Week: 118 (Year 3)

How was the weekend?

Question:Who was the smartest person in history?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19390338

Starting to hate companies more. Some company in their online application was asking for SSN, birth date, and legal name. When you apply to a company that is ONLY provided when doing background checks after an offer has been made. Any other time and it is a red flag for a fake company stealing identities.

I reported the fuckers to linkedin for fraud. Also messaged them directly and told them it was inappropriate and makes them look like identity stealers.

Hundreds of people applied to this company. Stupid fuckers.

Should I order a McDonald’s happy meal at 1 am?

English people are danes and england actually belongs to the bretons people of western france.

But one day we will do like israel, go back there and steal houses.

Today i bought a waffle machine. I made waffles. They were not bad but I can do better. Now is the time for the endless quest for the perfect dought, as every belgian person can tell you, waffles are very important.

what are some things i should keep in mind while working in a startup

Started off on a ringbuffer-based ABI stable asyncread / asyncwrite pair because the only existing solution seems abandoned with open issues and not much activity.

Over the weekend I'll extract it into a crate and write a heap of tests. Async code is a bitch to test, but it's probably the least worst in Rust where the testing scaffold can manually step all of the async codepaths.

https://git.lbfalvy.com/Orchid/...

End of sprint today! Yippee!

Carmageddon is coming back, nice. Title is 'Carmageddon Rogue Shift' && looks like it has borrowed a bit of gameplay from 'Burnout' series... or so it would seem judging by the video:
https://trueachievements.com/news/... .
Here's hoping it'll be much better than 'Carmageddon Max Damage'.

Wow, I found a new low for companies when looking for a job. I thought forcing someone to sign up for a newsletter was bad. Well, it is not the same company, but a different company is now spamming me their services. I applied for a job and am now a few weeks later getting spam emails from them. I am not even sure how they got that address as it isn't my main job email.

This work project is so annoying to work on. We are not making any meaningful process. There just needs to be more manpower on the project but there is a hiring freeze (makes sense since they expanded their IT team a lot the past year). Our backend developer is constantly working on different codebases. I'm constantly blocked by his work.

Found this japanese guy making fresh suchis in a very small stoll. They're delicious. Who knew japanese people would make the best suchis

Thanks @retoor for https://rantii.molodetz.nl !

I've been missing out, since I only ever accessed devrant on mobile.

Is it time we abandon ship and create a community devrant?

Manager invites us to a 9am meeting at 8:44am. Struggled getting up this morning and was 15 minutes late. No big deal since he missed out 1-on-1 yesterday, except we haven't had a 1-on-1 in over a month an a half.

He hasn't even watched either of the short (6min, and 8min) videos I put together on simplifying the entire architecture of this massive project, and keeps editing the core models I've already migrated to another project.

My biggest dev sin is not writing any unit tests for devRant :/

To all the people coming here to start some shit...

I salute your efforts! This place is better when people are saying petty shit to each other...in jest.

Sometimes this place reminds me of this song:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

I mean, I come here to share and harass...

So todays my bday, devrant still has no https cert,
i started playing Ultrakill (got it off from steamrip.com)

I continued to code a bit, ill make my engine good enough to have the speed of Quake and Ultrakill.

WTF people! You are not providing the entertainment my trolling is intended to provide.

You, yeah you! Seriously, get bent out of shape when people post inflammatory shit...

Why do I even bother?

...sigh...

Holy hell, aoc day 9 part 2 is diabolical!
Has anyone solved it and can give me a hint (not the solution)?

The naive approach would be to make an array with 100000^2 elements, or an image with that many pixels, but that's just too large.
There must be a smarter way.

How are we doing today? deadRanters?

I do too much cocain, I throw TV screens out of the window, trash hotel rooms, sleeps with underage girls and think I'm god

I'm a rockstar developer

Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.

This week, I got an email from my local college advertising some education possibilities that would take 75-150 hours depending on the course. One of them does interest me a lot but now I am wondering what it is better (offensive cybersecurity).

A) follow that course at that college (still WFH)
B) follow similar courses online, possibly cheaper but maybe less credentials on my CV/resume.

Judging by the duration, it's certainly not enough to do it professionally. But it will certainly make my resume stand out a bit more.

Do you guys know fishes? I was at the fishshop last time and I realized I didn't know what's what in fishes

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

Picture of an EXTREMELY early stage of an android devRant client (since the official one no longer works due to the certificate expiration).
Threw this in just a few hours so it's super bare bones and just a proof of concept for myself currently, there is no APK, this isn't even an alpha.
I absolutely do not have time for fun projects so I can't promise anything time wise, if I'll have time I'll try to make it at least usable enough for an alpha build to send here on the next weekend.
(Perhaps will even find an hour or two here or there in the middle of the week)

I sincerely appologize for my lack of time, I would've absolutely loved to start this earlier, and to finish a MVP for y'all (and myself) to use as soon as possible.

Currently it uses 'dr.molodetz.nl' as a "quick and easy" solution for the certificate thingy (so know that data and credentials move through a "thrid-party"), but once I'm having an app that is usable (minimally) I'm planning to switch back to devrant.com but with certificate pinning.

P.S. If anybody has got any tips or advice for android development, write in the comments, I would appreciate anything because I fucking HATE android development and it makes me feel like a monkey smashing a computer with a wrench hoping shit will work. Not my first android app, but even though I've made a few android apps in the past(real apps for actual use, not "template" apps for portfolio or for learning) I still feel like every tiny step is fighting against the framework instead of with it.

Eurovision is the worst cringefest and its made by people who do nothing but cocain and underage girls

Friday 15:30
Prod explodes.

Typical...

Around half a year ago I had a client... Client that told me I would be responsible for quite big system that needs to be written, that he vibecoded a lot of, and that I am supposed to use as much AI as possible and buy myself claude max plan.

Fine, at that point I needed something, anything, as I didnt had any project.

Long story short, there was 3 huge, huge repos, with tens of tousends of dead code lines. An API that half of endpoints didnt work. I started vibecoding (as requested by client, "becouse this claude AI produces shockingly good quality code" - direct client quote) and getting frustrated by what tf the AI was doing.

I was requested to take as many hours as needed to get the features delivered asap.

I managed to bend the reality to get compiling code that passes some smoke tests of some of the features. Features, that were poorly defined and I had some questions practially all the time (as the file with features was vibed also lmao), and usually anwser was something like "whatever works, mate".

It lasted 1.5 weeks. Every single day I was out of claude limit.

After 1.5 weeks client disappeared for few days, not responding, and after almost a full week I got lengthy message from him that roughly said "you are great developer, but you dont use AI enough so your velocity isnt exactly what I expected. Good luck with next projects".

Ooof. While I know it's probably worst productivity measure out there, but LoC wise, that was solid +30k in that 2 weeks, that I did indeed read through and knew it at least roughly does what it should.

Oh, and he finished the project himself with pure vibecoding, launched it, it failed immidietely as it wasnt technically sound. At least made me smile for half a second.

I will never forget trying to get Opus to follow architecture or do anything reasonably.

I rant about it for simple reason:
for some people the AI thing makes them impossibly delusional what the tool actually can do and what it is good for. Impossibly delusional. Don't be me. Don't deal with delusional clients.

Congrats to everyone on devrant!!!
YOU WON "THE GAME"!!!

So I decided to try a vpn. I got the protonvpn free service. I can see that it changed my ip address. But can I tell if it is encrypting traffic? All the websites I accessed didn't seem to care my location went from the USA to some place in Asia. I would have thought it would force a relogin or look suspicious.

It is wild. reddit rejects tor, but is okay with vpn?