Me in an email: "This information was not shared with you for your entertainment, and yet..."
Translation: fuck you, you incompetent bint.

Week : 92 (Year 1 )

I am tired, guys. Mortgage, EMI—I have to keep up.
I wanna exit this loop. I am stuck. How are you gonna spend this weekend?

Question : What’s something you still don’t understand as an adult?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/17187723

First time I've spent £500 using Google Pay. Tiny bit disconcerting how easy it is. Must remember it's real money.

I work with a team of morons where they just keep overriding my code and business sending us mails saying this requirement hasn't been implemented so please done.

Those morons are just getting on my nerves

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

I never owned an Apple product. I prefer other stuff.

But kudos to Apple for bringing sexy back with the Liquid Glass.

God fucking damnit I miss the Windows 7 days. We didn't appreciate it enough.

architecture/framework/schema/system is best judged by how much neglect it can take before breaking down.

Just had an idea for a feature in JoyRant.

Collect all usernames encountered in rants and comments and store them.

Make a button to present a list of all of the users so that a @mention can be added in the text.

Sometimes I forget the exact names of users and I think this would help finding them.

What do you think?

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

ww3 is about to start, should I attend the scrum meeting anyway ?

They started measuring deleted and added lines of code as a metric for productivity at my company. I have heard it's been done in other companies among friends... WHO THE FUCK IS PUSHING FOR THIS!?
Like WHY EVEN DO THAT USELESS SHIT???

Swift: Have you ever noticed...

How many times the word "Safe" is used when describing Swift, yet there is no way to programmatically determine if a memory allocation failed?

How many ways this "Safe" system has a way of crashing:
1. Unwrapping a Nil Optional
2. Disconnected Outlets
3. Out-of-Range Array Access
4. Accessing Uninitialized Variables
5. EXC_BAD_ACCESS (Memory Access Errors)
6. Threading and Actor Isolation Issues
7. Type Casting Errors
8. Uncaught Language Exceptions
9. (fill in the blank?)

What frustrates me is that Swift lacks a language-level way to check if heap memory allocation succeeded. When you create an object like MyClass(), Swift assumes success—if allocation fails, the process dies instead of allowing your code to gracefully handle the failure.

And to avoid having pointers, it creates this horrendously random undocumenting syntax salad that is worse than ADA.

Swift, when you wanted a liter-bike and you get something else

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.

killall != killall5

that was a close call

"Attending" WWDC 2025 ("attending" is a stretch). I'm starting this thread as a multi-rant (comments count).

To start it off, WWDC 2025 is, like all these other virtual 2020's WW's, BORING... World Wide Dull Cinema.. It's like being in developer-solitary-confinement. After going to the in-person ones, I can safely say that it is hard to care about anything in WWDC beyond the keynote...

And when Tim gets on there /still/ trying to extoll the virtues of it being virtual, it is pretty clear that they are trying to compensate...

1. no collaboration
2. uninspiring without your peers
3. random because there is no real schedule
4. boring because you don't meet anyone new
5. career limiting, can't trade vCards & resumes
6. cringy trying too hard announcements

(just sayin', love you guys but come on here...)

WWDC 2019 and prior were awe-inspiring. WWDC pre 2020 collected enough IQ in one place to make the world wobble on its axis.

WWDC needs to go back to in-person /with/ streaming for those of us who can't make it. Change the venue to Las Vegas for crying out loud, they can handle the *worlds* *largest* *trade* *show* (aka CES) there... WWDC is small potatoes by comparison.

I don't like how my company keeps looking for bandage solutions instead of technology solutions.

We are a security company and we have an agent. We aren't allowed to drop binaries in customer environment because compliance.

Okay, fair enough. But we still are running powershell and posix sh scripts like nobody's business.

I suggested using embedded Lua or MicroPython or our own DSL or something. But that idea was shot down because embedding Lua or MicroPython could open up attack surface.

But I feel running PowerShell isn't the best idea either because simply having it enabled isn't the best practice.

And can't do our own DSL because of the engineering overhead. Fair enough, I guess.

So, I suggested running embedded C# in our PowerShell scripts so we could have greater control over the virtual patches we ship. And, it was shot down because compliance. I am not even dropping binary. This C# code will be JIT compiled and executed in memory.

So, I suggested going deep into WMI queries, but this was shot down because WMI queries are another attack vector and may not be enabled on the customer end.

We constantly receive feedback from customer regarding how we can build virtual patches that would bypass their local group policies.

So, I am confused now. Maybe its just skill issue for me or maybe its something else. But I am all out of ideas and I don't know what other innovative solution I can offer.

Opinions or resources on how to do good abstractions, encapsulation and separation of concerns

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.

liver failure is the single shittiest feeling you're gonna experience. I know what it feels like to be cut open, also amnesia, also paranoia, also depression, but let me tell you: liver failure is the fucking worst.

imagine sprinting one mile while thirsty in 110F heat while having severe food poisoning and flu. that's how it feels, pretty much

ever seen the artificial snow in those classic black and white movies? that was pure asbestos.

yeah.