I can't believe we went from

"Use AI for coding! It's the best companion to have!"

to now

"AI is making you dumber and lazier. Ditch all the tools and learn from scratch."

Can someone explain to me why a static page with 11 links should have:
- database with 3 tables,
- 47 libraries
- full blown next.js setup
- docker container
- infrastructure monitoring
- pin code based admin access to add additional links

Are we overengineering everything in modern frontend dev?

Okay, serious question (but also low-key rant):
How did we go from “just load a page with some content” to entire frontend stacks with build pipelines, 300 dependencies, and five levels of abstraction just to render a freaking button?

Do we really need a separate config for everything (webpack, eslint, prettier, tsconfig, package.json, and don't forget the .babelrc and .env.local)?
Or is it just modern dev trying to look smarter than it is?

Is this the new normal? Or have we lost the plot?

Would love to hear what others think — devs from all backgrounds welcome. Bonus points if you're building sites without frameworks and surviving

There’s lay offs in my company.

So far:
- slackers and incompetents are staying
- Part of the leadership team is in holidays
- No one said the word lay offs but use the sentence “changes to come”

I am going back on monday and part of me hope I will be kicked out as I will have nothing to loose then, and a full month to say whatever I want.

I hate 2FA, solving a problem I don't have. I expect it rather to lock me out some day than actually helping me.

Just subscribed to a service, pissed that I couldn't use a simple password and had to do one of those impossible ones making you store it in a Keychain or making you the forget-button dozens of times. Activated account, and then it wanted you to do the 2-FA as well.

Do realize, my freaking bank has just a four digit code weirdos!

Yesterday we had to do a demo for the client. Burned the whole day trying to fake, mock, and prettify things. And boi was it a crunch!

I don't remember sweating this much while working mentally.

After EOD, my shirt was literally reeking, my butt was sore, and I barely had energy to walk to the bed.

Can we stop conflating Desktop Linux and Linux (as in the kernel, servers, the project itself, etc)?

Desktop Linux is a pretty tiny niche in Linux, while Linux itself is pretty huge part of pretty much anything related to computers and on top of which a LOT of things are reliant on.

And yet so many times when I see or hear a complaint about Linux or some Linux distro, I look inside and it's specifically a Desktop Linux issue that has nothing to do with Linux itself.

This is Alvin, a small sub that is 60 years old, been to the Titanic wreckage many, many times. Still in active service.

This is the difference between the real engineering and the kind of "engineering" done by so-called "disruptors" that say "move fast and break things".

You're not an engineer — you're a douche that appropriates the engineering culture. You didn't make an "OS for productivity", you made a worse version of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1983. You didn't "reverse-engineer" anything — you copied and pasted funny letters and symbols put together by a language model that is as clueless as you are.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, bitch. I was there when it was written.

lol the UI has a new background and some color updates, but features that users requested last year and myself and my team have been working on for the past 6 months (and can generate millions of revenue for the business) get pushed back in the deployment pipeline.

these people are fucking retards.

I‘m thinking about running my own spam downvoting bots based on the so far very successful spam detection in JoyRant.

*successful in terms of detection accuracy.

@retoor how frequently do you need to create new bots?
How quicky do they lose downvote privileges?
Other useful things to know?

Also, I haven’t seen you recently, since you deleted your account. How are you doing?

Product idea:
Create an app to dox people. Then with poor coding skills dox the entire app community.

"our system detected something that looks like a secret in your repository and although it's not a secret and is perfectly compliant, it would not be good when we use your repo for machine learning in the future, so please remove that comment from your code"

how i f*hate the way we have to bend reality to accomodate sub-par tooling

Free Wario

the worst part about claude code is that is shows how bad a dev I really am

Our HR person is "currently on leave", but it's not any kind of official time off according to our work calendar. I hope she's getting fired.

Autocad is freaking expensive. Freecad is difficult to use and had weird quirks [eg how the hell do I close wall gaps created by removed windows?? How to position windows at fixed distance from a corner??]. Librecad seems to be the weakest of the three.

Soo.. Pencil, ruler and paper it is then, I guess

Living the dream... I might be insane.

You can be jealous, it's fine.

I may frame this.