It's weird - if logical to a degree - how some job interviews treat the interview like it's an exam on Programming Theory. Like.. why? lol.

"Have you heard of pubsub and do you know how JavaScript works in it?"
"Can you describe the Observer pattern with me and how it relates to pubsub?"
"Can you tell me why 'this' is tricky in JavaScript and all its forms?"
"Can you tell me how the Facade, Decorator and Strategy pattern work and how you would apply them?"

In retrospect, the interviewers were trying to play games on me and they were laughing too. That's what you get with devhouses. Like bro, I'm trying to get a job. This shit isn't funny.

Funny thing is, I passed all their tests and they didn't hire me because I didn't convince the CEO I were capable of the job. lol

One of my passion projects was down, could not understand why, then a few days later i saw it was back online.

What happened was i used apache on a 1gb vps, and every time there was any significant traffic OOM killer stepped in and killed apache.

But then, when lets encrypt generated a new certificate, in the process turned apache back on. Circle of life i guess.

I just realized that in German there is one word for both, "invented" and "made up".

Erfunden.

I didn’t make this up. I also didn’t invent it. 🤔

Son of a bitch. You can't have gaps in your CV or you are considered a red flag. Companies want good-working rats that never take breaks in life!

Sick of this shit.

I am livid and humans are just vile and disgusting beings

you know how much we say cortisol is stress and bad for you

it isn't. cortisol literally makes you unable to feel fear, it literally heals you. it STRICTLY does this. it is NOT the "stress" response

if peoples level of cortisol is high that's GOOD, not bad. they literally have more self control and their blood sugar levels are better and their brain is protected from the ACTUAL stress chemicals. your body releases cortisol to RECOVER from stress and to ensure you can remain sane and functional during high stress, like a well-trained combat soldier and shit

I just can't. humans are so disgusting. the cult of science is just vile. they just parrot each other and perform fucking rituals blindly, calling themselves high status and pretending they have the answers to everything when they're literally backwards. never do they analyze anything they say. they ignore all exceptions to their dogma. worse than any religion in the history of mankind

Fuck taxes

Every damn time I touch a legacy codebase, it feels like I’m spelunking into an ancient temple of forgotten loops and cursed dependencies.

I find a “simple bug,” open the file, and 47 tabs later, I’m knee-deep in recursive functions that haven’t been touched since JavaScript ES5 was hip. Like… how does a one-line typo spawn three dependency hells, a circular import, and a forgotten regex that only runs on leap years? 🤯

And testers? Oh, they love it.
Tester: “Could you make this feature better?”
Me: “Sure.”
Tester: “But keep it fast.”
Me: “Cool.”
Tester: “…And don’t break anything else.”
…Me, opening the project:

???
Error 404: sanity not found

At this point, I’m convinced legacy codebases are just devs’ way of telling future generations:
“May the Stack Overflow be with you.” 😂

++ If you’ve ever fought a rogue npm installation that promised to fix things but added 12 new bugs instead. 🙃

Bored of peace.

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.