PERLGUTS
PERLXS
XSUBPP

DEATH
DEATH
DEATH

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

so beware of people hypnotizing you. seems there's hypno viruses. no joke

sigh

psychology, not even once

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."

Moroccan hot sauce, my maaannn

argghh no auto format standards on JavaScript

also though libraries breaking for no reason because no types _I guess_

Tried Cursor. It's "Agent" thing have given me the whole new appreciation for my existing codebase. For how every line of code and every micro-decision I make is deliberate. Though it did it in the worst way possible — by "optimizing" my code that I didn't request to be optimized.

I feel like I delegated a surgeon's work to a lawnmower roomba. Yes, both of them do cut stuff, but are they interchangeable?

Cursor's autocomplete is stellar though. Because of how consistent my code is, it almost never fails. It baffles me that the codebase that is consistent enough for the AI autocomplete to never fail somehow causes the same AI, but acting as an agent instead, to completely shit the bed.

My code is consistent because I copy and paste a lot. But, because of how expressive it is (thanks to my zero-framework approach), I only ever need to copy and paste ten lines or so max to do what I need. When I say that I "copy and paste code", what comes to mind? I bet it's acres of boilerplate. Not here.

I'm now applying Orwellian newspeak rules to my naming. For a distinct entity, I create the shortest possible name and try to carry it everywhere I go. Yes, short names will run out, but naming entities differently to avoid conflicts is the job for future me. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, and thinking about variable names in advance is premature optimization too.

For example, if the user entity in the database has lastName field, its variable in imperative code will be the same, and the form input name will be lastName too. Why use "userLastName" and "lastNameInput" or "lastNameField", or even "userLastNameField"? YAGNI.

I'm inching closer and closer to a universal gray goo architecture that can absorb anything. Wait till I replace what I copy and paste with brand new keywords and create a new language. I've already started doing that with the way I write util functions.

Ooooof. So I was booked off sick by my doctor not too long ago for a week and when I got back, I seem to have been removed as project lead with zero communication about this.

Talk about a fucking professional sabotage situation...

Glad I'm leaving as soon as I get a job offer.

Just been on Andrè Rieu concert. Probably the most cringe stuff I ever saw in my life.

Async Rust

Today, my wife switched from an Android smartphone to a Nokia 5228 she took from my phone collection. It runs Symbian, so it's as good as a dumb phone now. Yesterday she told me that her phone and the magnetizing power of infinitely scrollable feeds were sucking the life out of her. Let's see how it goes.

My secret addiction: defining all colors/ properties in CSS3 variables so that I can easily make my website theme-compatible, and then never making any themes for it.

Hey, at least it keeps my colors consistent....

The latest and greatest bullshit at the workplace: when you're asked to be an 'ambassador'. This really just translates to: 'take on more work for free'.

Whenever management approaches you with 'honorable extra role', immediately ask how it's compensated and definitely don't do it for no extra benefits (a raise should be default).

Don't fall into the trap.

Something, somewhere went horribly wrong if we need to present these kinds of 'warnings' to people.
WTF?

Kiki’s workplace

This is AMOLED display at 250x zoom.

I haven't coded in so long I'm actually starting to miss it

This codebase had 50+ main() functions and 80+ Material App. 5 of them are nested MaterialApp

Redundant widgets, security leaks, and print Sensitive information from the server to console without using (kDebugMode), therefore in prod, the data are leaked.

I refactored until I screamed.

So I left a gift inside.

The MDN docs for gradients in SVG include the word "hideous".

Cool, cool.

I didn’t know my dad was alive, let alone writing the rules of dating me!

counter strike but with v.a.t.s. system from fallout

Thanks for your feedback for JoyRant, kiki!

I read it just now because I’m too lazy to read my private emails regularly 😅

The "in the settings" grammar will be fixed in the next version.

Image placeholder is squashed to 1:1 ratio, yes. I see it as a non issue though 😅.
It wouldn’t be too much work to fix it but… meh.

I don’t know why the images stay placeholders though. Never happened to me.
In your screenshot I see that you have Flight mode on, maybe that’s the reason?
You can also try to clear the image cache in (the) settings.

Eschew clever rules.

my intern listens to the most AI generated songs ever. might fire her soon.

DOM custom events, and the Node.JS Event class are both so easy to work with and intuitive. Why doesn't JavaScript have native events? It was literally made for UI.

Also: I asked ChatGPT this exact thing before I posted because I had a sneaaaaking suspicion AND I WAS RIGHT. He called it a fuckin quirk.

ChatGPT is a 14 year old that just learned a new word and won't stop using it.

It really shouldn’t trigger me that much, but it does.
I fucking hate those spamming assholes. Especially those about crypto recovery.
They make my blood boil.
I start to imagine horrible things happening to them.
Human scum.

debugging a colleague's bash script written by copilot.

fun
/s

Plot twist: @dfox disabled comments to let us catch a break from @jestdotty’s ramblings under every single post.

Sudden urge to design my own programming language. Specifically built for concurrency. I really like the async/promise style stuff but I always think it's a pain to put together. Why not make the "putting it together" bit the languages job.