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It's amazing just how bad Visual Studio/.NET is .. and the way this shop does stuff.
I was just copying existing projects and renaming/modifying everything for new tasks, but this time I tried to create a new project from scratch. No matter what I get:
Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RequiredMemberAttribute' from assembly 'NJsonSchema, Version=11.3.2.0, Culture=neutral
Everything has the right .NET framework. Dependencies look mostly identical to other projects. No one in the work chat has seen it before. I'm about to move this project to a tmp dir, copy and existing project, search and replace all the name, empty it out and copy my source into it. What you want to bet it will "just work."
I hate everything about Windows/.NET .. I'm glad I have a job again, but .NET is just so fucking painful. How has Visual Studio remained this bad for this many decades? I swear VS 2022 is just like VS6 with a fucking dark theme.8 -
What’s your take on building a community-led devRant overhaul?
Looks like @dfox and @trogus aren’t maintaining this anymore and despite my efforts, I haven’t heard back from them.
Maybe an open-source devRant reboot without the pitfalls of existing platforms would be welcomed? Let me know and let’s band together to make it happen if at all.2 -
@12bitfloat, come back to snek, i did not hear the sounds. Have sound off. As you've seen, cool stuff is under development by members there!3
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Programmers of today have replaced customly designed algorithms with off-the-shelf heuristics. They wander through packages and libraries and end up making something that is in no way viable to run in production.
(Paraphrasing Tesla)
Seriously, how many dependencies do a data science stack for some internal process needs? It would be fine of it was just an image compilation issue, but every other library nowadays needs a fucking subscription.
It makes sense when vendors want to bill you for using their neat library. It takes a lot of effort to develop those things.
But you better deliver something great and have a fucking good reason to make it an API instead of a self hosted or locally installed library.
Because it doesn't matter how much you've optimized your hardware to run your library, the network latency makes it much more expensive (in processor time alone!) to call an API and await a gRPC response. Oh, I can do async? No shit, Sherlock. Your fucking server cannot handle my load. Not without significant investment on a dedicated host and then we're back to square one.
Shit, its cheaper to run the thing on my side. "Oh, you can do self-hosted! We just need to make sure we have our digital rights management bloatware ruining the performance of everything!"
Just to make things worse, every other data science library nowadays is just a fucking distilled LLM. Those pieces of crap manage to be more unreliable than politicians.
Fuuuuck, the world is burning already and we're pouring fuel all over it with those fucking get-rich-quick "advanced API tools". Can't we just hire talented people instead of licensing a dozen vendors? But noooooo, everybody gotta be their own fucking boss because companies hate when their employees are happy and sabotage it all with RTO mandates.
Fuck, I need a drink. The enshittyfication has come for us, at last. May our end be quick as `sudo shutdown 0`.3 -
We have a no AI use policy at the company.
I had a contract developer added onto my team. I start to see AI generated comments in his code all the time. Point out that the code being contributed is def AI nonsense. I brought it up with my boss which reports to the CTO. Response: “As long as he doesn’t get caught I guess.”
He did get caught. This is me catching him and telling you.22 -
After 3 months after leaving my previous company, I'm still getting SMS because someone included my telephone number in their automated test flow.8
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I did not use it that much lately, but still, claude give me a warning "Almost reaching weekly limit". And i was like - a new limit? So I keep paying the same for less? Claude always has been vague with their limits but i did not really care about the limit per 5 hours. I'm busy testing and whatnot with the result of it and before you know it, five hours is over. The 5 hours limit means that if you get trough the limits, you can't use the system not for 5 hours. But when you reach that limit, (often already with one hardcore vibe) then you have so much code that it will keep you busy for hours. A system that generates weeks of work, sure does require hours of testing and fine-tuning right? :)
But a weekly limit, I'm pissed. At least, i could rely on the system and the 5 hours were no limit. Now i do have a limit weekly. So, in worse case scenario, your tool will just not be available for a few days a week maybe. That was not the deal. I actually got some more experience with Gemini and starting to prefer that. And warp is amazing. People complain that it's expensive (roocode is free for example) but the quality is so high.. It does its work right and thus costs money, make sense to me. People forget often that it creates weeks of work for that fucking 25,-. I doubted to go for a bigger plan, but i realized that it doesn't have to go that much and that fast all the time. I rather enjoy the process of a development still a bit.
Anyone experience with roocode here?1 -
+ "Has someone tried to use AI to write code for a mod for this game?"
- "My stance is AI is a tool, to help you, don't expect to write the whole thing."
- "AI is very useful if you know how to code... I recommend learning coding."
??? How come I always find this kind of guys? Is this even being pedantic if they didn't even answer the question?
Makes me remember when I was younger and had to say "Java & ECMAScript" because saying Java & JavaScript in the same sentence would make unsolicited and misguided "corrections".
Fortunately there were some people that actually answered (before them, so they actually saw the question solved and still went to post that), but I still felt I had to clarify I'm a freaking software engineer, I don't have time to learn how to code for this specific engine for a shitpost mod. And what if I had time but still wanted to use AI? Rude, entitled... dummies.7 -
I would like to share this beta, and I will add that I am super grateful for devRant, but I wanted to have an online platform where I can live out my creativity and that I can use as a lifeboat at times when devrant loads in 5 minutes.
I have few things to complete before open sourcing it.
https://my.devplace.net/23 -
🚀 “I Wanted GitHub Copilot in My Pocket — So I Built It Myself”
For years, I’ve had this weird habit of coding from random places — cafés, buses, hospital waiting rooms, you name it. But every time inspiration hit, I found myself thinking the same thing:
“Man, I wish I could just use Copilot on my phone.”
It’s 2025. We’ve got AI writing novels, generating music, and summarizing 500-page research papers in 2 seconds — yet somehow, GitHub Copilot still refuses to leave the comfort of VS Code on desktop.
So I decided to fix that.
💡 The Idea
It started as frustration — a “wouldn’t it be cool if” moment. I was halfway through an idea for a small project on a train, and my brain screamed:
“Why can’t I just ask Copilot to finish this function right now?”
VS Code was sitting at home, my laptop was dead, and all I had was my phone.
That night, I scribbled this into my notes app:
“Bridge Copilot from VS Code → phone → secure channel → no cloud.”
At the time, it sounded insane. Who even wants to make their life harder by reverse-engineering Copilot responses and piping them into React Native?
Apparently — me.
🧩 The Architecture (aka “How to Lose Sleep in 4 Easy Steps”)
The system ended up like this:
VS Code Extension <-> WebSocket <-> Discovery API (Go + Redis) <-> React Native App
Here’s how it works:
The VS Code extension runs locally, listening to Copilot’s output stream.
A Go backend acts as a matchmaker — helping my phone and PC find each other securely.
The mobile app connects via WebSocket and authenticates with a 6-digit pairing code.
Once paired, they talk directly. No repo data leaves your machine.
It’s like a tiny encrypted tunnel between your phone and VS Code — only it’s not VPN magic, just some careful WebSocket dancing and token rotation.
🛠️ The Stack
Frontend (Mobile): React Native (Expo)
Backend: Go + Redis for connection brokering
VS Code Extension: TypeScript
Security: JWT + rotating session keys
AI Layer: GitHub Copilot (local interface)
🧠 The Challenges
There’s a difference between an “idea” and a “12-hour debugging nightmare that makes you question your life choices.”
Cross-Network Discovery:
How to connect phone and desktop on different networks?
→ A lightweight Redis broker that just handles handshakes.
Security:
I wasn’t making a mini TeamViewer for hackers.
→ Added expiring pairing codes, user-approval dialogs, and local-only token storage.
Copilot Response Streaming:
Copilot doesn’t have a nice public API.
→ Hooked into VS Code’s Copilot output and streamed it over WebSocket.
(Yes, 2% genius and 98% madness.)
UX:
The first version had a 10-second delay.
After optimizing WebSocket batching and Redis latency, it’s now near-instant.
🤯 The “Holy Sh*t, It Works” Moment
The first time my phone sent a prompt — and my VS Code actually answered with Copilot’s suggestion — I legit screamed.
Like, full-on victory dance in the middle of the night.
There’s something surreal about watching your phone chat with your desktop like they’re old coding buddies.
Now I can literally say:
“Copilot, write me a REST API,”
and my phone responds with fully generated code pulled from my local VS Code instance.
No VPN. No cloud syncing. Just pure, geeky magic.
⚡ The Lessons
The hardest problems aren’t technical — they’re psychological.
Fighting “this is impossible” is the real challenge.
Speed matters more than perfection.
Devs don’t want beauty; they want responsiveness. Anything over 1s feels broken.
Security must never be an afterthought.
I treated this like a bank tunnel between devices, not a toy.
Build for yourself first.
I didn’t make this for investors or glory — I made it because I wanted it.
That’s the best reason to build anything.
🧭 The Future
Now that it’s working, I’m turning this experiment into something shareable.
The dream: an app that lets every developer carry Copilot wherever they go — safely and instantly.
Imagine debugging on your couch, or editing code in bed, or just whispering to your AI assistant while waiting for coffee.
Phones today are more powerful than early NASA computers.
Why shouldn’t they also be your code editor sidekick?
So yeah, that’s my story.
I built VSCoder Copilot — because I wanted to code from anywhere, and I refused to wait for permission.
If you’ve ever built something just to scratch your own itch, you already know this feeling.
That mix of frustration, caffeine, and late-night triumph that reminds you why you fell in love with coding in the first place.
Because at the end of the day, that’s what we do:
We make ideas real — one ridiculous hack at a time. 💻🔥9 -
12 floating bitches, I have news for you, your toy language is not the fastest anymore.
https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...
But I think, in the end Bordii will win this competition. He's doing sick stuff.
See the GCC parameters, really sick.
What changed is, it's now optimized especially for the load that it will process:
There are 904 files in total.
The total size of all files is around 520.92 MB.
The average file size is around 0.58 MB.
It's stupid to read such small files in batches right. Vroem!3 -
hoop: – "masterkey" is not okay. Please replace all instances of "master" immediately #WeValueInclusivity
cprn: – Just to clarify, "master" in this context is standard (as in "master key" in databases). It's not intended to be offensive. Replacing could affect functionality. Call to talk more?
hoop: – STOP overthinking, just change it. I DON’T CARE, JUST DO WHAT I SAY. #DoItForTheCulture
cprn: – Got it. You want me to replace every instance of "master" in the codebase, including comments and variable names. Just confirming?
hoop: – YES. NO EXCEPTIONS. #MoveForward
PR Update: Replacing all instances of "master" as requested. Please, verify before accepting.
hoop: – Perfect. Now we’re on the right track. 👏
After 2 failed attempts at explaining, I blindly replaced all instances of "master" with "boss", and hand-delivered my letter of resignation. I left them with "complied with your request, have fun figuring it out". It was 2 years ago, and I was the last coder who knew that system after a big merger.18 -
PM is on his period, and since I'm leaving, anyone have any "fun" recommendations to leave in the code?12
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It's actually a backend for a different project (that's why it's optimized for scraping and cached) but i thought that it could be fun to share: https://ideas.app.molodetz.nl/
I am sure some good ideas will come eventually. Every hour new ones.
I try to generate a bit unique media for a website. The ideas are based on the latest news in tech industry.
Te most recent news available is here: https://news.app.molodetz.nl. It is lazely scraping many (good!) sources. i decided not to add more sources than i have now, would degrade quality. Hacker news is also one of the sources.
I actually also made such app for memes, 9gag clone with commenting starring and such but i have no fantasy to maintain or own such site at the moment. It was just fun to build, wanted to know how hard it was to get enough content live.3 -
Do you have a master's degree and 14+ years' relevant experience in IT, or a Bachelor's + 18 years of experience in IT?
Is this a fucking joke?8