Snek is back up https://molodetz.online/web.html

Isn't it awesome when someone's "bugfix" causes new bugs which prompt "bugfixes" for the bugfixes in the same merge request?

Urgh, I can't get going on Mondays. Even in a calm environment and with a really nice project I can't get focused on my task.
What's wrong with me?

The mods are sleeping now. Let's party!

New Job new me.

Looks like it's pure chaos. Randomly turning on aws features until things work. Lots of money down the drain.

Oh well. It's a job.

Ths is a rant:

My client codebase is a mess:
- Node version is not set, but it is "told to set it up at X version". They don't want to set it fixed because, and I quote, "it is too much of a nuisance.

- Backend has not a single fucking log, beside the mandatory error in the catch of each controller, and it states "error": error.

- Backend again: why the fuck you want typescript if all the fucking codebase uses 'any'. But the orm is sequelized and it is typed... by zod classes that are only there to check the body on the endpoints.

- Frontend is a gargantuan piece of shit with one.big state with all fucking stucl there cause someone started to do that and they just keep the snowball... touching one of the utterly big and bloated compoments its in itself an act of faith. The thing is so clusterfuck that we have some api calls duplicated like 3 or 5 times...

I feel like my dev brain is being rotten each day a bit more...

DirectX users are psychos.

There is always something, innit? Some "data scientist" in waaaaaay over his head complained to my teammate that the piece of code she wrote was faulty in some overly weird edge case that only occurred to him, but was never actually seen in practice. But the jerk complained in a very, very annoying and entitled and pushy way.
He brought my girl almost to tears.
Now, im not exactly the most delicate in my manners, but One. Doesn't. Mess. With. My. Team.
I just sent an email to his manager that from this day forward, every single piece of code anyone on his entire team requests will be tested to the entirety of the possible inputs. They had asked for some delay measurement tool. I've locked my cluster for... nineteen hours now, just computing the complete list of test parameters. 3.1Gb of parquet files with possible input combinations. Or about 1200 USD coming out of their budget *just to _test_ this one fucking function*. And about a week delays for the tests to complete.
And a chip on my shoulder.

P.S. the data science team manager is actually nice and all, and he is also at the end of his patience with his jerk of a teammate. Someone is getting a bloody poor quarterly review.

An app/website that I co-created had a devastating launch and was rolled back before me and another coworker went on vacation.
To my surprise it was force-relaunched by upper management and bug-fixed on the go by another coworker, who was also involved. Props to him for dealing with the errors, as I wasn't contacted once.

What’s your take on building a community-led devRant overhaul?

Looks like @dfox and @trogus aren’t maintaining this anymore and despite my efforts, I haven’t heard back from them.

Maybe an open-source devRant reboot without the pitfalls of existing platforms would be welcomed? Let me know and let’s band together to make it happen if at all.

PM is on his period, and since I'm leaving, anyone have any "fun" recommendations to leave in the code?

"C++ vs Python"

Every time that this expression is evaluated, C becomes better.

Do you have a master's degree and 14+ years' relevant experience in IT, or a Bachelor's + 18 years of experience in IT?

Is this a fucking joke?

I don't know why but vendoring a dependency locally so I can change whatever I want feels so powerful

Oh, you made all fields private? How about screw you, now they are all public! hehe

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.

Birds in Silksong (fuck them)

I miss grooveshark

had radios people voted on the next song. a chat that was filled with programmers that just wanted tunes during their workday. those were the days

now it's either Spotify or defunct if it's anything similar to that

I got arrested yesterday lmao

I saw a cop on a kid, then an unmarked one hitting the people. I screamed "HEY YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO WEAR ID, THAT'S ILLEGAL".

12 hours of cells lmao

Tips for staying productive?
Coffe.

thinking i should turn down the volume on my speakers
also need to login to unrelated thing
types in "username"
$:alsamixer
fact dont register
types in password
$:******************
rejected
fact dont register

minutes pass
where did i go wrong
existential crisis
revelation
oh

i am not alsamixer
still need to turn volume down