For fuck's sake, what are the creators of tailwind thinking? So, I made the mistake of upgrading to tailwind v4 and now my site is broken. Who in the fuck thought removing half the features is an "improvement"?.

wE've mAde ConFiGUraTion EaSier with CSS.

Sure, let's see. It sounds neat on paper, a "CSS-first" approach. But when you've got existing projects with a meticulously crafted tailwind.config.ts file, it's not simplified at all, it's a migration nightmare. Suddenly, my custom colors and breakpoints are all gone or behaving unpredictably because the new system decides to interpret them differently.

Do these people actually work on any project that is long-term or is everything they work on just green-field?

Because when you have hundreds of pages and custom built rules, and now eveything is broken for no goddamn reason, it's not fun, is it?

I've now wasted days on this shit when I should have shipped so many features.

I simply can't wait to switch my career to something else. Like, this stuff is just so bad man. Come on.

https://htxt.co.za/2025/06/...

lmao

Angular sucks the joy out of programming.

alright so I opened a big ass curtain in my office, and it seems the sun glaring the fuck out of the screen of the person sitting in front of that window. But it's been weeks now.

Today I found out who is sitting in front of that window. It's the guy who is working with me and whom we had dinner last week.

omg I'm so sorry for opening that curtain.

Imagine having put so much effort in spamming on both devRant and my personal portfolio repository with 20 to 50 items a day and just failing on both. My site does like devRant cleaning up every few seconds instead of getting some better captcha or disable API. I won't make my site less comfortable to work with because such loser. I already thought of a fun prank i can do with him. But for now, i'm too busy for that. Sitting in a wheelchair must piss someone off very hard.

Who tf is stupid enough to bomb nuclear facilities. Jeez these izraelians and yanks really are retarded

They could explode and kill us all you goddamn idiot.

This is the nth software company where you have some asshole who for some reason (probably because they hate you) plays blame-games when it comes to code reviews, when they themselves screwed up in the first place (I know there's git blame, but..).

The guy writes shitty code quickly because the manager asked, then I take my time and patience to make it better, and in the code review they shit on me for things THEY wrote badly? Wtf man. What kind of logic is that? Fucked up people. And then putting shit in bold and exclamation marks (wtf?).

Is it just me or have you also seen this behavior with your colleagues?

Putting people on too many projects (6 projects) is bad because when it comes to reviewing your work (let's say 30 x 200 lines of code), they will spend 5 minutes on it, 10 tops, give a shitty, lazy review and then they get back to their projects.

This is just pure mismanagement. You're stressing your employees to get everything done, the 'quality' is then spread so thin everything turns to shit.

Drug addiction is better than gambling addiction in every way:
- some of the world's greatest artists/musicians were drug addicts, so you can claim to be like them
- there are a lot of different drugs to try
- your drug spending is regulated by your body. There is a set amount of drugs your body can absorb, and if you try to stuff it more, you die. In gambling, you can lose $10,000 just as easy as you can lose $10. So, when you die, you'll leave less debt to whoever's gonna be responsible for repaying it.
- drug addiction is primarily viewed as a medical problem, and in the western world, addicts often get compassion. Gamblers are universally mocked and laughed at, not just in the west, but pretty much everywhere.
- there are good things that were created under the unfluence of drugs. nothing good was created because of gambling
- quitting vast majority non-opioid (and even some opioid) drugs is ststistically easier than quitting gambling.
- If you decide to quit, there is vast support network of volunteers and organizations. there is huge body of scientific work about how to cure drug addiction. there is a dedicated field of medicine called addiction management. there is harm reduction. there are special meds like narcan that can do the impossible --- make a heroin addict with burnt out receptors a functional member of society. but there is almost zero support for gamblers.
- there is precedent of people getting rich by doing drugs. there is zero precedent of people getting rich by gambling.

Food for thought, if rust-analyzer can infer the type, why the FUCK can't rustc?

What I’d give for a modern version of gladiator fights. And no, not to watch people die. The belief that they massacred themselves in the arenas is hollywood propaganda. Many fighters werent even slaves. And had pretty high status

I think I'm now a tabs person, it's the only character where the width can be easily adjusted for different devs without changing the underlying file's data

Writing paragraphs on facebook is mightier than DDOS attacks

My favourite passtime is asking awkward questions I already know the answer to and seeing how long it takes the person to work out that they fucked up, that I know they fucked up and how monumentally they fucked up.

Journalists reading tweets sent by grand ayatollah Khamenei live on argentinian TV is kinda surreal but I guess this is where we're at now.

Initially I didn’t like mold in my apartment, but since then it grew on me.

I wanted her to be the one. But trying it again for another year I was not excited to put a ring on her finger. I wanted the idea of us to work but it never materialized or clicked in reality. I admired her more than anyone. Connected to her more than those before. But I couldn’t shake the feeling of no, not here. I even lost myself for a bit in denial. But even if I doubted my doubts, and devolved / gave away my agency / belief in my wholeness so she could confirm / deny my reality I couldn’t move forward with peaceful joyful resolve. And so I will continue to rant now as a single developer. She will write her c++ and Java elsewhere. And I will grow and build from a more solid natural spot myself. No need to sacrifice gut feelings to make an almost right relationship work at the expense of internal peace. Living perpetually in an ambiguous relationship is its own kind of hell. And worse than being alone. But I don’t regret trying. And she deserves all the happiness and healing in the world. Yes she had a dark side. Yes we may not have aligned in core body level uplifting energies. But I never doubted her heart and true self for a moment. And I thank her for all she has taught me. In pain of the bad times and in the good of the positive memories and moments.

Instead of boring HTTP error pages, some APIs now return a meme image. Wtf lol.

When Russians talk about someone who is still a part of their group but is shunned, they use the word нерукопожатный — literally “nonhandshakable”.

If you take

major second, minor third, augmented fourth, fifth, major sixth and minor 7, you get a maqam from 16th century iraq sufism.

I discovered it by accident by trying a raga (can't remember the name, the same but with a major seventh) but adding the tail of a dorian mode bur the upper part of the scale

Cloudflare outage.

The uptime monitoring we use also uses Cloudflare so we never received any message that there is an outage. Cloudflare is now a single point of failure for the internet.

Long enough pretended to be a software dev. This is what I really do in daily life: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/2025061...

I destroy electronics for recycling.

Also, oftem have to destroy brand new stuff. https://devrant.molodetz.nl/2025061...

"True wireless" :p. I destroy around 60 electronics per hour. Also iPhones often. Today THE classic iPod almost. But someone stole it. It's such environment.

bounty hunting, not bug bounty mind you, but the real one, chasing people with guns that is, is still legal in some US states.

Spent three days debugging a stupid issue.

Got told that we could just leave it and it would fix itself

Dear Windows,

How hard is it to actually update and shut down? No, don't restart. If I wanted you to restart I would have chosen that option.

Sincerely,
The last decade

Youtube is disgusting.

They deliberately implement some crap that tries to circumvent ad blockers, fail at that, that causes videos to have a delay before loading.
Then they implement a fucking popup during this delay, telling you to klick there for more information why there is a delay.
And when you klick on that, they essentially tell you that your ad blocker is probably why there is a delay.

No, assholes, the ads is why there is a delay.

Dishonest, manipulative pieces of shit.

Dear employers, DO NOT FUCK WITH A PERSON'S DOCTORS. My doctors are paid to help me. If that means helping to sue your asses, they'll do it in a heart beat. Don't give them motivation.

My employer made dubious claims to my doctors in an occupational health referral. I've requested a copy of the referral. In the hopes I might not get a copy of the referral they've pushed this to my doctors as they don't want to give it to me. Because they've lied. Or they think I won't jump through the hoops to get access to MY OWN MEDICAL RECORDS.

Your tasks are going slowly, let's have a meeting about it

Practical question: did anyone figure out how to pay less taxes in the UK (or somewhere else in Europe)?
I can’t lie it becomes pretty unsustainable…

Ok you guys are gonna be happy i have an actual tech rant this time

I'm planning on getting those cheap drum stick for air drumming. Can I use them to send midi? I think it's sending HID, so the same protocol as a joystick or a game controller, basically. Should be quite trivial, right?

Then if I can send cc or note infos I can do thing like setting the base line with a gesture or modulate a filter or even trigger thing in my daw