Git blame strikes again

Interviewer: So you worked with mysql?

Me: yes, for over 6 years

Interviewer: so, you know how to write queries?

That weird moment when you get an error "please contact your administrator" and then you realize that you are the administrator..

Just found a Duck Store in Barcelona!! Wow decisions, desicions.. it's going to be tough😨

2b || !2b

Finished a 10-minute tutorial, better add it to my skills..

So i just realized why servers are called "servers"

because they SERVE CLIENTS!

I've only been a web dev for 7 years...*facepalm for life*

I just made my first pull request to an open source repo on github 😊

Just some tiny improvement but still I'm geeking out right now🤓

ALL JS TUTORIALS SHOULD EXPIRE AUTOMATICALLY AFTER 1 YEAR AND DISAPPEAR FROM THE INTERNET FOREVER!!!!!

jeez every tutorial i start i realize is no longer relevant code after the npm install step!!
}:-(

@dfox so is devrant turned out to be what you thought/hoped it'd be when you first started it, or is it different than the initial idea?

Found a Google employee in street view getting lost and using paper map .. There are also seem to be 2 guides with him...

I find it kinda amusing

Going to a dev meetups-

EXPECTATION: I'll meet cool dev people or maybe find an awesome career opportunity =D

REALITY: I feel too awkward to say anything to anyone the entire time :(

So I'm doing my thing... Suddenly all open windows start closing one by one and computer starts a shut down.. and i realize the windows update is coming..

But like.. can you at least give me a 2 minutes heads up? How the fuck such a process gets approved in microsoft?

"Yeah just close everything and force restart.. it's fine"

I hate it when people from other "cool" departments come in to our office and call us "too quiet", "unsociable" ,"not fun"..

They need to stop for a second and realize how we got to being programmers...

Personally, I went through all the possible professions and asked myself.." which job requires the least amount of human interaction?"

SO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET YOUR HIPSTER FACE THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!

That moment of joy when u see an exception error on the screen instead of a white page

Getting there😂

Times have changed fast..

By increasing my daily intake of coffee each year

Class constructor defined on line 700+
😑 Really...

Is it just me, or reading job descriptions is sucking the will to live?

Had a "Fatal error stack overflow"

All google searches lead to irrelevant links in stackoverflow.com

Now I can add this error to my "special errors I had" list. #onceinalifetime

So one year ago I was working at this company from the US, me being in Europe, which automatically implies there is several hours of timezone difference.

The eng. manager decided we would have a release tomorrow (decision was made one month earlier), and stuff was being prepped up to make that happen.

In the US the workday was about lunch time and in EU it was one hour before finishing. The manager gets us in a meeting and asks me and another dude to do some testing that would take several hours to do. This testing could have been done several days or weeks earlier.

40 minutes after that meeting I get a private message from the PM asking for the status of the test...

Me: aaa.. well I started it and will continue tomorrow

Manager: wait what? we have launch tomorrow, this testing has to be done by tomorrow

Me: it's the end of the workday here, I got personal errands that I have to attend to

Manager: uhm ok ... I see...

I was just messaging something in the public chat right before calling it a day and the manager writes "thanks for the input, your day is over now", completely out of context to the conversation I was having with whomever.

There was no question of "can you stay extra hours and do this?", there was no "hey, I know your day is over we will pay you premium hours with this amount as according to our contract, could you do this now as we have release tomorrow?" ..no ..just .. "do it!". I automatically assumed that ..hey, maybe he wants to do this during and after the live launch (and yes I do admit my mistake of not asking just to be clear, but I assumed the manager knows that there is a timezone difference ..like it's a no brainer).

I can not tell you the heat sensation I had after that last reply from the manager ... it was completely uncalled for, and unreasonable.

I mean why not make a pre-launch phase where you put stuff on the staging server, and perform all the necessary tests and then when you get all the green lights from testing you then proceed with the actual deploy? ...no ... mention this like right at the end of the day before the launch....

And another thing that scratched my neuronal cortex is, how does he know exactly how long the tests would take?

Deadlines

When i decided to become a developer years ago, i had completely different idea of how it'll be..

I never heard of "bugs" and I thought it won't require human interactions... Boy was I wrong 😕

So...I just learned about concurrency in Go, and gave it a try..

ever got a task to modify legacy code and when you looked at it you were like... burning it with fire is the only way!

This week's theme is apparently your opinion on PHP..

I just tried to "git commint"
And then "gut push"

It's like i have auto correct on my fingers 🙌

Stumbling across potentially interesting content.. oh shits, i have to register? lets see..
Full name: dhekbdj dhdj
Email: skkgduekdbd@jdrnksdjgzgfn.com

*Click*

- Welcome dhekbdj dhdj!

Awww yeah! 😎

Couldn't get stress ball from devRant.. But I found one at work.. Now it's mine 😀

After 5 min with it, my stress levels dropped and productivity also..

Fullstack developer Job ad:
........ Building the next generation of IOT. Innovation that will change the way internet works.

Requiremenets:
- wordpress
...

Name a better duo

Contributing to open source is hard :/

Seriously why hasn't anyone made a coffee brand just for devs called "java" .. So we can show some superiority over the simple folk drinking coffee..
😏☕🍪

Debugging code on the production server with nano #iTooLoveToLiveDangerously

Learning Go..

It's such a love/hate relationship!

😤😤😍😣🤓😣😣😎😰😌

Can someone make like a tinder app, only for finding employees/job?

Can we remove HR companies from standing in the middle and making things hard on both sides?!?! Fuuuck

This could be so much easier..swipe..swipe .. There's a match.. scheduled interview.. done

(:/)

Today on devrent.. Ball pics everywhere

(:/)

Sitting too much

I don't like React..😐

There are never xs/s (girl size) tshirts at conferences 😔

You know what's funny?
When every job post requires you to know atleast 20 things.. but then you find yourself stuck at a job that needs you to do 1 stupid thing. And you need to actually FIGHT to not lose all the skills and knowledge you collected till now :(

Well, fuckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!

Am I the only one?
Do {
I want to know EVERY FUCKN SKILL A DEV CAN POSSIBLYHAVE, but I want to know it all NOW..
googling 30 times for tutorials and posts about a topic,
opening 30 tabs,
then spending around 30 seconds on each one ...
Trying 1-2 tutorials,
not understanding why I dont get this shit...
this is stupid
loosing interest in 3..2..1...
Aaand let's try and learn this new skill..
} while(true)

Welp

I need dev rant for managers 😖 managers have bad days too

My debug buddies today 😍

I think its only reasonable that if I must show u my code during i terview process, I get to see some of the code that I'll get to work with if I'm hired.

Starting to think employers just straight up lie up everything..

Why do i need to find out about your shit code on the first day?!
Cutting edge tech my ass...

That paranoia feeling when you push an upgrade and something stops working, you rollback, it still doesn't work..
"Has it ever worked at all?"

You know what really grinds my gears? When new employees start shouting out suggestions of what feature we should do.. and how stupid this/that thing now.. or how slow that page is.. or how there's a bug somewhere.

WHAT WOULD'VE WE DONE WITHOUT YOUR OPINION?! thank you so much!!!

+10 points if their job has nothing to do with product or development

SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP
please!!!

Sometimes I leave comments to myself at the end of the work week to remember on monday where I left off
Anyone else does this? 🤔

Hr Interviewer: So I see you have worked for over 6 years, mostly with Php.. which one do you know? 5.4 or 7?

Me:
*facepalm*
"both"
*that should impress her*

Those are the people who suppose to find me a job? 😓 I'm screwed

Please add face masks and hand sanitizer and toilet rolls on the table for the avatars😆😷🧻🧤

White themes should be illegal after 7pm.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

.......

New task - add new field to a form... After few hours I'm ending up committing changes in 80 files..

*Refactoring craze*

I just had to put a Button + Link on a page.

the btn opens a link
and the link doesnt open a link, but copies to clip board.

And if u dont see whats wrong with this picture, you are part of the problem.

I love how django's documentation stays relevant on the current agenda

I need bikeRant, so i can rant about bike lanes consisting of dog poop, broken glass and old grandma's

There should be Shazam for perfumes

"A jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."

How do you think this fits in the dev world? Yay or nay

An ad of items on sale in a store:

Bath toys for babies, buy 1, get a second one for 1 $...

One of the toys is a rubber duck..
I don't have a baby...still considering 😂

How much does a syntax of a language impact ur opinion of it and wether you'll want to use/learn it?

Some languages I look at and it just looks like an unreadable mess, i dont even bother with. Avoided nodejs up until i didnt have to deal with 100 nested callbacks...

What to do when you're 8 hours away from home at work and all you want to do is netflix and snuggle in bed 😞

Its 2022 and still, no other tech thing feels as magical as Shazam to me..
I'm impressed everytime..😐

- Hey remember when there was no internet?

- no, not really..

Why do 99% of presenters in conferences have a mac laptop?

I've spent many years in a bubble of 1 backend lang.. but when i started checking out other langs, I got very annoyed that each one has same basic stuff but with different syntax... Can we just agree on something? Ffs!
We really couldnt come up with unified syntax for -
false, False FALSE
OR or ||
def func function
And dont get me started on all the variations of for loops... Its like we are trying make our life hard

Looking at new versions of some langs, looks like they are copying new stuff from one another.. with different syntax.. thanks!
Nodejs trying to look more like she doesnt have callbacks.. while other langs adding callback functionality... Why why why?!

When a complaint form doesn't work on a website..
Is that a bug or a feature?

Oh and the online chat is a bot.

"If you're going to be living in the office, you can at least be on time for work"

This sums my mornings since i started working from home..
8:55 get out of bed
9:00 open laptop....and I'm at work :|

Does anyone know how in Movies and TV shows do all those computer sites/software are done?
Like when we see a cia mission room for example, and there after agents running a face recognising and get 50 popups with information, or location some secret hide out place and super cool screen with 10 widgets show us location..
That can't be real.. But i have no idea how it's done.. is it green screen replaced later with fake video, or something similar? Please help, I MUST KNOW THE TRUTH!!!!!!!

I present to you a php framework with an "orm" that doesnt support table joins. Yes, you heard it right.

I just want to say few things to the developers community -
If you are a bad programmer, please spend your time at improving rather than writing frameworks, or making the stupid decision on using SUCH SHIT FRAMEWORK AT A CORPORATE COMPANY!

Also if you are not sure if you are a good programmer or not, chances are you aren't. That's just how it is.

Let me tell all of you who don't like big frameworks..
The nice thing about them is that they minimize the amount of SHIT CODE all of you who think you know how to code, but actually don't, write..
And minimizes the amount of headache for the devs who need to then maintain/fix/change your SHIT CODE.

yes...lets put routes 10 dirs deep into the project and let ppl look for it..

In a time where a web dev is expected to know, well.. everything... Backend -JAVA, python, nodejs and C++ would be great.
Front- angular, react, other 10 libs
DBs -sql, mongo, redis, elastic, kafka, rebbitmq
Also be devops on the side with AWS and docker kubernetis and more stuff

How the f is that possible?

In my real job for the last couple of years and different companies, I usually use 1 language/framework & 1 main DB.. and although it's possible in some companies, but in mine, ppl dont get access to AWS etc..

So let's say there's me.. a server side dev for years.
So I decide to be better and learn Golang.. cool lang, never needed in my job, after few days of not using it I forgot all I learned and that was it.

Then I realized I gotta know some frontend cause everyone want a fullstack ninja nowadays.. so I tried Vuejs.. it was amazing .. never got to use it at work, cause i was a backend, and we didnt use frameworks on our products back then..
Also forgotten.

Then I decided to learned nodejs, because this is the coolest thing ever.. hated it, but whatever... Never got to use it at work, cause everything was written in other lang which the whole team knew... Forgot the little i knew.

Then I decided, its time to see what Angular is, cause everyone started using it... similar idea to vuejs which i barely remembered, but wow it's a lot of code to remember, or I'll have to google everything.. so I went over it, but can't say i even learned it.

Now Im trying to move on to python, which, I really am learning in depth.. however, since I dont have real experience with it, no one gives me a shot at being a python dev, so again i feel like I'm trying to memorize syntax and wasting my time..

Tired of seeing React in all job ads, i decided to have a look what's that all about.. and whadoyaknow... It's fucking the same idea as vue/angular with again different syntax..

THIS IS CRAZY!

in how many syntaxes do i need to know how to make a fucking crud api, and a page with same fucking post form, TO BE A GOOD PROGRAMMER?!?

So.. There are about 4 jobs in my country that even mention golang, and only as an "advantage"

😟 Wow.. learning Go really isn't helping..

Why isn't it used widely as the main language of a dev team?? Too young? Or are there serious issues, that most companies prefer using c#/ruby/python for web dev backend?

Am i the only one who wants to try a new tool/lang, fails at installing/starting it up and quits?

So freaking annoying 😡😡😡

Thank God for npm install.. i can catch up on my sleep

How did we get to the place where mobile devs who basically do 20% (the rest usually done by backend devs) earn 3 times more than the backend devs?

Makes me wanna flip out

What is it with stickers and developers?

In all the companies i worked at so far, never seen any employee (in any department) above age 50..maybe the ceo or some lawyer, but thats it.
Where do all the 50+ ppl go in tech?
I'm not sure the tech world will be what it is now even in 10 years.. but I'm just wondering do any of u guys think/worry about where we'll work when we stop being young and cool?
Looks like it's either u start your own business, which not everyone can, or..
what is option B exactly?!?

Does someone know a site where i can get professional level help/guides/tutorials with system architecture questions? Like best practices for implementing common features? (Something like stackoverflow but where u actually get an answer instead of insults)

Googling for tutorials gives very basic/demo level results that might not be great for scale/security in prod env

I wonder how many girl developers are here...

Rectangle all the things!!

div {
clip-path: polygon(50% 0, 0 100%, 100% 100%);
}

I just saw that ARM released their design start IP for Cortex M0 for free to the masses , it’s obfuscated verilog code.
I worked on SoC design based on this in college but it took a lot of paper work to get these file but now they are free to download

This is exciting as this makes a open-source community based microcontroller design possible.

Only missing piece here is the verilog compiler they use is not open source .
Has anyone messed around with Cortex M0 DS + ghdl or iverilog. I am about to start a little side project will update more on this

Well if not here, at least I earned dual screens at work 🤪

My left cortex: You have a paper to write @poster983. Put devrant down.

My right cortex: NO! Enjoy yourself. You have a study hall tomorrow. Do it then.

My left cortex: Remember, you already said that about history. Best to do it now!

*mouth makes farting noise*

My Right cortex: COME ON! IT'S HUCKLEBERRY FINN. JUST USE SPARK NOTES! DO IT L A T E R!

My left cortex: fuck you right.

My right cortex: right back at you.

*Snapchat buzzes*
My full brain: OK HALT THE DEVRANTS! THE BOYFRIEND IS TEXTING!

(Notice the recursion here?). This is why I can't ever write papers.
Same thing applies to when I'm programing. I end up spending 2 hours on something that only should have taken me 1.

My left cortex: Stop Ranting!

Help me.
💩

Fuck who ever put the `hosts` file in that path WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMEMBER!

and then fuck who put the httpd-vhosts.conf in a totally different path that is impossible to remember!

Thank god for the positive ranters.. hating rants in a row would make this place depressing

Maybe he should have called the app "find a girlfriend" 😁😬😕😢

Was learning a bit AI today and then i thought.. who's actually learning more here? Me about the ai or ai about humans (me) 😐

Is there anyone who actually likes using Angular?

I decided to learn it (im backend only for many years) to be less clueless in the frontend world.. and so far i find it horrible.
Is it just a "culture shock" or do frontent angular devs also find it.. not so fun to use?

What i dont like so far is the inconsistency of syntax.. i feel like similar things done differently and not following rules that can be learned, i can't remember/guess anything, everything needs to be googled

i.e- `*ngIf` vs `[ngSwitch]`

Not to mention 3 different syntaxes to simply bind a property..

I tried vueJs about 3 years ago and it was so fun and EASY

I just noticed that whenever I get a captcha to prove I'm human, it's always images from the street.. cars, crosswalks, traffic lights, trucks, bikes, tractors etc etc...
I just want to know... Who's ML model I've been helping to train for the last i don't know how many years?!? 😤

I should've realized something smelled funny the moment i understood that a bot is asking me to prove my humanity to it, by doing something that a bot should be able to do by now.

I really hope copilot can make us have the discussion about what right companies have to exploit publically accessible work as fodder for their machine learning systems that they earn money on. Copilot is 100% about trying to monetize githubs users without paying for it.

RIP my sunday...

Assignment for uni:
Code a decompression routine in cortex m0 assembly for the compression function your teacher provided....

It can't get much worse than that!

Head hunters reaching out with a "position that might intrest you".. with a stack of skills that are not on my CV at aaaaall

Also Headhunters after answering back: oh you have only 1 year experience with that tool? They want at least 3, goodbye.

All just a phishing scam to get u to give them an updated CV version.. no real "relevant position" in sight. Smh.

A speaker at a meetup I went to was from the competitive company ..
All I could think was " yes yes.. give us more examples from your work" 😈

Today's feature, is tomorrow's bug

Im a php backend dev for over 7 years. (Lately mostly laravel).
Im going to look for a new job and have 2-3 free weeks to try and learn a new language and switch to that in my next job.
Please advise if i should
1. Switch to Python (should be relatively close to php oop) + opens AI jobs opportunity for the future.

2. Switch to NodeJs. (Web/api knowledge similar to php) + will be easier to learn frontend skills later (ie angular/etc)

3. Look for another PHP job. - if 2-3 weeks is not enough time to learn nodejs/python well enough to get an actual job without experience with them.

Really can't decide which path to take, please help

GraphQL question here!
So i recently noticed (few years after everyone?) That graphql seems popular... I decided to try it out, but after playing with it a bit, the conclusion I came to is, that it's a great idea from FE point of view, but for the backend not so much.. a simple sql to return data to ui turns into a bunch of parts, all independant and with even the simplest relationship to some other entity the whole thing becomes very not optimized and when googling about it, all i found were some very awkward libs for work arounds to force everything into 1 optimized query again... But wait, i already have 1 optimized query in my rest api 😆

I don't understand if I'm missing the brilliance of graphql that everyone saw, or is everyone fell for the hype and use a stupid tool and pretend it's cool? 🫣

A few months ago I started to develop firmware for ARM architecture. Now I only see ARM. Every project, every machine, every thing is better with an ARM.
#LetsKillThe8Bits

At this point of my job search, I'm gonna start singing Ariana's "Thank you, next", after each interview... JEEZ, is there no normal work places anymore?!?!?!

Oh this looks like an interesting 10 min Nodejs tutorial on utube!

*30 minutes of fighting modules installation*

Question for game developers 🙄
I wanted to try game development a few years back, started watching unity3D tuts, but I realized quickly that I can't actually do anything, because I don't have the skills to design animation and draw ui, and it was stupid to buy components online before I knew what I'm doing.. so I left it. Was I wrong? How did you start? Is it possible to make a game on your own, or do you need a team with members who each specialize in its own area (code, design, animation, music, etc.) And if team is needed, then how do you even start learning? Thanx

Im thinking about getting a raspberry pi 3 or an odroid-c2.
(Specs at the end)

Its to host a simple php server and maybe a gitlab server, both for personal use.

Should I go with the better performance or the better community support?

Odroid specs
System-on-chip used : Amlogic S905
CPU: 1.5 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53
Memory: 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM at 912 MHz
Storage: MicroSDHC slot, eMMC module socket
Graphics: Mali-450 MP3
Connectivity: 4× USB 2.0, micro-USB OTG, HDMI 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet (8P8C), Infrared, 40× GPIO ports

Raspberry specs:
SoC: Broadcom BCM2837
CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz
GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV
RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 (900 MHz)
Networking: 10/100 Ethernet, 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy
Storage: microSD
GPIO: 40-pin header, populated
Ports: HDMI, 3.5mm analogue audio-video jack, 4× USB 2.0, Ethernet, Camera Serial Interface (CSI), Display Serial Interface (DSI)

Just got excited about maybe using rethinkDB for some new project.. 10 minutes later I stumble upon an old notification that it's shutting down.. well...

Trying to find a linux distro I like to replace Windows on my home pc... Didn't like the first 3 I tried, so I'm continuing to try others...but now it feels more like I'm trying to kill Windows

ಠ_ಠ

How to stay 1 step ahead instead of always try (and fail) to just catch up?

I feel like the amount of tools/FWs/languages/DBs that a web dev is expected to know now adays is not realistic, and overwhelming. not only you need to constantly learn about new things that are currently the *hottest hype word*, you also need to keep track of updates to the tools you already "know", so the more you try to know the more there is to keep track of, and also how can you remember everything you learned if in a typical workplace you usually use the same 1/2 languages?

Never have i ever felt like i know enough to be confident in my abilities when around other programmers

If ESLint was a person I'd be in prison for murder

😡🤯

Any advice for when ur managers don't do their job well and if u say something is not done right, then they will let u do it?

FFS im tired that shit not being done right but im not looking for doing their job for them while they get paid more and sit in facebook

Just heard someone saying it's bad security practise to have composer and git on production server for deployments.... did I miss the memo?

Just wondering how many hours a week do most programmers work in your country? How many days a week, and is overtime usually expected from you?

Spent the whole day trying to get php driver for mongoDB to work.. made a php script that connects to remote db, the connection kept returning null/false no matter what i did.. in the end i uncommented a code below that fetches data with the "null" connection and suddenly I see data printed out 😐 well f you too very much 😡

Tomorrow I'll finally play with mongo 😊 i hope it won't be too much of a pain with php

What if those users that go and like all your rants one by one.. are actually devRant test users and its just @dfox testing code?

😯

Looking at the dev world this month like.. gitlab is down.. s3 is down.. isitdown down.. looks like devrant is using s3 as well, so no meme on this rant :/

And for the first time in a long time it's not my problem..

No job, no bugs 😖😭

Who has the final say or is in charge hierarchically in your company, product ppl/head/department or the cto/vp r&d?

Pls mention company size small/medium/large

Just want to know what's more accepted in the industry.

To clearify, for example, do most projects ideas get created by the managment and brought to RnD director who then assigns the product team to create the full specifications.
Or, is the idea first reaches product departmnet and then RnD department just gets the specifications and starts work.

POLL:
What kind of office do u prefer working at?
1. Big open space (with tables and no separations)
2. Open space with cubicles
3. Medium room (3-5 ppl)

And did ur preference change due to covid?

Working in a city that is slightly hard to reach if you don't live near by....
All the people who come to interviews are fucking weiedos that don't even know basic stuff..

I'll just write everything myself i guess 😡