Websites nowadays feels and look the same in its structure and how its designed and the elements around it

Its almost like software interface designers follow a pattern

I fee like "hand crafted" software for a niche will be the way to go to differentiate yourself and to give unique experience to end users

I had a dream yesterday where I was a super crack-head. I would gain super-human ability from smoking crack.

I was feeling down so I put nutella in my coffee...it was average at best.

Ok, so I host a website on Vercel connected to a GitLab repo. And when my Vercel pro trial ended, I couldn't deploy projects from my "group" (For GitHub users, it's the equivalent of a GitHub organization) except I'm the only one in my group. So after panicking for 5 minutes, I found out I could just put projects in my personal account. And that is free. So, it was very stressful transferring the repositories to my personal account. (there were 5 repositories on different domains. It's more of a connected network of websites) Then updating the Git stuff on Vercel. Then after it finally finished. So, that was a scary first experience...

Man, I really want to write a book called "The little book of errors" about correct error management strategies and patterns

Not that I know what they are.... but I'd really like to write a book about them

Black box. It does seem to put messages with an URL in a certain category though, but also that's not always correct. It's trained on 3000 normal dR messages, and 3000 spam dR messages. 6000 dR messages in total. Many epochs but not good for use yet. The idea that the system could classify without discriminating new users is from the table. That discrimination is needed as a safe margin. Original spam system is a bit simple, but it doesn't do false positive and works great. Still, I want to make smth advanced out of it for the sake of education. Tomorrow I'll have my neural networks book. Probably over two weeks I have some good insights how to improve this all. New hobby :)

(pretrained 3b models are fine for recognizing spam btw. But it costs resource. 8 CPU's 100%. A self trained model pure on spam doesn't and is fast. With a pretrained model you can't do mass classification.)

1. Leave big company of 1.5y for new job in different country
2. New company tries getting me a visa for 2 months and fails
3. Puts bogus blame on me and ends contract 2 weeks before my "temporary visa" expires coz their incompetent HR couldn't get the documents right.

Fuckers didn't have ONE COMPLAINT against me so UNASSIGNED me from COMPLETED Jira tickets to ruin my OKR stats just to build grounds for this (since last week)

And when I protested, blamed some automation but DIDNT change the spreadsheet. (should've rung some bells for me, but naïve me believed their reasoning)

Big company meeting last week. Engineering Lead put a slide just about me coz my fixes brought a 20-FUCKIN-X performance improvement.
He said "oh I put a slide about [me], I dont see it", HR who was in-charge of compiling the slides said "Oh you sent the slide too late so we didnt put it".

I shrugged it back then thinking oh well but in hind-sight Fuckers went OUT OF THEIR WAY to bury anything I did to build grounds for termination coz THEY couldn't get the visa.

kill me.

Just learned that the existing US administration is going to restrict AI to a just a handful of allowed companies. They are talking about limiting AI like they did physics during WW2.

If you don't hate your government then you don't know the evil shit they are doing.

Not sure what will happen come January.

More of a rant in meme form than a meme. OC.

Let's start a discussion about decentralized. EveRyOne caN hOsT hiS oWn ServEr. Do you mean the freaking internet in general? By definition, the internet is decentralized. "Decentralization has a protocol we all use to stay in sync". That existed already, it's called IP, TCP and UDP.. The decentralization protocols are on top of those making it only more limiting. Good, many nodes in sync. Yeah, replicating SQL servers exist for a long time.

People who 'invented' decentralized did just not realize how the internet works. Adding a network on top of a network ending up in a smaller network making it more centralized. "Decentralized" stuff has nothing to add. Just some word for replication protocol or smth.

I'm too sober to fall for this shit.

I'm not a 10x developer. It's you who are 0.1x developers

Devin might be the first ever reciprocal 10x developer: A true 0.1x dev

Autocatalysis happens when the product of a chemical reaction accelerates said reaction.
The greatest catalyst is… consciousness.
A human body is but a very complex chemical reaction that goes on for roughly a century. Among other things, it produces consciousness that makes us look for food that keeps the reaction going. Consciousness is just a catalyst that turned out to be more efficient than other catalysts.

Had a heart attack when I found out what I was holding and all wasps (or bees?) came out crawling slow and sleepii. Thank God I was wearing gloves. It's ventilation hole of my bathroom. So, that's where the fuckers stay in the winter. There must be a big fat queen in there. Covered the whole nest with shaving foam and hope they'll die. Scary fuckers.

Need to work on GitHub CI action that wraps a terraform deploy (previous teams deploy setup that they would run from inside a docker compose setup locally). Working directly on main and get moaned at (definitely consider the moan reasonable) when it was originally being duct taped together. It's scrappy and doesn't have all the repo rules that other repos have set up, but it's stable, and I need to move onto “actual” requirements.

Several months later, I'm still the only “active” maintainer (it's been stable since then and hasn't needed any changes).

Have to do a hotfix experiment after adding support for a new bucket, put the changes in a PR and merge (since it has to be on main, and I'm the only one who maintains it, and if it's truly deploy change related that is the only thing that changed)

Come back to the PRs at the end of the day after discovering it's just a change to django storage, and it turns out a colleague who is tangentially related to the project dropped a comment. He's complaining about the lack of a description, the lack of a ticket and “skipping” the review process.

I, too, would have liked all that, but the damn code needs to be merged so I can check that it was that MFer. Sorry, I expected you to be able to deal with a “vague” 10 contiguous lines of iam config values, ignore the immediately following PR that reverts this revert and the preceding one adds a bucket. Sorry, that the title saying that this is a revert isn't enough of a description for you. Sorry that the other dev that told me about it didn't create a ticket. Sorry that I didn't immediately do overtime to update all the PRs and magically conjure up someone who is available to review them. But hey now that's evening and I have time to get back to going through the PRs again I can see your indignant comment which I wasn't notified about since the PR is fucking closed.

Now that I have had time to go through and see your comment, message you to let you know that commenting on a closed PR is screaming into the void and updated the PRs I can get back to what I was supposed to do today. Which is dealing with streaming data into S3. Hope you had a good day in your Clojure tower with your hired PR person (yes a person to review his PRs).

Not having to deal with your comment would have saved me an hour+.

Getting real tired of the “act like product” when it comes to fixing bugs/any polishing that isn't exploding in prod and even then. Sometimes I really wish I could refuse people from messaging me to fix an issue and can only communicate by tickets 🙄 to avoid these problems. They've been told to create a ticket and assign it to me when there is an issue, and even then, I tend to fix the issue before they get to it. I can't wait until next friday…

Anyway /rant keep up the good work in keeping quality up :D

Got my dad to try Fruity Loops so that he can compose with his Tyros 3 keyboard on the computer. If he likes it, I will buy producer edition (that one can also record, that's why) for his bday soon. For Christmas I already ordered midi to USB cable for him. Finally I know what to give to someone who already has everything. He needs stuff for his stuff :p

It will be much fun experimenting together with it. My dad can go very hard on new things, he always becomes a pro in it.

I hope it will be just as nice as the time we spent together on Autocad. He later even made Autocad exams for schools.

He learned me how to install windows 3.11 as very little kiddo.

I like my dad doing computer stuff. It's the moment we really bond.

Okay here's my weekend project
I'll create a Windows 11 virtual machine that will boot, then a macro will run that installs Chrome while closing every intervening Edge popup on its way. After the last popup is closed, the VM is reset to the pre-macro state.
I'll let Windows experience the eternity of me denying its unethical attempts to keep me from using Chrome. And I bet you I'll let it phone home every time.

So yesterday I had to travel to a different city, which is around 200km to get to (~125 miles), to get my dad to a hospital.
While waiting for him to get processed I did some coding and everything went smooth.

When I came back home, even though my credentials were valid and all, Cognito decided that I'm attempting an "account takeover" and denied my login.

Truly a time to be alive.

Oh, and fuck you Cognito :)

I dreamed I was sleeping with a panthera. It was very cuddly and nice, but then I got afraid it would bite my head off, so I realized I could just use a torch ligther to jetpack myself into the sky of london. I think it was london because I could see the tube train.

Then I got stuck into some overhead wire, felt and woke up. It was only 9.30 in the morning.

I'm sorry little unused tuple, I know you want to show who you are but if I let you, nothing will be orthogonal and you know that daddy just can't have that. Hey, at least I didn't disintegrate you like bad Mr.Black does everytime I look away, so heads up alright? :)

What is up with the Internet Archive?

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

Guys what the hell.

I clicked “update and shut down” and it honestly did it. It didn’t restart and leave my laptop running. It actually really for real genuinely earnestly updated and SHUT DOWN. Microsoft finally figured it out? They finally did it?????

I'm gonna scream the next time I hear a newscaster or some podcaster or some other bloke try to explain "what AI is" by giving some half assed word salad describing (a child's perception of) neural networks.
Fuck, back when the internal combustion engine was invented, did the newsies and radio hosts explained the concept of "explosion" every time they were to talk about engines?

Cognito is the dumbest piece of crap ever known to man. Markets itself as a great & easy auth solution to dumbass CTOs who then force the devs to implement it.

I spent a week or so trying to figure out why my token expires immediately after logging in only to find out that they issued me a token that is already revoked.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK COGNITO????

What I learned about C# this weekend:
1. I am shit at C#
2. There is a nice selection of libraries both from Microsoft and third party.
3. I like a lot of the design decisions to not make foot guns. Like you can't use an int as a bool. You must be explicit so you don't have hidden type conversions.
4. WPF isn't terrible, but it took me a bit to figure out how to make sure the front end can see changes by triggering events when a property changes. I knew this was a thing, but it took forever to figure out how. The new terminology for things is tripping me up.
5. I am shit at C#.

So what do I get out of 1.5 days of banging my head against the wall? An https server that simulates a hardware device and exchanges json messages back and forth. It does what my python code is doing now.

I found a nice library for https:
https://github.com/chronoxor/...
I learned quite a bit reading the code from this library.

It is 2024 and C# doesn't seem to have a simple way to parse json data into dynamic objects. It wants some husk classes to read into. I will have to find a good third party library for this. I was thinking C# would have this, but no. I see there is something from asp stuff, but I have no clue what I have to import to get that.

So I am doing some learning of C#. I wrote an https server in Python for a specific task. Now I want to convert it to C#. However, I do want it run as a server, but want some limited controls on it as a window. So I am looking at C# solutions for desktop applications. It seems to be a cluster of unsupported and bug ridden. I don't know if I should do: WinForms, WPA, or Maui.

I don't want to spend a lot of time learning a new gui system. I want stupid easy shit controls. I don't want to html anything.

So I guess I want something for C# that is stupid easy gui builder that barely runs. After reading reviews I just don't know what fits this bill yet.

At least my python server is running...

Just a good old rant: I'm seriously impressed (depressed) on how much cringe of bullshit there is on Linkedin, each time I open the app I feel like I'm one shotgun mouthwash from stopping on using it.

Is there any game engine with actually good support for SVG? I want to do some 2D animations but I don't want to do it with goddamn png sprites like some caveman.

🎶 Nanowar of Steel - HelloWorld.java

https://youtube.com/watch/...