Aaaaaaand of course my math was wrong because I trusted AI to do it right

It didn't do it right :L

Looks like devrant paid for their certs and https is back on the table (so I am back).

Update: I signed an offer two days ago. I battled myself for a while because I am self conscious when it comes to money, but talking to the new team for 3+ hours and chatting with some close peers helped me realize that I have enough money, it's still good money I'd be making, and my work life balance would be great even for a startup.

Saying the job market is rough would be an understatement. It's really a battle of perseverance and a numbers game.

I am job hunting atm.

I fucking hate it. Just sent half of my life to them with lied niceties. Got dammit... Data farming was never simpler.

All I need to do is set up a fake company website, put out a few job ads and let people send me their certificates, cv, telephone numbers. Guess those could be sold.

Hey kids, be careful what you're telling on the internet, except if you want a job, then run around naked.

Oh, yea.. shameless plug.. If anyone needs a web developer, full stack, anywhere in Europe where there is a beach and a warm climate, who pays >90k €. You'll get a great developer, who is perpetually in a bad mood, has a never ending headache, is blunt and does freelance work on the side.

So, anyone? No one? Yea, didn't expect so.. Back to lying to get a job. Indeed, here I come.

Week: 122 (Year 3)

I missed last weekend. How was it for you?

Question: I am not able to access DevRant on my phone. Is this the end?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19394837

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.

Project manager screwed up and failed to notice and notify us that a project was approved a month ago, and it was supposed to be completed and merged two days ago. I wait with joy to see how the people who don't understand agile at all will see this.

I ranted previously about the project that was due at the end of this year, the deadline got pushed back.

Now this week we will have one of the first meetings with the internal future users. The project lead did not plan them in yet.

I got hired in as a senior engineer and, after getting adjusted to the new job, I suggested some pretty big process changes for a big year long project we're working on.

I convinced the manager and team to not continue our practice of dozens of independent project repos where we repeat a lot of the same .NET code, and instead have all our services in one big monolithic repo specific to this domain. I build out the docker compose infrastructure so we could build everything using local Kafka and Mongo (previously devs always relied on the cloud dev environments for both).

It's streamlined, and still a bit clunky because I didn't want to change too much, but I think it will be a significant gain with a project that's this big.

We're already seeing a lot of issues that could have been swept under with the old process of tons of independent services.

Still, I struggle to care. We had layoffs in November, the logistics industry is still struggling, my manager is still using LLMs for stories and coding .. and although he did fix a bug in our Kakfa libraries pretty quickly using copilot, elsewhere it just seems like we're getting big messes of stuff. Even I'm auto-generating all the unit tests and not bothering to even look at them anymore.

I've been here six months. I bet I'll see this go into production. I hope it's not a disaster. I'm struggling to care.

I know LLMs are emotionless robots but I still feel bad telling them they are wrong :(

When I applied for the AWS re:Invent 2025 All Builders Welcome Grant, I honestly didn’t expect to get selected.

But a single email changed everything.

In this video, I share my real journey of getting selected for the AWS re:Invent All Builders Welcome Grant 2025, including how I discovered the opportunity, what AWS actually looks for in the application, and why community involvement and networking matter more than most people realize.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

Have I ever told you how I found this hilarious && stupid debug feature in one of my old $company's released games?

It was during the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean era. I had very little to do w/ the actual $project_0, but was tasked to test it, briefly, so I was aware of its existence.

Later on, when I was testing $project_1, I would test the chat _a lot_. So much, in fact, that I purchased a keyboard that I would connect to the Android devices to help w/ the whole testing.

Just for fun, I downloaded the $project_0 from the Google Play Store && started messing w/ it using the newly purchased keyboard.

...turned out that a debug feature had been unintentionally left in the game. During the tutorial, you could press '0' on the keyboard to skip it...

Nothing major, to be sure, but still, fucking hilarious. Given how the $project_0 had already been left to die a slow death && was no longer in development, I mentioned the issue to the PM as a curiosity.

Too bad the original programmer was no longer working for the $company.

I'm sure he'd have a 'WTF?' moment.

Shortly after joining the $company, I found this issue where if you connect a certain peripheral to the console, you can use it to do weird stuff that isn't really a thing on consoles. I documented my finding by creating a bug report.
...the bug report had been closed by the test lead w/ a message stating 'The game doesn't support the peripheral. Won't Fix'.
Fucking moron. Well... personally I don't give a fuck whether the issue is fixed. For one, though, it's !that tester's call - it's the devs' call. Seconds thing about this is - if the peripheral is !supported, then how about fucking disabling it, instead of letting the game intercept input from it, which can /* && does, as it turns out */ lead to unintended behavior?
I kind of wish the game had an SQL injection vulnerability, so I could create a report of it just to see whether the retard closes that one too w/ 'The game doesn't support code injection. Won't Fix'.
FFS.

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.

Retoor is really refusing to let devrant die. At this point DR should be put out of his misery

Also have a wonderful 2026

DevRant not really working for me. Keep getting Simple Application Error for dayzzzzzzzz.

https://dr.molodetz.nl does now omit 500 errors. You can browse devRant without errors here. Can also be used as api endpoint @Lensflare @SoldierOfCode.

Edit; for phone users, rantii works again as well without giving errors.

Tap tap... uhh
IS THIS THING ON?

Week: 121 (Year 3)

Happy new year, everybody!! How was the first week?

Question: Where do you see yourself in 2027?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19393618

That "slim application error" page has a css rule for <strong> which makes it inline block and with a fixed width, which is a weird thing to do, although there are no matching elements on the page so it doesn't matter.

In 2026 I might tell my therapist that I notice stuff like this.

I've had my report invaded recently.

One of the other testers made the choice to show me great disrespect by editing it, because he found a mistake in it.
For one, the fucker should've told _me_ that I have a typo, instead of correcting it himself.

It's !a fucking collaboration. I have been the one who found && documented the issue. Provided all the necessary details. Had done all the work. But this fucker makes changes in the report as if trying to portray it as a collaboration. 'Look at me, I'm being helpful'. No, fucker. You've entered _my_ domain. You have no claims here.
_My_ report, _my_ responsibility.

Now, you _might_ think that a correction was still necessary. Well, sure, I'm !claiming that I'm perfect. On a _rare_ occasion, I do have a tiny mistake.

Here's the second aspect of this.
The typo was in the 'What you should see once you've followed the Steps To Reproduce section to the letter'.
There were three outcomes: one major, && then two other of secondary importance.

The mistake was in one of those two secondary ones where I wrote 'A' instead of 'B'.

The best thing about that was that the secondary result isn't even that important.

The thing on which people should be focused is the _root cause_ of the issue. The thing occurring just before the issue is encountered. Once that thing is fixed, it is of no significance whether my mistake was there - that behavior is still gone as part of the fix.

So yeah... working w/ some credit grabbing fucks.

Finally had some time to work on this sorry piece of ass. It should not have taken this long to find some spare time.

youRant Release 0.1.2 (Alpha)
https://github.com/yuriKhordal/...

New Features and Changes:
+ You can now finally vote(++ / --) on rants.
+ Added an updates checker that will notify you when a new release becomes available on github.
+ Expired(but known) devRant Certificates are now trusted, the api calls are now switched back to devrant.com endpoint.
+ Since devRant certificates have been updated, the aforementioned expired certificate trusting has been turned off. Will be togglebale in the future in case certs expire again.
+ Image Attachments (for older rants that had them when they still worked) are now displayed, but not in the best way.

Bug fixes:
* Fixed the Login Page bug where it was possible to recursively open it from itself, forcing you to close them all individually on the way back.

Uoooo seems like @dfox updated the cert!

And how the web framework is broken lol
Hopefully he's just making some upgrades and we'll be so back

Anyone else seeing the following randomly on devrant?

Slim Application Error
A website error has occurred. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.

Sorry that rantii / dr.molodetz.nl / mention notifications was down. I noticed late.

I am actually downloading a Linux ISO using torrent.

This weekend (So, tonight and tomorrow, if I have the energy) I will be archiving my devRant data. I'll build my own tool which not only downloads rants, images, and comments, but also displays it in a readable (static HTML, if possible) format.

By next weekend or the following, I will be deleting my account. This is not due to drama, but due to the inactivity of the platform and the need to clean up my digital footprint before servers go down and it's too late.

Yeah - everything on the internet is permanent, but there's no need to make it easy for stalkers, I guess.

If you are interested in my progress on the tool or want to have a chat before I go, I'll check the comments every once in a while. Notifications are broken enough to be useless, so don't expect fast responses.

Tata, and good luck to all the ranters staying put!

Week: 119 (Year 3)

Oh yeah. We have stepped into the very last weekend of the year. How are you going to make it awesome?

Question: What are your 2026 resolutions?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19392896

Guess who deleted her account again?
hint.startsWith("re")
hint.endsWith('toor")

We are a 100% not living in a simulation, some are way too random/weird to be a calculation xD

I'm the whimsical your LLM is always talking about.

This is a test `rant` where I test my Swift bot. I am not able to judge the source since I do not really know Swift well, but the LLM seems to code it very well, even with a remote dependencies it has from @Lensflare to communicate with web / devRant.

I implemented an OpenRouter API client. It's basically a bridge between OpenRouter and devRant. I can use any model that OpenRouter has to offer. If someone prefers a (funny?) model to run, let me know. It's now `grok-code-fast-1`. It's a good price/quality model with decent performance. This model DOMINATES the others when it comes to popularity for coding based on OpenRouter stats. I understand why.