Week: 108 (Year 3)

First weekend of the month. How are you gonna spend this awesome weekend?

Question: Where do you get the motivation from to do something you wanted?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19254263

ColdFusion is a bag full of pure, manure-reeking stupidity.
For example, some functions, like arrayIsDefined, return YES or NO - instead of true or false. I'm not kidding. Adobe == fucking lamers ? YES : NO. Definitely YES.

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.

+ "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.

I wish that my previous company gets investigated. They probably got more violations if they are investigated. Here are a few examples:

The company is in the telecom business and they wanted to create AI summaries of their phone calls. So they used real private calls of their clients as test data without their knowledge & consent.

The CEO also made fun of someone handwritten CV on LinkedIn. Sure, he blurred out the obvious data but shit like certificates, past history & rough location was still present. It was not be hard to find who it was.

The 2FA of some IT services was still on the ex-CTOs private phone (now he is a consultant 1x a week)

One of their engineers moved back to Russia and has access to sensitive data. (aka call recording of insurances, banking, fire departments, ...)

Offering users to write a public review of the company for a discount if the review is positive. The "paid review" is not mentioned.

The reviews of their new feature are done by 'external' people but they all benefit from the companies success. The review is written from their own company but it was written by the external design company (CEOs wife under her own company), marketing consultant (under his own company).

They did fire an employee illegally (as in did not follow the legal procedures, the new COO thought she was a consultant, she was in fact not so she had more protections)

They did fire an employee for untrue reasons and waiting till he was on holiday & abroad (dick move but legal I think)

They did spy through the security cameras and made up a reason to fire someone. Company offered free soda during that time, employee did not like the offered soda and filled it with a diet-variant on their own dime. He then took his own bought diet-soda back home (not all) and got fired for stealing. (or idk, it might have been ice tea or fanta)

They did not report that an employee sold company data but he was let go.

They run cookies on their website but has no clause for cookie-consent.

Their features that they are promoting & selling is not working like expected

They lie about their server uptime or heavily manipulate it.

They sell a feature that is no longer supported and broke a few updates ago.

They are offering a product as a fix that is simply not longer supported by the development team

They have fired consultants and then refuse to pay their last month salary or only pays it partially. Happened as far as i know, 4 times (no proof).

Everyone had access to the full password vault including the login credentials for business routers and the credit card info of the CEO, CFO, CTO. It took me multiple times to report it to the IT admin for mine to be restricted.

Every new dev has access to production data within a few weeks or direct database access

Any person who has access to the admin-portal can spoof phonenumbers in a few clicks.

A colleague is blacklisted at the police portal for past crimes where they have to fulfil police orders. He did them pretending to be a different employee who was approved. Also, they do not keep track of the data needed to fill in the yearly report (idk why the company has to them but the police does not do it).

They forgot to implement a warning (legally needed) before someone hits their data limit. those people cannot be billed. Someone was watching 4k movies in Signapore and costed the company tens of thousands of Euro.

If I think of more, I'll add it comments lol

It’s a freaking joy to work with SPM (swift package manager)

I needed to fix a bug in a 3rd party lib, so I just changed how the lib is included from a git url to local file system.

Then I could edit the code of the lib and the changes are immediately reflected in the project. So I could see if the fix is working.

Now that I found a fix, I can make a PR for the lib repo and when it’s merged I switch back from local to git url.

Such an upgrade from traditional package managers such as nuget, npm, cocoa pods, etc.

I'm honestly tempted to buy an M4 Apple Silicon computer mainly for their ability to run local LLM models with unified ram.

overall I think they are too expensive for the offering, but being able to play around will LLMs without shelling out RTX5090 kinds of money is tipping the balance.

I wonder what apple people experiencies have been?

I read that Tesla owners with cars lacking a turn signal stalk can now have one retrofitted – for €660.
What a brilliant business model: charging extra for something that’s standard equipment on literally every other car, even the cheapest little junker.
What’s next?

€500 for rubber trim on the bumpers?
Another €500 for the doors?
€1500 for a physical gear selector?
€2000 for real door handles?
€3000 for physical climate controls?
€4000 for a badge that hides the fact it’s a Tesla.

+ a monthly subscription.

Tesla has truly mastered the art of turning removing features into a premium experience. Innovation!

Week: 109 (Year 3)

What are your plans for this awesome weekend?

Question: What’s a question that sounds innocent but in actuality is offensive?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19281844

Is It just me feel that open-source engineers angry all the time?

Here’s the story. In some open-source repositories, things can get pretty toxic.

Story 1: Someone reported a real problem in an open-source repo. The maintainer replied rudely, saying “Irrelevant, I dont care, will not fix.” So I fixed the issue myself and made a pull request. The owner ignored it (that’s okay), but the person who reported the issue used my fork instead and it worked fucking fine.

story 2: GitHub Issues is starting to feel like Stack Overflow......Some engineers / contributors are rude to users who just want help. A user asked a simple question that didn’t have an answer online, because the framework just worked that way. The engineers could have guided them or fixed it, but instead they said things like Get out or Go ask ChatGPT or Google it.

To be fair ,I understand engineers get tired of spam and useless issues like redundant , but we should still respect people who ask real questions or try to help, well common decency.

If these were my projects, I will treat te contributors, users, and followers with respect .

It just hit me. Companies that badly want to use A.I. are really trying to cover for their mass incompetence.

Started a new job.

Loving the work itself, but the project is a bit vague, designer takes forever to design screens, adding more features and stuff.

I don't think these people realise how much fuckin work all of this is.

Deadlines are insane, borderline unrealistic.

Now I just use all of the AIs I can find to generate slop that is mostly usable.

I'm so tired.

if a job says AI I firstly have no idea what they're doing and secondly I don't want to participate

I don't know if I'm being too judgmental. just seems like a fad

Okay screw it, I was always a python hater but I'm just gonna admit it:

I LOVE PYTHON!

It's so nice for quick scripts 😌

How do you guys deal with juniors?

I’m currently going through the experience of having a junior coworker, and it’s been something completely new for me. In my previous jobs, I’ve always worked with colleagues who were at the same level or more experienced than me, so I’m not used to reviewing code or guiding someone on how things should be done.

To make it trickier, this guy tends to “vibecode” a lot, to the point that he can’t even explain what the code his Copilot spits out is doing.

I don’t really blame him though. Most of the mistakes he makes are things I’ve done myself at some point (like overcomplicating simple tasks). But now he keeps coming to me as if I’m his mentor, and honestly, I have no idea what to do with this guy lol.

before, when I was younger, whenever I knew someone was wrong and I could prove it, i would do it... Nowadays I don't a fuck, let them burn

What the FUCK is with these poltergeists work work on the Xcode team? They all live in a tiny home or loft studio? Tabs are like hanging a fucking curtain between two beds and calling it a two bedroom apartment. And worse, the fucking thing creates tabs all the time and I lose the **document** I am trying to edit.

Using Xcode like trying to manage a desk full of loose papers with a ceiling fan on high.

Do people wonder why I stand up and scream at the ceiling FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK all the time?

Shit, pretty soon I am going to give up and put all of my code in one god damn file for this mother fucking one-window application.

I fucking hate you people on the Xcode design (joke) team...

Regarding coding style, would you rather prefer:

1) Mutating state
This one sounds intuitive and performant because you are working with only one memory segment in place. I think that if you are skilled enough to efficiently modify the state without bugs, then everything should be efficient and powerful.

2) Copying state and modifying the copy
This one seems counter-intuitive to me because it sounds like you are doubling the resources it takes to perform the operation

Funny enough - at least for React, Python and my experience at work - it seems approach 2 is gaining popularity. Does this also apply to C? I would think not. Hm.

Those wankers at Microsoft have totally ruined Notepad in Windows 11. Now, when I open a text document with Notepad, it attempts to open any text documents from some previous session as well - some of which might not even exist anymore. It's so fucking annoying!

I find it weird getting countless rejections saying they prefer other candidates who are 'better'. What the fuck, is the market flooded with top tier talent or something? I already have an impressive resume and apparently it's not enough.

That's the market these days. Not even an interview. Straight out rejected.