Wow Been a while since I opened this app. Hi devRant

Caching is a cruel mistress.

I've probably said that before, but I can't remember whether I've said it before or not, because caching is a cruel mistress.

I had to explain git merge to a senior level dev. It is 2025

It's the year when I did not renew domain I bought for my project.

Feels weird to stop bleeding money for a project I haven't finished

Sigh. There are a number of 'app' makers out there that slap their website into a WebView framework and call it 'our app'. Are you fucking kidding me? If you develop an app, make it at the very least native, not a port. Lazy fuckers.

Using c++ without (most of) the standard library and avoiding operator overloads has made me like the language again. It's an extremely capable language, but my LORD is it bloated and overgrown. Using it like "c with classes" again is the way.

Job spec fallacies and red flags. I will start:

* "Fast-paced environment" = "You will rarely finish something before start something else"
* "Ability to juggle competing priorities" = "our leaders don't align holistically and everything is important"
* "Opportunity to interact with all departments" = "You will accumulate functions"
* "Industry pioneers" = "We didn't research our competition when we started"
* "Leaders in the segment" = "We still haven't researched our competition"
* "Matrixed teams" = "we don't know how to structure our organisation"

Week: 111 (Year 3)

Plans for the weekend?

Question: What’s a “this should be free” service that always costs money??

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19374363

Xcode under 26 now defines "close window" as command+shift+W which is contrary to EVERY Mac App that has ever existed (or pretty damn close).

Command + W closes a tab.

Trying to get them to switch with each other and Xcode switches them back on you. I sat here and watched it do it. Those damn menu key mappings are agonizing anyway... Another shit show from Apple Xcode team.

And... if you check the Xcode comments in the app store it is driving other people nuts too.

I should not have to fight my IDE to do work.
💩=>🧠

Would someone please introduce the Apple Xcode team to DevRant. Makes me wonder if those jokers use Mac outside of Xcode.

Whenever I feel bad about my engineering skills, I take a look at what people build who work in enterprise or the public sector, and I feel like a fucking 1337 pro.

Comment your code? Nah. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.

So pissed off at this job stuff. All promises and no resolve (async pun).

Bloody hell, the HR technophobes have been peddling Gen AI for quarterly reviews for more than an hour now.
Don't they realize that it makes them obsolete? A rambling mess that regurgitate meaningless buzzwords in a random order and pretends it is knows anything?
Oh, well. At least I can pretend even less to give a shit now. As of they would really give raises just because my team reached its "goals" and wrote them down months ago following a dumb achronym that really pushes the meaning of random words.

Why so much hate on PHP

Fuck auto translations. YouTube, Reddit (that has TWO layers of auto translation), Google, Chrome (that for some fucking reason doesn't understand "NEVER translate...")...
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a11y, but LET ME OPT OUT.

I hate dark themes, do you? I suspect them to be more agressive on the retina.

ChatGPT Go is free for India for a full year.

Lord help the LLMs learning off of Indians.

You ever fix a bug by doing absolutely nothing?
Like, the code just decides to work again.
No changes. No commits. No reason.
Just vibes.

And now I’m terrified to touch anything because apparently my codebase has emotions.

Did any of you other nerds sort of just glide through math in school and felt inadequate once you got to the real world, like: "I can't be a real engineer, I barely understood trig!"

That was me, then I started studying the fourier transform about a week and a half ago (because I bought an Arduino and want to make real-time sound visualizations)

I found that I actually really enjoy math on my own time. Learning about complex numbers, Euler's formula, polar form, whatever whatever - it was exciting and I was doing practice problems on paper and enjoying it!

Hopefully this momentum continues. Maybe one day I can be a genuine tough-guy engineer with math skills.

Snek is back up https://molodetz.online/web.html