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My coworker wanted to get some program from a website that requires a username/password to download. It is a utility program for controls automation. He didn't want to have to create a username/password so I said he could use mine.
I went over to his desk and read off the username to him which he entered. Then I started reading off the "password" to him:
"y o u r m o m i s a s l u t"
He got suspicious at the last few letters and then clicked on "show password" icon. He of course saw: "yourmomisaslut". At this point he just bust out laughing. I then gave him the correct password.8 -
Still alive. Wrist’s been hurting lately so I’ve had to stop crocheting 😭
But I got into paint by numbers!5 -
Opened a legacy PHP file from 2008.
No functions.
2,000+ lines.
Inline SQL.
HTML inside echo statements.
A single if (true) wrapping the entire thing like some cursed gift box.
At the top:
// Do not modify. Works perfectly.
At the bottom:
It writes to two databases. Only one exists.
Somewhere in the middle:
It sends an email…
to the client’s ex-wife.
I closed the file.
Rebooted my laptop.
Took a walk.
Still not okay.5 -
AI can take my job. I can't do this anymore.
Best of luck waking up 7 A.M on Mondays, logging in to work and telling in those 10 am scrum meetings “I’m still wOrking on the sAme tiCket as last friDay.”
Enjoy my job graybot.
I’m gonna go outside and remember what sunlight looks like. Maybe touch grass. Maybe grow crops. Maybe herd some cows. Idk. Might start a farm or might scream into the wind.2 -
Everything development related I see recently are related to LLMs and I’m starting to get sick of it :(4
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Well it finally happened… I deleted the production DB 🤦🏼♂️
Rollback successful but lost over 3 hours of production data8 -
In my company I now have 3 browsers.
Chrome for company stuff that only works in Chrome.
Safari for company stuff that only works in Edge or Safari.
And Firefox for actual work.
🤡30 -
dev communities can be the most toxic as well as the most welcoming at the same time.
just depends on what your timing is. You can get a bunch of links to help debug your issue or you can get told to "kill yourself".
You never know.9 -
Dear Windows,
How hard is it to actually update and shut down? No, don't restart. If I wanted you to restart I would have chosen that option.
Sincerely,
The last decade7 -
is it just me, or is reading LLM-generated text really annoying?
It feels like I'm reading the same thing over and over again, in different contexts about different things.4 -
"We really struggle to find people with this skil set"
So you're going to hire me, pay well, and not be full of shit, right?9 -
I’ve typed a question into google and the AI generated response was directly contradicting every web search result on the first page.
So, you can’t even rely on it to pull out the correct info, on top of the fact that it might have hallucinated.
Completely useless and deceptive.
It’s depressing to think about how many people blindly rely on this crap not realizing how bad it is.3 -
Me in an email: "This information was not shared with you for your entertainment, and yet..."
Translation: fuck you, you incompetent bint.7 -
I've been gone a couple months. On a secret mission. TOP SECRET.
Can anyone tell me what it was?
Where my homies at?16 -
The only reasons I'm with my current employer is because;
1. I interview bad
2. Too lazy to update my CV
One of these days...7 -
My wife went to do some work for a charity. They "got her the best computer available". It was a poor mangled MacBook whose better days were somewhere in the dawn of the last decade.
She tries to type anything... and only gibberish appears on screen.
She comes to me, absolutely me puzzled. I try to type anything... gibberish. I boot up in safe mode, everything is OK.
I look around for system configs... there is a custom keyboard mapping enabled by default.
We check the weird stains on the keyboard... they are regular and in all keys. Like if there used to be adhesive stickers on the keys, and those stickers were later removed.
I boot up again... and type "q". It becomes "a". I type "w". It becomes "b". I dread typing "e". Sure as bug, it becomes "c".
By the love of byte, someone asked for a custom keyboard layout... IN FUCKING ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
It was easy enough to change the layout after that, but the weirdness continues: my wife asked around, and apparently the laptop used to belong to some old dude... who was convinced there were characters missing from his keyboard. Apparently he could never find them in a regular QWERTY layout.
I wish I could give some encouraging words for the kid who came up with the solution. Working around technophobes is a drying art, that needs to be rewarded.10 -