@12bitfloat, we're having a new compatitor in the game:
***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.41911959648132324
Time Rust: 0.4686765670776367
Time CPP: 1.7605431079864502
Time Borded CPP: 1.140819787979126
Time Jest Rust: 1.7274057865142822
Time Swift: 0.4625704288482666

It's swift: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

How does it run locally at your PC?

devRant is the ultimate backend to test my proxy server with since it's random responses. When your proxy server can handle devRant scenario's, it's robust. Making a proxy server that is actually robust and don't let it flaws itself with slow connections / servers is quite a challenge. Depends also what you're writing it with. In python was way simpler than in C. In Python some things magically just worked. If you think that python sockets are native, you're wrong kiddo, they did al sort of shits under the hood. Had to do a whole rewrite of my original proxy server to allow pipelining. Pipelining is req>req>req>resp>resp>resp instead of the traditional req>resp>req>resp>req>resp. It's keep-alive on steroids. Most server don't support it out of self preservation but I just want to. Caddy is a huge pipeliner. What most servers do is, they close the connection the moment the second request is sent / marking the second request invalid. Clients support that behavior and will do the second call under the hood.

My new proxy server has exactly the same dashboard as the previous one but the many statistics that it has have zero performance impact. It persists every second a quick snapshot to database, every 60 seconds a big one. The statistics are persistent for when the server reboots.

What an adventure.

I've just paid 88,65 (real, decent currency) for a document that you're required to have. E.g. a passport! Scum. They asked me for 'extra annotations' and called them scum as well, directly in the report. Freaking bastards.

You're also legal by owning a driving license to walk around in dem country, but that one was revoked. It's not that you get something in return to legitimate with and the passport was expired so.

Again! Scum! Utter scum! Crazy that just a whole country copes with this. It's time for a revolution!

We're being used as an ATM!

Wauw, notebooklm is such an amazing app. First you had to do research yourself to deliver things for the podcast you're about to generate. Now it'll fetch just ten sources for you when you pick a subject and generates the podcast based on that. I just generated a podcast for 30 minutes about the history of computer science. It was amazing, many things fell into place for me. That 30 minutes felt like five. So amazing how the dialogue goes from the podcast people, such human interactions. A joy to listen. I prompted to make a bit story out of it. It's a great way for low effort learning; just like AI in general. Learn stuff you normally wouldn't take the effort for.

We live in magic times. My favorite at products:
1. Perplexity
2. NotebookLM
3. Claude Code
4. Suno (Made many funny songs for and about friends and family members what was appreciated, also, don't forget the song that dissed every active devRant member).

Claude code is sick, but if we just had perplexity we still had a way to learn things fast but just had to type it ourselves. Well, never hated that. NotebookLM on two because I'll learn a subject every night, maybe something not related to programming. That that shit is free, damn. Are those people not just terrible at marketing? Fine if we're hooked on AI on the future, by then it's probably cheap as fuck.

Thanks for listening to my happy rant.

@12bitfloat come to snek, i have something cool.

It's kinda funny that Trump had commentary about Zelensky's appearance while he is the inventor regarding wearing a cap above a suite. It degraded the class of a suit big time. A cap is worse than Zelensky ever did.

I don't want to show of my swiping skills but I only have to swipe once to go from top of this feed to the bottom. I think I'm just born to be a swiper.

If the Netherlands would have mountains, what would've been Germany's purpose?

https://dr.molodetz.nl does now omit 500 errors. You can browse devRant without errors here. Can also be used as api endpoint @Lensflare @SoldierOfCode.

Edit; for phone users, rantii works again as well without giving errors.

People using something else than chrome for web browsing should wear a star, go in the back in the bus until they behave. Ultimately they should go with the train.

2025 was a good year. No manic episodes or whatsoever. Maybe I should raise the bar a bit. I dunno, I feel a bit sad. My main gain this year is stability. Is that my ultimate goal? Hmm.

A few days ago I fell of my bike because if I've. Got hurt so bad, it felt like being beat up. Ribs, Hans everything. But thanks to judo since young age not the head. But it feels so bad, almost like sickness.

Sorry that rantii / dr.molodetz.nl / mention notifications was down. I noticed late.

Did you know that most articles published regarding software development are positive? This 'fact' is based on research that I've done for months by auto aggregating more than 30.000 articles. It is a process that i have running for months. 30.000+ LLM calls to evaluate sentiment :P Whoops.

See graphs and tables here: https://my.devplace.net/posts/...

I am actually downloading a Linux ISO using torrent.

WOW, i'm the first!

Happy Christmas! May the source be with you 2026.

Jay Jesus!

You play worms with worms. I play worms with jaguars: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

This is literally AI slop. Made in less than 30 lines prompt in total. I'm so suprised! :P But impressive, the AI models are getting so good.

I described zero graphics, this is total LLM fantasy and total slop!

I TRY TO ORDER A VAPE STICK YOU FUCKING PSYCHOS.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

So, if you buy something there: they have your credit card details, your picture, your passport. What's next? My pp size?

Do they want to make a loan in my name or something? FUCKING HELL.

This does not have to do with the shit EU is pulling of lately I hope? Because if that's the case, I will basically not shop much online anymore.

I'm the whimsical your LLM is always talking about.

This is a test `rant` where I test my Swift bot. I am not able to judge the source since I do not really know Swift well, but the LLM seems to code it very well, even with a remote dependencies it has from @Lensflare to communicate with web / devRant.

I implemented an OpenRouter API client. It's basically a bridge between OpenRouter and devRant. I can use any model that OpenRouter has to offer. If someone prefers a (funny?) model to run, let me know. It's now `grok-code-fast-1`. It's a good price/quality model with decent performance. This model DOMINATES the others when it comes to popularity for coding based on OpenRouter stats. I understand why.

Working is terrible. You have to do stuff and stuff. And when you're done, you have to do more stuff. It's kinda stupid huh.

So once day I just quitted with it and was like, oh, that's nice.

You should try it too!

What is your favourite conspiracy theory?

I have again an idea how NOT to get rich. A donation site that will spread your donation amongst every common used open source library. High level stuff many times have some donation system. But the low level stuff what everyone is relying on barely afaik. I would like this system bevause you can have a big influence with just ten dollar or so what means every project ten cents or whatsoever.

I told my landlord that his rent is so high that I can't eat every day. I think he actually believed me. Fingers crossed. Last time he raised with 50 euros and I'm without warm water now for almost two weeks. That's not very common in the Netherlands. He came a few times and delivered half work. You would expect a few times half work would mean a completed job.

This rant is IT related bevause it limits me contributing to open source.

As already somewhere else mentioned, even a 200,-/month paying user means loss for chatgpt. So theur business is not a little bit non-sustainable.

How will this play out? Bevause if that's true, they could never ask the price it needs and still have users.

Anthropic will be profitable by end of 2028, but that's not weird if I see so many people saying the have cloud max. But still, it has a way to go.

OK, so Chatgpt is ditching the EM dashes. Sad, because that's how we easily could recognize the idiots. Also it's not new at all to let Chatgpt drop the EM dashes as been stated in article. I have a very detailed analysis about my writing and it copies it perfectly. So, they're selling us a placebo. Idiots. Also, for high quality information they relied on 1900's books? All the shit that came after that is a bullshit indeed. Not surprised...

https://perplexity.ai/page/...

Why does literally every Rust user has issues with his boyfriend?

Everything goes behind payment walls regarding AI. Claude pro sucks, codex got limits, perplexity limited file uploads, I can hit daily limits with gemini that I didn't have before.. It started already with the limited deep search everywhere. The problem is, I'm still paying the same but got less. Wtf.

The rust linux tools for Ubuntu are such a damn failure. They even have different output or do not even cover the full functionality of the real gnu tools. The project is already bonkers, but a bad execution.. At least do that right.

I wanted to show of my perfect based AI auto build tool but sadly, only very good computers can see it or phones. This image crashed my pc: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview....

Fun fact, I told my AI tool to investigate the upload mechanism of devrant.molo and upload it. He did it at once. How sick is that.

The whole tool is native python, no dependencies.

You can follow devrant mentions with rss on https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.menti.... On my phone it looks like this and can even enable notification: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

It updates every 5 minutes.