand that the Internet originated as a cooperation between US American military and universities, so no wonder why they dominated early days. But the idea of web and hypertext has also been decentral and global from the start. So what the funk went wrong that 30 years later the web so centralized and dependent on an oligopoly of companies mostly based in California, USA - and those capitalist dudes are even getting credits and criticism for supposedly being leftist woke intellectuals?

Time for another (anti)social media detox period!

We'll see if "you guys" (does anyone use this American English plural outside the US?) figure it out until I come back next year.

As to my fellow European devs, we probably already met in person without realizing anyway, so let's have a beer at the next meetup or conference.

The worst characters of that generation are thinking about how to make people pay for using Twitter. Elon!

Trumpists try to take over. Maybe devRant, like Ex-Twitter, is just too US-American to allow it to pollute my thoughts any longer.

But maybe I've just become too much of a woke soy boy while the majority of our retarded white dude developer culture prefer to remain the little gamer boys they've always been from the start.

If I'd do farming instead of coding, I'll make a vegetable and plant farm with not animals at all. Otherwise milking the cows would guarantee a daily standup 7 days a week.

Seriously, becoming a freelancer did help, depending on the projects / people / customers we have the choice to work with, but at least a greater power to say no or take a day off.

@Lensflare I like web dev and I love front end but it's no good advice for every type of developer, especially not if you like logic and programming in a predictable and testable way, or if you like stability or you're prone to follow every new trend quickly.

Don't get overwhelmed or rather accept that it's normal feel overwhelmed is maybe the most important advice to new web developer apart from learning the basics.

@SidTheITGuy still searching for those who turn weak ass soy boys like me into "real men". Maybe I should watch more bodybuilding exercise videos.

@lungdart @fraktalisman also hope Musk doesn't get tempted to acquire their shop because of their X logo. At least Ubuntu doesn't have any "AI" / Siri / Cortana stuff shipped by default.

@SidTheITGuy it's that other kind of you-specific, that kind of "you" that others want you to be.

@retoor then they should suggest stop watching videos. There used to be a German TV show for kids featuring an alternative guy (allegedly called Peter Lustig = "Peter Funny") who used to end the shows by saying "turn the TV off now! there is nothing more to come! Wait, you're still watching? Turn the TV off and go out now!"

You know that time is over when you see the first ads for varifocals, stairlifts and hearing aids.

@lungdart I am quite happy about my Tuxedo Infinitybook. Finally something German that I can feel proud about ;-)

@electrineer of course it does, for example, MacBooks are superior to any PC machine when it comes to vendor-lock-in.

Apart from my irony, many respect this as a feature: you can't customize much about a Mac, and there is always one right and proper way to do something.

MacBooks are superior to cheap PC notebooks with poorly configured Windows 11, but not to a proper high-end Linux laptop.

If chatGPT would even be worth that huge waste of electric energy. People could just roll the dice and use the results to point the corresponding pages or line numbers in the documentation, they'd still get better results.

Safari is even worse than chatGPT, but both don't comply with what I would regard as logical.

How those kind of jobs end up in reality most of the time:

> It's only you that this job is offered to, and no one else.

It's the only job that is offered to you, no other opportunity.

> If you say no, then this is not getting built in any way.

If you say no, someone else will build it anyway.

> If you say yes, you will be paid $50 million.

If you say yes, you will be paid $5K.

> It's already presumed that you have the skills to get it done.

It doesn't even matter if you have the skills, you will be one of 100 mediocre team members eventually getting it done somehow. You don't even have to sabotage of fake: when it's finished, stakeholders will need years to decide to go live, and then it will fail on most devices anyway.

depends on the app, but if you're targeting users in 1st world countries like USA (has infamous offline deserts) and Germany (has reliable internet nearly nowhere) you should always consider offline functionality as an implicit top priority

like I hate React and still tell aspiring frontend devs they should learn it.