After coming back from vacation, seeing that the project manager has used AI to try and do some of my tasks, completely failing and running performance and code quality/readability into the ground I must confess that I am strongly in favour of completely banning AI for non-tech people

I want a mini chihuahua sized donkey

Fun Java test:

Without looking up anything, answer the following question:

Which of the following variable identifiers is legal in Java and why?

1) float $50.00;
2) float $50_00;
3) float 50;
4) float else;

Am I an idiot for trying to find legit projects on telegram? I found some legit ones before but, mostly the groups/channels are filled with scammers/hackers and all sorts of entropy.

First time filing for unemployment after the layoff. I didn't even know it was something I was eligible, so I'm lucky I spoke to my friend the other day.

What up to date are you with devRant?

I generated a quiz.

The quiz refers to scan / devrant. With scan / devrant we mean the last few weeks (everything what is withing rage, the kind of six pages you are only able to see on this site).

Here is the quiz: https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.quiz....

Here are the answers where it's based on: https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.stats...

Just came back from my first day at cloudflare. I've already removed quite a bit of dead code.

Clint Eastwood says: "...It's a baaad time to be a Junior..."

ah-ee-ah-ee-ah... wah-wah-waah...

this website has like, connections to AlpineJS, jQuery, 3 different web font providers, calling some WordPress theme CSS from another website, uses TailwindCSS v2, inline styles, the fuckin head tag's content is almost 400 lines of fuckin code.

I can't help but laugh and feel sorry for the poor soul who had to build this. Was clearly in over his head.

Offset pagination is one of the biggest collective failures in software engineering.

Who wakes up one morning yearning to visit page 7218 of 100000 in the dataset?

No one, right? Because that’s not how it’s supposed to work. That’s what the search feature is for. Not that developers don’t fuck it up too, but that’s the not the point of this rant.

The truth is, most developers are lazy and don’t want to properly handle stuff. It’s even made worse by ORMs, where some dumb ass will use Django to make a shitty API without a care in the world about the underlying database.
Then after a few months of ever increasing data, they start experiencing very slow queries and response times.

Gee, I wonder what it could be! Could it be that the DB is having to go through hundreds of rows just to return the 100001st row? 

Designers also defaulting to Page 1 of 2322222 UI like the NPCs they are, is a big problem.

Pagination UI, if not done right, is a performance nightmare masquerading as a feature, solving a user problem that doesn't exist.

Fuck whoever came up with this bullshit.

I’ve had 3 side gigs where my task was to speed up the system and it always ended up being an issue with pagination. Once worked on a project where the dashboard toook 8 minutes. Yes, you read that right. 8 minutes to load. The company had accepted it as normal until a new manager joined and said, fuck that. Brough me onboard to unfuck the mess. No issue with Django devs, but bro, learn how to deal with databases properly for fuck's sake.

Before you came at me with, “well, what if I want to give users the ability to jump between pages”. Bro, that’s what search is for! If search is not allowing users to access the exact data they want, then it’s broken.
Pages are not deterministic anyway, because page 4 today won’t have the same data tomorrow.

I just fucking hate badly implementation pagination. Fucks up my day.

My website runs on Oracle Cloud's free tier.

Your website runs on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, sitting behind a CloudFlare load balancer, and it's up and down like a whore's drawers.

We are not the same.

Telling HR in an interview that you have ReactJS experience and that this is easily transferable with AngularJS work is like a human yelling at a fish that chatgpt 7 is out.

First it was Amazon region-wide service issues. Now it's Cloudflare having issues.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Fuck sake man.

FML

A few months ago I was certain I had lost my laptop

So I bought a new laptop.

Yesterday I found it

It was standing among the books in my bookshelf -_-

I had yesterday a 1-on-1 with my manager (the only backend dev) and he wants that I, the only frontend developer, creates the needed SQL tables via API calls. What the hell is this company.

I don't even have access to the production data nor have access to the database.

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

TIL the dutch word for hat is chapeau.

Stop stealing our words

🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️

Just submitted my first bounty PR. Waited 3+ weeks to hear anything back from maintainers.

Jumped in their discord and politely asked for a review.

Maintainers said, "tomorrow".

Thank them for their time

Waited an extra 3 days, asked again. Maintainers ignore me in Discord but happily tend to everyone else's PR

Get tired of waiting, being ghosted

Close PR
Delete branch
Leave comment saying "haven't heard anything, deleting this and taking it with me"
Leave discord
Block all organization members

Don't waste time on people who won't give a moment of theirs

My colleagues are really addicted to Pokémon. They took their lunch break at 10:00 to go to shop because the pokémon cards are restocked today at 10:00. Now half of the team eats their lunch while working cuz their lunch break is already used lol

Also, the company doesn't even measure the breaks. They usually take multiple smoke breaks totalling over 1h each day. Nobody complains about that. Idk why they suddenly care about the duration of their lunch break