Switched from recording based automation tool (ranorex) to script based (puppeteer) for a web app. Risky because everyone was against this and I had to deliver.

Is Yahoo mail client app (ios) showing me one unread email just to lure me into opening the app and clicking on the single email which is actually an ad?

Ingeniosity

Yeah, planning to advance through my PhD thesis.

fizz buzz

Task manager is not responding.
Fuck you windows.

That moment when you see someone using Chrome to see pictures from local drive.

The chance

Why on earth wouldn't they give up on TFS. GET LATEST VERSION doesn't get latest version nor does it tell you that there are conflicts.

New iPhones? Yaaaay
🎉🎉🎉

I would love to use Firefox as main mobile browser but it's icon on the bottom row breaks my eyes. Waiting for their rebranding.

Today I start a 3 years journey towards my PhD thesis. An underrated thing for a software engineer but I need an external motivation for my passion.

When agile becomes dogma...

Started to use Spacemacs because using the mouse is more and more painful. Such a joy and such a relief. And the learning curve was easier than I thought, maybe because I knew some vim before and Spacemacs is very friendly to vim users.

Fcuk dotnet and nuget and dotnet restore and nuget package restore and dotnet core and dot net framework and dotnet standard and everything with their unnecessary complexities.
Fcuk them all. Fcuk MS.

Still using a database from 90' - Enea Polyhedra:
- no decent visual sql client
- utterly limited scripting language
- weird communications protocol
- no redundancy beyond master-replica
- no encryption of communication protocols
- etc.

Because of GDPR I receive lot of mails: "we love to keep our relationship", "we really like to present you future offers", "please click here to give your accept", etc.
Me: move email to trash!

Me setting the password: a$:&(7ShtkA71?!/&2SJ
Oracle business suite: password must not contain repeating characters

So c# has its own system.collections.list and system.collections.generics.list<type> classes. And this guy wrote his own list (no generics) using an object[] array which always had same size.

Reading. A lot. Fiction, science fiction, leadership, motivational, history...

Microsoft Foundation Classes - MFC. Spent 1 month to make a fixed column on a grid. Counter intuitive APIs.

I see patterns everywhere.

I'm more tempted to ++ a rant which already has many ++. I would like to see the total after voting only.

Does anyone how Cliqz the browser is? Does it worth a try?

Most of the time I'm reading DevRant on 'recent' algo to avoid memes; I'd rather read authentic rants as simple as they are sometimes.

But why?

Most of the time I'm reading DevRant on 'recent' algo so that I can encourage everybody with ++

Teach others and make them to understand instantly.

First day of the first job.

I wonder if an AI is trained with a set of requirements and a corresponding set of commits, would it be able to add by itself some simple functionality?