Well, I feel that I need to post it.

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opposite of feature creep

how tf are we telceommunication company handling global network, when we're unable to maintain an IP inventory or documentation for network zones (known problem for YEARS) and every meeting with security firewall team yields a differently inconsistent policy fairy tale

Tired of vertical scroll websites.

I wish wish I was in spain growing weed and chilling in my tipi

I wonder if at your company, budget for research is met with immediate "nahhh, we're not gonna do that" rather than "let's discuss it in a meeting" (where this depends on your developer rank and cronyism because yeah).

Too many companies have arrogant (ignorant) managers who immediately shut down or approve initiatives based on cronyism. It's things like this that slow down a company and make for missed opportunities.

Manager scheduled an 8:30am meeting .. then send us a message saying he was delayed dropping off his kids at school and would be 15 minutes, then showed up at 9am. 😡

Yesterday best friend brought me to death metal concert. Was good.

Today I didnt recieve news from the job I applied to and liked though :( still no job. I started cold calling digital agency though (even talked to the guy directly, he was outside smoking a cig as I was passing by) and the guy was maybe interested.

Also I repaired my bike.

Remember my Nigerian client rant? Now get this.

Just one day of working here, and I find out that these guys have CI/CD setup so pushes to main branch are deployed to prod automatically,

And these guys are pushing to master from their local env 10 TIMES A DAY.

There are 3 devs working here (excluding me) and all 3 are doing this.

Oh oh oh, and local env isn't really "local" because all 3 devs are pointing to prod database, FROM THEIR LOCAL SYSTEM !!!!

Things are so bad that they have to keep resetting their production db after every deployment.

FML.

OMG, the macOS 26 version of Contacts. I swear the Xcode team wrote it. It is a completely new GUI that is a hot mess of over-colored pixels that swim around with an interface that makes you want to spank the developer's mother.

The graphical update is slower than shit between cards because OMG, it's all about looks and who cares about performance.

Clicking between contacts results in the buttons doing this shaky-shimmer thing that looks more like someone shaking their dick at the end of a good piss.

(ha, now you will think of that every time it does that stupid shimmer thing on your Mac)

oh boy

import type { ParseJson } from "json-parser-in-typescript-very-bad-idea-please-dont-use"

type Person = ParseJson<'{ "name": "Jamie Kyle", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/buildsghost" }'>
// {
// "name": "Jamie Kyle",
// } & {
// "twitter": "https://twitter.com/buildsghost"
// }

My code finally works on windows.
I even found a bug that is Windows only.

Week: 113 (Year 3)

Plans for the weekend?

Question: What would be your last meal before you die?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19379346

CMake is ugly as HELL and verbose, doesnt show you where is the error (at least for the CMakeLists) and gen a lot of files.

Autotools is for ... idek but not humans, thats for sure.

SCons is slow (Python!), but can be quite OK cuz its uses a real language, not a custom DSL.

Meson, cool but --native-file ???

And Make is the holy leader, on every Unix AND mingw.

Oh and Cons by GNU is very cool too, but hey, perl

I want to setup a cloud storage provider. I need a backend. At this very moment, hetzner seems most cheap.. But I think it should be possible even cheaper. Anyone an idea how to? I want to offer TB's since my first customer already has that. I already kind of sold it with the hetzner pricing in mind. My application will provide Dropbox like functionality on top of the storage backend like sharing and stuff, online file browsing, a nice PWA. Target audience is families with video's and small businesses. There's room for another European provider I guess.

Most unrealistic deadline I ever had was of my own failure to recoginze that api I would be integrating with makes me want to scream. Anyhow, that seemed like simple feature we often think of "less than a day job". I set the deadline 2 weeks ahead as I planned to be bussy. That was 9 days ago.

Got me to point where Im tired enough to see
`ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'git pull' at line 1`

Has anyone noticed ChatGPT glazing getting really bad lately? Every single one of my stupid, bone-headed fucking questions are "insightful" and "important".

FUCK you, you psychopath. Stop manipulating me.

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Around half a year ago I had a client... Client that told me I would be responsible for quite big system that needs to be written, that he vibecoded a lot of, and that I am supposed to use as much AI as possible and buy myself claude max plan.

Fine, at that point I needed something, anything, as I didnt had any project.

Long story short, there was 3 huge, huge repos, with tens of tousends of dead code lines. An API that half of endpoints didnt work. I started vibecoding (as requested by client, "becouse this claude AI produces shockingly good quality code" - direct client quote) and getting frustrated by what tf the AI was doing.

I was requested to take as many hours as needed to get the features delivered asap.

I managed to bend the reality to get compiling code that passes some smoke tests of some of the features. Features, that were poorly defined and I had some questions practially all the time (as the file with features was vibed also lmao), and usually anwser was something like "whatever works, mate".

It lasted 1.5 weeks. Every single day I was out of claude limit.

After 1.5 weeks client disappeared for few days, not responding, and after almost a full week I got lengthy message from him that roughly said "you are great developer, but you dont use AI enough so your velocity isnt exactly what I expected. Good luck with next projects".

Ooof. While I know it's probably worst productivity measure out there, but LoC wise, that was solid +30k in that 2 weeks, that I did indeed read through and knew it at least roughly does what it should.

Oh, and he finished the project himself with pure vibecoding, launched it, it failed immidietely as it wasnt technically sound. At least made me smile for half a second.

I will never forget trying to get Opus to follow architecture or do anything reasonably.

I rant about it for simple reason:
for some people the AI thing makes them impossibly delusional what the tool actually can do and what it is good for. Impossibly delusional. Don't be me. Don't deal with delusional clients.

I dunno, but I suspect Google Chrome to do a malloc(8ULL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024); on startup and on tab creation.