Who else is sick of generative AI being pushed into everything and techbros gloating about replacing software engineers? It's like they are excited about people losing their livelihoods and it's disgusting.

Week: 96 (Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

Question: What do you think about office affairs?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/18827105

My secret addiction: defining all colors/ properties in CSS3 variables so that I can easily make my website theme-compatible, and then never making any themes for it.

Hey, at least it keeps my colors consistent....

Phone broke, screen fell off 😣 Now I can't download devRant on my new phone 😅 There's a community Android client, right? What's the name and where do I find it?

Something, somewhere went horribly wrong if we need to present these kinds of 'warnings' to people.
WTF?

The morons at work state the obvious like it’s a goddamn epiphany, and get cheered or publicly rebuked based entirely on their standing within company politics.

“While writing code, think of performance. Performance is everyone’s job, and it doesn’t take much effort to write much more performant code.”
> Premature optimization! BOOO! You should be ashamed! Move fast and break things OR ELSE.

“Security isn’t profit driven, but allows us to retain customers and therefore profit. Everyone should be security conscious and work with the security team *before* releases”
> BOOOO! Do your job! Don’t tell devs how to do theirs!

“Being reactive is good, but we should focus more on recovering from outages faster!”
> YAAAY! GENIUS!

ffs.

I haven't coded in so long I'm actually starting to miss it

Unix is so incredibly beautiful. Everyday I discover something new that makes me fall even deeper in love with it.

For real, I've become a huge YAGNI fan over the last few years and Unix is pure yagni. It's so beautifully pragmatic and simple yet flexible and powerful

JoyRant build 40

* Added spam detection!
* Fixed weird black background in encountered users view
* Fixed aspect ratio of placeholder user image

Spam is detected using a spam score system.
Specific words and patterns increase the score and once a threshold is reached, the rant is considered spam.

In the feed spam rants will be less visible (max 3 lines of text, smaller and half transparent text and no images) but you can still open the rant (maybe to check the full rant to see if it is really spam) and downvote.

This can be disabled in Settings but is enabled by default.

It’s phase 1 of the spam related feature.
I will approach phase 2 later since it‘s low priority for me.

Feel free to contribute to the spam detection config file via PR:
https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

@retoor we get it, every member here (but you) has shit code! lol

Every damn time I visit the server rooms for tunnel infra, I feel like I just entered the backrooms. Endless winding stairs, rooms that appear out of nowhere, doors galore, labels in ancient hiroglyphs and time travel are very common.

Mhmmmm nothing better than a döner with extra sauce

actual gift from god😋

I wish dev work was about the tech, the logic, the architecture

but annoyingly it's always about people

So apparently they forgot some debug shit in the eSim firmware and now all the 2-fa system that uses phone number is in jeopardy.

lmao what a bunch of clown. People who use windows ladiez and genz.

Retardz.

OnlyOffice Spreadsheet is so fucking poor I don't even know where to begin...It's buggy, annoying, frustrating and doesn't do nearly what I want. OnlyOffice Document, on the other hand, is a decent word processor.

I used inline C in perl to write inline assembly.

I deserve death.

Top bullshit message I have ever received would probably be:
'I wasn't asking 🙂'.
The fuck is this shit?
Are you trying to reprimand me, as indicated by the first part of the message, or be my fucking friend?
Best part - the message was sent by someone who had no authority to demand anything from me at the time, which I had to point out to the guy.

It’s been two months, and my last two “high-priority, drop everything and work on this!” tickets are *still* in code review.

I finished another ticket, “semi-high-priority” this time… whatever that means. It’s been sitting in data security review for a week and a half. I just convinced someone to do a code review on it.

In our virtual standup today, we all have our updates, and the boss replied to all of us with this fancy animated “ty” reaction. I got a 👍🏻 instead. So minor, but feels very off.

My “company AI hackathon” idea got co-opted by someone else (on the security team), changed into a security-related project instead, and I got put on his hackathon team instead of the other way around.

Kinda feeling unwanted lately.

RECOVERY EXPERTS CAN FUCK OFF. WATCH AS THIS PLATFORM FALLS INTO DARKNESS

AI slop continues to dominate devrant with strange ads, that can't possibly result in any conversions. Is there anyone on here who's stupid enough to fall for it? They're wasting their time! Well... Maybe @b2plane might fall for it.

Job hunting and interviewing disgusts me.

I feel like I am in some kind of dating nightmare (and I hate dating). It's really weird trying to sell yourself to some company and they judge you based on how you think, how you talk, how your professional life has been up until now. I also judge them based on my professional values.

It makes me feel really awkward to talk to people trying to sound all calm and professional when I am kind of dying of nihilism inside. Tired of having to get to the stages of interviews where I need to do some idiotic tech assessments that are irrelevant to the job spec. Some were fun though.

Thankfully no AI interviewer fuckery yet, but if I do run into such a thing, I'm gonna pull out and expose the company that does this.

Getting close to final stages with some places which seem decent enough to sell my time to, and salaries are so much higher than what I currently get paid (fuckin peanuts).

I just want to become a mushroom at this point.

my intern listens to the most AI generated songs ever. might fire her soon.

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 work

Crocheted a hand puppet. Just because.

think by this rate I'm just hallucinating trauma

I don't understand how you can feel nothing one moment then discover you have feelings... and then once you're done feeling those feelings do they just up and go away or is that me suppressing them?

I'm reasonably sure I'm actually default not a pussy though... now I'm just walking around as if forcing myself to perceive things like they're hurtful when they're not, and only a double take made me realize "wait, no..."

this is all very confusing

I think it was just unexpected that I had cared about anything and sort of didn't do my due diligence

and TF is "energy" psychologically speaking even. I think if yours is low you end up being paranoid and taking everything as pain. that's terribly confusing to me. so that's it, you gain more energy and then you're just good to go again? you can go walk through things and laugh again?

how does any of it make sense!

... NVM former roommate just texted subterfuge shit and I have lost 1/3rd of my energy -.-
guess I'll just keep waterboarding until I stabilize

upside though, seems I got too freaked out at certain notions and even TV shows and movies and songs. but I think the level I was at a moment ago I could've enjoyed them again without freaking out. something to look forward to I guess, ragh 😩

I've looked up so many woo-woo topics whenever my adblock blips now I'm getting creepy schizo ads like "if your body changes color in the sun you're not just human," pls did I fucking ask

it's pretty funny that the same people that defend brainwashing and advertising are the same ones who hate the human race and think all humans are gross and get all nihilistic and misanthropic

don't like y'all's stream of consciousness ngl. stop perpetuating it maybe

it annoys me we can't feng shui our tech

we started with the ability to but over time corporate overlords tell you how all your GUI looks and now there's ads on windows start menus

granted I just want feng shui on my android -- but android is a disaster now. and I miss WebOS gestures that nobody ever reproduced

I also still want custom chat apps. like you css your own and it's just a chat protocol. but we re-inventing email here I suppose

aaaaaand it's back

Didn't even take a day and people were already posting melodramatic goodbye posts lul

Reading today's feed has been a hilarious roller coaster ride. Was a bit worried there for a second 😅

welcome back, folks

Am I going nuts or have comments and votes been restored?