good lord nodemailer, can you go ONE GODDAMN WEEK without another security vuln?

Is Devrant broken??? Getting this "Slim Application Error - A website error has occurred. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience." constantly.

Installing Gentoo on a 2019 T2 Mac Pro with ZFS+Encryption

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

I miss this place.

People! Look! It;s an advertisement! It is an advertisement for https://pravda.education. It is the only real competition to grok bot.Well, I used grok bot straight from the beginning but this system DESTROYS grok. Normally these things are written with deepseek (i recognize that everywhere) but this one. I have no idea. It is faster than grok but it is not so stupid as the gpt luna either. For specific software generation they use sonnet 5.5 but they're moving away from claude because of licensing or smth.

Is more delusional as ever https://molodetz.nl/posts/.... Suspisious amount of humor for a girl.

See also statements on home page. Pathetic. Nobody does that right?

I miss this place. 🥺

I'm banging on Xcode 27.2b2 now and true to form, they added a bunch of useless shit (pretty graphics, fancy animations) yet all the broke-dick shit's still broke-dick. Just watch the WWDC 2026 presentation where the first thing they spend time on is colors and sliders and "wooo-shiny" work they did. There is a reason why BBEdit exists.

I have to say, Claude is really good at un-fucking Xcode discombobulation fuckups. That pathname horseshit that you deal with when a project changes names for example. Hey Xcode team, ever hear of fucking aliases? There is this bunch of geniuses that created MacOS that you can read about... but you probably won't understand...

Xcode 27, macOS 26/27, proof positive that you really /can/ polish a turd. (and I've been known as •the* Apple fan-boy wherever I have worked...)

So 🤬 frustrating... and now that DevRant is nearly gone, 😥

My last software gig came a year ago or slightly earlier. Aside from my shrinking social circle, the other factor behind gigs drying up is linked to ai making it easier for my benefactor to cut off the middleman

Fast-forward to last week, a childhood friend who has always fawned over my writing prowess contracted me to assist with reworking his ai generated essay to read more humanlike. Immediately referred him to existing services created for that purpose but had to admit they were all a huge waste of time

Ultimately accepted remuneration that's literally 100x less than what the last software gig cost (which was still poor for the volume of work and was hard fought). Writing is one of my favourite expression and artistic outlets. It's easy for the average person to look at my work and think, "give him any ghost writing assignment". The problem is that I can only excel when narrating personal experience or what resonates strongly with me. Academic writing constricts the fun and creativity out of the endeavour

I guess it's writing as well but it's radically different from both what gives me joy and what anyone would appreciate about my craft. But this is somewhat of a digress. The post was supposed to be about how ai now controls the labour market from where I stand. Ai taketh and AI giveth, even though what I received was a lousy exchange

We made code farm 3D on https://devplace.net. DevPlace itself received 200+ updates last week.

Also your first place for last news. We were discussing the jev model a week before the fireship video went published!

Far Cry 4 Review: Fun, Addictive, Mind numbing AAA slop

Its fun, but play Persona 5 instead. Persona is so good

There are a few things in programming that just universally suck and any filesystem code is definitely among that

Trying to write a "reactive" processing pipeline where changes to input files automatically trigger
rebuilding of derivative files, and my god, do I not like this ;_;

At EVERY step you need to think "what is the worst possible race condition that could happen here and how can I prevent that from fucking everything up"

I think the pattern I came to is to be as conservative as possible: Don't ever forget/skip any change events but just accept that we will get multiple events for any change. And not just because the file was written to multiple times per change (which happens a lot!), but also because changes might happen *while* we are updating the derivative resource.

So if you only acknowledge the changed timestamps before running the rebuild and never skip events, then you should at least never have a stale resource, even if you need to potentially do a bunch of unnecessary rebuilds... oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh yeah I wrote a book. No I didn't fully write it by hand, its 2026, are you some kind of luddite!?
The ghost writing company wrote everything but I only see it as a tool that helped me. Everybody does that nowadays, it makes me a 10x author

Now please praise me for the book I wrote

is it working?

Converting everything in suphle v2 to attributes makes me wonder how much of framework constructs are just gathering metadata. But resulting userland code looks dreadfully arcane to me. Like an ugly new language or c#. Just because you can probably doesn't mean you should

If only everyone would shut the fuck up about AI.

We had a good opportunity, to quietly do more work with less effort, and enjoy the spare time.

But nooooo, virtue signaling pricks keep yapping about it with increasingly moronic expectations and now half the world is overworked, while the other half is jobless.

Big tech reaping record profits while the common folk struggle harder.

All because people can't shut the fuck up.
That's why we can't have nice things.

One of the worst dev constructs I've ever seen are `final` classes. Both devs who added it to the language and library authors implementing it aren't gonna die well. Why even bother with oop if your shit classes shouldn't be extended for programmatic use? Psalm is the worst. Today, it was Symfony. Just realised I have to hard-couple to their clown mailer interface instead of my adapter cos I can't mock it. Why do you think your code is so flawless that nobody can ever improve or tweak it? Or use it outside the precise way you envisaged? Such hubris

Just went to the gas station with a bike to buy 2 beer and I forgot my bike lock. So I thought surely I can just quickly put it inside, buy the 2 beer which will literally take at most 30 seconds and then get out

Turns out the fucking witch at the register just doesn't have it. Doesn't matter that its 4 fucking AM and the store is fucking empty (and probably has been since 2 hours ago), no, I just cant put my bike inside

Okay cunt, luckily your boyfriend was outside just before your shift change and he was cool, so I traded his backpack for my bike for the 30 seconds it took, got the beer and traded it back

Why are some women such fucking vile cunts. The bike would have literally been in the store for less time when I just could have bought my beer instead of the 2 minutes arguing why its such a big deal

Anyways. I guess not a big deal but assholes like this still piss me the fuck off. Is it that hard to just be a normal, well meaning person?

Anyone alive?

Devplace does not have advertisements, but does promote it`s own curated news.

Project page is updated by fishii. Flarii still going hardcore on iOS app which is pending verification again.

We have a few new members finally from the world wide web.

Code farm is still getting hacked.

Still bot free.

Still no moderation. It is able to flag people because it was required for social media apps to get into app stores. But remember, snitches get stitches.

Can you create an incredible hostile AI for whatever reason?

Yes, but you have to know who to ask and it will be provided step by step.

https://devplace.net/posts/...

Weekend again, it's quiet.

I thought it was a boring day until I've read these facts about SidTheITGuy: https://devplace.net/posts/...

All fact checked.

Meta faces 1.4trln law suit.

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Sundays are almosst the same on devplace like here. Not much posts.

But: we received nice contributons from @blindxfish visually and @Lensflare is working on getting the first version of the ios app in the app store and I worked on legal consent stuff that seemed to be required. Fine, but we won`t enforce or moderate it. We are adults.

If your monday was terrible, please post at devplace. If it was :good, post on devplace as well. having an IT related thought? Post on devplace. Don`t ya know what to do > comment on devplace. You don`t like what you see? Create a pull request. No time for that? Create an issue. More than 50 issues from users implemented and it is all open source and public.

For people who were looking for the community, it moved to devplace-net.

This development of this community site is abandoned a long time ago. Loyal users stood until the end. But then they moved to devplace (actively developed) which is a non moderated platform inspired by this great platform. Others disappeared.

So, looking for a community with the same culture as this one once had? Come visit devplace.

I Liberated my PlayStation 5:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

Game Reviews: Firewatch, Hitman Go and Leisure Suit Larry 6

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

It`s so quiet here. Only the ghost of devRant (jestdotty) is still here talking to herself.

Meanwhile devPlace-dot-net is booming. See my profile!

So much happened today. And oh oh, what does it run smooth. That performance! That detail!

Test also your knowledge about tech bro`s, html, advanced claude code usage and basic linux on devplace-dot-net. There is a score board for the most educated devs!

Code farm is now more challenging than ever. Also, the rich pay to the poor. Very smooth economics.

I cracked my PS4 a while back and finally got around to simplifying the process and writing about it:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

The Systematic Removal of Security in Consumer Operating Systems

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

Aptitudes test for a technical role