After 5 days of being /gone/ finally caught up again. Anyway, see you all next week or when page 4 is fully unread again

(not really, just have been busy)
(btw you can get temporarily banned from commenting it seems)

Company is not doing well so decided to go job hunting again, or rather respond on linkedin. Didn't think I cared that much, but I have been unable to finish the work I need to do, something that I should be able to do in a day at most. Half of me is "remember you don't care" the other half is "why are such a slacker, useless piece of shit"

Anyway, first call with an actual recruiter was positive

We need to come up with a coding version of this. Where is a place that coders fight all the time? Some place notorious for this? We fight here, but I wouldn't compare devrant to a waffle house.

I come home and the park is surrounded by police. Fine, I'll take a shortcut home and will snuff the mountain of amphetamine I have left and will end as the scarface from Ali express. If I do not get shot, I'll be online for the next 72 hours. Both are appealing tho. Anyway, I have to act quick. TTYL.

GRAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH POOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

That's just my frustration with SourceTree.

This is a story all about how my SourceTree got twisted upside down, and I'd like to take a minute to just sit right there and tell you how I pushed my code to my repository on GitHub:

Iiiiiin my SourceTree, born and raised, I checked out my branch, tried to push but SourceTree said: "See ya later!" (denied/authentication failed). Sssoooo I told myself I was not going to use ChatGPT to solve this problem. I was going to use my Medior skillzzzz1!1!1!Oen and so I did solve it, but what a fucking hassle!

First I tried to remove all credentials from SourceTree and from my system, then I tried to add a fine-grained PAT, and finally... someone mentioned on StackOverflow that it was the git version that was oudated. So, SourceTree has an outdated embedded git, even on the latest version. Wtf?! Anyway, so I let it choose system git (which uses the latest git version).

And now it works!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Some people boycott. Some people do boyscouts

How would it change your working behavior if you get about 5% shares of the company you are working at?

just had my annual review. it felt like parsing a poorly formed JSON response.
{
"name": "Me",
"metrics_met": true,
"innovative_solutions": null,
"complex_problems_solved": undefined,
"mentorship_provided": null,
"overall_feedback": "excellent, good job, Keep up the good work."
}
all the real work—the late-night debugging, the patient mentoring of the junior dev, the architectural insight that saved us from a rewrite, it all just gets returned as null or undefined.
the system only has fields for the stuff that's easy to measure, not the stuff that actually matters. my career is being evaluated by a broken API.
i'm gonna start writing my own damn API documentation for my brain. at least then the payload would be accurate.

My phone broke a few months ago and when I went to a local retailer. All their phone specification and the price were locked behind a QR-code. You could not make an educated purchase lol

Who was the idiot that thought this was a good idea.

Why does everything require an account these days?
I just wanted to try out a simple to-do list app. Next thing I know, it's asking for my email, phone number, and the name of my first pet. I'm not buying a house — I just want to tick off "buy milk."
Whatever happened to lightweight, no-signup tools? Devs, bring back simplicity please.
/end rant

Debugged a self written http(s) reverse proxy for the whole day for nothing. The slowing down seem to be a link to an old server that went down by coincidence i started to work on it. So the browser, kept giving a loading sign. Normally that would mean a bug in the reverse proxy, if you write one on your own.

Fuck.

There are advantages to being really hungry and having some sensory issues. I went and got tacos from the taco bus today. I sat at my desk to eat them. I was really hungry today.

As I started eating them I could feel the hot of the salsa causing all my nerves in my mouth to really trip out. I could taste the meat, the sauce, the tortilla, and the cheese at a heightened sensation. As I was chewing the first few bites I literally shook a bit as the smorgasbord of pleasure sensations shot through my mouth. I could feel my eyes rolling back in my head. I didn't know one could have a mouthgasm. The sensations were so intense.

I have had this happen before, but never this intense or memorable. I felt like I would have been embarrassed to eat like this in front of other people. If this is something I can repeat I would be inclined to starve myself to make myself extra hungry to experience this again. What a nice surprise for lunch. Nobody expects surprise mouth sex. (Idea of new Monty Python skit?)

I have to say I would have to leave an anonymous review for the taco bus if I were to relay the mouthgasm event. Is this the start of a new fetish? Now I am sensually attracted to tacos. Well done taco bus, well done.

My employer has made a settlement offer. They also very clearly lay out what they think I might accuse them of and I would have to waive my rights to sue. Primarily harassment, disability discrimination.

I'm not saying "fuck it, we ball" is my decision making process, but...

My old cat is 24. It's because we give her some CBD oil to cure her oilments.

tailwind is trash holy crap.

every div element contains like 30 classes that have their own thing going for them.

just start writing inline css at that point. Why bother putting classes in?

I think my favorite alternate universe is the one in crimson skies.

Prohibition failed to pass congress in the US, which leads the US to balkanize and close their state borders. Airplanes and zeppelins are ubiquitous and there are space pirates getting loots all over the country

Ahoy ye coders lol

EpiPen's patent expires in September 2025.

I'm done with the black market. Now i'm ordering my weed from silk road

Bonus I can get some 2cb and have a psychedelic trip in the wood. My shitty weed deala dont even have 2cb. It's a connoisseur drug. Nobody knows about it. One time I got caught at the airport in the chemical detector and I'm pretty sure the border patrol agent knew what it was but he still let me go.

Wow there's a new season of king of the hill

Again, Atlassian products don't work in Firefox.
Dunno who's to blame - Atlassian or Mozilla. All I know is this sucks! Can't stand Edge and the sorts.

Ah, culture fit. It's funny that what highly determines you getting the job is how well you get along with the team in the warm-up phase (meeting the team). If in a casual conversation with the guys you already clash personalities, they will find a way to push you out.

I realized that now...

I have great news for several reasons. First of all, I have documented the whole devRant API now with some help of AI to resolve requests and made a script to resolve the responses and merged that together in a README.md and updated the docstrings of my devranta api client.

This is a big deal, because with such complete api class, you can vibe whatever advanced devRant bot you can imagine in a hour or so. Could make a wordle bot like Snek has. Just an example.

But besides that, I vibed a devRant API crawler using my devRanta class. It searches what users are connected to what rants and reversed since dr doesn't allow to browse the whole site per pagination. Wonder why.

The crawler is in the examples/crawler directory. If you have python3 already installed, the only think you have to run is go into that folder, and it will download whole devRant.

I hope that my work will contribute to the creator of the next devRant or for the training of an LLM or such. It's a nice dataset. The crawler pulls on my terrible slow 4g connection 272,340 rants per hour. The crawler is an beast actually and easy to fine tune regarding workers etc.

Long story short: get the whole devRant dataset by executing once `make`. And don't worry, the API can handle it easy.

@Lensflare, is it already possible to delete your account in your app? I've documented that as well :P

While a lot is vibed, it required quite some steps to pull all off together. I hope somebody takes my advise to vibe some nice bots with it.

If you take my example project files and the devRanta client yourself, you have enough information to generate a whole devRant site clone easy. I think in one day, you can have like 80% from the default user functionality. Maybe even a good idea to also give a few screenshots to the LLM.

https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

modern cars are awful. cheeky fuckers.

was driving somewhere with my mon in her BMW and for some reason our conversation in notEnglish triggered the AI assistant and my mom told it "fuck you" in our native tongue and it replied with "watch your tone" LMAO.

It's so funny, but awful in a way. And it keeps jerking the steering wheel when you go too close to a lane. It's quite jarring to drive like that.

It’s so sad that this “Auth for Google authenticator” app whose logo definitely doesn’t try to impersonate google with a similar color scheme, with in-app purchases, is allowed to exist, while Lensflare’s JoyRant isn’t.

Lensflare! WTF did you do?!

https://reddit.com/r/Asmongold/...

I know some of Germany has been regressing, but this is terrible!

LOL

intellij no longer recognizes java imports, but the non-java imports are still recognized

i didnt do anything, fml

at least invalidate caches seems to have fixed?

Ah yes. ubiquitous-octo-engine. Short and memorable.

Writing concurrent code is hard, but testing it, is something else. I'm almost sure my implementation is flawed, but I can't get the tests to fail!

You know, I'm getting tired of this HR-speak in job applications, specifically this:

- [tech] has no secrets for you

What, really? So I am the undisputed and absolute expert of - let's say - JavaScript? Do you know how long it takes to master that so that it holds no secrets? It even holds secrets to decade-long experts! The same goes for most other technologies in software development.

Sigh. Hhhhh. Ree.