Pretty annoying when a programming language's constructs do things that are unintuitive, for example, Java substring:

str.substring(startIndex, endIndex); // oops, character at endIndex not included.

Or some other Python data science Google library (I used this at work) that decided their way is the best way, where they have a simple method but in the facade behind it is a nightmare monstrosity of complexity. How fun to debug or customize that!

Weird design decisions. They don't help because it makes them harder to immediately understand them.

I really hate truth tables. It feels like I'm cracking a safe like in the movie Army of Thieves, especially when I am given a complex Test Suite. lol. It's like I have to make all levers work in unison and none can fail.. kind of like The Semiconductor ASML machine. Not that bad, but still.

Me in the midst of a market full of more experienced developers:

I'm just a kiiid and my life is a nightmare!
I'm just a kiiid and I know that it's not fair!

Sorry guys, but I have to say this. In Iran we are facing a lot of pain, our future is absolute darkness. The regime has killed more of our people than any foreign attack. The regime has apocalyptic thoughts and will attack Israel as soon as it builds a nuclear weapon.
Please be our voice.
Hoping for better days all over the world.

"Code is cheap, show me talk."

Are people _THIS_ dumb to realize that tokens cost money?

The AI bubble cannot pop any sooner, istg.

does it simply look pretty to me cuz I made it?

I followed some c# course the past few days. .Net really has a name for everything, every code convention, every code syntax. There is no way, I'll remember half of the names. I still don't struggle with the names of my department and we are only 11 people after 6 months :')

Someone posted a PR this week, mostly coded using LLMs and spec driven development, which I left 15~20 comments on for stuff that didn't make any sense or was coded inconsistently. It's encouraging to see all of them addressed, and the general code of the PR look a lot better, as I approved it this morning. Despite all the things I don't like about this current shop, after 25+ years in software, this is the most I've really felt like a "senior engineer," as far as really guiding project design and mentoring people.

I fucking hate how ugly Angular is

It's been a while since I was here last time.

What's new?

... you know the thing that kicks me most about the epstein emails

they talk way more to the point, more honestly even in their day-to-day plannings (ei being allowed to bitch that someone changes their mind a lot without getting fired), than all the corpo-speak emails and co-workers I had. that's so depressing

even pedos get better rights to expression than programmers

Does the company you work(ed) at allow you to (comfortably) study for your certificates on company time, or do they play it slightly illegally and ask you to do it on your personal time?

I have seen the case where it was the latter.. and I was wondering whether this was common.

https://justice.gov/epstein/files/...

What happened to ostream? I miss his stupid shit rants.

@12bitfloat, we're having a new compatitor in the game:
***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.41911959648132324
Time Rust: 0.4686765670776367
Time CPP: 1.7605431079864502
Time Borded CPP: 1.140819787979126
Time Jest Rust: 1.7274057865142822
Time Swift: 0.4625704288482666

It's swift: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

How does it run locally at your PC?

Liquid glass, my arse.

There was a time when Java 8 and React 16 were all the hype as if it were yesterday... and now we have Java 25...

The world of IT just moves way too fast. lol

if AI replaces all the humans what will the humans do do you think?

How did we end up with such a bad convention for font weights?

Is thin thinner than light? Is regular thinner than medium? Is medium or regular the default? Is semibold thicker than medium? Is heavy thicker than bold? What about black? Why is it even named like a color? What the fuck is going on? Just use freaking numbers!

0 should be the default.
Negative numbers should mean thinner and positive numbers should mean thicker.

Creating mobile-first & responsive designs remains such an unfun experience. At least a lot of css frameworks makes it less painful but it still remains painful :(

I just realized that in German there is one word for both, "invented" and "made up".

Erfunden.

I didn’t make this up. I also didn’t invent it. 🤔

Fuck taxes

Bored of peace.

Son of a bitch. You can't have gaps in your CV or you are considered a red flag. Companies want good-working rats that never take breaks in life!

Sick of this shit.

Anyone else noticed that the profile's score no longer gets incremented? Well... good thing I've already acquired enough score to be satisfied w/ the avatar.

When I woke up this morning, I was wondering why I had set my alarm on a Saturday.
I slowly realized the horrible truth that it was only Wednesday.

I don't want to show of my swiping skills but I only have to swipe once to go from top of this feed to the bottom. I think I'm just born to be a swiper.

DevRant Slim Application Error

So will the real devrant please stand up
and put each one of those fingers on each hand up
please stand up
please stand up
(we're gonna have a problem here)

y'all act like you never seen a devrant before

'cause I'm Slim rant all you other Slim rants are just imitating so won't the real Slim rant please stand up,

lmao.

Beep beep

Don't you find it annoying when the dev team gives you the worst or less than absolute minimum of time to test a new release?

It's like... that itches with me so hard. Come on.. we're testing a build here. You want me to brush over this? The amount of bugs that might pop up...(oh yeah we just bill the client for those later lolololol)! Especially when no one wrote tests, or just minimal, I... sigh.

lol