Changing Global Protect Gateways should not be the hardest part of my job! 😭🤦🏽

I'm so sick and tired of rewriting an ESM loader I gave in and just yeeted an lib.

No external libs, no bundler, no transpiling just some vibe coded crappy thing. But it does what I need to when prototyping.

https://github.com/1338/...

Seems my anxiety is a zombie process:
while(true) {
try {
await new Promise(() => {}); // waiting for meaning that never comes
} catch {
// nothing catches this searching and ..............
}
}

// tried killing it several times
const killAllProblems = () => {
console.log("kill -9 all_problems");
console.log("They just respawn.");
};
killAllProblems();

// No systemctl stop for this void:
const stopRealityService = () => {
console.log("systemctl stop reality.service");
console.log("Good luck.");
};
stopRealityService();

// What’s your command to unload the void?
const unloadVoid = () => {
console.log("systemctl mask emptiness.service");
console.log("But it’s still running in the kernel...");
};
unloadVoid();

mount binds
very useful :P

https://gist.github.com/makingglitc...

ever meet a person and he's very interesting but then his retarded girlfriend gets in the way

I hate

I'm not even interested in him this way. now their relationship broke up and he's disappeared and I'm so mad. I wanted to nerd out about occultism not get sucked into some fucking insecure kink whore's sexual drama oh my God. she made him feel bad and self destruct and I don't wanna date him so now I have to wait for him to get over it so I can talk to him and nerd out about shit again. I hate

Friday afternoon.
Boss: “Can we push this small fix before the weekend? It’s just a button color.”
Me: “Sure, what could possibly go wrong?”

Fast forward 20 minutes:

Whole CSS is missing
Login page is blank
Server panicked so hard it restarted itself
I’m now "that guy" who deploys on Friday

Moral of the story:
No fix is truly “small” on a Friday. :(

"We really struggle to find people with this skil set"

So you're going to hire me, pay well, and not be full of shit, right?

- vaguely blonde
- stupid, npc face
- skinny fat
- sloth eyes, think Sid from Ice Age
- a fucking tester that likes unit tests in JS, especially Jest
- talks a lot, but every time she says something everyone just ignores it because there was almost no substance to what she said
- extremely annoying
- interacting with her would be the number one top level displeasure of your day, any day. A day when you wipe the entire prod db is a better day than the day you have to explain something to her

if you guessed jestdotty, you're wrong. that's just one of my ex-coworkers.

Having no say in your own work and everything being decided AFTER THE MERGE REQUEST is really interesting.

Preparing my 2 week notice.

The average meeting: "I think that's a really great idea. Let's circle back on this and take a 60k view, leveraging the low-hanging fruit so we can identify you championed this technology".

Seriously? Championed? As if the other bs language weren't enough. And this is language that they use to convince clients. "My consultant championed A.I.". Are you fucking kidding me? It sounds ridiculous. Needless to say, we lost that client.

I meant to upload this Reddit post from r/TrueOffMyChest as an image, but apparently that feature is broken. So I transcribed it. This rant writes itself. It's absolutely discrimination and by consent of the state. This, plus age and viewpoint discrimination, is why I own and operate my own business. I refuse to be beholden to HR assclowns trying to virtue signal their way into their next promotion.

"So I did an experiment, I work in CS and decided to test what the gender bias is. So I took my CV And changed the name to a female name. I'd send it out with my real name, then a few days later (or few days before) with a female name.

Out of 100, my applications with a male name got 7 responses for interview.

Out of 100, my applications with a female name got 45 responses to interview

The female resume was 650% more likely to get a callback. And the resumes were identical.

So then I thought 'what about someone looking for working class jobs?' So I decided to focus on restaurants-servers, hosting, etc. Made a fake resume, and responded to craigslist ads with both male and female names. Sometimes the male went first, sometimes the female went first.

Out of 100, my applications with a male name got 10 responses to interview

Out of 100, my applications with a female name got 87 responses to interview

The female resume got 870% more responses."

Opened a legacy PHP file from 2008.

No functions.
2,000+ lines.
Inline SQL.
HTML inside echo statements.
A single if (true) wrapping the entire thing like some cursed gift box.

At the top:
// Do not modify. Works perfectly.

At the bottom:
It writes to two databases. Only one exists.

Somewhere in the middle:
It sends an email…
to the client’s ex-wife.

I closed the file.
Rebooted my laptop.
Took a walk.
Still not okay.

I find it so hard having conversations with religious people. Logic doesn’t exist in their world. So infuriating

when you choose autopilot over intention for the 300th morning—is it really you choosing, or just a background thread running decision_maker.exe with cached preferences?

ive been in the same company for 7 years, i got a better salary offer somewhere else but its a relatively younger company (6years old) - fintech.

should i risk my job security and take the better pay or will it go bankrupt in 2 months and leave me on the street

fail to comprehend code

dig through debugger

make change expecting only to fix one of two test cases

it fixes both test cases, not just one,

pain ensues, code makes less sense to me

In modern C#, everything's an interface.

Zig is actually sort of similar. I guess I owe it to C# for teaching me the magic.

Sorry, I mean:

IZig is IActually ISort of ISimilar. (IContinued...)

should I stay or should I go...

that's the question.

I think I know the answer, but some reason I'm still dragging my feet, searching for reasons not to

My coworker wanted to get some program from a website that requires a username/password to download. It is a utility program for controls automation. He didn't want to have to create a username/password so I said he could use mine.

I went over to his desk and read off the username to him which he entered. Then I started reading off the "password" to him:
"y o u r m o m i s a s l u t"
He got suspicious at the last few letters and then clicked on "show password" icon. He of course saw: "yourmomisaslut". At this point he just bust out laughing. I then gave him the correct password.

OK, I could maybe write a quick app in C++ and cross compile it so I can send it to my friends who use windows, what is wrong with you I am ashamed for us all.

But why do that? Let's just go the EXTREME route and do things in a very inappropriate way that is natively """portable""" so we can say that (((It Just Works™))).

So if you haven't guessed already, it's 100% js rawdogging and I'm doing the graphics in SVGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO uoykuf OoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's not so bad but here's things I've learned:

If you're using inkscape to convert your lazy 8x8 pixels per frame spritesheet.png into an svg file, and don't know how to use inkscape, you have to stack each frame on top of one another. Yes.

Erase the layers, erase everything that isn't the paths you want. Also erase invisible paths generated by the pixelart mode of the trace bitmap thingy, sometimes these ghosts exist for mysterious reasons.

Then, neatly stack everything into one square big enough to hold all the frames, select all the frames, resize to selection. OK, now double check that the names of your layers werent changed to generic path94958509 out of the fucking blue AGAIN, all good.

Also double check that inkscape hasn't changed the name and extension of your output file AGAIN then make sure inkscape hasn't changed the dimensions of your export AGAIN and then AGAIN and AGAIN...

OK, so you've exported your svg, now we start doing even more stupid and questionable things. We go into the file and delete the header, specially the comment at the top that clearly states this file was made with inkscape, because my experience was so DELIGHTFUL that I very much require some abstract form of petty vengeance. Also a cigarette.

Hold on. Patiently erase useless tags such as defs and g and shit, all you want is the svg and paths. Then, painstakingly convert each <path id=$ .../> into <symbol id=$> <path .../>.

Why didn't I write a perl script for this part? Actually that's a good idea, goes on the todolist, I didn't write a todolist app though, because I have a textfile. I mean, just what kind of negative IQ troglodyte would do something like that? ;>;>;>;>;>;>;>

Anyway, now utilize your black-magic-infused devilspeak q$p e r l$ script to fasten together an entire webapp into a single html file, all done with duct tape and clown jizz of course, see previous rant for VERY technical details. Also I jjust time traveled and wrote the previous paragraph while writing this one everything is out of order oh noes.

No matter it works now me is happiee.

I got heart icon for health bar but no health bar implemented not aproblem.

Uh also outlines. Here, let's keep it topical, this is rom.rol:

```rol
# vars:
$:%peso;>
let sprite,"$.elems.srpite";
$:/peso;>
# css:
$:%asis;>
path {
· stroke: $080808;
· stroke-width: 0.1;
· stroke-linejoin: round;
· paint-order: stroke;
}
$:/asis;>
# html:
$:%asis;>
<svg width="2.1166811mm" height="2.1166601mm" viewBox="0 0 2.1166811 2.1166601" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<symbol id="{$$.%sprite}_hp_0">
<path d="M 0.264594,0.26458 V 0.52916 H 1.1e-5 V 0.79375 1.05833 1.32291 H 0.264594 V 1.5875 H 0.529177 V 1.85208 H 0.793761 V 2.11666 H 1.058344 1.322927 V 1.85208 H 1.587511 V 1.5875 H 1.852094 V 1.32291 H 2.116677 V 1.05833 0.79375 0.52916 H 1.852094 V 0.26458 H 1.587511 1.322927 V 0.52916 H 1.058344 0.793761 V 0.26458 H 0.529177 Z"/>
</symbol>
<!--NOW DO THE OTHER NINE FRAMES-->
</svg>
$:/asis;>
```

so now I can say (in base.rol):
```rol
$:%peso;>
lib "[based]";
rol "rom.rol";
let hud,"$.elems.hdu";
$:/peso;>
$:%asis;>
<svg viewBox="0 0 23.283329 2.1166601" width="16%" height="16%" fill="#880808">
<use id="{$$.%hud}_hp" href="#{$rom.%sprite}_hp_0"/>
</svg>
<script>
document.getElementById("{$$.%hud}_hp").setAttribute('href',"#{$rom.%sprite}_hp_" + n).
</script>
$:/asis;>
```

Where `n` is just some frame counter this is duct tape now request animation frames REQUEST THEM YOU MUST.

Anyway this is immensely stupid but it made me giggle so I share.
AAA RPG with full svg graphics when?