FUCK!!! I have the Minecraft bug right now! I got tired of Cyberpunk and want to automate shit in ATM10! If Minecraft ever gets a really good RPG mod(s) with immersive world gen it will be a killer game. I like open sandbox, but that gets tiring after a while.

One mod I like a lot right now is Modular Routers. Its a fake player on steroids. That combined with resource gen mods is a lot of fun to automate.

I also found a magic mod that lets you build islands in the sky that gets filled with villagers. Seems like a fun thing to play with.

Then there is Apotheosis that helps you build super OP gear. Like a pick axe with fortune 25 on it.

Is just me or being a developer has become a complete nightmare?
I mean, I never expected when I got into it to have a simple life in the first place, it's a fucking problems solving job.
But heck, I'm in the field from more than 12 years and something has definitely changed for the worse. Believe me I am just seeking for a general consensus not approval or anything, but it doesn't feel anything like 10 years ago.

I have worked with .NET mostly in all his sauces from aspx, wpf, up to today .NET 10 and C#13 and in the meanwhile it happened that I needed to do tech assistance, code in exoteric shit, use arduinos and raspberries, use perl, java, turn into full stack with databases, devops and shit.

Each year it's worse, the "developer" word gets more and more blurred word to say "the one who must know everything".
I'm asked to know docker, kubernetes, kafka, CI/CD and devop shit, web dev, to get ertifications, to learn how AI works to the level of learning again matht to do matrix interpolations, to get on data science, python, numpy, pandas, pytorch and shit, to know every OS, to know about networking because APIs now have to use rest, a single verb for every action, because if routers and new communication protocols break you have to know and figure out why.

Not to mention that marketing and sales guy shove up the big customers ass every new tecnology to make our work look like bling-a-ling top notch 1% developer stuff that always use latest bleeding edge technology and you're forced to learn new immature frameworks every 2 months or so (latest being various javascript/typescript diagramming libraries).

Every idiot feels entitled to puke out a new framework or supersets of existing languages. I lost count how many supersets css has that I had to peek and learn lol.

Every fucking simple software I did from scratch and designed by myself, web portals for big pharma were much simple than whatever PM i get assigned to are and guess what, I published it and fixed ofc some bugs, but most bugs are related to customer unstable datasets and well, I never had bugs after the first few weeks, except once every few months and nothing serious.

The fucking things they let me do now are hypercomplicated and I spend days fixing other people bugs and we get some hair pulling structural problems becuase they shove in all they can (mediator patterns are a must): kafka, docker, messagebus, whatever javascript clusterfuck they can, patchworks of html and css blurred out in layers of hierarchical scss or sass, slapped into angular (the most immature and crappy shit in js) that has all of his hidden ways to bury and hide DOM (ng-deep: anyone? :host anyone?).

And it's all like this. Whenever I put hands everyone wants to do his little frankeinstein experiment cooking togheter in a cauldron a shit ton of different stuff, overcomplicated patterns.

it's a challenge at shooting flies with bazookas.

I'm really tired of technology at all, not only for my jobs. This fucking trend is a plague spread everywhere and now, since everyone has to deal with it, everything is unstable.

In my daily usage of a smartphone app crashes a lot or have weird troubles, slowness, websites are pretending to be full blown app with this shitty SPA trend and are filled with bugs and incompatibilites.

Basically every tech tool we use is 100% more prone to bugs than 10 years ago.I'm really thinking to find a simple job like baker or shit and get an old phone that just can call and send SMS.
I need to get out of tech for a few years to get back my sanity.

This is not a problem-solving job anymore.
10 years ago I needed to study too but once I got the tools in my hands the job was fun, you got a magic wrench and sky was the limit.

Now you got to fucking learn a ton of bullshit everyday and it's not like you see a end on it, everyday people push out new unstable and bugged shit waiting for devs to be guinea pigs for them. You gotta learn a ton of stuff of which 3/4 will be useless/obsolete/broken and considered inefficient the next month.

jeeeeeez

I've seen this recurring theme: a company says: "We don't have time to educate you".

Why do they say that? I argue it would be beneficial to them that they get someone who is progressively developed in their skillset over time. But no, they always think short-term. It's their loss.

The sad thing is that I notice this with a lot of companies. Short-term thinking is not insightful.

why must everything be a cult =-=

https://youtube.com/shorts/...

Humans are weak as shit lol

Just got WHIPLASH from seeing a racist ad in my local gym.

Racist is a bit dramatic, but at the VERY least, it's tone-deaf as fuck and from MY perspective (Where I missed the first 10 seconds of the ad) it was definitely racist feeling. Even with the context, I think it's pretty strange.

Anyways, this grocery chain is running this advertisement campaign about their yellow tags. I guess yellow tags in their store are supposed to be good! So they depict a bunch of yellow things and put text on screen saying that "yellow is (positive attribute etc etc)"

You might already see where this is going?

Basically, they had one scene with bold yellow text "YELLOW IS HAPPY" and the background of yellow tulips. Again, I joined the chat while the ad was already going so I barely had time to read all the text before the scene changed.

The next scene that they chose to depict yellow things?

Oh, just a child in yellow overalls holding a yellow ice pop. Oh, and the child was Asian...

SERIOUSLY how tone deaf could you POSSIBLY BE. DON'T PUT ASAINS IN YOUR COMMERCIAL ALL ABOUT YELLOW THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!

It was especially jarring since I lacked almost all context. I thought it was some shitty comedy sketch for a moment.

Link: https://youtube.com/watch/...

Work is just you being a peon from Warcraft.

"More work?"
"Alright"
"Off I go then"
"Yes MiLord"

Okay, fine, I admit it! Not only do I sniff packets, I sniff panties, as well!! There, are you satisfied you sick bastards!? 😤

power outage

I wonder if I post every time how many it will be

especially with green power political stuff going on these days this could be a funny bingo game

So fucking exhausting when you have to change many things in a codebase in a repetitive manner with search and replace and it's not worth the time to write a rool to automate it. One of those special cases where you wish search and replace would support some kind of templating or be variable depending on the search result

turns out Battlestar Galactica was a meta documentary

Holy fucking shit, I can't stand this corporate framework they use for this banking app on which I've been working on for 2 months.

I’ve spent the last damn month just building three basic screens, and now my very first PR is buried under 50 fucking comments. Half of them exist purely because their shitty framework has multiple versions stacked and stitched together with so many workarounds that you need so much domain knowledge that intuition or actual dev experience goes out the window.

They’ve abstracted real app development into oblivion. It’s a CRUD app, but they've over-engineered it so much they’re now creating their own problems — just so they can specialize in solving them. It's become this self-sustaining nightmare where they make themselves irreplaceable... and simultaneously unemployable anywhere else.

I genuinely have no idea what I’m doing with my life anymore. The original plan was six months here, grab a mortgage, fuck off, and go back to contracting.

Now I’m stuck questioning my sanity every time I open this project or have to listen to another lecture from my 'buddy' about how everything that I'm doing is wrong.

It's impressive how slow the archive compression/decompression in Windows 11 is slow...

I see more and more tech books with AI generated cover, and every time I feel like the whole book is probably generated and is worthless 🤔

I got deadlines to meet at work so I cancelled all unnecessary meetings to focus on my development work. Some high manager pushes for last minute work because reasons.

I log onto my laptop this morning and see IT did an emergency patch. I expect some minor inconvenience because every time they patch something they fuck something up too.

Well they managed to lock me out of most software installed on my laptop and PC, I cannot even connect any device to it. Even debuggers get denied. They even managed to wipe all my networking configs in my lab.

I guess I will be doing jackshit today until the IT networking department wakes up from their offshore slumber, because it usually takes them forever to do anything whatsoever.

Fucking worthless fucks. I am so tired of all this.

Why did the programmer go broke?
He used up all his cache reserves.

Man, am I glad my company pays for Excel. It is truly worth the hassle of it not working half the time.

Streamii, you make jokes, but i don't. I deliver: https://molodetz.nl/project/...

A tamagotchi written in C using R especially for you. I'm sure it will work for 20 years. Cherish it.

No no, this is too funny to be downvoted out of "the public eye" I think everybody should see this xD xD xD

(Content Warning tho)
https://devrant.com/rants/14394461/...

it's so comforting to live with Debian knowing that Debian is a journey, not destination. Slowly, step by step, you hone this system to be _exactly_ as you want it. it's computing on your terms.

I'm yet to wrap my head around the fact that what's on my screen is for my eyes only, and no one else anywhere in the world sees it, human or AI.