yesterday my 9-5 posted a devops job offer that hires a devops engineer and it very closely describes my position.

should i fear?

I work at a research institute (part of probably the largest research body in whole Europe). And it's driving me nuts. Forget about the lack of interest to improve yourself in terms of software skills or basic digital hygiene so that others don't have to pick up the mop and clean after you. The ancient mindset is what is making me curse everyday. Only a few years ago we switched to GitLab. Before that versioning, if at all a known term, was done explicitly via email messages - code snippets in the message's body, versions in the subject of message attachments...A freaking nightmare. Constantly broken links to files and folders on our NAS since some people have never heard of relative paths or writing even the tiniest bit of support for configuration files in their software so that a tool does not completely brake the moment you transfer it onto another system or - God forbid - the person leaves and there is no information whatsoever what's where. Everyone is complaining about the clutter on our servers but no one is willing to actually clean their own (not someone else's) crap. If you mention to someone something like "Can you please pack your stuff in this GitLab repo with this folder structure, so that I have an easier time integrating it into the main software that we need to ship to our customers in a few days?" all you get as a response is a blank facial expression and the occasional "I have my own processes. Don't bother me with this!". I have been trying for almost 4 years now and its budging a little bit but the lack of support is abysmal. My boss, as enthusiastic as it is, is incapable of putting his foot down. The fact that I have two heads of my team (one not really but acting like it) does not improve the situation at all especially since both are pulling in a completely different direction. We are literally wasting hundreds of thousands of euros of taxpayers' money to buy new hardware that people are either inadequate to use to its fullest potential (think buying the latest GPU to play Minesweeper) or not having even the smallest clue on what they need it for. And we are always complaining about our budget! You don't invest a couple of hours to investigate how PyTorch can work in a distributed manner on multiple CPUs, GPUs and even systems, yet demand you get a new server for 80K with a more powerful GPU and CPU to run your crap models on so that you can publish a half-ass paper that nobody cares for let alone will ever bother reading (beside the AI reviewers).

There is no traffic cone emoji.
Sorry.

Calling all devs to list all things which annoys the fuck out of the internetsurfing experience. I remember the days when the internet was fresh and every website was just static and weird. Geocities anyone?

Here are my two cents:
- dsvgo cookie popups
- autologouts after X min. Even while writing a message in their contactfield
- need for an account for everything
- docs and invoices to be downloaded in their customer portal instead via send to email or automate that shit somehow
- spam
- ads and adword websites
- lots more

pLeAsE dOnAtE tO hElP mE aFfOrD hOsTing

lolwut? you have a free-for-all project with no premium features. Users can’t create accounts. All of your code is JS, you don’t even need a server. Just host your stuff on Cloudflare. I have just about a gigabyte of data uploaded there on my free account, so if I can do it, so do you. Just use a CDN for your client-only, JS-only project.

domains though… yours is long and costs around 40 bucks a YEAR.

if you made a good product and want to make some money with it, that’s completely okay, so just say so: “I want money for my work, but I don’t want to take away features that were free and can be provided at no additional cost, so please donate”. Why lie? It’s not like people who won’t donate to you based on this justification will magically donate for “hosting”.

Why is windows still dog shit on this day the 15th of January in the year of our Lord 2025.

Good way to code:

vim

Bad way to code:

No-code. Frontpage. IA-assisted. Winmac. No you don't need bytecode. WYSYWYG. IDEs.

If I was the president of programming those people would be on their way to the moon.

Hmm... I was reading postnatal depression fliers for moms and came across a depression quiz.

Turns out, I have a severe depression, 23/27 score 😁

that would actually explain a lot... A LOT...

Lady next door was visiting me. She is 67. She is a kinda psychologist and she needed a new site. With her just sitting here, i generated one with gpt and explained her html a bit. The instructions are as follow:
- if you add a page, duplicate the other page and remove the text you don't want. Do not remove html unless it's around content what you don't use anymore.
- learned her how to copy a href and change the link.

So, first, she asked me for a website. The last thing I want is somebody's website in maintenance or even work on it. Making "beautiful"/commercial sites is not my hobby.

Now, for 1,80 per month she has a domain name (i asked if it will have SSL, that's still bit unclear) and 1,- hosting per month. I think it can be even cheaper. It doesn't support php/python and stuff.

TLDR; i gave someone a HTML site generated in 5 minutes, tried a few style sheets and she was happy with it. Bye bye designers :P No one cares! Also full responsive.

Most expensive thing you ever bought?

I think I just bought about 20 seconds of relevant audio recordings for over 300€ 🙃

But hey, the virtual car has to sound good or whatever... totally not a painful investment...

People always complain about node_modules, at least it works most of the time, unlike god-damn python AI packages. I can't install https://github.com/shashikg/... because for some inane reason it requires a LLVM wrapper that in turn wants to compile LLVM manually. Not just manually YOU, the filthy dev that wants to use this holy library, must go and compile it yourself. And don't you forget to apply the holy patches.

God the code in AI projects always sucks - last time I looked at voice gen it required me to figure out what the fuck it was doing and go hunt down the libraries manually and still have to vendor in half the library because they used a library that had a minor migration but was 2 major versions behind or similar issue.

Why do science bros write such shit code that always wants to reach into things completely unnecessarily. Just write your shit properly.

Is this why they always have docker image...

Did you know you can make a CEO from a Punjabi? It's the same as making fire from ice. Jokes aside, having an Indian CEO makes Indian employees work hard, chasing that dream. But what many don't realize is that it's just a façade. There's a limit to what any Indian can achieve, and they will never surpass white individuals. A CEO, yes, but never the actual owner, like Larry Page. TLDR; Putting a person JUST BECAUSE they're Indian is a strategic move because China's labour is no longer cheap and every major company is targeting India, labour and factory and what not. First of all, if you want to actually stop racism, we should start paying more fairly. Maybe start with women first? I guess? Women making less money for same job is stupid. Off topic, short men get paid lesser than taller men, did you know that? Well life isn't fair. The strong abuses the weak. I think true key to success is just exploiting other peoples' energy, time, labour and intelligence. Coerce them into doing it, fuck yeah, mindfuck their small brains really hard.

apparently the ability to want to try something new is creativity...

the what. that bar seems too low?

Calendar event literally has information about why the presenter is busy and it's being rescheduled. But then colleague comes and everyone is already there waiting me? Like what kind of retarded fuck writes rescheduling on the event memo? My god communication error and language barrier is fucking my mood so much. Honestly, I said things in English last year to a colleague and he thought I was angry and told the boss. I was warned to be careful talking to people. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK.

If you want a terrifying name for your metal band, don't call it “Whispers from the Abyss of Despair” or “Through the Veil of Darkness and Desolation”.

Call it “Surgery Robot From Temu”.

Ios build on MAC: *runs ok for weeks*

Ios build on MAC [today]: bundler failed to load command: pod [thats the whole error]

devs: we need to update cocoapods

tell me, please, how is this any better than windows...? No sensible errors, no sensible debug options, no sensible solutions but trial-and-error bruteforcing...

And now, to nobody surprise, time to work again with Angular; all fun and games, until observables join the party.

RXJS IS RETARDED
RXJS DEVS ARE CRIMINALS
RXJS USERS ARE ACCOMPLICES

FUCK YOUR GLORIFIED EVENT EMITTER, FUCK YOUR REACTIVE PROGRAMMING PARADIGM, FUCK YOUR HALF BOTCHED ATTEMPT AT REINVENTING THE OPERATORS I GET FOR FREE FROM ANY LANGUAGE.

YOUR BEST GIFT TO THE WORLD WILL COME THE DIE YOU FINALLLY FUCKING DIE.

Hello Everyone,

i hope you are doing well

Now I know why no one uses the google cloud. Making TTS and STT working costed me the whole night. Gemini was easy tho. But fuck google, you costed me a lot of energy. You guys are crazy. Now my api connects in a magic way i don't even understand with the gcloud cli app. The rest of my application is totally rest, don't use much of the google library.

I implemented google TTS and STT into ChatGPT. I use for somethings google because it's cheaper. It works using a JBL Go! speaker. I can just turn it on and start chatting with it. I implemented google search and gave it a memory. It can remember numbers for me. It accepts dutch and english. I can say 'google' and google is the main action. It will fetch results from google and uses gpt to summary the results. It works perfect! BUT FUCKING AI. I want to know the color of the hair from Mona Lisa. Not freaking Ona Isa! I send it literally correct. The speechtotext works great. But fucking API with it's reading. Pathethic. How far is AI? Barely usable as home assistant. So far - besides auto completion and giving code snippets / concepts AI is freaking useless. You need more patience for AI than a kid.

I hope the inventor of oauth2 dies alone. He should.

I want a rave bitches

https://youtube.com/watch/...