can my code be less ugly pls

The 2025 IT codeword is "flanagan".

This word can be provided to other IT support teams to let them know you are also a competent IT person.

Did I restart my router? Check DNS? NTP config? Traceroute? Yep all that. Just give the proper codeword and you can get sent straight to L3 support.

Week : 69 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

As we approach the final weekend of the year, let's make it count! How do you plan to spend it?

Resolutions for next week maybe?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11708341

Previous Year - last weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/10065108

Oh man, you guys get two rants for the price of one tonight.

DEVRANT IS RUNNING REALLY FUCKING SLOW. I know the platform has been 5.999999 feet under for about 4 years now, but it's starting to get reallllly grim.

Also: single wick candles always fucking tunnel. My girlfriend is trying to say I use them wrong. I do not. I burn them for long periods of time and they still have a huge fucking coating of wax on the outside. My triple wick candle is perfect. Burns to a nice puddle of liquid wax on the top every single time. Can we get SOMEONE working on fixing this?????

I've been using Void Linux on servers for years. I decided to finally contribute some packages, and wrote a tool to make it easier to build packages outside of the standard repository. This post covers some useful tools in Void, my voidup package building tool, and many of the issues I encountered which make me wonder if I should keep support Void Linux.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

the opposite to border collie is padding poodle or margin malamute

AI hacking attempts being spotted in the wild because they're too polite

https://someone.elses.computer/@mik...

there's actually a similar vetting process in the crypto industry where you have to swear or you won't get hired. forget why now

this seems optimistic to me because companies generally don't do security. a hacker desperate for money has less money to blow on AI hacking than someone invested in protecting their company would on AI pentesting. poor low level pentesters I guess though

Bulgaria and Romania are now part of the schengen area, maybe I should buy myself a gypsy wife as my way outta third world 🤔

This is your yearly dystopian reminder that Wordpress enjoys a 43.5% website market share. I think it was lower last year at around 41%. So it grew I guess.

https://demandsage.com/wordpress-st...

And they say web dev isn't a real programmer job...

Full disclosure: I think php is fine.

If I had a dollar for every time my mom tried to literally convince me that I wasn't in fact me, but was an impostor planted by aliens… I would have one dollar.
Yes, it did happen. I was twelve.

dayum... 40ºC temperature hits right home, feeling dizzy and high! Nice!! It hits better than my homebrew honey kvass :D

However for some reason, there's 0 motivation to go coding, so can't check the Balmer's level...

I thought stepping into the Computer Science industry would be to create beautiful software with my passionate talents. All I've seen is: fix and maintain broken (badly designed)(legacy) shit. Yes, that's more of a backup role.

A good role is where you at least get to create a project from scratch that you own yourself.

Urgh.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE

https://devrant.com/rants/2376967/...

So now that it's been 5 years how are you planning to spend your social credits?

Non deterministic code completion/ suggestion is straight loss time. Period.

Consulting is fucking burnout. 'Be better, faster, smarter'. Oh yeah? And a life, how about that?

fix bug

test production

can't reproduce bug

support tickets and people still bitching they have the bug

i think the shit's been merged and deployed long enough it should've rolled over considering the timestamps on follow up cases

Curious about AI assisted TDD. Assisted writing of specs and then assisted implementation. Any experience so far? I kind of like the idea but I'm afraid it's like doing TDD with a toddler, helping less than 50% of the time.

lets pretend its the nineties.

There is no traffic cone emoji.
Sorry.

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