I hate this country. I don't know why everybody was telling me to go back, that life was so much better here.

It doesn't. It suck dicks. I never got threaded good here. They can fuck off with my tax money

I wanted to show of my perfect based AI auto build tool but sadly, only very good computers can see it or phones. This image crashed my pc: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview....

Fun fact, I told my AI tool to investigate the upload mechanism of devrant.molo and upload it. He did it at once. How sick is that.

The whole tool is native python, no dependencies.

Seen it done wrong so many times makes me wonder what it may look like if done right. What are your thoughts on "micro-services" and maybe specifically "AWS Lambdas"?

If only all job-hunting web UIs had proper filtering options, e.g.:

- by location, job type, contract type, etc etc.

A number of them just dump all the applications in one place.. without filters.. sigh lol.

random search.
query: "camel emoji"

first result:
> What does 🐫 mean in slang?
> 🐫 — The act of sex (humping)

fuck you internet now i cannot unsee it

I've been working in my freetime on a hobby project that a certain established community will use (sub 10k users, unironically the project with the largest userbase I ever created so far). We had yesterday a design meeting for that project. Now I'm even more frustrated that this, unpaid, position has much more documentation and clearly set expectations than my work project. Nobody is being paid for that project compared to a project that costs nearly half a million per year to just run now (we are working on a cheaper replacement now).

But nobody is being paid in that community, everyone is volunteering. Heck, the people that are running it do not have professional experience in project management or running a company and they are doing an awesome job. I do however notice that they are inexperienced in some parts. They want to make designs for that project and just had 1 brainstorm session and just started working on it. It did look great but not really usable (UX-wise). i'm very motivated by their passion lol

We have recommended some design flows & changes in their flow and they were open in trying it.

https://slaps.com/track/k0Q8l8mR
awsm song

I am a student. I like my tech. I am obsessed with it.

And I've studied hard my entire life thinking it was gonna pay off one day.

2021 rolls around. AI gets wild. I'm not threatened, because I understand it's a natural part of technological progress, and hence inevitable.

I am not against it, but I've always held off on using it until I have no other options.

I've been coding ever since 9, since my dad taught me how to mess with variables in Python on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ hooked up to our TV.

I loved it. Still do.

So when AI came along and people started vibe-coding, I understood why - but I kept my distance. I knew it was a tool, but I also knew becoming over-reliant would cost me big-time in terms of my intellectual development.

I'm in college now.

I have a thing for coding manually. I love building stuff from scratch and I'm good at it. When my peers ask me why I dont use ChatGPT, or Claude, or Perplexity, etc, I tell them that it wont help me interview for a job. Because companies test your skill.

Right?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

THOUGHT WRONG DIDNCHA? GET FUCKED LOSER. MUHUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.

COMPANIES ARE STARTING TO ALLOW AI IN INTERVIEWS.

YES! BECAUSE WHY WOULD WE ASK EMPLOYEES TO LEARN SHIT WHEN A MACHINE ALREADY KNOWS ALL?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF I SPENT YEARS OF MY LIFE PAINSTAKINGLY BUILDING EACH FUNCTION AND METHOD, ONLY FOR THAT TO BE STOLEN BY AN AI WHO CHARGES YOU MONEY FOR EACH QUERY?

FOR THINGS THAT ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ON THE WEB?

I feel lost now. I've looked forward to college all my life.

I've always been mocked for wanting a desk job because people somehow think it is limiting.

But I loved it. Every moment of it. Because it felt _right_.

This was always happiness to me.

I've always been an extroverted kid with no friends. Don't ask how. I just don't have the humor that people find attractive.

This was my life. This was something I was good at.

And now an algorithm does it all.

A business major who can't even change his screen brightness now has the audacity to mock my work because his LLM can do more than mine.

Fuck y'all. I still love this. I've been doing this all my life, and I'll keep doing it.

And if one of you uneducated, uncultured, smooth-brained fucks remind me ONE MORE TIME that you can "code" better than me just because you can type into a textbox, then BEST BELIEVE I will go Dark Souls on your ass.

🦌🦌🦌🦌

I've finally been rejected today for a job that I applied to roughly 10 months ago.

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I wonder if the backend will be pushed to the git repo today by the senior dev or if it will be possible to run locally.

Guys what if the people calling out reptilians conspiracy were just trolling us?

JoyRant build 48 adds mentions!

@whimsical/@retoor has made a mentions crawler (I guess you can call it that?).

joydev://rant/19381730

I‘m using it as a source for mentions now (because devRant's mentions are broken, in case that you didn’t know it)

It can be disabled in the settings, if devRant's mentions will come back one day.

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

The implementation was a bit tricky but fun:

Molodetz mentions don’t have avatar info, so I‘m pulling avatars from the "encountered users" store, a feature that I implemented a while ago and it comes very handy now.

The "mark as read" is done locally now, for obvious reasons.

A funny side effect is that in theory, now it should be possible to mention users directly in rants too, not just in comments. That wasn’t possible in devRant :)

Thanks to retoor and have fun!

We maintain an internal java framework, and one of its components requires a configuration file with a simple field: "Timestamp = 09112025000001".

Because this timestamp is persisted in a central database for state management, the developer is forced to manually increment the value after every single test run to avoid collisions. (I know... legacy systems...)

Anyway, a developer called us because they were running into a strange issue with the framework. We jumped on a debugging session, and I asked them to pull up their configuration file.

I fully expected to see a slightly incremented number, maybe 09112025000002, or at worst, a random number to ensure uniqueness. You know, anything numeric.

Instead, the timestamp they had been using was:
Timestamp = 091120250000K

A letter. A single, non-numeric character sitting right there in a field clearly named "Timestamp." I had to blink a few times. I mean, what is the thought process here? Did they hit the wrong key and just decide to commit to it?

The worst part: That wasn't even the root cause of the bug they called us about. But after seeing that config, I had to step away for a mental health break.

We desperately need better input validation, because our "robust" framework apparently accepts a letter as a valid time marker...

I hate any kind of "permission denied" errors with my deepest passion. That means that IT COULD BE DONE but some annoying ass security guru asshole piece of shit decided to think "errhm, actually, deleting a file that you just created for your own is considered extremely dangerous and a fundamental violation to the laws of physics, so let's degrade the user experience even further by unconditionally denying what they're trying to do!"

I dunno, but I suspect Google Chrome to do a malloc(8ULL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024); on startup and on tab creation.

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.

You can follow devrant mentions with rss on https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.menti.... On my phone it looks like this and can even enable notification: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

It updates every 5 minutes.

Has anyone noticed ChatGPT glazing getting really bad lately? Every single one of my stupid, bone-headed fucking questions are "insightful" and "important".

FUCK you, you psychopath. Stop manipulating me.

Most unrealistic deadline I ever had was of my own failure to recoginze that api I would be integrating with makes me want to scream. Anyhow, that seemed like simple feature we often think of "less than a day job". I set the deadline 2 weeks ahead as I planned to be bussy. That was 9 days ago.

Got me to point where Im tired enough to see
`ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'git pull' at line 1`

I want to setup a cloud storage provider. I need a backend. At this very moment, hetzner seems most cheap.. But I think it should be possible even cheaper. Anyone an idea how to? I want to offer TB's since my first customer already has that. I already kind of sold it with the hetzner pricing in mind. My application will provide Dropbox like functionality on top of the storage backend like sharing and stuff, online file browsing, a nice PWA. Target audience is families with video's and small businesses. There's room for another European provider I guess.