Finally watched Sonic 3 and I loved it.

Slack's ability to edit messages can sometimes be fucking annoying. Especially when the boss changed his message to sound less agressive about some 'potential reason' to why we lose conversions.
I read the fucking notification when it arrived at 9:30PM for fuck sake.

ye ok so officially rust doesn't have a headless browser I can use

there is two.

one will randomly just throw errors totally randomly at you, about some event not coming back or the connection being closed. which means every single unwrap for every single "wait for this element to exist on the page" or trying to access an element is literally a blow-up minefield

the repo is filled with small issue tickets like how the docs keep pointing to 404 pages but I worked around that by just brute forcing everything with debug logging (despite data types being missing / not where they should be in return objects...)

and then there's apparently whatever selenium driver is and that has half as many stars and even worse sounding issue tickets and I already spent 6 hours writing code that took me 20 minutes to write in JavaScript like 8 months ago so I think I don't want to write another stupid headless browser script for it to be utterly useless

I guess I could just have loops and potentially caching. so if it has a mysterious event or connection error, try again! that's literally what I did with fucking reqwest. I don't even know why that nonsense is broken. I have thousands of proxy'ed network connections going and some of them randomly hang and I'm reasonably sure it's reqwest just not cleaning something up

I really wonder if rust people have brain aids. they wanted it to be safe so they just don't get safety exercises in for their brains, and do nonsense like this where they can't go from level 0 safety brain to ohno now I have to do networking and turns out that's extremely error-prone and needs brain-can-account-for-safety-9000 level and they just can't do it because no brain exercises make them all smooth and not wrinkly like everyone else gets in the skull jello by actually using the brain jello

the more I run into broken software the less embarrassed I get at the idea of software I make possibly being broken

I have like 5 things broken in a row now. I keep finding alternative ways to meet my goals but finding more things broken... because people are just releasing broken software... to basically prod

if this is the state of man I am a better herald

So I am thinking about doing joke magical effects in a game. I see memes online about "testicular torsion" as a joke magic spell. Which on its own would be hilarious. Then I thought there needs to be a boss or class of characters that are immune even though they are dudes.

So I got this image of a chad boss you are fighting. You decide to cast testicular torsion on him. He makes a grunting noise and seems to be invigorated by the spell. Even some of his stats improve.

Then he says, "Jokes on you! I am into that shit!"

AI can do fancy autocomplete and generate code from prompts but the fucking jetbrains IDE needs me to manually set the fucking SDK java version shit in 3 different places? I feel like I don't remember doing this toil in the past.

On the one hand I feel validated to find a slack thread of seniors and up also irritated, remarkign it's not intuitive, and asking about this , and thankful to see the 3 screenshots there.

Yes I'm salty as fuck

this fine Tuesday afternoon a teacher came to my door and gave me free drugs, totally unexpectedly

I keep meaning to buy some drugs but this isn't even the first instance of being given free drugs... my drugs are exponentially multiplying and it's frustrating me because I wanna buy specific drugs but now I have to go through all these other drugs 😩

I guess a benefit of knowing drug addicts is they keep trying to quit said drugs so keep offloading them on you... before they give in and go and buy more drugs. then try to quit again. so they give you more free drugs.

One of the devs was let go after his probation period. Today was his last day. I didn't review a lot of his code, but it seemed to be fine. I'm not sure if his output was just slow.

Either he wasn't working out or the startup decided maybe they shouldn't have hired new people yet. There's been a freeze for a while and this guy started in October. The company's revenue targets keep slipping. Profitability was moved from 2026 to 2027.

We're on a slowly sinking ship.

Fucking hell. My third email to OpenAI in a week.

First one: performance sucks! Got general advise on what model to code. I already use the mini one and worked fine before.

Second one: when will there be a new database? I needed smth quick critically and it failed instant. Outdated shit. 2023 ffs!! No answer, only a comment, oh yeah, that must have really sucked and we understand. And.. Nothing. Only information that the 3.5 model was even more outdated (2021). I didn't accept answer and wrote complaint back.

Third one: performance again. Requests can take up a minute using agent api. Literally unusable. I thought it was my code, had to he, no, also, a former older project (retoorded.molodetz.nl) is slow AF too.

I told them that I don't believe that every customer has such bad experience and I want it to taken care off. I'm sure they can do *click* somewhere. I told that that I would leave but I invested so much time..

Something is not going alright there. Agent suff keeps staying beta, no new database planned, performance issues, including their own chatbot..

I'm just pissed, because I waste 40 a month or something on their shit. (btw, 40 is a lot usage, daily extensive use)

Today I managed to cut myself under my fingernail by grabbing the door handle to my room the wrong way. The world is a dangerous place.

ChatGPT went total crazy on my idea.

Behold, dev-related two sentence horror.

“I died, and all I can see and feel is this terminal.”
“'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

I’ve been around engineers too much, I tried joking with normal people and no one got it.

I don't believe what I just saw..

Now that kiki has taken the L from their "Starve to death challenge"

I wanna start my own "STARVE To DEATH challenge"

I am gonna start the day with a bowl of milk and cereal, two apples and a protein shake.

Then for lunch I'm gonna eat a double cheese crust pizza with diet coke (duh)

For dinner I'm gonna eat a big bowl of mac and cheese and then before sleeping, I am gonna eat ice cream.

Good plan, right?

I didn't do it. I chickened out.
Fasting raises my heart rate. Not sleeping did raise it too. ODing on caffeine raises it as well. I decided that combining the three is a sure way to kick the bucket

Being french is okay for adults, that's their own personal choice but I don't think it's appropriate for children

When you're sick of being harassed just because you're blind

> PM barges in
> "Have a ticket"
> something breaks in some subprocess at the core of the application
> the subprocess is some deeply intertwined, untested, undocumented, 80 files; all of them write on a globally accessible singleton with a complex system of events and RPC calls
> refuses to elaborate further
> leaves

JC Denton said it best