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AboutThe creator of "devRant UWP" for Windows 10, .NET Developer & Freelancer
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SkillsVB.NET, C#, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, XAML, ASP.NET
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LocationBorn in Poland, based in Italy
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Joined devRant on 5/18/2016
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Yup, no longer on the store. Shutdown in progress I guess. Time to backup all the memories and work on the replacement. It's been fun y'all 🫶2
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Everybody is being so melancholic
"bye everybody"
"i guess this is the end"
lol, like devRant didn't have its quirks for years. At some point it'll get fixed and then we can have our shizo responses back.
Ya don't have to be so dramatic2 -
Phone broke, screen fell off 😣 Now I can't download devRant on my new phone 😅 There's a community Android client, right? What's the name and where do I find it?11
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JoyRant build 40
* Added spam detection!
* Fixed weird black background in encountered users view
* Fixed aspect ratio of placeholder user image
Spam is detected using a spam score system.
Specific words and patterns increase the score and once a threshold is reached, the rant is considered spam.
In the feed spam rants will be less visible (max 3 lines of text, smaller and half transparent text and no images) but you can still open the rant (maybe to check the full rant to see if it is really spam) and downvote.
This can be disabled in Settings but is enabled by default.
It’s phase 1 of the spam related feature.
I will approach phase 2 later since it‘s low priority for me.
Feel free to contribute to the spam detection config file via PR:
https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...5 -
I don't want to see pop ups for software updates once per week for every frigging application I use.
Just leave me alone with my work.12 -
All our developers from abroad has finally arrived in the office \o/
Except our only black developer3 -
I'm writing a devrant like site, so a kind of forum that supports live chat under every article. Login will be just username and password to stay anonymous. Email is optional for password reset. Also it won't have password requirements. Who cares if user uses insecure password. I do like the devrant avatar thing. I will use the ducky generator instead. So everyone on the site is a custom duck. K-SASS prolly never expected his generator to be used anywhere. The requirement of this site is that it scales very well. I have db calls of 0.006s, this is for persistent data only and will be used by all site instances. I expect that it can handle many clients concurrent as long I do not return more than 30 rows or so. Events get handled by a self written pubsub server.
All sounds great and development goes fine. But why is this a rant? Because the same thing as always is biting me, I can't design a site at all. I know how but I don't have any feeling for design at all making me almost incapable of building an attractive site. The only thing I can 'design' is an application in bootstrap or smth. I spend so much time one design while I don't like to do it ironically. But looks of site is almost as important as an good working site. Good working site doesn't get used if looks bad in many casee. This is since the start of my career an issue and it sucks that I appearantly can't deliver a whole site on my own meeting my standards.
My backend work is top notch tho. Btw, this application is not to be an alternative for devrant. I do not think I can attract more users than it already has and I've seen two communities disappearing once because someone decided to make a new one, took half of community with him and both communities died after short while.
End product of this project is a working project, not a live site hosted somewhere. It's pure about mixing mostly self written tech to get the best performance. Reinventing wheel on many levels. I wanted maybe to do the site in C but decided that it's way to much work for the value. I change the site so rapid since I don't have decent plan that python aiohttp is the best choice in amount of writing it yourself and fast. It's very lightweight.
More a story than a rant, sorry26 -
> So, I am looking for a job.
> I see a position in a video games store for a cashier/consultant.
> The announcement says to apply with a button.
> The button in question works only if you are registered and have your information filled in.
> Registered and filled out the information.
> The button won't work right because the damn website just does not think I entered anything.
This is why I hate online job hunting11 -
My CTO told the COO and CEO i'd be finished SOC2 compliance by the end of December... On December 14th.
It takes 3 months to do the audit, let alone all the actual work. I hadn't even started yet.
He was fired shortly after that.8 -
I am sick of misrotated videos.
Sometimes, the phone camera software saves a video vertically because the user hits "record" before the software has detected that the user is holding the smartphone horizontally, because the software stupidly launches in vertical orientation by default.
So the software wants the user to wait until it has finally detected horizontal orientation, which causes the user to miss out on a moment.
How about the camera software actually saves the video in the orientation it was recorded in for the most time, rather than only the beginning of the video?
If I can think of this idea, billion-dollar companies surely can.
In the meantime, misrotated videos can be fixed using this ffmpeg command on Linux or Windows:
ffmpeg -i input_file.mp4 -metadata:s:v rotate="0" -c copy output_file.mp4
And if the phone was held with the home button to the left side:
ffmpeg -i input_file.mp4 -metadata:s:v rotate="180" -c copy output_file.mp4
This solution is superior compared to using -vf (video filters) because it only touches the metadata of the video. No re-encoding. This means no quality loss and no CPU/GPU power needed to process the video again. It just passes through.10 -
Check out my retrospective on dR Community Server (Discord guild)!
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...
It's the story about our devRant meetup back in October 2020. Hope it will bring you a little tear to your eye. 🥲22 -
It's okay to make something nobody wants.
I wasted a lot of my life being too scared to make something out of fear. This community especially can be very toxic to people that are starting out, that aren't geniuses, that didnt make every perfect decision for their product.
Life is more enjoyable in a create-fail-learn loop than a consume-criticize-gloat loop.
I wish I'd learned that sooner.6