Question for NextJS/JS developers: I had a "it works on my machine" argument with a frontend dev. We were both hired separately, him doing frontend/backend dev and me doing the AWS dev to prod ci/cd stuff. The setup is that once he pushed code, my Github Actions setup will compile the nextjs app, and push it to dev or prod depending on which branch he pushes it to. His nextjs app was unable to read the .env file on the server but the python/fastapi one can. He kept pointing the finger at me so I had to look it up. Apparently, env values are inlined at build time and he didn't know. What the philosophy behind this design? If there's any changes to env file, you'll have to go to the process of rebuilding.

Python 3.14 just got released. Shouldn't be called Pi-thon?

npm === node package malware

I swear, some frontend devs just don't care about us who work at the backend. How hard is it to do a simple git pull? Frontend dev I'm working with just keep pushing his changes.

I've just been asked by a dev to open up publicly a database port after giving him direct ssh access to the server. Your funeral, buddy.

A cautionary tale, dear devRanters:

"My husband was laid off by Microsoft after 25 years — by algorithm. His last day is his birthday."

https://reddit.com/r/microsoft/...

Enjoy life outside of work

I just had the gayest dream. I was having a nap with a dude similar to Ross and Joey on Friends. Then the guy started removing his shorts. I quickly stood up and left. I'm not sure if it had something to do with me experimenting with different AI Assistants on VSCode like Copilot, Cline and Gemini.

Running your own mail server is a lost art

Damn. Now I really feel old. I forgot I used to do this:

Anyone here leading a team? What's your rule on using AI as a coding assistant? I just read this article:
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning
new jr devs are shipping codes faster but at a cost (test cases, quality control, etc).

I got cooked by Siri when I told it "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start". 🤬

Just had a dream: a python but the head is a puppy and covered in puppy fur. I don't know what that means. You guys had weird dreams lately?

So... the US Social Security numbers are type string or something?

Panadol, where have you been all my life?

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