Imagine telling our distant ancestors we can talk to any person anywhere in the world by tapping fingers against the glass

My bosses, bosses, boss asked to call me up unexpectedly:
BBBoss:" Just wanted to say we are really happy with your performance, especially in these tough circumstances, ... "
Me thinking: "Ah, great I am getting laid off."
BBBoss: " ... which is why we decided to give you and extra 1000$ in you next paycheck."
Me: "??? ... for real."
BBBoss: "yes, thank you for your hard work."
Me: "I am still employed?"
BBBoss (laughs) :"Yes, we are happy to have you."

No...
I didn't spend the whole weekend (some 20 hours) wiping my server and setting it back up because it was a steaming pile of garbage...
then fucking it up again and redoing the whole process again....

.... and for good measure again because stupid me.....

GAAAAAAAAAAA

but at least it is working now :)

me debugging instead of sleeping🥲

Do you have any stories to tell ? Gestures like these always inspires me.

Reminder to all the nice admins / devs out there who might have an ancient project / device / docker image / ....

https://openssl.org/blog/blog/...

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/...

Shouldn't matter for most things...

If it matters, it might be a very very very good idea to nuke it from the orbit and start fresh. :) ;)

WARNING: Cringe stuff ahead

And now this happens

A dude who posts spams on LinkedIn and shits on people publicly, made yet another garbage post (which was copied too).

Ref. picture attached in the post.

That went viral on Reddit and I made a comment that I know this guy, have spoken to him, and he made me go bonkers.

Now, he runs a community on Slack that I am part of. I open Slack today and see a message from him where is being sarcastic on how hateful I was.

Ref. picture in comments.

What kind of hypocrite someone could be when they shit on others but when called out, get hurt.

No one says anything to my dev friends.

Outlook - providing useful reminders since forever

Programming tutorials on pornhub

Why do people like hiring managers at companies seem to think that because you are paid to code you spend your spare time coding?
You don't expect a surgeon to operate all day then go home and randomly start cutting people up, so don't expect a code surgeon to spend all day coding to go clock off the start hacking away at shit either!

😮😂 fascinating

Every damn day I learn something new in javascript.

Yes, that’s an M2 drive plugged in via usb 2.0. I dunno, maybe when you just need size over anything else maybe that’s ok but wasting all that work that ssd engineers put into making m2 drives so fast just feels stupid.

So accurate.

Why moment.js ? Whyyy?

Accurate 😆

The benefits of working from home.

This moment when someone mentions you in an PR of an huge ORM clusterfuck with associative tables and discriminators...

And you accidentially say "Yes I'll look at it later" because you thought it was an tiny PR -.-

Should have opened that link first.

Finally, the time has come!!!!

Sorry, I can't work today.

Pics ? 😃😃😃

That feeling....

😂😂😂😂😂

if it works...

Someone had the bright idea of going 100% on premise then only having the VPN on the server in the office building with no backup to another server. Well the power went out and no no one can work or work remotely. What a plan.

I'm always one of these two

When you're not ready yet for 2020

Don't know if it was already posted. Best way to add 2 numbers so far

If Debugging is removing the bugs ,
Then Coding is actually Adding the bugs 🤔

Hey everyone,

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates, happy holidays to everyone, and happy almost-new-year!

We had a bit of a slow year in terms of devRant updates, but we gained some momentum towards the end of the year and we're looking forward to carrying it into 2020. Recently, we launched what I think are our coolest new avatar items yet (https://devrant.com/rants/2322869/...) and behind the scenes we got our iOS/Android apps on the latest version of the frameworks we use, which will help us continue to improve stability. Still, we definitely would have liked to do more, but we're optimistic the coming year will bring great things for devRant.

One thing we are very proud of is this year we had our best year ever in terms of platform stability and uptime. Despite the platform growing and our userbase growing, we had almost no complete app downtime even though our infrastructure is minimal. A large part of this is thanks to devRant++ supporters, who allow us to maintain a small but effective tier of infrastructure and redundancy.

In the coming year, we're going to launch one of our most ambitious initiatives yet, and we're also going to continue to improve the devRant experience itself. We want to try to gather more user feedback, so we'll be working on a way to do that too. Stay tuned, more on this stuff coming soon.

As always, thank you everyone, and thanks for your amazing contributions to the devRant community! And thank you to our awesome devRant++ supporters for continuing to be the main drivers to keeping devRant up and running.

Looking forward to 2020,
- David and Tim