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Natalie Rupnow, the Wisconsin school shooter, looks EXACTLY like jestdotty. Before posting her "manifesto" which was a google doc, she forgot to make the link public, so no one actually read it -- intelligence level checks out too!4
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Shitty jobs and not staying up to date make you stale. Probably having to find a new job, my skills are barely updated and now I find myself in a shitty situation. Going to have to do my best now.
Don't let a demanding, shitty job cause you to stay behind! I can't stress it enough. Dev skills are transferrable, employer dev skills mostly aren't, especially if you are tied to their brand.9 -
For fuck's sake, what are the creators of tailwind thinking? So, I made the mistake of upgrading to tailwind v4 and now my site is broken. Who in the fuck thought removing half the features is an "improvement"?.
wE've mAde ConFiGUraTion EaSier with CSS.
Sure, let's see. It sounds neat on paper, a "CSS-first" approach. But when you've got existing projects with a meticulously crafted tailwind.config.ts file, it's not simplified at all, it's a migration nightmare. Suddenly, my custom colors and breakpoints are all gone or behaving unpredictably because the new system decides to interpret them differently.
Do these people actually work on any project that is long-term or is everything they work on just green-field?
Because when you have hundreds of pages and custom built rules, and now eveything is broken for no goddamn reason, it's not fun, is it?
I've now wasted days on this shit when I should have shipped so many features.
I simply can't wait to switch my career to something else. Like, this stuff is just so bad man. Come on.6 -
Still alive. Wrist’s been hurting lately so I’ve had to stop crocheting 😭
But I got into paint by numbers!5 -
This is a truly WTF moment about messed up responses to X11 session removal in Gnome.
2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead of looking at feedback, bugs and issues related to the topic, we all collectively had to deal with the following, and I am not exaggerating one bit:
Fascists and Nazis
Wild Conspiracy Theories that make Qanon jealous
“Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session
A culture war where Wayland is Gay, and X11 is the glorious past they stole from you
In my wildest dreams I could have never made this shit up. You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on3 -
I'm so sick and tired of rewriting an ESM loader I gave in and just yeeted an lib.
No external libs, no bundler, no transpiling just some vibe coded crappy thing. But it does what I need to when prototyping.
https://github.com/1338/...6 -
Seems my anxiety is a zombie process:
while(true) {
try {
await new Promise(() => {}); // waiting for meaning that never comes
} catch {
// nothing catches this searching and ..............
}
}
// tried killing it several times
const killAllProblems = () => {
console.log("kill -9 all_problems");
console.log("They just respawn.");
};
killAllProblems();
// No systemctl stop for this void:
const stopRealityService = () => {
console.log("systemctl stop reality.service");
console.log("Good luck.");
};
stopRealityService();
// What’s your command to unload the void?
const unloadVoid = () => {
console.log("systemctl mask emptiness.service");
console.log("But it’s still running in the kernel...");
};
unloadVoid();2 -
ever meet a person and he's very interesting but then his retarded girlfriend gets in the way
I hate
I'm not even interested in him this way. now their relationship broke up and he's disappeared and I'm so mad. I wanted to nerd out about occultism not get sucked into some fucking insecure kink whore's sexual drama oh my God. she made him feel bad and self destruct and I don't wanna date him so now I have to wait for him to get over it so I can talk to him and nerd out about shit again. I hate9 -
Friday afternoon.
Boss: “Can we push this small fix before the weekend? It’s just a button color.”
Me: “Sure, what could possibly go wrong?”
Fast forward 20 minutes:
Whole CSS is missing
Login page is blank
Server panicked so hard it restarted itself
I’m now "that guy" who deploys on Friday
Moral of the story:
No fix is truly “small” on a Friday. :(6 -
"We really struggle to find people with this skil set"
So you're going to hire me, pay well, and not be full of shit, right?9 -
- vaguely blonde
- stupid, npc face
- skinny fat
- sloth eyes, think Sid from Ice Age
- a fucking tester that likes unit tests in JS, especially Jest
- talks a lot, but every time she says something everyone just ignores it because there was almost no substance to what she said
- extremely annoying
- interacting with her would be the number one top level displeasure of your day, any day. A day when you wipe the entire prod db is a better day than the day you have to explain something to her
if you guessed jestdotty, you're wrong. that's just one of my ex-coworkers.17 -
Having no say in your own work and everything being decided AFTER THE MERGE REQUEST is really interesting.
Preparing my 2 week notice.4 -
The average meeting: "I think that's a really great idea. Let's circle back on this and take a 60k view, leveraging the low-hanging fruit so we can identify you championed this technology".
Seriously? Championed? As if the other bs language weren't enough. And this is language that they use to convince clients. "My consultant championed A.I.". Are you fucking kidding me? It sounds ridiculous. Needless to say, we lost that client.4 -
I meant to upload this Reddit post from r/TrueOffMyChest as an image, but apparently that feature is broken. So I transcribed it. This rant writes itself. It's absolutely discrimination and by consent of the state. This, plus age and viewpoint discrimination, is why I own and operate my own business. I refuse to be beholden to HR assclowns trying to virtue signal their way into their next promotion.
"So I did an experiment, I work in CS and decided to test what the gender bias is. So I took my CV And changed the name to a female name. I'd send it out with my real name, then a few days later (or few days before) with a female name.
Out of 100, my applications with a male name got 7 responses for interview.
Out of 100, my applications with a female name got 45 responses to interview
The female resume was 650% more likely to get a callback. And the resumes were identical.
So then I thought 'what about someone looking for working class jobs?' So I decided to focus on restaurants-servers, hosting, etc. Made a fake resume, and responded to craigslist ads with both male and female names. Sometimes the male went first, sometimes the female went first.
Out of 100, my applications with a male name got 10 responses to interview
Out of 100, my applications with a female name got 87 responses to interview
The female resume got 870% more responses."7 -
Opened a legacy PHP file from 2008.
No functions.
2,000+ lines.
Inline SQL.
HTML inside echo statements.
A single if (true) wrapping the entire thing like some cursed gift box.
At the top:
// Do not modify. Works perfectly.
At the bottom:
It writes to two databases. Only one exists.
Somewhere in the middle:
It sends an email…
to the client’s ex-wife.
I closed the file.
Rebooted my laptop.
Took a walk.
Still not okay.5 -
I find it so hard having conversations with religious people. Logic doesn’t exist in their world. So infuriating9
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when you choose autopilot over intention for the 300th morning—is it really you choosing, or just a background thread running decision_maker.exe with cached preferences?1
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ive been in the same company for 7 years, i got a better salary offer somewhere else but its a relatively younger company (6years old) - fintech.
should i risk my job security and take the better pay or will it go bankrupt in 2 months and leave me on the street6