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				    My dumb CEO just hired an even dumber CTO. The new CTO asked me the following questions...
 
 1. What is GitHub?
 
 2. What is JSON?
 
 3. What’s an array?
 
 4. What is Get and what is Post?
 
 5. When an iPhone is offline, can it call an API on our server to tell us it’s offline?
 
 6. I know you’ve spent 11 month the writing this backend in PHP but can you change it to Java now?
 Me: Why?
 Dumb CTO: Because it’s better.
 Me: How?
 Dumb CTO: because it is.
 
 7. I know you’ve started to rewrite this codebase I Java but can you convert it to Node.JS now?
 Me: Why?
 Dumb CTO: Because Facebook uses it.
 
 8. What is MySQL? Why aren’t you using a database instead?
 
 9. What does NULL mean?
 
 Somehow, I doubt that asshole is remotely qualified for the job.
 
 Fakin shyt for brains.180
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				    What it's like to be a network engineer...translated into normal people speak
 
 User: I think we are having a major road issue.
 
 Me: What? No, I just checked, the roads are fine. I was actually just on the roads.
 
 User: No, I’m pretty sure the roads are down because I’m not getting pizzas.
 
 Me: Everything else on the roads is fine. What do you mean you aren’t getting pizzas?
 
 User: I used to get pizzas when I ordered them, now I’m not getting them. It has to be a road issue.
 
 Me: As I said, the roads are fine. Where are you getting pizzas from?
 
 User: I’m not really sure. Can you check all places that deliver pizzas?
 
 Me: No I don’t even know all the places that deliver pizza. You need to narrow it down.
 
 User: I think it is Subway.
 
 Me: Okay, I’ll check…No, I just looked and Subway doesn't deliver pizzas.
 
 User: I’m pretty sure it is Subway. Can you just allow all food from Subway and we can see if pizza shows up?
 
 Me: Sigh, fine I’ve allowed all food from Subway, but I don’t think that is the issue.
 
 User: Yeah I’m still not getting pizza. Can you check the roads?
 
 Me: It’s not the roads, the roads are fine. I’m pretty sure Subway isn’t the place.
 
 User: Okay, I found it. It’s Papa Johns.
 
 Me: Okay, I looked and Papa Johns does deliver pizza. Is it the local Papa Johns or one in a different town?
 
 User: I don’t know. Can you allow pizza from all Papa Johns to me?
 
 Me: No I can’t do that. Can you get me an address for Papa Johns?
 
 User: No, I only know it as Papa Johns. Can you get me all the addresses of all Papa Johns and I’ll tell you if one of them is correct?
 
 Me: No, I don’t have time for that. Okay, I looked at the local one and it looks like they have sent you pizza in the past and they are currently allowed to send you pizzas. Try ordering a pizza while I watch.
 
 User: Yeah still no pizza. I’m guessing they are getting blocked at the freeway. Can you check the freeway to make sure they can get through?
 
 Me: No, this is a local delivery. They aren't even using the freeway.
 
 User: Okay, well then it has to be a road issue.
 
 Me: No, the roads are fine. Okay, I just drove from the Papa Johns to the address they have on file for you and there is nothing there.
 
 User: Hmm, wait we did move recently.
 
 Me: Did you give your new address to Papa Johns?
 
 User: No, I just thought they would be able to look me up by name.
 
 Me: No they need your new address. What’s your new address?
 
 User: I’m not really sure. Can you look it up?
 
 Me: Sigh, give me a second…Okay, I found your address and gave it to Papa Johns. Try ordering a pizza now.
 
 User: HEY! PIZZA JUST SHOWED UP!
 
 Me: Okay, good.
 
 User: (To everyone else they know) I apologize for the delay in the pizza but there was a major road issue that was preventing the pizza from getting to me. The network engineer has fixed the roads and we are able to get pizza again.
 
 Me: But it wasn’t the roads…whatever.
 
 User: Oh, can you also check on an issue where Chinese food isn’t getting to me? I think it may be a road issue53
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				    Website design philosophies:
 
 Apple: "...and a really big picture there, and a really big picture there, and a really big picture there, and..."
 
 Microsoft: "border-radius:0 !important;"
 
 Google: "EVERYTHING MOVES!!! And most websites get material design. Most."
 
 Amazon: "We're slowly moving away from 2009"
 
 Wix: "How can we further increase load times?"
 
 Literally any download site: "Click here! No, click here! Nononono!! Click here!!..."
 
 Facebook: "We can't change anything because our main age demographic is around 55"
 
 University websites: "That information isn't hard enough to find yet. Decrease the search accuracy and increase broken links."34
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				    "Knock Knock"
 
 "Who's there?"
 
 "Knock Knock"
 
 "Who's there?"
 
 "Knock Knock"
 
 "Who's there?"
 
 - DoS Attack22
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				    Have you ever wondered we programmers have so many strong communities.... Stackoverflow, devRant, Reditt, etc...
 No other profession has such communities... Why? Why?
 Because, we haven't built one for them.... 😂😁62
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				    A group of wolves is called a pack.
 
 A group of crows is called a murder.
 
 A group of developers is called a merge conflict.29
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				    Developer: We have a problem.
 Manager: Remember, there are no such things as problems, only opportunities.
 Developer: Well then, we have a DDoS opportunity.54
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				    Fuck auto translations. YouTube, Reddit (that has TWO layers of auto translation), Google, Chrome (that for some fucking reason doesn't understand "NEVER translate...")...
 Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a11y, but LET ME OPT OUT.6
