After coming back from vacation, seeing that the project manager has used AI to try and do some of my tasks, completely failing and running performance and code quality/readability into the ground I must confess that I am strongly in favour of completely banning AI for non-tech people

I want a mini chihuahua sized donkey

First time filing for unemployment after the layoff. I didn't even know it was something I was eligible, so I'm lucky I spoke to my friend the other day.

Just came back from my first day at cloudflare. I've already removed quite a bit of dead code.

this website has like, connections to AlpineJS, jQuery, 3 different web font providers, calling some WordPress theme CSS from another website, uses TailwindCSS v2, inline styles, the fuckin head tag's content is almost 400 lines of fuckin code.

I can't help but laugh and feel sorry for the poor soul who had to build this. Was clearly in over his head.

Offset pagination is one of the biggest collective failures in software engineering.

Who wakes up one morning yearning to visit page 7218 of 100000 in the dataset?

No one, right? Because that’s not how it’s supposed to work. That’s what the search feature is for. Not that developers don’t fuck it up too, but that’s the not the point of this rant.

The truth is, most developers are lazy and don’t want to properly handle stuff. It’s even made worse by ORMs, where some dumb ass will use Django to make a shitty API without a care in the world about the underlying database.
Then after a few months of ever increasing data, they start experiencing very slow queries and response times.

Gee, I wonder what it could be! Could it be that the DB is having to go through hundreds of rows just to return the 100001st row? 

Designers also defaulting to Page 1 of 2322222 UI like the NPCs they are, is a big problem.

Pagination UI, if not done right, is a performance nightmare masquerading as a feature, solving a user problem that doesn't exist.

Fuck whoever came up with this bullshit.

I’ve had 3 side gigs where my task was to speed up the system and it always ended up being an issue with pagination. Once worked on a project where the dashboard toook 8 minutes. Yes, you read that right. 8 minutes to load. The company had accepted it as normal until a new manager joined and said, fuck that. Brough me onboard to unfuck the mess. No issue with Django devs, but bro, learn how to deal with databases properly for fuck's sake.

Before you came at me with, “well, what if I want to give users the ability to jump between pages”. Bro, that’s what search is for! If search is not allowing users to access the exact data they want, then it’s broken.
Pages are not deterministic anyway, because page 4 today won’t have the same data tomorrow.

I just fucking hate badly implementation pagination. Fucks up my day.

Telling HR in an interview that you have ReactJS experience and that this is easily transferable with AngularJS work is like a human yelling at a fish that chatgpt 7 is out.

My website runs on Oracle Cloud's free tier.

Your website runs on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, sitting behind a CloudFlare load balancer, and it's up and down like a whore's drawers.

We are not the same.

FML

A few months ago I was certain I had lost my laptop

So I bought a new laptop.

Yesterday I found it

It was standing among the books in my bookshelf -_-

I had yesterday a 1-on-1 with my manager (the only backend dev) and he wants that I, the only frontend developer, creates the needed SQL tables via API calls. What the hell is this company.

I don't even have access to the production data nor have access to the database.

I was wondering why my db changes kept crashing my backend as I was testing locally against the testing db. Turns out I modified the prod db without realizing. Good thing it wasn't about deleting things or anything critical. 🙃

Task in progress: removing Angular from the mindset of our management. If I manage to bring this home, our next projects will not use Angular.

I don't care how many consultants they hire to swear Angular is the best choice, I don't care how retarded some tech leads are for learning ONE framework 5 years ago and refusing to work with anything else, they will learn how to code.

IT Support Be Like:
User: “My computer is broken. Everything is broken. The whole system is down.”

IT: “Okay… what happened right before it broke?”

User: “…Nothing.”

IT: “Nothing?”

User: “…Well, I did click a pop-up that said ‘Your computer is infected, click here to fix,’ then I installed something called ‘SuperCleanUltraMaxOptimizerPro,’ then the screen turned blue, then I heard a noise that sounded like a dying microwave… but that couldn’t have caused it, right?”

IT: “…Right.”
Takes a deep breath, opens the toolbox, pulls out holy water and a USB stick.

With mentions being broken and retoor creating an RSS feed for mentions, I made a small python script that reads retoor's feed and filters out only mentions of you and sends them as desktop notifications:
https://github.com/yuriKhordal/...

It's technically cross platform, but I've only tested this on linux with KDE, so no idea how or if it works on windows, and the tools around the script (install script, systemd service, run script, and the instructions on github) are currently linux only. Sorry Windows people, hadn't had the time to test this on windows and I've already spent more time on it than I originally allocated for it (accidentally sat 16 hours straight programming yesterday until mornimg and then "collapsed" into bed :P), I'll try to get to it somewhen this week. But it's still possible to run the "manual way" as `python dr-mentions.py` from CMD.

Bug reports are welcome, and round of Applause for retoor and every one of you that is keeping this dying platform alive <3

Things that we should collectively refuse to do while job searching:

- AI interviews and live coding sessions
- Working with recruiters who don't know shit about tech
- "What is your Github" (I don't use github, retard, they're microsoft. Beside, I don't have a strong portefolio because I had an actual job, you should try it).

I've just read the updated App Review Guidelines.
https://developer.apple.com/news/
Found this bit interesting:
"4.1(c): This new guideline specifies that you cannot use another developer’s icon, brand, or product name in your app’s icon or name, without approval from the developer."
...it's terrible that this even has to be written down as a rule. Unfortunately, it's !just Apple that has problems w/ copycats.

The college I went to has changed their rules regarding AI-assisted coding. Any proof that you are vibe coding or using AI tools would be an immediately failure of that class

I wonder how they detect that efficiently and without any errors.

They also had rules for not copy pasting code from stackoverflow, blogs or docs. I used to do that and add the link & tried to explain the code myself. But I never got feedback if that is good or not or if the professor did grade that part of the code or did not grade.

it makes sense for me that you want the students to actually learn. But is it also not important that students can use AI tools efficiently? Does the end user really care if your website is AI coded or not (not the content, but the actual website) as long as it works like you want. It's also important to stay upto date especially as a student. But at the same time, being stubborn and bashing your head on a problem till it works is a nice skill, sometimes AI can't solve it.

Also, the college does not offer computers and you have to buy one yourself. So they can't manage it. Even if they can do it, doesn't the average IT student have a very easy time to go around the block? I'm so glad I'm not in official education anymore lol

Week: 114 (Year 3)

How was the weekend?

Question: What is something most people misunderstand about you?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19381611

you cold apply to a job and get ghosted

i cold apply and get two rejection emails

we are not the same

https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.menti... and https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.menti... are updated.
- Sorted DATE DESC.
- Removed duplicates.
- Added multiple mentions in one comment.
As requested by @SoldierOfCode and @Lensflare.

Around every 5-7 minutes the files will be updated with new data. Could speed this up actually.

You can find source code at: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

No async stuff, let's not kill the server. Python native.

OK, so Chatgpt is ditching the EM dashes. Sad, because that's how we easily could recognize the idiots. Also it's not new at all to let Chatgpt drop the EM dashes as been stated in article. I have a very detailed analysis about my writing and it copies it perfectly. So, they're selling us a placebo. Idiots. Also, for high quality information they relied on 1900's books? All the shit that came after that is a bullshit indeed. Not surprised...

https://perplexity.ai/page/...

Got hands-on with algebraic data types for the first time ever while studying F# today. I can see the draw, but I don't really give a shit. Why? Cus 99% of the classes I'm going to work with on a daily basis are still gonna be

DatabaseReadWriteBaseImplementation2 {
sequentialIntegerID: string
}

How nice it is to work when almost no notifs and everybody is off. No slack distractions.

Just submitted my first bounty PR. Waited 3+ weeks to hear anything back from maintainers.

Jumped in their discord and politely asked for a review.

Maintainers said, "tomorrow".

Thank them for their time

Waited an extra 3 days, asked again. Maintainers ignore me in Discord but happily tend to everyone else's PR

Get tired of waiting, being ghosted

Close PR
Delete branch
Leave comment saying "haven't heard anything, deleting this and taking it with me"
Leave discord
Block all organization members

Don't waste time on people who won't give a moment of theirs

Why does literally every Rust user has issues with his boyfriend?

Currently building a simple-as-possible source language for my compiler and I was thinking whether I really need structs and arrays as fundamental objects. But I guess it makes sense because one is a heterogeneous collection and one a homogenous collection

My thought: Let's call those types Homo and Hetero!

Maybe not the best idea ^^

My SQLite database has 37.930.787 records. The amazing part about it, i have inserted every record myself, by hand. Every key press is 3 records. So 37.930.787/3 is the amount of keys I have pressed this year. Quite sick huh? Oh, the data is still manageable btw, I have complete statistics pages about typing behavior such as speed and so on.

I'm thinking of moving into functional programming. I'm deciding between F# and Haskell. I don't like that both have indentation as syntax, but that's neither here nor there.

I know the .net core stdlib like the back of my hand. I'm trying to decide - and, as the purpose of this post, trying to ask the community - if this is a *bad* thing when trying to learn a new programming paradigm.

In other words, I think I want to try Haskell because I won't be able to lean on my knowledge of the standard library. I'll be forced to actually understand the language and learn functional concepts, instead of trying to bring my OOP knowledge over from C#.

Additionally, the .net stdlib is obviously built in a OOP design, so I'm afraid that the F# stdlib might suffer from that too.

But I'm still thinking that maybe my knowledge of the .net stdlib will be more helpful than harmful? Like, yes, I'll be using it as a crutch but at least I won't be trying to learn three things at a time (stdlib, syntax, and paradigm) and can focus solely on the syntax and paradigm.

Anyone have any insight into this problem, or maybe some wild guesses?

Everything goes behind payment walls regarding AI. Claude pro sucks, codex got limits, perplexity limited file uploads, I can hit daily limits with gemini that I didn't have before.. It started already with the limited deep search everywhere. The problem is, I'm still paying the same but got less. Wtf.

When you heard so much about A.I. that you think 'code assist' in Eclipse means A.I., when it really just means local docs contextual pop-up. lol