Based on your experience and knowledge, can you wager a guess on the percentage of dev/production codebases at companies are actual, beautifully written, architecturally sound constructions and not a nightmare of a (spaghetti) mess that keeps requiring new architects/ai engineers/senior devs/whatever to maintain (or rewrite)? In my personal experience... let's see.. about 20% or less of all the companies I worked at. That's sad. lol

Residential proxies are quite expensive, but I'm not skilled at setting up a proxies server. I've used Thordata's residential proxy service before. As far as I know, top-tier proxies include Brightdata and OxyLabs, but both are too pricey. My budget is around Thordata's. Do you have any other recommendations?

The last Windows update has fucked up the positions of the files on my desktop.

At this point I‘m not even mad. Also not disappointed anymore. We are past that.

Now it’s more of a confirmation of the ever declining quality of MS products.

I built an addon to the system that we've been using for almost 15 years now that uses the exact same config screen as we've always used.
And, just because the configs are being applied to a new concept, it's being treated like I abducted them with a flying saucer and are forcing them to learn Alienese. The config screen is exactly the same otherwise.

Job-searching while listening to Final Fantasy VIII. Know what I'm sayin'?

@ostream please come to snek, need your advise.

Spilled juice on my desk. Now everything "feels sticky". I quote that because nothing is actually sticky, but I was so upset that now I think I feel sticky when I don't. I keep checking my fingers after typing or anything. Never having juice in my office again...

I think my mind is going a bit weird... Now I suddenly start hearing things in memes in my head. I wonder if I'm in the only one.

Examples of when something happens and my mind goes:
"The f"
"Ah shit, here we go again..."
"Huh?"
"Heh, yeah, bwoi"

Somehow in my engine when I do :

camPos.y += camUp.y * speed * deltaTime;

It goes faster than Trump seeing an underage girl,
and when I add up everything :
camPos.x += camUp.x * speed * deltaTime;
camPos.y += camUp.y * speed * deltaTime;
camPos.z += camUp.z * speed * deltaTime;

It goes as slow as my gf seeing me.
(jk arch users dont have gfs)

Also what keys could I map to go up and down ? WASD/ZQSD usually for right left back...
Space/ctrl?

At the company town hall yesterday, one of the questions asked was about allowing more remote work. The c-suite leaderships mentioned how productivity went down in 2020 when many were working remotely. We're in logistics and that's a relationship business. It's important to have people at terminals talking to the truckers.

Most of the IT staff is fully remote, except for the managers. They're expected to be on-site (I think it's 2 days a week, maybe 3). I did go in yesterday and was reminded of how much I don't like being in the office. They don't even have full cubicals. They have the room for it, but it's all open-plan work spaces.

I was hired on as a senior, with questions on if I'd want to continue on into management. I do want to get out of the development role at some point, and tried to get into management positions at my two previous jobs. One place promoted the youngest junior dev over all of us to manager and brought in an external director. The other job laid me off after three years.

This current shop has a lot of badly engineered, way too small, micro-services. It's a maintenance nightmare and everything they plan just really makes the overall situation worse.

Do I stick it out in the hope of getting into a management position? I'd honestly come back to the office for a year, if that year added manager to my resume. I'm going to stay for at least a year, but do I want to start looking for new work again after that?

DirectX users are psychos.

- joins new company
- here for a month
- finds out entire team is getting laid off
- hr: "can you finish your 30 day survey please"

I need ur opinion :
Im adding a GUI to my engine (written in C), and my question now is should I use ImGui (needs bindings), or Nuklear.

ImGui is very beautiful by default :/

I don't want to see that "C++ : 1%" in the little langauges section in github, nor need a C++ compiler.

Also I use leagecy OpenGL

ok asked google what can it tell me about myself and it slapped me with the fact that i wrote an image format and called it JOJ.

it didn't pick up on the reference so 0/10.

also it identified me as a programmer rather than a shitposter, i feel profoundly hurt by this injurious misprofiling. am i a joke to you? don't answer.

anyway only *now* i finally understand what "online footprint" really means and why some people are kinda paranoid about it. but i am not going to go back and delete ten years of willie tanner jokes, because the fact that the dad from alf was allegedly caught in a crackhouse having sex with homeless people will never not be funny to me, sorry but not sorry.

One day Luik / Liege / Luttich country will be independent from the genocidal german king of "Belgium".

From the maas to the north sea.

"But why is the scar on the left if the appendix is on the right?"

"You're absolutely right! Let me try that one more time"

"Guru meditation". Talk about weird errors... lol.

Has anyone ever worked anywhere that actually had complete user stories to work on? Every job I've had requires me to ask clarifying questions for almost every part of a ticket before I work on it. I wonder how nice a job could be if acceptance criteria and expectations were known before a ticket was assigned.

What the fuck is happening in 2025 where half the websites can't keep the session open?

How is it "good security practice" to require me to login every few hours?

Shit like this makes me think software has plateaued. If devs can't make a fucking session work in the big 2025, then there's no hope.

The Classic “Production Bug” Rant

Me: “It’s just a small change. Won’t affect production.”

Production: dies instantly

Manager: “Can you fix it ASAP?”

Me: “Already on it.”

(starts googling “how to fix production after a small change”)

Moral of the story: Never say “small change” out loud. The servers can hear you.