Week : 70 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

So eventually Cat gave birth to 3 amazing kittens, obviously in my basement. I think she is moving out. I heard them talking last night that she is tired of this shit

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/12275079

Context/Prev: https://devrant.com/rants/9820310 (and the rants related to it)

So after accidentaly using Arch for 5 months, and then accidentally using Gentoo for 7 months
(It was supposed to be 1 month per distro, but life happened and didn't have the time and peace of mind for a switch)
Today I'm finally hopping to Slackware
I love the setup's retro/classic ncurses gui <3

What in God's name is thrift and why the fuck does every fucking library that supports it have no actual documentation. DOES EVERYONE COME PREINSTALLED WITH THIS MAGICAL THRIFT KNOWLEDGE??????

They called it The Counterfeit Sun. Initially tested and deployed on The Cape of Good Hope in 1892, it was a shallow well with stone walls and a darkened needle-like protrusion in the middle. The Counterfeit Sun was able to turn a human body into damp dust in milliseconds.



With The Counterfeit Sun, soldiers fight better. People behave better in general, because no one wants to end up there. Even doctors and social workers perform better: while discarding corpses every day, they look at The Counterfeit Sun working, and they don’t want to make a round trip back to the station just to find out they’re the next to go.

Also, there were no corpses on the streets anymore. Take all of them to us, and we would get rid of them.



There was just one issue: sometimes, The Counterfeit Sun started glowing. At that moment, you knew you fucked up.

There's a petty problem that you're being told to fix, either some other teams to copy sixty something files and update that many filepaths or you can build job to send over sixty million requests.

Android Studio has been the bane of my life for at least the last decade. I hate it beyond description and have given up hope that it will ever improve.

I suffer more than most with it because I am cursed to use C++ on a daily basis, and it has long been obvious that the Google people absolutely do not give a fuck about C++ users.

I get that C++ is niche, a drop in the ocean of Java/Kotlin-centric users, but for the love of god could you Google people at least stop making it worse?

Code navigation is insanely slow. Entire minutes for it to find the right header file to open. "Find usages..." oh my god oh my god oh my god just fucking kill me now. There is no excuse for software ever being this slow.

And thats just doing basic source editing. The build system - cmake and ndkbuild - also defy adequate description. The gradle plugins are constantly going out of date and are often incompatible with whatever gradle version you have. You get no help at all when editing a gradle build file and good luck finding the right documentation.

It's all a giant stinking mess and I wish the whole damn thing would be dragged outside and shot.

The way 90% of the population wears their face masks really explains a lot about their approach to using software, apps & websites as well.

I feel like giving up.

I am not a developer for the salary, or just to solve analytical puzzles. Those are motivators, but my main drive is to make the world more comfortable and enjoyable, better optimized, build ethical services which bring happiness into people's lives. I want to improve society, even if it's just a tiny bit.

But if users invest absolutely zero percent of their limited brain capacity into understanding a product that already has a super-clean design and responds with helpful validation messages...

...why the fuck bother.

I used to think of the gap between technology and tech-incompetent people as an optimization problem.

As something which could be fixed by spending a fortune on UX research. Write tests, hire QA employees, decrease tech debt, create a bold but unified & simple design.

But the technologically incompetent just get more entitled with every small thing you simplify.

It's never fucking fool-proof enough.

Why can't I upload a 220MB PDF as profile picture? Why doesn't the app install on my 9 year old Android Froyo phone? Why can't I sign up if my phone number contains a  U+FFFC? Why does this page load so slowly from my rural concrete bunker in East Ukraine? WHY DO I HAVE PNEUMONIA, HOW DID I GET INFECTED EVEN THOUGH I WAS WEARING A MOUTH MASK ON MY FOREHEAD?

This is why I ran away from Frontend, to Backend, to DBA.

If I could remove myself further from the end user, I would.

At least I still have a full glass of tawny port and a huge database which needs to be normalized & migrated.

Fuck humans, I'm going to hug a server.

I have had tacos 2 days in a row now. They are so good from the Mexican roach coach I get them from. I have eaten at various restaurants in the area and the dang tacos from the roach coach are better than any of them. $2 a taco man! I don't care if its cat. There used to be cats that hung around their bus. Haven't seen them in a while though...

I want to bookmark a set of open tabs in vscode

and then switch between different bookmarks

raagh

I was curious about the geographical distribution of Top Tech Jobs (i.e. how many FAANG jobs are in Europe, where they are mostly focused, etc)... So I came up with a draft (prototype) of the Tech Jobs Radar:

https://jobs-radar.com/

I'm sharing it here just in case someone else is curious about analyzing such data

when the service endpoint only takes in 1 item to update at a time

fml

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

Uberkyle

Seriously though who needs alcohol and sex when you can do absurdly highly caffeniated sodas and chronic

There is this old story about a couple accepting Apple into their life and things didn't go so well after that.
Let's call them Adam and Eve...

Alcohol is the root of 50% of all problems

Mac OS X has finally gone open source !

You need to run custom scripts to get basic behaviour back 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks Apple ! 😘

https://github.com/luckman212/...

I ordered a drone, fuck yeah

Violence is never the answer.

It's a question.

The answer is Yes.

Someone broke boost and modules, at least I managed to make a workaround but come on

do you separate the mechanics and functionality of software from the people in the community?

is there tools you love the functionality of but hate the community of, and vice versa?

were there tools you loved where the community ruined it for you, or tools you hated to use but the community won you over?

companies where you loved the software and hated the people or vice-versa?

In order to function well, you must ensure your basic needs are being met. Like sleeping well, eating well, resting well. Otherwise we derail.

Paradoxically, self love results in loving others. Because we are functioning well, we behave. I guess it's just my case. Whatever problems I have, chronically being stressed or tired just overdrives it.

I need to be really careful on how to I treat others, especially my loved ones. Strange, how I treat people I work with nicely and professionally. But in reality, these people are not even my friends.

Also a wise man on devRant said "Forgive yourself and study zen scriptures. Find solace in nature and serve others." Since I deleted the rant, I don't remember who it was. Anyway, thank you. Also, thank all of your comments of raw feedback. It really helps me think and reflect on myself and actions.

The best value I can give others is by not being there. That's how I felt at work and in society, weird times.

Recently, going to gym and sleeping early made me look way better. I'm thankful for that. And coming to work early everyday and managing work-life made me feel like I'm doing well.

Did devrant's backend downsize or something? I came back after a while and the whole app is like, 10 times less responsive, taking ages to load and respond etc

Guyz so I found this climbing gym with a sauna, it's all good and stuff but I wonder if i shouldnt supplement with a side of ashtanga what do u think? Long term i want to improve my surfing

Doesn't taste like coffee...

I didn't become a developer to be legacy's bitch. But we're all legacy's bitch.

I want to roam free. I want to piss in the rain and sing at strlen. I don't want to be in corporate meetings anymore.

I don't want to contort my ideas and good intentions to fit legacy's ugly painting.

I want to be free.

Please let coding be fun again.

I process more tickets than a brothel car park ticket machine

node modules real meaning.

gonna try working from the hospital while my youngest brother is in surgery from a car accident yay american work culture forcing productivity in difficult times

A software developer's experience life cycle:

0 - 5 years: attempt to replicate what your current senior is preaching, assuming that's the right way. Reading "Clean code" and preach it as gospel, even though you don't practice any of it.

6-12 years: gained the belief that you are better off coming up with solutions yourself, usually "sophisticated" and "elegant" which to everyone else (and also yourself a few years later) is an over-complicated inheritance ridden shit show. You have realised the "Clean code" movement is actually a cult but still believe code reuse is the holy grail.

13+ years: finally realized that simplicity and pragmatism is the most sensible way for most software development. Code is now readable, maintainable and functional. You took the few good bits from "Clean code" and ignored the extremism. These are the golden years.

The problem is most developers jump ship and stop developing before reaching the golden years, thus resulting in most software projects looking like shit.

Unpopular opinion, but it doesn't make it untrue.

Does anyone else ever drink too strong coffee in one go because they're tired only to get a headache and still feel 10 years younger

Just saw new designs for this new screen. Everything is totally different then everything we’ve build so far. Seriously dude. WHY?! Why can’t you keep at least the buttons the same as before?

Two bits of WORD:

{You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.}

{To the end that my tongue and my heart and everything glorious within me may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.}

Give thanks and praise.