i dont know python and i have new reason to fucking hate jira

do a test against jira create_issue hard coded, it works just to see if i can get it right as a sanity test

write real stuff using above against bulk endpoint create_issues doesnt fucking work

fml

What made you get into Programming?

devRant is so fucking slow I forget what I came here for. Must find some other way to let out steam.

My (likely incomplete) programming journey:
1998 - html/css in after school program
2000 - learned to write batch files for windows 98
2002 - visual basic 6 freshmen high school class
2003 - ti-86 basic programs for games and math class formulas
2004 - visual basic .net classes for programming competitions
2007 - c and c++ college intro classes
2008 - PHP and SQL flavors (oracle, MySQL) for class
2010 - more .net + c# classes
2011 - deep php and postgres for work
2012 - html/css/JavaScript change in focus for work projects (backbone.js)
2013 - node.js for work and hobby projects (frontend build tools + react)
2014 - picked up python
2016 - node.js deep dive for backend (serverless, nosql)

Pretty much stayed the course with my language skill set. Honing system design chops along the way.

2025 - elixir is my new jam

Yea of course my company is like family

A dysfunctional family in a mini van everyone is on LSD

The van is driven by a monkey

Note: The monkey is also on LSD

I've been doing c++ for 20 years, each time I touch boost::beast trying to do basic http/websocket stuff I absolutely hate. It's garbage. Absolute shit.

The New manager was in her first sev1 bridge with a vendor on the line. Vendor bug caused the issue.

While we were trying to remediate the issue she kept yelling at the vendor and giving opinions on their code quality. She was being a disrespectful bitch and actually slowed down remediation.

Yes they were at fault, you don't have to berate 4 people because you have Napoleon syndrome...

What a cunt

!dev Isn't it hilarious how some companies 'try' to look professional by dumping a bunch of stock images to present their brand? For example, a guy touching a holoscreen, or a bunch of overly stock happy corporate drones smiling and 'working' together in a 'meeting'.

I mean, it's sad. lol

DevRant seems terrible slow. Wonder if someone is crawling/data mining it.

My urgent, drop-everything, “bad actors have access to merchants and we can’t block them!” ticket that I rushed to finish didn’t make it into the release. It passed QA; everything works. There’s no complaints on code quality, either.

The blocker? My code uses the word “whitelist” (which is already present in the greater codebase in a related feature), and that made the woke VP (who happened to review the ticket) go REEEEEEE!! and demand I fix it to use approved language, therefore delaying the security fix until the next release cycle.

Yes, seriously.
It would be comical if I wasn’t so disgusted.

Oh well. Enjoy your bad company PR, dude. I hope it all burns.

I avoided blogging about /pol for most of the year, until summer hit. I'd rather be writing tech articles, but I'm glad I got this out this week:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

No matter where you are in the political spectrum, it will probably make you mad. 😇 But it will hopefully also make you think. 🤔

The most radical position in America today is the one that rejects both political parties.

My previous company that I ranted too much over recently released their AI product. They advertised it on their website with 3 testimonies; The CEO praising the product, The CEOs wife praising the AI suggestion and their freelance marketing guy praising it also.

This new feature/product is also advertised with an outdated screenshot of our product (it was redesigned twice by now) and the other screenshot is of a scrapped feature. At least they had 1 correct screenshot that was used twice in that webpage

Also, they forgot to attach the license billing to this new feature and lost 1.5months of revenue because of this :D

So Cloudflare DDoSd itself with a React useEffect hook. You can't make this shit up.

Hey everyone,
Some folks thought my last post looked like spam, but I promise I’m not a bot!
It was just about a website/game I enjoy playing together with my daughter. I shared it because it’s something fun for us, not because I’m trying to promote anything.

Sorry if it came across the wrong way. I just wanted to be part of the conversation and share something I genuinely like.

Thanks for understanding!

"Block scope in console REPL:
Each line you type in the console is evaluated in a separate, temporary scope. This sometimes makes let and const behave differently than if you wrote the same code in a <script>."

Interesting... I didn't know that. lol

Started a new job in logistics at the beginning of this month. I was laid off in March. New job is all in C#/.NET; the first time I've not used a Linux machine at work since 2012!

First time on Windows 11 too. It is really horrible. I've started using GlazeWM and it's okay. I plan on making a blog post about making Windows usable.

It's also the first company I've been at in a decade where they gave me a used laptop. Most shops order new ones for new devs. I'm not a snob and wouldn't have minded if they had cleaned it first. I had to wipe it down, get some stuff out from around the keys. Took all of 30 seconds to make it not disgusting.

All the other devs use the same laptops; old ass 11th Gen Intel Dells. Literally the worst generation of Intel chips next to the massive 13/14th failures (which didn't affect laptops). It's got CrowdStrike and it's so damn slow.

Also, Local Admin is limited to a week or two. You have to reapply via ticket just to get admin access and update your tools.

Judging by my coworkers, it does seem like expectations are low at least.

my local copy of legacy monolith no longer builds and runs correctly as it now gives a false positive

i dont recall changing anything

i don't know docker

i can see docker images/containers are not being stood up correctly

i pray for euthanasia or help, preferably euthanasia

One of the testers created a report a few days ago that the 'virtual cursor' is !working... The _'virtual cursor'_...
Who the fuck taught these guys?

I came up with a really intuitive way to create a coroutine in Rust by passing the sender of an mpsc queue to a callback, then merging the receiver of the same mpsc with the future returned by that callback, but I must've cocked up somewhere because I'm pretty sure it leaks memory.

MPSC ports don't own each other in either direction, that was my first guess too.

Need your brutal, honest feedback on a personal project. for years I've been frustrated by the same thing: my GitHub shows my code, but my resume is a garbage fire of buzzwords that doesn't capture how I think. All the real, hard-won lessons from debugging hell or a failed project just... evaporate.
I got tired of it. So I spent the last 2 months building a solution for myself and for devs like us.
It's called insightdeed. It's not another social network. It's basically a personal, public changelog for your professional brain. A place to dump your insights, post-mortems, and the 'why' behind your work, so you can prove your expertise instead of just listing it."
It's still super early, and this is where I need your help. I'm trying to figure out how to share this with more developers without being a cringy marketing person. Direct ads feel wrong for something like this.
So, my question to you all is: If you saw a tool like this that you may though be useful, how would you want to hear about it? A quiet post on a specific subreddit? A mention in a newsletter? A blog post on Hashnode?
I'm not here to spam. I'm here to test and build something. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

Fuck it! IT is too stressfull. I am going to start my own cider microbrewery!

Tester: How is $feature supposed to work?
PM: How did $rival_company do it in their $rival_game? Check it there - that's how it's supposed to work.

...One of the greatest killers of any joy in gamedev is when you hear people want to blatantly rip off someone else's design.

In an email conversation the client asks for clarification about a behavior that exists that was never questioned for months. Upon clarification of said behavior the client claims that the feature is supposed to be totally different or they claim to remember that we agreed upon the new behavior. Our team cannot remember it was ever mentioned nor was it documented as a request. The change was rejected with a kindly written "fuck you there was never such a request" and "this use case was never mentioned, this is some new info". What a pleasure!

My boss (senior dev) promised that I would have the first iteration of the API on Tuesday at the latest. It's Thursday and it seems it will be for next week again.

Oh yeah, the API for the other project that was promised 2 weeks ago is not yet finished. This project will be a mess :D

Years ago we had been developing a game for the handheld consoles. We were very young && inexperienced back then. Some more than others... Version for one of the consoles finally saw the light of day, while the other one was sadly canceled.
The development of that canceled one was very troubled.
One example of that would be the core team during the initial stages of the project. One fairly seasoned programmer... Yes - that's it.
Obviously he needed some help, so... the studio hired interns. Two of them, IIRC. One of the interns was put in charge of the game's multiplayer code.
He was ostensibly doing a good job, as the mode was working. Sure it needed some fixing && some tweaks, but it was there.
That is until it came time to check the platform's requirements by the testers. By the time they got their hands on the documentation, it turned out that the SDK used by the game had become obsolete && was no longer eligible for submission. Once the SDK was updated to a newer version, the multiplayer stopped working for some reason.
The issue was investigated which revealed that the intern who wrote the code had been using functions that were marked as deprecated && were no longer available in the newer SDK, explaining why the mode was FUBAR.
Moral of the story? Pay close attention to:
0. Interns,
1. Platform's requirements,
2. Changelogs,
3. Deprecations.

What really is Vibecoding? Like where do we draw the line?

My general take is: vibe code is when someone without any knowledge produces code with AI without looking at the code.

But I have done that myself with small things, landing pages, throw away programs.

Can you be a vibe coder in one language and not in another language?

What if I know what the code does, but I'm not fluent on its syntax?

Let's say I write a C program myself, and ask AI to rebuild it in Go, will I be a C Coder, but a Go VibeCoder?

npm === node package malware

I'm rewriting this horrendous piece of software that's like, real ugly, I mean, seriously ugly. A non stop mess of global variables and aliases and logical tantrums and fuck I know what else...

That's until today.

Today, after a ton of time spent clenching 2k LOC of ASS into readable 1.2k LOC, all tests passing, and passing faster if I may...

Then came a horrifying realization...

It downed on me, harder than a naked superman for a young Louis Lane

Tha maybe, just maybe, if them codes 's só shitty then probably so is them tests

So I tried deleting a obviously important conditional and to my dismay... oh boy, tests kept passing

...

Stolen:

Me - "What are you doing?"
Microsoft - "Leaving you alone?"
Me - "Then why are you here?"
Microsoft - "We have to watch you to know how to leave you alone."
Me - "Who is we?"
Microsoft - "Microsoft and our affiliates."
Me - "Who are your affiliates?"
Microsoft - "We can't tell you that."
Me - "Why?"
Microsoft - "They asked to be left alone."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

JavaScript sure is a pain in the butt when it also throws errors depending if you are in a REPL or not.

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.