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Is It just me feel that open-source engineers angry all the time?
Here’s the story. In some open-source repositories, things can get pretty toxic.
Story 1: Someone reported a real problem in an open-source repo. The maintainer replied rudely, saying “Irrelevant, I dont care, will not fix.” So I fixed the issue myself and made a pull request. The owner ignored it (that’s okay), but the person who reported the issue used my fork instead and it worked fucking fine.
story 2: GitHub Issues is starting to feel like Stack Overflow......Some engineers / contributors are rude to users who just want help. A user asked a simple question that didn’t have an answer online, because the framework just worked that way. The engineers could have guided them or fixed it, but instead they said things like Get out or Go ask ChatGPT or Google it.
To be fair ,I understand engineers get tired of spam and useless issues like redundant , but we should still respect people who ask real questions or try to help, well common decency.
If these were my projects, I will treat te contributors, users, and followers with respect .4 -
I work for a company who decided to put real effort on introducing LLMS and other AI tools not just in the product, but on corporate life as well, especially on development. It has benefits like we have access to Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Clode, even we have the budget to run our models if we want. We saw the performance improvement and pitfalls on daily basis, but overall as a developer, I am happy with the tools and the improvement. BUT (rant mode on) the Product Management got a bit too excited about this. We have a legacy Python service? "LLM can code in that". Dont we have any experience with a programming language? "LLM can code that" We need to make changes some complicated internal project for our needs? "Dont ask the maintainer team, just use LLM to implement it and they'll review" We are not frontend, Java, devops and other focused team members. Everybody is everything.15
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It's hilarious when companies use Box because when someone left the company, you see their name as 'a previous collaborator'. It's sad, but yeah. lol
...or imagine if it's a startup with immature software - it might say 'NULL uploaded a document 3 years ago'. lmao13 -
Rate your SQL skillz:
1: beginner
1a between 1 and 2
2: intermediate
2a between 2 and 3
3: advanced
3a between 3 and 4
4: expert
4a between 4 and 5
5: legendary
I'll start: 1a22 -
With the rate limits on claude code and openai codex becoming more and more restrictive , I found using RooCode to be a great way to context switch, between Codex,CC and Glm4.66
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When Tech and Emotions Collide
I’m Hilary Silver, a relationship coach at womeninwireless.org, and lately, I’ve been diving into how algorithms “decide” who we fall for online. The irony? These dating apps are full of bugs worse than most codebases. I’ve seen love stories crash harder than production servers! Maybe if devs tested emotional UX like they test APIs, we’d all have healthier relationships.11 -
somehow I figured in rust I wouldn't have to keep track of "safety" things in my head, like the constant cognitive overload of JavaScript where you have to know if variables exist and what form they are that everyone complains about
and I think I frustrated myself thinking rust is "safe" somehow (when it isn't, there's conceptual leaks everywhere)
I think it's just a reduction of the cognitive load of tracking but not the entire elimination of it3 -
Snek unreachable from ipv4. Will continue working on it tomorrow. I've had corruption and it affected several parts. It required some heavy maintenance, even had to reboot the server in Rescue mode what works very nice at Hetzner actually. The next time I'll be less worried if such problem happens.
I've resolved quite some issues by letting create perplexity the ultimate diagnostics scripts, and based on that information, scripts for fixing the system. So custom made repair scripts for my system! Happy that I did, because in the end I've seen how much check and fix issues it were. All network information that it gathered to diagnose the issues, was 8000 lines. Dear lord. .8 -
Week: 109 (Year 3)
What are your plans for this awesome weekend?
Question: What’s a question that sounds innocent but in actuality is offensive?
last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/1928184414 -
Just tried vibe coding. I'm not sure how people do this...
It was like fighting against an adversary who was trying to actively harm a project. About 80% of the things I asked it to do, it did something else instead, and often more harmful.
It wanted to force push it's feature branch onto master because it got an error trying to push to master, because it's on a feature branch.
Wtf9 -
I recently joined a bank as an IT Quality Analyst, and it's been an overwhelming experience. I feel like I've been working like a donkey for a fraction of what I deserve. My responsibilities include testing all types of software, including some that, frankly, seem poorly shity written by vendors.
The project managers are not helping matter....they push projects through UAT and expect me to sign off on everything as if it’s ready for production. They seem indifferent to how compromised the testing can be. They want me to say all tests passed even when there are unresolved issues. If I do find any failed tests, they expect me to chase after developers for fixes.
As a developer myself, I took on this QA role to explore a new area of IT, but it's clear that this environment is not what I hoped for. The stress is mounting every day, and I find myself wanting to avoid the PMs entirely. It's disheartening to see them receive compensation that feels entirely unwarranted given the pressure they put on the testing process without regard for quality or thoroughness. I need to voice these frustrations because it's becoming hard to stay motivated in a role that feels so misaligned with my values and professional ethics.3 -
I'm so screwed
I don't speak French so I only qualify for remote jobs
bf keeps saying I'm better than I think I am
this one job post is like, "a history of delivering high quality software" uh no one ever has that?
my best bet is to go back to crypto trading. or just run out of money and go be homeless somewhere
doubt I could even solve logic puzzles because my brain is still fucked lol. need to get fat so I can go fasting again because that helped... fucking microglia inflammation for 3 years. but I'm already underweight and now people are skinny shaming me for it even -.-
and I'm coming off the tail-end of someone committing me to a fucking asylum cuz haha crazy people jokes. I'm so mad at that girl. still undergoing withdrawal from the pills which gave me "morbid depression" as I realized lmao. the withdrawal is nothing like my health issues so I don't think I should've even been given those things... inflammation hyperness, tenseness, lack of sleep =\= mania which is just happiness
at least I figured out I'm dependent on eating beef liver every week and that's how I stopped degrading back in January. I'm so tired of being sick and being stuck. I'll die of old age before I endure my way out of all this garbage at this rate
at least my sense of meaning came back. so at least that can comfort me now
really gives me perspective on people who are depressed. I've never in my life been depressed and I can officially say that now, having experienced it from those pills. it's wild to me most people are depressed. they just live like that. without meaning or hope or optimism. no humour 😬
interestingly I now suspect I'm depressed but only in regards to making income for myself. I wonder how that happened. growing up I tried to destroy my optimism because it got me repeatedly into toxic social situations. I gave people more hope than would be rational and the kicker is that I was logically aware of my mistake but I couldn't train myself to have a different personality. I had to catch myself to get out of those situations but I could never be not optimistic, naturally. I could never train the optimism out of myself
but when it comes to income I don't have that same optimism. how did that happen?
everywhere else I feel ok, but in income I'm depressed in my personality
how lol13 -
!dev Applying to jobs is like solving those ground trap puzzles in videogames. lmao. Carefully make sure you solve each tile correctly... and from there you can apply the framework to vacancies.1
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Nothing makes me laugh more, than knowing that Apple, the iPhone company Apple, the TRILLIONAIRE company Apple,
messed up the UI of the Tahoe.
It's unreal to me, how they can do that. Like, how? just how?3 -
Chrome. Hit F12 and start typing. Those keystrokes used to go into the console, right? I'm not imagining things...
And then some giant free-standing penis decided that instead, the initial focus should be in the search box.
So you type, nothing appears in the console, you focus the console, and carry on.
Then you're wondering why your api calls aren't in the network tab. Caching issues? Event handler crapping out? No, it's because that command you tried to enter ten minutes ago is still in the search box and being used as a filter.
Because someone decided to change the default focus.
As a wise man once said: "who the fuck was that? Who's the slimy little communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker who just signed his own death warrant?"
Why didn't anyone stop him? In the meeting where he suggested that, why didn't his colleagues grab him by the testicles and drag him out of the building?
Why?
Fuckers.8 -
I bet VSCode only added a central "disable all AI features" checkbox so that they can more easily ignore my preference and forcibly uncheck it on every update. If I had to go around hacking the editor to hide buttons and disable triggers, it would be a lot more work for them to break all those hacks.4