Details
-
AboutMy name is Felix, I genuinely hated my life and programming was my coping mechanism. Things are getting better. In a few months, I'll have finished my apprenticeship and have become an actual, genuine software developer.
-
SkillsJavaScript/Node, Typescript, C, C#, T-SQL. I like snakes, but fuck python. Digital Logic as well, kind of... ...and anything else, if you pay me to learn it. No risk no fun.
-
LocationNear Bielefeld, Germany
-
Website
-
Github
Joined devRant on 11/11/2019
Join devRant
Do all the things like
++ or -- rants, post your own rants, comment on others' rants and build your customized dev avatar
Sign Up
Pipeless API

From the creators of devRant, Pipeless lets you power real-time personalized recommendations and activity feeds using a simple API
Learn More
-
2 margaritas, 1 litre of beer and two rejection letters later. Tuesdays are great.
fucking code tests are retarded. if you just want a programmer, hire a fucking gpt instead. stop wasting my time. hr people send the most retarded emails ever.3 -
This is Alvin, a small sub that is 60 years old, been to the Titanic wreckage many, many times. Still in active service.
This is the difference between the real engineering and the kind of "engineering" done by so-called "disruptors" that say "move fast and break things".
You're not an engineer — you're a douche that appropriates the engineering culture. You didn't make an "OS for productivity", you made a worse version of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1983. You didn't "reverse-engineer" anything — you copied and pasted funny letters and symbols put together by a language model that is as clueless as you are.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, bitch. I was there when it was written.10 -
top developers used to know every vi keystroke so they could type faster and deliver more lines of code;
modern "10x developers" need to leverage AI to become more productive5 -
Can someone explain to me why a static page with 11 links should have:
- database with 3 tables,
- 47 libraries
- full blown next.js setup
- docker container
- infrastructure monitoring
- pin code based admin access to add additional links20 -
Are we overengineering everything in modern frontend dev?
Okay, serious question (but also low-key rant):
How did we go from “just load a page with some content” to entire frontend stacks with build pipelines, 300 dependencies, and five levels of abstraction just to render a freaking button?
Do we really need a separate config for everything (webpack, eslint, prettier, tsconfig, package.json, and don't forget the .babelrc and .env.local)?
Or is it just modern dev trying to look smarter than it is?
Is this the new normal? Or have we lost the plot?
Would love to hear what others think — devs from all backgrounds welcome. Bonus points if you're building sites without frameworks and surviving27 -
How bad would you say it is to have plain javascript in the root of a functional React component lifecyle loop scope.
I sometimes do hardwired modifcations right before the return because I know it needs to run everytime and the performance hit is minimal... Or is it ? 🤔
And sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of all the dependancy management just to save a couple of operations ..?
See pic attached .. Even looking at this picture now I realised I've accidentally added another React hook BELOW this code, luckily only 1.
I think my reasoning for this was to allow some provider functions to be passed around and used anywhere in this app which accesses the context. Is this a no-no too?5 -
Piratesoftware's "2D Raytracing" code is just shitty radial light diffusion with collision checks. The worst part is he's individually checking each pixel and manually adjusting the lighting pixel by pixel😭 🙏
Does anyone else feel like Piratesoftware's content is just dedicated to people starting out with coding and game dev? Should this piece of shit be the person these newbie devs look up to? What a fucktard. This is the dude who has "DECADES OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE" hacking windmills and sending emails like "please let me hack you" in blizzard5 -
DOM custom events, and the Node.JS Event class are both so easy to work with and intuitive. Why doesn't JavaScript have native events? It was literally made for UI.
Also: I asked ChatGPT this exact thing before I posted because I had a sneaaaaking suspicion AND I WAS RIGHT. He called it a fuckin quirk.
ChatGPT is a 14 year old that just learned a new word and won't stop using it.6 -
I'm a slow developer because i try to think things through before i start coding and end up not doing anything or taking a long time to do simple things.
I dislike just jumping in and writing code because I end up not understanding why things work26 -
We will see how much spam I get I guess:
devrantfuckers @ demolishun dot com
You know what to do. I would hate to never talk to people here again. Well, at least the non-assholes. You know who you are! lol2 -
Medium is a machine, albeit a broken machine, that somehow bot farmers manage to get the most shitty click bait titles up... and the content of said shitty articles (if you can even call it 'content' i.e. two sentence recycled slop designed for those with single digit to negative IQ) is even worse...
Dev.to has become a laundry list of "(X fucking shitting things that Y developers didn't know with Z) - I swear browsing yesterday I saw literally the SAME LLM shitted template like ("Here's 9 things that you NEED to learn in 2025) - they even both used the number 9... fucking christ
Reddit... not even an possible way to even get a foot in there, I don't even understand that platform...
And, I can't believe I'm saying this, but Hacker News is quickly reaching the same level too - just filled with clowns who don't even know what LLMs are, or what even fucking copilot agent mode is - and keep in mind these are the guys who are supposed to be making 300K a year because they are the "leaders in tech"? fuck off
I'm quite close to just quitting it all entirely, even you guys (sadly)... I haven't been on in forever but I can imagine the type of bigbrains who have since come and gone in my absence here...
I wanted to stake my claim and make my living here... but currently, if the internet isn't 'bad' enough since say 2015/2016 - it's going to get AT LEAST 100x worse - every platform has their fucking dumb ass social quirks and the moment you don't conform you're an outcast - if you can even make sense of why certain articles get more traffic than others in the first place. fucking backwards ass idiot machine, I swear
I'm gonna go have fun in the real world for the foreseeable future, have fun trying to 'make it' in this cesspool. jfc
obligatory 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡9 -
Some people laugh at this statuette, but it was probably made by someone who had seen his and his tribe’s kids die of malnutrition.
No matter what you do, you can’t look like this if you barely make ends meet food-wise. Also, your body won’t produce as much breast milk.
In some tribes of rural Africa, the more body fat you have, the sexier you are.
This statuette is a powerful symbol, and I can see all the pain and tragedy behind it.3 -
Those mask bruises is the most beautiful and noble thing you can wear. It’s reserved for the most noble occupation only — The Doctor. If I was a doctor and got those bruises during covid, I would’ve worn them like they were the Medal of Honor, even better than that. Nurses said that some people passing by applauded them when they saw the bruises.
Miss me with Covid denial BS — it’s irrelevant here anyway. If you’re a nurse, all that matters to you is the patient in front of you who has the symptoms. You gotta make sure they’ll live. That’s it. And that was exactly what those nurses were doing.3 -
Reading many of rants and comments from the last 10 hours or so, it’s pretty clear that retoor content is AI generated and @princess is a bot.
retoor, why are doing that?
Do you want to accelerate the downfall of devrant to make the people switch to snek?8 -
Switch on my work laptop after a week off. It shoves a Windows 11 update down my throat and now nothing seems to work. File system corruption level shit going on.
I can't use my work-sanctioned MS Teams or Outlook apps. Web versions work though.
I hate Microsoft. *ahem* Microshit.3 -
time traveler: *steps on a bug*
changes to our world:
- C has python syntax based on indentation and has no curly braces
- mario has fall damage
- tetris is called triris and uses blocks of three squares rather than four
- the word "disk" doesn't exist, everything is "disc"
- every device uses a new version of mSATA instead of usb type c
- screens are 3:2 instead of 16:9
- javascript name wasn't adopted, the language was called lifescript instead, as originally intended. because of it, it didn't secure funding when it most needed it, so it never caught on. instead, microsoft bought macromedia, and every site is written with Microsoft Flash. CSS has XML syntax.
- steve jobs didn't rely on alternative medicine, so he succesfully beat cancer. because of him, every phone has the size of iPhone 4s, but bezels are tiny. everything that's bigger is called phablet, and big phones are not a thing. instead, web is "smaller" in size, every ui is more compact.
- wimax caught on and won the 4g war. 5g is called wimax 2.0.
- microsoft had more time to complete vista, and hardware manufacturers had more time to make faster chips. when vista came out, it wasn't buggy and was very fast. it acquired cult status like xp. because of it, windows 8 still had frutiger aero design.20 -
Dark Humor
Lets try some seriously dark dark humor. Lets find what lurks in the hearts of men.
My Kid: I was adopted.
Me: We wouldn't have picked you.
Oedipus: <whilst banging his wife> You remind me of my mom.
What do you call Rock Hudson in a wheelchair?
Rollaids
What did Christa McAuliffe say to her husband before the launch?
You feed the dog, I will feed the fish.
Some I found from searching web:
What's worse than a baby in a dumpster?
A baby in 2 dumpsters.
If we had mosquito nets in Africa we could save millions of mosquitos from getting AIDS.
Down syndrome in military is called special forces.
Mom told me to eat my vegetables, now where do I put the wheelchairs.
Whoever thought white men can't jump obviously never watched the 9/11 footage.13 -
We have a bug.
I fixed it, then I said it was a super tricky bug, a race condition in the library code, and that I had to put on an issue and wait for their answer.
Boom, day off.
God I'm a genius.15 -
here are things that prove god doesn't exist:
- trie (non-binary tree)
- nybble (half a byte)
- .DS_Store
- .Trash-1000
- tsconfig.json
- Electron
for if he existed, he would have never allowed those hubris monuments to be erected in his kingdom.21 -
It's so funny sometimes to tell americans facts about their country that completely demolish the whole "America is a free country" bullshit.
Once upon a time, there was a guy that took his car in for service. Then, maybe he was creeped out by the people there, or by something else, but he felt like something was fishy. Lo and behold, when he went back home and inspected his car, he found a weird little box retrofitted where it can't be immediately spotted. He figured out that it was some kind of a tracker, so he removed it, and you know what happened next? I kid you not, he got IN TROUBLE for TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENT PROPERTY!
If you're a US citizen, you're not allowed resentment. You're not allowed to resist oppresive measures like whatever the fuck happened to that guy.
The US of A is not a free country. It used to be, but it became a police state at exactly 8:46:40 on September 11, 2001.
It's so sad that some of you go on and on and on about their gun rights, but when it's time to use them for the purpose stated in the second amendment ("A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state"), they do nothing.2 -
What kind of music are you listening to while coding?
Is it instrumental or lyrical?
Sometimes songs with lyrics districts me18