Me and my git repo

Dude: Come on man, Google and/or Facebook are not actively listening to us, I mean, we're not terrorists.
Me: Ok, Google
Google Asistant: How can I help you?
Dude: ._.

!rant
Dark theme is the best, I love dark themes.

Sitting in an "Advanced Python" course (paid by my employer), I kicked something under my desk. I hope those guys know Python better than they know electrical security measures...

I’m about to quit this job, this customer don’t care about the people, they just want quick results and people available 24/7, this is taking my mental health, I think I’ll become a farmer instead.

How I see users from my desk.

So there's a new team member in the project (me & him), he's assigned to make the frontend, which is great since I'm so proficient doing back. But he starts by doing backend tasks and the fucking frontend which is the most delayed part of the project is still untouched.

Class DonaldTrump extends Shit implements Asshole {
public final boolean PRESIDENT = false;
public final String THINKING = "bullshit";
public void talk () {
System.out.println(THINKING);
}
}

So the next O’rly book I can imagine for this project is:

How did I ended in this microservices nightmare?

I call that PHPrankenstein

Anti-patterns as a Service

One does not simply git add --all

Bruteforce lol

The videoconference started and I had no shirt on, fortunately there was only one guy and he laughed but understood haha

This is the story of the API documentation.
Which btw I couldn't find on the producent's website anywhere. I had the pdf shared with me by a coworker.

I knew the api was fucked up the moment I looked at endpoint documentation.

GET params? WHERE, ORDERBY etc. Literally make a SQL select in a GET request.

Returned stuff? The whole thing. Not some DTO, you literally get everything you can get.
Eg if you get IP in your response, you get it in several formats: dotted form, as hex, and as int. In 3 different json fields.

Oh, and regarding IP - one would imagine you can use masks or prefixes for subnets, right? Nope. The only param you can use there is the subnet size. So you have to calculate the power of 2 every time you want to make a request.

That's from the endpoint documentation. But what about some general info on the API, before all that?

As I was looking for something, I decided to read that intro and general info about the API.

Okay, so there was a change log between API versions. "removed [endpoint which sounds like correct REST design], please use [this generic thing with SQL-like GETs]"... Several of them.

And there was also this sentence which said that the API is not restful, "it's REST-like". <facepalm>

If it was a bad attempt at REST API, I would let it go. But this sentence clearly showed they knew they did everything wrong. And the changelog showed they didn't stop there, they were actively making it worse.

I just went to SO to browse questions and learn something or help someone...
And then...
THE FREAKING PRINTSCREEN OF IDE
INSTEAD OF COPYING THE CODE

And you know what's worse?
There was also a PHOTO of the output from the console.

I can’t even be social among devs, what's wrong with me?

I'm starting to love Go. I think it will be a good love story.

Mobile developers of the world. Hear my words. Two things: 1. Why is every mobile site nowadays specifically geared to being as nonfriendly to mobile devices as possible? You should probably remember that mobile devices are resource constrained much like early 00s PCs. Maybe we don't need the full HD 3 megapixel version of the image. And we definitely don't need those full screen scroll ad things. In fact, I am 100% less likely to purchase their product if you include these. Which sucks because Hidden Valley salad dressing is pretty good, but now I have to settle for Wishbone.

2. Maybe you don't need to gamify everything. (Looking at you Waze). Or maybe don't give points to everyone who has ever posted about that red light cam outside of my work. It has been there for thirty years. I don't need to be reminded 80 times because someone wants imaginary GPS points. Yes I realize the irony of posting about gamification on a gamified site. I am fine with this.

Copy-pasting faster and faster

Waze is developed by Google?! Wth!

I’ve gave my two week notice a week ago, and my boss it’s just avoiding to announce it to the team, people in other areas, and of course to the teammates that will take my responsibilities. What’s wrong with him? He asked me not to tell people so they can “elaborate a plan to make my exit softer for the team” and that’s great but dude, I have one week left and people is still asking me for things that I’ll not handle in a week, I feel sad about the guy that will take that shot.

while(!Me.knowsTrendyLanguage){
keep.learning()
}

The requirements have changed

!rant

Waze is actually devRant for drivers / commuters...

On a side-note - Cluj-Napoca is a nightmare on monday mornings before 8 am... :/

The next time you use Waze, try having directions read out by Liam Neeson's voice.

He's good at finding things.

Stop attending to meetings.

StressBall.push(hand.release(tension);

I’m having so much fun playing with DALL E 2

Hello World?

Waze has turned my boring drives into interactive ones. Reporting hazards and cops are the fun part.

So you’re burned out, what about you start working on weekends?

When they steal your idea, oh wait

Customer: The quality of the software you’re delivering is going down
Me: That’s because we’re developers, support, and spend all day on meetings without mentioning that deadlines are defined by you, not the technical team
Project Manager: I have added more members to the team so you can deliver faster
Me: That’s just slowing us down because this inherited code is shit, there’s no documentation and we’re always in a rush, without time for a proper ramp up
Customer: *throws money to our faces* I’ll remove two weeks to this delivery so we can test it better
Me: …

Email: "Thanks for applying to this position, after you complete this technical test, please let us know via email."

Me: Dude! I didn't even apply for that position, stop spamming 😒

I’d like to have a DevRant dataset so I can make some great visualizations, text analysis, etc. of the things we hate the most. This is top priority, thanks in advance.

I worked 2012-2016 for a big telco company in my country and there was this HTTPS webpage with an iframe rendering any url you passed over the ?url query param plus a header with the company's logo.

I was on a meeting with some friends in charge of social media and they found it for a user report.

Unbelievable 🤷🏻‍♂️ I remember I tried the page's url itself and it rendered a loop of the header with the company's logo 😂

Is rant a 9gag for developers?

That meeting where everybody apoints the mistakes of the organization and how nobody was going to do a shit about it.

When you have to follow bad practices and practically fuck yourself because of short deathlines that your boss decided without you.

My dev area of focus is more like drinking coffee and devRant. Sometimes a lil bit of backend dev.

Now I have to make updates in three different tools about the projects I’m working on, this is stupid since we work for a tech company and we shouldn’t be using fucking Power Point to update statuses on projects. Management should be making other’s life easier not harder. 🥸

Is there actually any frontend framework or boilerplate to just code and avoid messing around with old libraries, missing dependencies, no documentation? I'm seriously moving to plain ES6, it feels more flexible :/

Dude, this two guys working on my team are really jerks. They don’t want to “waste time” helping the junior devs understanding the stuff that we sell. Sadly they’re the only people on the team that didn’t come from the outside.

I’m afraid I already know the answer to this question, but are there any navigation apps that aren’t powered by Google, etc?

Is there an alternative to Google/Apple Maps and Waze, that provides accurate information while also keeping user data (more) private?

I'm so excited about containerization and also ML. I think those are my biggest nerdgasm stories at the time. So please share some useful resource to learn, I will do it as well :)

80% of the costs for this POC comes from NAT gateways, so keep your VPCs internet access free until you really need it 😅

I don’t know if I hate HR more than annoying customers, hard to tell…

I'm at work. It's been slow recently because our clients don't know what they want.

I just realised there's an itsy bitsy spider on my desk. Or more precisely, on my workstation.

A 2mm-or-so little spider, making a web between my screen and my laptop.

I'll feel bad when I'll be leaving and having to break its web...

Got this build project of a big customer for the company I work for. Zero documentation and the guy manages this is on vacation and this customer is pushing and I'm on leave too until Monday, so everything is fine on x-mas eve 🎄

Serverless is pure love and make mini monoliths in containers buzzing RPC calls

Would you be my pylentine?

Why u here?

There's messy code and this shit.

So, I jump in my car, in a hurry to get somewhere. I pull out my phone, start up Waze and ....

it hangs. Won't pay any attention. All I want to do is bring up the keyboard so I can start typing so I can get the address in before I have my hands on the wheel.

Nope, it's busy doing something ... ah, there it goes. What was so important?

"Here's where you are."

Oh ... why thank you, I had no idea I was in my own driveway. Good to know.

We are in a course for the scrum certifiaction. Most of my partners are more concerned about they can't take the decission about using scrum or not. Is so sad because os a really small organization.

The new dev wants to be my best friend. I already have one.