GF: What are you doing there?
Dev: I've been trying to reproduce a bug for two hours now...
GF: You need two bugs the opposite sex, otherwise they won't reproduce.

From a sad true story.

We've all been there

We've all been there.

I suppose we all have been there

We've all been there!

I mean, we all have been there...

we've all been there

Been there, done that.

There´s only one bad thing about switching to Linux:
You should´ve been using it from the beginning

I'm watching TV and I just heard something along the lines of "The files have been wiped from the server and there was no sign of a DDOS attack. Whoever erased those files had a backdoor.".

been there

We've all been there

Been there.

We've been there before

And then the protection broke and "Avast" was born .... and the broken nature has been there ever since.

Collegue *yells through the office*:
Hey IT-guy the file is not there, where is it ?

Me: what file is not where ?

Collegue: you know that file i've been searching for 30 mins now on the Google drive.

Me: Have you tried hitting the name into the search bar ?

Collegue: Sure dude, I'm not stupid.

Me -> *one the way to her desk*
Collegue: OH! never mind I found it with the search bar. I swear it hasn't been there before!

*turning around, going back to my desk*
-fml

devRant has been there for us devs, now we can be there for devRant.

What?!?

There is an ^= operator in Java for booleans. I have been programming in Java for 4 years now and never knew this. Like b ^= true will flip b.

Mind blown; this is the greatest thing ever

been there, done that.
haha

I don't get why people are still using WinRAR. I discovered 7-zip years ago and while it's very minimalistic, open source and ad-free (also without any annoying "buy me now" shit), there has never been an archive I couldn't open using it.

Been awake since 4 am (an hour ago) for a disruption and finally called a fellow engineer because I can't fix this.

It's starting to get light.

There goes my night 😞

We've all been there...

My boss: it hasn't been done yet?
Me: I'm not sure about the way to do it...
My boss: It is THAT tricky?
Me: no, I know a bunch of ways to do it, but is there a better one...

Oh yeah that.

That's a known bug.

It's been there for a long time now and the customer knows about it.

We ship it as expected behaviour now.

Has there ever been a devRant community hackathon? If not, let's have one!

We all have been there

we've all been there

!rant
I quit my job today for a better one! It was my first job after graduation, been there for 2.5 years so it's a big step for me.
Wish me luck on my new job! :-)

"I put in a request last week, why isn't this done yet?! It's an emergency!"

Look up number... Created early 2015. Need by date, late 2019.

Mothertrucker, get yo shit straight. I've been on the phone since 7, I don't have time for these games. How does 2.5 years pass and you say it's been a week?!

....and there goes my phone again

I got this coworker who ask me about everything every day. That is fine with me, but the way he does it is not. I always use noise-cancelling headsets. Every fucking time he walks up to my desk - and just stands there. And every fucking time I randomly turn my head and freaks out. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN STANDING THERE, YOU CREEPY CRETIN?!

Been there in my college days.😌

Github == Graveyard

Projects thats been left behind,
Pet projects which are never maintained,
Some newly dug graves waiting for git push (might never happen) ,
Decaying code over time.

Just sayin. There might be graves of code which are loved around and are visited...

When you test in Production. Been there 😁

Been there, done that

Walked through a part of my home city that I hadn't been to for a while. Look what has opened up there.

Hey there!
Just joined DevRant, it's fucking amazing!!!
Where was this all my life! I HAVE BEEN FUCKING WASTING TIME ON THOSE SHITTY SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS.

We've all been there

We've all been there

I am thinking if there could be one universal efficient programming language that could perform multiple tasks then it had been cool... Maybe it may cause programming languages singularity !!!

You’ve all been there. Admit it.

It's been a year , I have been contributing to open source and using GitHub.......
There were some people who criticized me for doing open source, saying there's no future in that and u will end up doing nothing.
(But I never listened to them and ignored there words)
Few days back the same person asks me how to start contributing to open source and help him learn git.
U know what I did then??
I ignored again.

The worst work culture I've experienced was at a local security company.
There was a reason why over 15 people come and go within 6 months (just 30 people work there):
The boss is a fucking psychopath and should be (mis)treated in a high-security mental health institution.
There has not been one sane day during the 90 days I had to work there.
A friend of mine still has to work there because he can't find anything else in his current situation...

I have been off of this platform since last 4-5 years, but going through old screenshots I found this rant by @uyouthe. I checked it on the Calculator on Windows 11. 5 FUCKING YEARS and this is still there.

when you find a TODO in the code, git blame it, and find out it's been there for five years :(

Been off work for the last 2 weeks, got a text yesterday and apparently everything was manic. Kind of nice to know everything falls apart when I'm not there ;)

Been there

Meanwhile at a presentation.

Me: This is the new feature that I've been working on.

App: "There was an error loading the application!"

Me: (shrieks in horror!)

If there were no keyboars shortcuts,I would have been 50% less productive.

Just fixed a bug that's been there for two weeks 😀🤡👍🏽
I'm sure everyone here knows this feeling!

There have been so many times I wanted to say something funny about my code, but my Facebook/IRL friends wouldn't have gotten it.

Finally found you guys!

... this is not one of those times
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m updating my résumé, and want to redo it from scratch — I’ve just been migrating the same document between OpenOffice (and later LibreOffice) versions for 15+ years, so it’s pretty buggy now.

As I’m redoing it from scratch anyway, does anyone have any suggestions on what I should build it in/with instead? Is there anything that works particularly well?

I’ve been considering learning and using Latex, but I’m not sure.

- Never give up
- There is always a way
- If not you haven't been drinking enough coffee

CEO emailing on a Saturday evening to suggest a "demo" at the end of the sprint. There is a demo at the end of EVERY sprint and always has been. Don't pretend to "work" on Saturday - you are fooling nobody.

Holy cow! it's been a while since the last time I was here! On the great side, I left my toxic old job! If your manager gaslight you, then get out of there!

!dev && !rant

My thoughts go out to all the french people among us, Notre Dame was such a beautiful cathedral.

Been there once myself a few years back, glad I managed to see it before it burnt down.

Tomorrow's my last day.
There is no exit interview scheduled. I'm not surprised, there hasn't been any 1-on-1's in about 2 years, and any feedback or complaints are never addressed.
Just need to bite my tongue for one more day.

We've all been there

We've all been there, right?
productivity--

Just a heads up - there was a problem with the calculation of the "top" tab day, week and month calculations the last couple of days so there might have been some rants not showing up.

It has been fixed and everything has been recalculated now.

Beautiful Sunday morning, still no snow here (😒 mother nature) and I realized that I am... Googleable. Like, my name is now out there because of publications. Like, I have been protecting my identity for a long time now, so it's very annoying that I finally have been exposed.

Anyways, how do y'all deal with online fame and recognition?

I was 3 hours late. They were calling me to check if i was coming but my phone had died. I ended up arriving at 1 pm when i should have been there by 10 am.

We have all been there

Got a call from a recruiter today

Recruiter: I'm trying to fill a full stack position in Charlotte.
Me: not interested
R: why
M: I hate NC
R: what can I do to make you reconsider
M: I want 120k
R: Ok, well please pass this opportunity along if you know someone who is looking

I *actually* just moved from there.
Guess someone didn't read my job history.
Convo was seriously less than a minute.

You know you're a web dev when...

you consider not buying pizza just because the ordering website appears to use global jQuery selectors. 😣

I've been hunting for a new job for several months because my current company isn't growing my skills any further. There have been many setbacks, a few rejections, and that awful lingering imposter syndrome. So I finally dug myself out of my self pity and began learning things that my current company doesn't implement – JS frameworks, UX practices, etc. Today I had an interview that felt more like a conversation and collaboration than getting grilled about terminology and bug fixes. No matter what the result, I've been inspired to learn again 😌

You always see fail2ban message:

There has been n failed attempts"

But... Have you ever thought about how many successful logins have been?

Joined a company as a junior developer and have been working there for almost 4 years.

Too scared to leave because I don't know if I'm good enough to apply for a non junior role :(

Is this the so called "imposter syndrome?"

Ffs people get the fuck out off that Gitlab. I've been there sooner than you, now can't event load login form.

SCROLLJACKING IS SHIT.

Yes, also for developers. Been there, done that.

When you have been coding for hours, only to find out there is a much easier solution to it..

I had my last day today, after signing an severance package deal some weeks ago. It has been eight long years in this news media company as a sole web developer.

Leaving it behind feels awesome.

There was cake. There was a greeting written with a marker on the cardboard box the cake was delivered in. There were no speeches.

But my by now X coworkers seemed happy to get cake.

I am so excited to start fresh next year as a developer in a small design firm where there is a lot of care and love and nerdiness.

!rant I’ve been with the same company for 6 years, but the past few years things have been continually declining. Nothing has been awful, I just feel like there is very little room for promotion, or even worse, knowledge gains (we do a lot of win forms, c# mvc, vb6, sql stored procs). I’ve been so desperate to learn “new stuff” that I’ve been picking up contract work where I can find it (for nights and weekend projects). I’m excited to say that the company I’ve been doing most of my contract work with has offered me a full time remote position! It’s a 30% increase in pay, all new tech (mostly React Native, ReactJS, GraphQL, Nodejs, python, and integration with existing .Net applications)!

Feel honored DevRant, I’m telling all of you before I even share the news with my family (with the exception of my wife)!

Hey everyone, I’m new to devRant! Love to get to know the other developers out there. Anything big I’ve missed out on in the last 937 days that devRant has been around?

The client asks me to do some task today.

After I successfully submitted the compiled task, client asks, but do we really need this thing?

I was like, -_-

We all have been there, haven't we?

I was testing database migration and there was some issues which I couldn't fix them. So I drop the table just to test if the issues are still there.
"Why nothing have been changed?" After some minutes I realize it was production database which I had dropped 😓

There is nothing quite as satisfying as when you solve a bug that you've been working on for literally the entire day

Have there been any advances to curb the wannacry ransonware?

I'm watching Silicon Valley, and how accurate is the data farm scene? I've never been to a data farm. Is it really that creepy, and do the people that work there really do look like vampires?

Game devs/other content creation people, how do you version control large asset files? So far I've been using git, but is there a better way?

When you find a 'TODO' comment deep in a crucial function, that you know have been there for at least 5 years. :S

When you're trying really hard to figure out a problem with your code, but then just realize you've been sitting there for 40 minutes staring at the screen.

As I get deeper into this project the more I fucking LOVE C# 💜

Although I have been using core. I have VS installed but haven’t used the framework yet. Are there any differences I should know about and get used to?

I have been really trying to move away from windows but videogames won't let me. I would instantly fully drop windows if there was a good way of being able to run league of legends on my arch installation.

I'm a Linux user. I've been a Linux user for the last 14 years...

Having said that: Microsoft Office is much better than LibreOffice.

There, I said it.

Pending issues : 5. Deadline is nearing.

Tweaking around, I found some bugs on functionalities that for some reasons have magically passed QA. The bug was quite simple to be found.

Created 5 issues for 5 different bugs. Pending issues is now 10.

Manager : I am not happy. Last week we have 6 and we're going to weekend this week at 10?? Wtf you guys have been doing?? Why isn't there any progress?? Are you guys not doing any work?? You guys been lazy??!

Yeah, we been here sitting around play computer games all day.

I don't judge whoever wrote this line in one of the projects I've been working on

return 0.ToString()

Like, really, there has to be a LOGICAL, and REASONABLE explanation behind it, right?... RIGHT?!

FUCK YOU TURNITIN.COM

Is there any reason FOR AN UPPER LIMIT TO YOUR PASSWORD!?

And if your wondering, my password would have been heyTurnItInDOTcomDevsYOUcanSODoffEXCLAMATIONpoint

When Atom is just not quite there on the performance front but Sublime Text 3 has been in beta since 2013..... I just want a good editor with good plugins!!

fun fact there are people developing new SaaS using ASP classic in 2015/2016...

The loop of having an idea, building a prototype over 3 months, deploying it and realizing there has been a better alternative in the market on day 1.

Intellij IDEA, what in the name of fuck have you been "indexing" for more than 24 hours that keeps my CPU at a constant 200%???!

There aren't even enough files on my entire machine to justify this ridiculousness...

There should be a "Did you get latest? There have been 'x' commits since you last opened this project" dialog box when opening any team project.

!rant
Question for all the people who know bash around here. Is there a standard for bash scripting? Kinda how like PHP has the PSR standard. I've downloaded a couple of pdfs from various sites but none have been an actual standard.

Little story, about how i get things fucked up.
I've been working for two nights on some project, and we have notifications in slack about new commits, and i've been working for myself, not pulling any commits for this time, cause no notifications 've been received, and then when i've tried to commit&push i've realized that there is 14 commits before me, and someone just accidentally turned off notifications :C

Leaving my current job, after being there for 10 years straight after uni, in 2 weeks! I have now been taken out of development and have to somehow write confluence docs of all my knowledge... Fml

If nothing new is posted here I go to Facebook. If I exhaust the feed there I come here. Such has been my life for the past one hour 😶

I can't believe FontAwesome doesn't have a devRant icon yet... And the request to add it has been there for almost 2 years now :/

A little something I've been working on today. So normally this would grab my devrant avatar but if for some reason there was a bad connection or something, I made it show this raccoon image instead xD

I have been working on a hybrid app since 7 months

Today my manager told me, I didn't do anything except adding random plugins here and there :|

And my colleagues i.e. native app developers were laughing :|

What the fuckin fuck man ://

The moment you find an ex-colleague used code comments to take someones mobile number, then accidentally committed it. It's been there over a year!

Just got an internship in a big company. Related to web development but they want me to use/maintain legacy jsp, servlet code. Should I take it? There are other departments too but I have been put in this shitty one.

Visual Studio! Been using it since I was a little boy and tried many others but it really is the best IDE out there.

Today I went to a computer store,
I ran dir /s C:\ ( "ls -r /" equivalent for Linux, sorry GNU/Linux)
left it there
Hoping someone will panic thinking that computer has been hacked

There might be a special place in hell for the creator of JavaScript. He hacked something in a couple weeks and this monstrosity has been causing hell for devs since the 90s.

Just saw someone's first post and they said they have been a reader on here for a while and I was wondering how many users there are that have not posted anything

There are times where I would be debugging during one of my (high school) classes, and I would finally find that bug that I've been looking into for days, and I would then involuntarily yell out something like "Oh! That shouldn't be there!", and everybody would start staring at me. It really pissed off the teachers.

Thought;
Why is there not much support behind the open and free CA "CACert" that has been around much longer then Let's Encrypt?

There are no stupid or dumb questions. A lot of headache has been and could have been saved by one person asking what seemed like a stupid question.

I would now expand on this to say that if the question is procedural in the sense that it’s asking “what” or “how”, you should make every attempt to come to an answer yourself and then ask for clarification. If the question revolves around “why”, there are no stupid questions. A lot can be overlooked in a cascade of moving pieces.

Today I took an empty Whoppers carton and put Hersheys kisses in there.

The shear hate and discontent has been a great source of entertainment for me and my office mate.

One guy picked up the carton, looked inside, and threw it down on the table and stormed out. He has been telling me to f-off since then.

Not exactly a dev enemy, but similar.
A new radiation protection regulation has been in force in Germany since 2019. October I finished a super duper important document for this and this has been with the TÜV ever since. First there is nothing happening and then there are allegedly inconsistencies in it, which, however, all of which were due to shoddy work with the "expert."

There is a german word for this type of person: Krümelkacker.
He faults every little thing in side-by-page letters, causes long delays, and in the end is often wrong.
But I have to work with him -.-

Question for Web Server Gurus and Security Ninjas.

How to prevent bots, crawlers, spammers sending various numerous requests to your web servers?

There have been numerous requests to routes like /admin /ssh /phpmyadmin etc etc and all kinds of stuff to the web server.

Is there a way to automatically block those stupid IPs :/

So I've been really Ill the past few days, like litterly been in bed for two days, popping pills like there going out of fashion. I contact work and get the typical "get well soon" so I get a message today asking how I'm doing (still Ill), I said I'll be back Monday and ask if anything is urgent that needs to be done first thing. So I get a list:

Project A: Deadline Monday
Project B: final review Tuesday
Project C: Still waiting on feedback

So I ask any chance we can extend the deadlines by a day or so I have enough time to catch up even though I'm going to have to rush it as I've been off.

Answer.. nope there non negotiable.. oh

So they want basically three days work done in one day, given the fact I still might not be 100%. Jesus Christ 😂

Quick Edit, I wasn't told there were deadlines.

Found this line in code that's been in prod for 10 years

"int kak = object.getValue()"

There is no contextual reason for it to be called kak, which means shit in Afrikaans

I've been using git mindlessly for a while now. But this week I've been working on getting a better understanding of how it's working.
There's a lot there that exists, it's nice to be doing it properly and not destroying branches and not understanding why.

My boss (Peter) canceled the meeting for today.

Talking to my coworker:
Me: I had a feeling there would be no meeting.
Coworker: Yeah? What made you think that?
Me: When Peter came to me and said, "There is no meeting today." I had a feeling there would be no meeting.
Coworker: That is some pretty strong intuition you have there. <laughing>
Me: I may have been jumping to conclusions though.
Coworker: <laughing harder>

Been there

A friend sends in reminder 3 time to me via Viber message to up-vote his Stackoverflow question.

Yeap bro we all have been there.

So, Since today's devRant meetup has been postphoned to next week, Is everybody free on Friday or Sunday? Because there are some of us(Me included) who are busy on Saturdays.
What do you guys think?

Been working on some projects that will hopefully train me for work projects on my personal laptop. Ever since my reinstall there has been a crap-ton of screen tear.

Looking at BIOS today...32 MB video ram out of 8Gb...

When you're clearly in the zone:

Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 22 commits to master and 22 commits to all branches. On master, 70 files have changed and there have been 16,339 additions and 321 deletions.

!rant

I'm sitting in my RV and it's been raining for two days almost non-stop.

Is there anything more wonderful than rain falling on the roof of the car? I love that sound. Nightly silence and rain.

There has literally only been one time I've used singly/doubly linked lists in my code. And when I did, it turned my program into a monstrosity.

10/10 would never do again!

Anyone had this been there - done that moment?
You know when you are developing a web app, you start and then after a while end up wasting hours on just which color to use in UI!!

There have been many occasions over the years.

The first was playing with a Sinqlair zx80 and getting it to print 0 instrad if syntax error ;)

The latest probably was when I started to understand react.js.

Hi devRanters
I have been working on an android game in my free time as a hobby. It has been 2 years, so I have decided to finally put it up in play store (maybe as alpha or beta). If there is interest I might keep working on it. Any advice? It is the first time I make a game and I am completely green in regards to publishing it and things to take into account.
All advice is appreciated. I am a bit nervous as it has been my baby for 2 years...

I frequently run into the problem of overthinking instead of just doing something.

But then I feel conflicted with myself if I felt that there could have been a better way to do something instead of just doing it for the sake of doing it.

Don't you fucking love it when there are no errors, and still, something doesn't work. It's so frustrating. I've been debugging this shit for like 2 days. UGH!

My eyes are burning. Too much color on the notifications page, evil avatars.

There should have been a warning "Do not open in dark!"

Been programming in PHP for years, now this year has been full-on JavaScript. Now had to help a friend with PHP again, I was too afraid to type. Why are there some many swiggely lines?!

Since there has been a lot of talk about fixing printers lately.. Who creates them and their internal software/drivers!?

Anyone out there been fired because their project manager had a personal problem with them and made them unable to complete their work?

The devRant apps haven't been updated since 2020. 💀 There are 390 open issues on GitHub. 👀 What's going on? Is there an update in the making?

- You know, I have been showed proofs that there are half days where you almost pushed anything, if nothing, you haven't been productive these days

First off, bitch, I'd like to see you try to make something useful from Drupal.
Second, apologizes but you can't commit nervous breakdowns. Can't say I haven't try.

Where is the best place to pick up freelance work that actually pays a realistic amount?

I’ve been on sites like o-desk where there are folks looking for pretty big jobs and they have a budget of $100.

This very night I'm drunk. But there has been no programming. How peculiar.

- TeamLeader1: Noooo, classes in JS are fake because here and there, in NodeJS they work differently from the browser because here and there, I know it
- IHateForALiving: I'm betting 50 cents against 50 bucks that you're wrong. You in?
- TeamLeader1: Uhm... no, I don't feel like betting against you about technical issues :(

It's been a months long journey, but it finally looks like we're getting somewhere.

So, at the very day I've been expelled, the university cancelled my MSDNAA account as if they thought they would punish me. (They got Office, Windows and everything Microsoft for students for free there)

It's sad but half of the students have no idea what MSDNAA is and how to use it. Then there is the other half who would still feel like they've been stolen from even if they got a MS product for free.

And then there is me. Because of math which is significantly impossible, I've been expelled. Fuck.

There is lots of pain on my eyes. Its been 3 days. Hope there is nothing wrong with my eyes.

We have a list of 1.5k different dependencies for various projects. And they wanted to check if each of those deps has been approved by the management.
They have no way to automate this. (I believe there is always a way to automate any fucking thing but my pm says there is no way)
And no employee in the company was keen to do this task so they decided to give it to interns.

Now I am sitting on my table, copying each and every dep, pasting in the browser (on their portal ) and noting down if it's approved. If it's not, I have to note the latest version that had been approved.

I have been doing this from morning. 400 done. 1000 to go.

fml

I'm still pretty new to elixir and functional programming. There have been numerous cases where I accidentally recreated functions such as Enumerable.map 😅

What a nice day. We've been working on this for the past few hours. All we need is just one PCI-E extender. Well, halfway through, there was one tiny cable from 12V rail touching something else. Result: one probably dead GTX 1060

Longtime reader, first time ranter!

I'm just here to complain about how everyone at my company sets "latest" for every dependency.

This wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, expect that no one fucking manages their version numbers...everything is still 1.0.X where X is the build number. Even if there have been breaking changes. Even if it's been like 5 years since the repo was created...

Me: I'll comment that later
Also me: Why tf isn't there​ any comment

No seriously, comments and documentations are really necessary. Today I've been debugging for hours, why a certain variable has a certain value. Age of code: 15+ years. No comments. No docs. 🙃

Spend an hour talking to junior dev about not nesting multiple #ID selectors in sass. He is still convinced it's better for 'rendering performance' and refuses to change it. Should I ask him to add 200 elements with the same style on one page to illustrate the problem?

That z-index debug situation. Every CSS dev has been there.. Its my day again today

What is it like to work for respected software companies? Most of my career I've been doing bullshi@ work I started to hate the entire field. Is there hope out there?

If the corporate work life needs to be taught in school, what do you think the subject would look like?

For example, I think time management and people management should have been there.

This last week I have been so excited about Artemis going around the moon. This is the kind of stuff that people need. Stop bickering about bullshit. There is a universe to explore!

I saw parts of the flyby today and it was really really cool. I hope NASA is getting incredible data from this. I cannot wait until we send people there again. Probably better to use robots, but going there in person is cool.

Fuckkkkk.
Do you remember the formation I was going to take? Eletrónics, robotics and computers... It has been delayed again because there isn't enough people....

No one wants a job in the area where the future lies... Stupid, stupid people.

Fuck Salesforce to oblivion and back. I hope all it's buildings, servers and backups fucking burn down. Never has there been anything more frustrating, confusing, over-fucking-complicated and over-fucking-glorified in all history.

If there is any god, please help me install anaconda/miniconda on this windows 10 laptop.
Its been 3days now.
FML.

So I was just sitting around writing some php, and was wondering, if there has been a study detailing the suicide rates of engineers and what languages they were primarily writing in?

We've all been there before mastering git commit --amend, rebase, and squash

I've been trying to sleep for a while now. Counting sheep isn't helping because now the sheep have a whiteboard and are writing down answers to fix my bugs :/

Edit: if you were wondering, there is 1 sheep as of right now

Everyone new to programming has been there done that at some point

I’m an app developer and my company wants to take away admin rights on everybody’s PCs (Windows). I won’t even have the right to adjust my computer’s clock time. I’ve been working there for over a year and a half. There haven’t been any issues whatsoever, and now this. To be frank I’m a bit pissed about it. Nothing is on premise, the projects I’m working on are apps hosted with Azure / gitlab.
I’d be curious to hear about your experiences related to this topic. Also if you have any opinons against or for such measures, if be happy to hear.

If Tetris figures consisted of five squares instead of four, it would've been called “Pentis”.
There are also Sextis, Septis and Octis.

When the new junior developer suggests we switch from ISO-8601 dates to Unix time in our API.

When a senior asks me, the guy who started 4 months ago about documentation on something that they’ve been using for several years. Haha, yeah bro, wouldn’t all of our job be a lot easier? I’ve been going down entire rabbit hole networks trying to find credentials and API tokens for the last month because there was no documentation 🤷🏻‍♂️

Been doing java for years now, and finally got to trying out an IDE. Been using VIM and notepad++ for ages, and tried Netbeans. It honestly frustrates me, is this where it's at, or is there something a bit more user friendly? Google yes I know, but Googles opinions are about as reliable as Bill Clinton around Monica Lewinski

Well my greatest mentor has been bad experiences. Its always there, lurking in the corner to mentor me. And well i do take a lesson or two, now and then to keep me afloat.

As they say- what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

Human mentors have been missing from my life. Superheroes don't exist :-/

Who loves those moments when you have been doing one specific group of code to acheive a result only to find out 12 months later that there is a single command that can do it all for you?

When you use the lifts in your building, and get irritated with the poorly written logic to control them because you have been waiting there for 5 minutes yet the lift hasn't arrived 😐

I see all these rants about crappy employers and bosses, and it reminds to be greatful that I work at a really awesome company. I feel the pain for those who have to deal with crap, because I've been there.

The monotony of begging management for budget to retrofit unit tests which should have been there in the first place is starting to piss me off.

Bug for iOS users to explore:
1. Take a photo
2. Edit the photo (crop/rotate)
3. Directly after saving the edited photo, start zoom
4. Zoom to infinity

Been there for years.

I've just found out that the web app I'm working on right now has been first created in 2008. It's been there for nearly HALF MY LIFETIME. 😥🔫

No idea what the fuck just happened, but my home router just dropped the internet connection and started demanding that I change the admin (default) password.
Now, I know that default passwords are bad and all that, but why the fuck now? This thing has been sitting there for over a year, and it only decided to complain now?

There have been some weird things going on lately, and I'm starting to worry that some of my systems may have been compromised in some way... but I'm not sure what/how, nor how to look for it...

Any tips for identifying a breach and disaster recovery?

I love that it takes Google forcing apps to be using more recent SDK's for them to update there own bloody apps that have been using deprecated SDK's and libraries for years...

Found a bug in our print ordering system the other day because "vertical" was spelled wrong. Caused the vertical check on photo dimensions to not work correctly.

Bug has been there for almost two years and 2k print orders 😂

I only was the only programmer I knew for the longest time. It wasn't until I went to college that I realized there are a bunch of us. ~~ They must've just been doing their programming thing this whole time.

Anybody know why a good amount of active members like linuxxx and SortofTested have been inactive for a few months. Also why has there been a green dot explosion

Right now I am doing job in non-tech firm. There people are so diff. I feel they are rainbow as my life is black n white. I got no friend there its been 10 weeks. May be because I dont talk much or may be bc I dont share my food.

Aahhh even I like staying alone. People sucks.

Does gitlab have a horrible work culture?

Been attending lots of gitlab webinars and workshops lately and the presenters are burned the fuck out. Maybe that is the shit job no one wants to do.

Anyone work there that can comment?

EVERY FUCKING VACATIONS I'VE EVER HAD SINCE HIGH SCHOOL, when I first learned to code.
Since then there have always been some school or uni assignment or something croaked in production while I was away and n00bs couldn't hack it.

I have to install Windows server on a system that's been running a modified version of Ubuntu (yes, there is a very good reason for this), there are for raid6 configured hard drives, problem is Windows server can both delete and repartition the the hard drives, but can't see the partions when I want it to install to them! WHY, OH WHY? YOU MADE THE PARTITIONS YOURSELF! WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT THERE?!?!?

I wonder how legal coinhive usage is, since it's a great idea, but users for sure will piss their pants if they find out youre literally driveby mining bitcoins. Also how comparable is it to ads etc.

Have a wonderful weekend now, fellow devs!! Enjoy the sun, enjoy your company or maybe lack thereof. Is there something you have been thinking of trying but put it off as just a dream? Try it! Take the first step! Enjoy your life!

Woah there, Facebook. We've not even been on the first date yet.

Well, you've been taking my info for a while now, so technically we're married but still.

Creeeeepy.

when you've been moved to quality assurance, and is forced to watch hours of videos and read hours of blogs, just to keep you busy because there is no testing work but plenty of developing work to be done...

Has there ever been a reason to have a textarea that stretches past 100% width of it's parent? Go ahead and add max-width: 100% to your reset.

So I've been tinkering with this idea since this morning:
There should be a dictionary for developers, to help give meaningful names for variables, functions.

With some pipe like interface to narrow down possible names,

Vultr's Block Storage in New Jersey has been down all day. My Mastadon node is hosted there. I'm jonesing for my Fediverse fix!

Setter and getter are anti-patterns. Eradicate all of them from your code with no mercy and you'll see your code magically transform for the better.

Is there a way to display list of all weeklies outside of the devRant app, ie in any web browser?

There has been quite a lot of interesting weekly topics, but going through them on the phone is a pain.

"Many already Know this, but from this point on, Google is your wife."

I can't say how many times there has been a question which had a straightforward answer with one search.

How come that everytime I learn a new tech/framework, I find that one flaw after 5 minutes which has been there forever, dozens of people complain about it yet nobody fixed it?

Has anyone else noticed NULL thing on Facebook marketplace? I mean for f* sake it's been there for at least a month now.

!rant: I am pretty fresh to this game so I couldn't say what my biggest hurdle has been because there hasn't really been one yet. So, in an attempt to beat the curve and perhaps learn something...

What is the most important thing you have learnt from the biggest hurdle in your dev career?

Project manager.
Especially the one casually mentioning in the afternoon that there is a meeting with the customer tomorrow which obviously has been arranged at least one or two weeks ago.

I feel like I had been living under the rock. Just discovered Software Engineering Daily on Podcast Addict 😍 Can't be stoked enough to learn about vast expanse of knowledge and incredible experiences laid out there! What are some of your favorite podcasts?!

Is there anything worse than Peoplesoft? I'm trying to sign up for a new job and everything is slow, timing out, or poorly designed. I've been at this for 4 hours now and I'm not even halfway done!!

Every third one to look int this rants comments will be sigkilled...

Ps: two already been there

Had to work on a group project for class that had been created by students 3 years prior. This would have been fine if there was any sort of comments in the code, but there was not a single // to be found. Also, we were supposed to just know 3 different languages that we had not used before.

Not *drunk* coding per se, but there have been a couple evenings where a bottle of red has provided just the right push to finally get something done that I’d been stalling on...

What if there were no if(s) life would have been so easy.

University projects. I used to always delay them till the last day/days(somehow I knew when to finally start working to be just in time to complete it). There i would be not sleeping for 2/3 days and submitting like 5/10 minutes before deadline time.

P.s. I've only been working for about a year so not much to quote from there