Developer: We have a problem.
Manager: Remember, there are no such things as problems, only opportunities.
Developer: Well then, we have a DDoS opportunity.

I like this licence

I'm not sure if I should be Happy or Sad about this :/

Pro tip to error messages #1: keep them simple and short

Pro tip to error messages #2: make them make FUCKING SENSE

this guy recursively FUCKED his computer with 1 weird trick. microsoft it HATES him

QA engineers...

CSS 101: How to check if elements are directly under each other

Samsung engineer atm

Made me laugh

Driver: "Where to?"
Me: "192.168.1.1"

I put an Easter egg into a product, that if you enter the string "final countdown" into the stock code search field, it plays a YouTube vid of Europe's "The Final Countdown", in a hidden div. It's an in-joke for a few people in the company.

A well meaning maintainer with no sense of humour or judgement takes over and goes on the warpath against any hardcoded strings. The secret code gets moved into a config file.

A third developer changes the deployment script so that it clears any configs that aren't explicitly set in the deployment settings.

So the secret code is now "".

Literally every PC in the stock buying department is now blaring out "The Final Countdown" at top volume.

...Except none of them have speakers, so it remains this way for over a year and two more changes of maintainer.

I just noticed this afternoon and quietly re-hardcoded the string. The buying dept.'s PCs will silently sing no more.

Guys on CodePen are making battling Pikachus out of pure CSS and I'm just sitting here trying to get my navbar straight.

I agree

My client wants a jpg image with a transparent background !!!!!!!

Am I the only one who hesitates to ++ a rant with 32, 64, 128, 256, etc ++'s?

I mean there's something satisfying about seeing 2^n numbers as an all-around computer nerd...

Me typing
git rebase --help
GF: What!? Oh... nevermind it says rebase. I thought it said rebae.
Me: What?
GF: I'm the only bae you need in your life!
Me: ... This is going on devrant.

Nothing new on DevRant.
Close DevRant.
Stare at home screen.
Open DevRant.

When a traffic light has a merge conflict.

😂😂😂😂😂

Let's build an OS, including the kernel and everything that goes with it

So just saw this course online the logo and title are two different languages not the best first impression

What my lecturer think I have learned:
- Programming Patterns
- C, C++, Java
- Socket programming, web programming
- Operating system...

What I have actually learned:
1. printf("Hello World");
2. echo "Hello World";
3. console.log("Hello World");
4. Console.Writeline("Hello World");
5. cout << "Hello World" >> endl;
6. System.out.println("Hello World");
7. puts "Hello World";
8. "Hello World"
9. write("Hello World");
10. Display "Hello World"

A friend just said that "Coding is 90% knowing the theory, and 10% knowing/googling the syntax for a particular language."
Do you agree?

It's over Facebook

It was a normal school day. I was at the computer and I needed to print some stuff out. Now this computer is special, it's hooked up onto a different network for students that signed up to use them. How you get to use these computers is by signing up using their forms online.

Unfortunately, for me on that day I needed to print something out and the computer I was working on was not letting me sign in. I called IT real quick and they said I needed to renew my membership. They send me the form, and I quickly fill it out. I hit the submit button and I'm greeted by a single line error written in php.

Someone had forgotten to turn off the debug mode to the server.
Upon examination of the error message, it was a syntax error at line 29 in directory such and such. This directory, i thought to myself, I know where this is. I quickly started my ftp client and was able to find the actual file in the directory that the error mentioned. What I didn't know, was that I'd find a mountain of passwords inside their php files, because they were automating all of the authentications.

Curious as I was, I followed the link database that was in the php file. UfFortunately, someone in IT hadn't thought far enough to make the actual link unseeable. I was greeted by the full database. There was nothing of real value from what I could see. Mostly forms that had been filled out by students.

Not only this, but I was displeased with the bad passwords. These passwords were maybe of 5 characters long, super simple words and a couple number tacked onto the end.

That day, I sent in a ticket to IT and told them about the issue. They quickly remedied it by turning off debug mode on the servers. However, they never did shut down access to the database and the php files...

Dance like no one else is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.

Debian is installing itself in Florida

I admit doing this. Always.

When bugs are trying to tell you something...

when your commit message is longer than the actual change