When Russians talk about someone who is still a part of their group but is shunned, they use the word нерукопожатный — literally “nonhandshakable”.

FREE R KELLY
FREE P DIDDY
FREE WEINSTEIN
FREE ELON MUSK
WORLD NEEDS STRONG LEADERS
THOSE KIDS WERE ASKING FOR IT

Week : 92 (Year 1 )

I am tired, guys. Mortgage, EMI—I have to keep up.
I wanna exit this loop. I am stuck. How are you gonna spend this weekend?

Question : What’s something you still don’t understand as an adult?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/17187723

If you take

major second, minor third, augmented fourth, fifth, major sixth and minor 7, you get a maqam from 16th century iraq sufism.

I discovered it by accident by trying a raga (can't remember the name, the same but with a major seventh) but adding the tail of a dorian mode bur the upper part of the scale

They started measuring deleted and added lines of code as a metric for productivity at my company. I have heard it's been done in other companies among friends... WHO THE FUCK IS PUSHING FOR THIS!?
Like WHY EVEN DO THAT USELESS SHIT???

killall != killall5

that was a close call

Cloudflare outage.

The uptime monitoring we use also uses Cloudflare so we never received any message that there is an outage. Cloudflare is now a single point of failure for the internet.

"Attending" WWDC 2025 ("attending" is a stretch). I'm starting this thread as a multi-rant (comments count).

To start it off, WWDC 2025 is, like all these other virtual 2020's WW's, BORING... World Wide Dull Cinema.. It's like being in developer-solitary-confinement. After going to the in-person ones, I can safely say that it is hard to care about anything in WWDC beyond the keynote...

And when Tim gets on there /still/ trying to extoll the virtues of it being virtual, it is pretty clear that they are trying to compensate...

1. no collaboration
2. uninspiring without your peers
3. random because there is no real schedule
4. boring because you don't meet anyone new
5. career limiting, can't trade vCards & resumes
6. cringy trying too hard announcements

(just sayin', love you guys but come on here...)

WWDC 2019 and prior were awe-inspiring. WWDC pre 2020 collected enough IQ in one place to make the world wobble on its axis.

WWDC needs to go back to in-person /with/ streaming for those of us who can't make it. Change the venue to Las Vegas for crying out loud, they can handle the *worlds* *largest* *trade* *show* (aka CES) there... WWDC is small potatoes by comparison.

liver failure is the single shittiest feeling you're gonna experience. I know what it feels like to be cut open, also amnesia, also paranoia, also depression, but let me tell you: liver failure is the fucking worst.

imagine sprinting one mile while thirsty in 110F heat while having severe food poisoning and flu. that's how it feels, pretty much

ever seen the artificial snow in those classic black and white movies? that was pure asbestos.

yeah.

bounty hunting, not bug bounty mind you, but the real one, chasing people with guns that is, is still legal in some US states.

I see we need some more anti-spam accounts.

Calling everyone to adopt some new ones (https://devrant.com/rants/16155083/...)

Open this to adopt: https://birth.molodetz.nl/

Also, can we get some praise for @retoor's awesome work, she deserves some more praise

Youtube is disgusting.

They deliberately implement some crap that tries to circumvent ad blockers, fail at that, that causes videos to have a delay before loading.
Then they implement a fucking popup during this delay, telling you to klick there for more information why there is a delay.
And when you klick on that, they essentially tell you that your ad blocker is probably why there is a delay.

No, assholes, the ads is why there is a delay.

Dishonest, manipulative pieces of shit.

— Et tu, Brute…
— Quit talking French, salad boy! *stab* *stab*

PM is on his period again

Opened devRant after exactly 4 years. Brings back so many memories!!
Hello again, devRant community! What's life like rn?

I've been in a new city for a while, now.

When it comes to getting to know a new city, I like to pick a remote destination of interest within a walking distance /* Which usually is a supermarket, or an electronics store. */ && just pay attention to surroundings on my way there.

Using Google Maps myself, since it works quite well in my area.

Today /* Technically yesterday, since currently it's past midnight, but the event took place a few hours ago, but whatever. */ I have found this interesting landmark.

Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/14042595/... .

Found you. Hello.

High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/CDP_01.... .

/* Low quality unavailable due to devRant's picture upload being broken for the moment. */

Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/15770605/... .

It's fun getting to know a new city.
Also, it's fun learning where the key players are located...

High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/11BS.jp... .

...especially when they're in walking distance.

I have purchased a few games by them like 'Beat Cop', 'This War of Mine', && 'Frostpunk' but have yet to find the time && will to try them out.

Practical question: did anyone figure out how to pay less taxes in the UK (or somewhere else in Europe)?
I can’t lie it becomes pretty unsustainable…

man i fucking hate my company.

somehow the largest in the industry but fuck me are we retards at software engineering.

wrapping popular api's and not exposing basic functionality, only to hide them behind some stupid fucking enterprise abstraction for some fucking dumb reason

wrapping fundamental java objects like int into their own fucking enterprise int, like for fucking why?

and finally blocking chatgpt that allowed me to deal with half of this fucking enterprise hell

stupid fucking shit

Tetris is an inventory management survival horror game

AI tokens are just microtransactions for programmers

How do you mentally check out and stop caring at a toxic job?

Been at this big fintech for 4 months. Small teams, impossible deadlines, undefined tasks, missing specs, constant context switching. Everyone's doing overtime/weekends while management sets you up to fail then blames you. Performance evaluations every 3 months.

Was literally about to quit tomorrow but need the paycheck. So I'm turning this into an experiment - I'm a recovering people-pleaser who's never set boundaries at work. 9 years in my career, never been fired, I left multiple times due to burnout in the past.

Time to see what happens when I stop caring about pleasing incompetent managers and their made-up deadlines. Work at my own pace until they get tired of me. How do you actually do this though?

- How to not give into false sense of urgency induced stress?
- Ask for proper specs without feeling guilty?
- Work slower and not hate yourself for it?
- Push back on unrealistic expectations?

I'm burned out and need to learn how to be strategically as mediocre as possible for my own sanity.

Anyone been through this mindset shift?

Have you ever situationally bought a tech book at work only to not use it afterwards because the situation became no longer applicable?

390.8 MB worth of app just to change the brightness value of a single non-rgb led in my mouse.

Quote of our co-founder today: "Recently I've learned we should be doing market research before building something"

Explains why we are so much in the red now...

import legacy project on new laptop

some gradle shit is broken and i dont understand why

i dont remember having to deal with it years ago and and i have no idea how to fix

cant see the settings difference between it working on old laptop

A friend of mine asked me to help him develop a simple ios app. After spending few year with lisp Swift looks so syntactically difficult to understand how to write code. I feel I have to learn Swift, SwiftUI and their specifics before.

But preview in XCode is fantastic btw.

Tbh, ostream is a nice guy. Once you get over his

- Racism towards Germans
- Racism towards Jews
- Closeted racism towards anyone, really
- Psychotic episodes of rage
- Borderline criminal tendencies
- Bipolar disorder

It's actually fun to talk to him. You have to invest time and patience though.

Love you ostream bro.