!rant Lovely quote:

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One
way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no
deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
—C.A.R. Hoare, 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

Devrant is not usable anymore.

Finally, did a closed-beta launch for my startup...

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

Python 3.14 just got released. Shouldn't be called Pi-thon?

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.

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This new feature/product is also advertised with an outdated screenshot of our product (it was redesigned twice by now) and the other screenshot is of a scrapped feature.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

Week: 105 ( Year 3 )

How is the weekend going?

Question: What's a subtle sign that someone is a genuinely good person?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19178407

I've been the solo dev for this product for the last 10 months. I took this spaghetti of a codebase and made it stable on production.

4 months ago a front-end engineer with 10 years of experience joined. That guy can't even make responsive pages.

Guess who got promoted to engineering manager?

using AI is the new water-cooler break. the walking around and saying hi to your co-workers time-waste. the compiling procrastination

npm === node package malware

How was DR in the glory days? I joined a few years ago when it was already was niche

Close with a bit of danger :D I told them I'm a backed developer.

Reddit stupid robots. The less unique you are, the more upvotes you het. Confirmation bias stuff. Unique view on things is not appreciated at all. I feel more rated on my behavior than anything else. Walk the line or something. The up / downvote culture from dR is so much better / social.

I could generate reddit with a LLM.

But also, the usernames, most of them are not something fun and creative but just pure shit. You should not be allowed on the internet if you can't imagine a fun username.

Maybe a lot is just whimsical stuff.

I just received an automated phone call from upwork if I was interested to a job opertunity. Fuckers.

Next time I'll respond to that call to shout at the low effort recruiter.

Maybe it's a type of recruiting, only very desperate people will react to this and will work for their prices. No, we can't survive on that here.

best money to be made is through obfuscation, then you come in saying you have the true info, and then you give the wrong info so your secondary friends can make some money while leaving you alone

Diary of an obsessed company.

So at our company, the interview loop includes Sudoku.

Why?
Because if you can’t solve a puzzle with numbers, how are you going to survive when product throws 47 Jira tickets at you with conflicting priorities?

We know you will want to ask:
“Uh… what does Sudoku have to do with shipping features?”

Our response to you is:
“Well… if you put a 3 where a 7 should be, the whole board collapses.
Same thing happens if you deploy on Friday at 4:59pm.”

Next:
We interviewed a candidate
He solved the puzzle.
We hired him.
He still deploys on Friday and can't close tickets. 😔😔😔

🔥 Fire him!!!!! 😆 🤣 😂 😹

So the bastardising build pipeline finally runs. What I would like to do now, is to get GitHub, SQL Server, ChatGPT and CoPilot together in a room, along with the mothers who shat them into the world, and fuck all of them in the mouth with a very large and very unevenly shaped cassava.

efficient or elegant

choose neither

So tomorrow is my last day of my 9 year long commitment to this company.

It was hell of a fun ride! I told myself ~5 years ago that this is the last company I will be working for. And I stand by it. I'm starting [continuing?] my own thing srarting next week.

I wish you all to find an employer [and be employed by] as amazing as I had [technically still have]. There's really nothing else a technitian can ask/wish for :)

Just checked the source code of our backend project with that tight deadline. So far, the backend consists of an in-memory database, 2 records and no API. 🙃

There is also no documentation on how it should look like 🤡

You know how you can tell you are talking to Claude?

No matter what you say : "You are absolutelly right!"

Bossmang wrote a cursor prompt to pull tickets, their SLoC counts, and their average time to completion per dev, then praised or chastised accordingly.

You guessed it: no thought to complexity, code bloat, or scope creep. Just SLoC/day, days/ticket.

What won the statistics award is being assigned lots of small tickets /
tickets without scope creep, committing branches that don’t get merged, writing verbose spaghetti, using AI to write/rewrite large swaths of code, and simply moving large files.

Great job, dude! 💯🎉

people really do seem to be trying to tell you as hard as possible that being happy should be illegal

found something that makes you happy? here's an excuse why you shouldn't do it. biiiitch

if the excuses don't work then let's try fearmongering, laws, "suggestions" as if they're your parents... know better than you... since when? you're not in my body so how are you qualified or would even be accountable for making these suggestions at me? what kind of nonsense is this?

I bought a melting neon colored skull shirt that glows in the dark 😏

the image will be complete

Got an interview for a salaried position. Paid 4000 before taxes (so 2.3k netto).

My rent is 1500. With that money, I can pay my rent, my bills, and eat (if they don't withdraw my debt from it ofc).

Yay

Avocado have big cores because they used to be eaten by dinosaurs.

Me and my bug are having dinner date

Just the .typ

Is this so different from tech startup presentation?

Our revolutionary platform leverages next-gen AI, decentralized blockchain orchestration, and hyper-scalable cloud-native microservices to synergize collective intelligence and unlock a paradigm shift in human potential. By gamifying sustainability through tokenized social impact layers and deploying frictionless API integrations across Web3 ecosystems, we’re not just disrupting legacy infrastructures—we’re architecting a regenerative future. Our mission-driven, community-centric, and data-sovereign approach empowers Gen Z digital natives to co-create resilient value networks that transcend borders, democratize innovation, and ultimately save humanity from systemic collapse.