During a safety meeting on Monday we talked about different potential emergency hazards in our area. One person mentioned Yellowstone National Park caldera. It is supposed to be one of the largest super volcanoes on Earth. I joked that it will be blowing up "next week". Everyone got a good laugh.

Then today a random person I share a chat with on a forum online said something. They said the mountain lions have been fleeing the park for a while. They said the bears are now fleeing the park.

I told Ed this. He laughed and said: "You shouldn't have said that." I said: "No shit..."

Can't reply or upvote. Is this the clearing at the end of the path?

Thank you DevRant. It has been a fun ride and a great platform for letting me vent my frustrations.

Peace, favor and blessings to my devrant brothers and sisters...and @kiki.

"And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path."
- Stephen King - The Dark Tower

I’m really going to miss this place ._.
It feels like a piece of me is dying.

Finished Napoleon Cat!

Still alive. Wrist’s been hurting lately so I’ve had to stop crocheting 😭

But I got into paint by numbers!

Reminder for Europe meet up.

I suggest August 23rd, Amsterdam. Let's meet at centraal and go from there.

... I expect 5 of you to show up, btw, with one being late and one being very very late. 😐

I put on a peertube:

peertube.boomjacky.art

Dear GPT, dear Gemini,
cher Claude, cher Copilot,
thanks for wasting my time
with your contradictory advice!
I could as well
roll a dice.

age++

It's only 11am and today is already cancer

If you use space as indentation I hate you and I want to remove your nails one by one and then dip it in salt.

And then rape the salt.

Stop calling non-engineers engineers.

There was this one time when a coworker needed to update the Xcode.

IIRC because his Mac mini was low on storage space, the update failed && the Xcode became corrupted.

He found that out when he tried to open the Xcode, at which time he was presented w/ an error akin to:
'Xcode was found to be corrupted && was moved to the Recycle Bin'.

C: 'Good, it belongs there!'.

I haven't been on in a while because I got laid off two weeks ago. I made it three years and survived two layoffs. I'm relieved honestly; got a decent severance package. Technically I got an extra week of "PTO" where I still had access to two Slack rooms if I wanted to say goodbye to people.

I've taken two weeks to unwind. Time to update my cover sheet and get back into the flow of contacting old buddies to see what work is available.

I've been at it for over 20 years at this point: Java, Scala, Python, Ruby and even a couple of years of devops/sys admin. Let's see how bad the remote and local job markets suck now.

Kernel coming along slowly but surely. I can now fetch the memory map and use normal Rust printlns to the vga text mode!

Next up is physical memory allocation and page maps

ew, python

As interesting as embedded linux is, if you ever try to do something with GPU acceleration. Stop! Go organize a spot with a psychiatrist first. You will need it!

To all female devRanters out there, have a happy Women's Day.

Sincerely, from UTC+01:00.

Got moved to higher prio project

- disastrous security
- Built with Knockout.js in 2016
- entire folders of business logic duplicated 3 times to allow for the business requirements of separate regional branches to evolve independently
- Application server in ASP.NET Core MVC but the *real* backend is a WCF service
- there is an outstanding ticket for a list view that fails to load because the API response exceeds the .NET serializer's maximum length. The proposed solution is to stream it down to the client which then collects it into a JS array and renders a DOM node for all 6k rows
- mgmt wants to scale up to the entire European region, not with a single installation but still with a single codebase
- the Germans want interactivity with Relay
- prod database copied around and cleaned to establish new environments, migrations lost to time
- read-only queries have a tendency to deadlock

Just built my first app

It estimates MMR of league of legends players

@kiki

What shall it be today?
- AoK returning
- retoor shilling python
- kiki posting about her diet
- Me shitposting about devrants people once more
- All of the above

Microsoft thats not a terminal, that five dotnet's in a powershell trenchcoat!

Questions in job applications have become a fucking joke.

I'm done with them, from now on to stupid questions I'm only answering in same fashion.

When you're ready to leave work but you still got 8 hrs left because you just got there.

I'm a sick to fucking death of reading 'documentation' by developers who assume you know everything they did at the time of writing and so leave out 90% of the context that would make the documentation make any sense.

Listen to me. If you are writing instructions on how to do something you have 2 options.

1. Write steps that are so detailed a person who has never touched the system could do them
2. Give enough information for a person who has never touched the system to work it out for themselves.

NOT. LET ME REPEAT MYSELF. NOT: 3. Give some half assed info that assumes you had already been working on the system and practically knew everything anyway.

If I had already been working in this area I WOULDNT NEED THE FUCKING DOCUMENTATION TO BEGIN WITH.

hold alt, and press num pad 3 uwu

How little resources would you like?
4 Cores?
Without any effort!
How about 512MB Ram?
Can do it for less!
10 Second Boot?
Yeah!
Desktop Environment?
Yes! Please!

New year, new salary. My mind doesn’t comprehend the total world of difference between the toxic environment i was in, and the positive place i’m at now.

Most expensive thing you ever bought?

I think I just bought about 20 seconds of relevant audio recordings for over 300€ 🙃

But hey, the virtual car has to sound good or whatever... totally not a painful investment...