I mean.. how hard is it to FUCKING INDENT CODE ??!!!?!?!!???!?

no !! how dare you ??!!!?!?!!?!?

Why the Fuck would someone disable pasting on a password field!!!! How the fuck am I supposed to enter my shit from my password manager now?

Dev: So how do you want this feature fixed?

Manager: It should work how it worked before.

Dev: I'm new to this feature, I don't know how it worked before or what is broken about it.

Manager: Well just make it work like it worked before.

Dev: I DONT KNOW HOW IT WORKED BEFORE THAT IS WHY I AM ASKING YOU. PLEASE TELL ME SO I CAN DO MY JOB.

Manager: Just how it worked before!

Dev: ...

Manager: ...

Dev: fuck you

PM in daily: your turn. what have you done yesterday?

me: so i finished my PR for feature x and now i'm only waiting for review feedback there, so i can close this ticket today if no major rework is required-

PM: this is not what i asked, i don't want to know what you did, i want to know what was done.

me: uhh... okay, also i started working on task x
[note: task x, a task per definition involving a large amount of research, was very coarsly defined and it wasn't even clear to the PM what he exactly expects from me, and we agreed that the scope needs to be refined in the process],
so as a first step, i started doing some general investigations to get an overview of the topic and learn about concepts a and b-

PM: again, i don't want to know what you did, i want to know what was done.

me: okay well, i have DONE basic research on topic xy and collected information-

PM: this still does not answer my question, what's the deliverable?

me: ...so uhhh.... i read papers? i researched info online and collected and prepared information and links in a presentation which i'm also planning to present to the team-

PM: okay, can you please split your jira task in subtasks so everyone knows exactly what you're working on? otherwise we have no idea what you're doing.

for fuck's sake, shut up. just shut up

I'm not sure how I feel about that

my macbook legit send me a useless notification about how to disable useless notifications. DONT YOU SAY

[Certified CMS Of Doom™ moment]
Ah yes, the good old "generate a huge CSV just to know how many rows there are"

Work, the haiku:
(Plus more Dilbert)

“Where are you on this?”
“I’m where JIRA says I am”
“Ok, but how far?”

Manager: Messages not visible! bug ticket!!!!

Dev: oh fuck, there's an issue with our chat system, not good! _inspects ticket_ oh, it's just a display issue that actually is according to the previous spec, yawn...

Dev: please describe the bug better next time, I though we had a major outage, this is simply a small design issue...

Manager: ...

Dev: ...

I think I'm quitting soon guys. I literally do not get paid enough to deal with these incompetent idiots each day.

Meanwhile:

Management: forget your shitty salary, take one for the team, you get 3% of the shares in the company!!!!

Dev: what fucking shares, you haven't even converted to a corporation yet, THERE ARE NO SHARES

Management: ...

Dev: ...

Oh yeah and they called me at 6:30 PM today: "so i guess you are winding down for the day"

fuck outta here i haven't been working since 5 you fucks

jesus i swear some people need to screw their fucking head on straight, so far gone into the hUsTlE CuLtUrE they don't even know what reality is anymore

I feel like devRant is now a study experiment to test how long a software can run without maintenance and how long people are willing to keep using it.

How can I feel so smart and so dumb at the same time?

Impulse bought a book on how to draw chibi animals. First attempt wasn’t _awful_.

Figured out how to do a granny square properly! (Unknown yet if I can replicate 😂)

Not sure how to feel about this Google play recommended app.

When your code finally works but you have no idea how:

All B2B solutions boil down to "How I import your Excel"

I hate how disruptive meetings are, I was coding and now I don’t know what the fuck I was trying to do.

How the fuck does a company get away with making a junior doing the work as a senior. I need a raise and probably a beer

non-tech related rant:

but something I've realized...

When we were younger, we were taught to treat people how we want to be treated.

As I've gotten older, it's now become
treat people how they treat you.

"There are only two industries that call their customers 'users': Illegal drugs and software. "
- Edward Tufte

How true is this?

How to make boat loads of money: wirte some janky corporate SaaS platform with the worst UI possible.

I think what would help is to teach them these things:
- awareness for security in code
- how to use a fucking VCS like Git and how it works

To anyone asking for tips and tricks to start programming or become good at it, here is your ultimate golden advice: learn how to google and stop asking stupid questions like this before doing a quick research.

Reasons why:

1. You will most likely to learn better if you do your own research before asking for help. Even if you can't solve problem, you will be better and better at googling over time.
2. It is instant source of information. No need to wait for response (except response from server of course).
3. It takes only YOUR time.
4. Much more possible solutions/answers to your problems/questions.
5. Your quality of life will be improved over time. Not only your dev life but your daily life too.

This is how U became a Data Scientist 😆

How is anyone supposed to compete with those kinds of numbers?

I thought the industry was struggling to find people?

Looked at a dozen other jobs just like it.

How are you supposed to stand out at all, if you're just getting started?

how I learned to code

I used to work for a company that had a main website and a lightweight app. LW app was distributed to partners and added to other sites using an iframe.

Someone decided a requirement was to retain the shopping cart for anonymous users. Some dev thought the best way to do that was to issue auth cookies to anonymous users.

The auth cookie issued by the LW app was actually for the main site. A few users for LW app decided to just come to main site to make a purchase. Since they already had an auth cookie (issued from LW app), they were never prompted to log in, create an account, or use guest checkout on the main site. They were still able to complete their order and we had their shipping address, but we didn’t have their email address so we couldn’t contact them about their order.

Customer service had no way to email customers if something went out of stock or if there was a product recall. CS would have to call these customers and ask for email addresses. Good luck getting anyone to answer or return a call nowadays. Customers were asking where their confirmation email was. The admin website was polluted with “users” that had the placeholder email for non-logged in users.

This happened because of a combination of an understaffed and overextended engineering department. Of course when something goes bad it’s going to be bad.

!rant Yesterday, I picked up a plate with a single fork on it and managed to drop the fork in such a way that it landed on my foot and drew blood.

How y’all doing?

I just don't get my coworkers. They tweak designs, they tweak functionality, but no task is made.

They just simply update designs in Figma, without notifying anyone or just msg me on Slack what to change...

How the fuck do you guarantee that all those tweaks will get reflected to the app? How do you guarantee I won't forget? How do you guarantee QA will test your stupid tweaks?

That’s how you should format a date in JS/TS!

Translation: "how much do you charge/ to do this tattoo, about 70 cm/ on a guy who's not awake"

How come a man driving a train got struck by lightning? He was a good conductor.

If your sr data scientist doesn’t understand how function scopes work or how imports work and writes inefficient code, Idk man. Some people are just experts at emails and coloured excel cells

How do you pronounce SQL?

1 s q l
2 sequel
3 squirrel

How many bones are in the human hand? A handful of them.

!rant
It‘s just amazing how much a proper type system and a modern language makes refactoring a good dev experience.

Fuck how people are excited about experiencing the same shit every year

So the next O’rly book I can imagine for this project is:

How did I ended in this microservices nightmare?

So Germany is considering banning Telegram. How are you feeling today though?

How to block ads

The IT guy my parents had often at their home.

This guy thought me how to manage our network, how to create mobile apps. How to debug problems and so on. He sparked so much interest for computers in me and now i can't stop fiddleing around with computers.

Also this "electrician" who worked for my parents.
Basically he fixxed old keyboards, loudspeakers and stuff like that. He thought me about resistors, transistors, blue prints and how to solder stuff.

"Lötzinn blödsinn"

They both started my journey into the rabbit hole of technology.

Love how DoD work requires sec+ certification but as you are learning the material you realize they don’t follow any procedures or practices.

Boss: How can we keep the office clean?
Me: By staying at home

“In 15 years, do you see X still being there? No? Then fuck it” - my manager on how to handle “important” decisions

This may be the best Stack Overflow comment I have seen when learning SQL.
How old is Frank? I don't know (null).
How old is Shirley? I don't know (null).
Are Frank and Shirley the same age?
Correct answer should be "I don't know" (null), not "no", as Frank and Shirley mightbe the same age, we simply don't know

How much does a hipster weigh? An instagram.

A rare weather phenomenon called "snezhura" (slush) was observed in St. Petersburg recently. I don't quite get how it works, yet it's still fascinating.

I'm truly surprised how well Linux is coping with my 32GB RAM dev laptop :)

Currently open and actively used:
1. 2x Chrome windows (70-100 tabs total)
2. 5x IntelliJ Idea projects
3. 3x AndroidStudio projects
4. 2x different grade daemons

Still snappy, still quick af!

I wonder how windows would handle that. From my xp 2 IDEs already were a struggle

Everyone in the gaming internet talking about how Microsoft's Activision Blizzard purchase will usher in a new age of improvements have never had to use teams.

Once C++ walks into a bar and sees C.

C is drunk, falling on the floor, spitting, and swearing.

How classless! -says C++

So this is how YouTube handles overflow/trims text 🤭

15 min till technical interview with IBM:
Trying to convince myself I’m not an imposter. 🙃

10 min after the interview:
I’m thinking how for the last 15 min of the interview they were pitching about how great the life at IBM is and why I should join.

Jesus Fucking Christ on a Pogo Stick!

Can anyone release a new video card for PCs _without_ talking about how much faster it is at mining cryptocurrency?

Heyo!!! I lost the details to my old account and I'm back after 3-4 years!!!

Hello Devrant! :D

How y'all doing!

senior: read the fucking development setup wiki

<senior proceeds to have problems>

somebody else tells them to read the fucking wiki

oh how the turn tables

THIS IS HOW TO INSULT A DEVELOPER 👾🤓

Any tips on how to properly document my code? I'm going to start my first internship soon so I need to learn it.

april fools of Windows 11 :

Decided to connect me at 100 mbps instead of 2.5gbps to local network, I'm still looking how and why.

How the fuck? I didn't even go out.

Algorithm: A word used by programmers when they don't want to explain how their code works

How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.

How do I put this nicely?

I'm fucked in the head.

I keep wondering when am I going to resign? How much further can I tolerate?

Wondering how many old smart TVs have log4j on them and are running web servers that log local requests...

No matter how highly recognized your code is, it can’t bring the Inflation down

how do i make myself work it's like a fuse blew out and ive just stopped working

i was trying to check a purchase i made on the store's website, so i tried to login, but I can't?? like, i fill the form and press login, and it doesn't? log in??? what the actual fuck, how are you supposed to do anything like that. isn't the login page the first thing they make? how doesn't it work? how is this website still active??

Knitting. It's absurd how technical a skill it is, and I definitely didn't realise that when I learned it!

It's insane how much better Firefox handles a shit ton of tabs than Chrome does.

A pratice paper for web development. How does this have anything to do with HTML5? I could have sworn the answer was A.

On devRant, I can change my avatar, but how do I change my mind's real-life one?

How to make own img tag in html:
(This wasn't me)

Why do game studios force social/multiplayer in single player games?
Single player sandbox? How about we make it a multiplayer co-op?
Just fine 1 on 1 brawl? Hey how about you find a team and tag team? No? Too bad fuck you, no points to you for a whole fucking season.

Ugh.

How can people work with those surface of sun level bright white IDE themes? Like, do you wear your sunglasses at home too?

How u indent your css? Pls?

Currently listening to my housemate, a tech journalist, talk to a PR person for an ML company, about how great their product is.

I want to vomit.

How did the hipster burn the roof of their mouth? They ate the pizza before it was cool.

How many of us have had our downvoting privileges removed?
I know mine do nothing since it resets to 0 after leaving a spam rant.

People of devRant, how did you meet your spouse/partner, and what is their occupation?

I am just wondering how you get to actually meet people and create relationships while having an insanely intense tech career.

my company's internet is so unstable today i havent been able to look up something on stackoverflow. how will i do my job without getting solution from stackoverflow?

You remember how much we got milked before LetsEncrypt came to our rescue?

how does a network engineer know if there's a windows machine on the line?

(don't worry, they'll know)

how infuriating is it when you (very much not a frontend dev) have to do "tweaks" to the UI

The moment you find a fix for something after days but you don't understand how it fixes at all.

How do you make holy water? You freeze it and drill holes in it.

Finally got rid of my old job I ranted about so much. Started a new one on Monday. A bit anxious and terrified (there is a lot to learn) but it feels good. The team is fun and they know what they are doing. BUT most importantly: they know how to plan projects and know how to intervene if a project is about to run out of resources. NICE.

I'll keep you posted on how it goes

Company Emails that tell you
who they are
what believe in.
How they were the market leaders since the stone age.
what their values are
what their holistic approach to life is. How they are diversifying inclusiveness to include diversity.
And how all of this bull shit ties into you being a ideal employee of the organisation
Just to get you to fill a damn form.

Makes me wish the next attempt at human extinction succeeds.

senior "don't do it like this, there are alternatives"

doesn't mention the alternatives

thanks? i can look into implementing it how you want if you'd elaborate the alternatives....

Life begins when you bring down production and don’t know how to fix it

I'm a hobby programmer and i don't hav any programming ideas! How do you all get programming ideas?

mfw the devops told me he doesn’t know how to rebase without GUI.

True story.

"we use story points as an estimate for how much time something will take to complete" or "X story points means Y days of work"

fucking kill me

"Please move the logo left. The text goes a bit under."

Do you guys think people realize how unclear they are, and are just too fucking lazy to write the full spec? Or are they just so fucking stupid they don't realize I literally have no fucking clue what to do exactly with comments like these?

I guess Hanlon's razor applies here, but some days I just don't know...

Happy Friday! ☠️

Got to thinking about how good Minecraft modders have become

no one taught me how to host anything web, i had to figure out how to get things live by myself. it was awful, documentation on that stuff sucks, but i got through it knowing far more than when i started.

I just love how companies would go to any length to motivate you to work more!

As long as it doesn't cost them more than peanuts..

Stack Overflow devs need to search Stack Overflow for how to make html comments

How is everyone in this community still coding so much? Just 4 years into my career my active coding has reduced to almost half.

Is there a scientific term for *that* window of time where you feel totally unproductive before or after a call/standup? How long is it for you?

I'll just use my Android tablet to set up Alexa, how hard can it be..

"Your device is not supported"...

So..

Add on todo list, upgrade OS on tablet..

How hard can that be . . .

Am I the only engineer that has a terrible time with relationships(not db relationship lol) I get so caught up in work.

How do y’all manage?

Work so hard that you're too mentally exhausted to even think about how your life could be better or more enjoyable.

As a Java developer, I'm a big IntelliJ fan. I like how smooth it works, how wide support it provides. However, I was thinking about giving Eclipse a try for a week.

It ended after first day.

How the hell anybody can use it? The auto completion is so slow it's fucking funny. And yeah, I've changed eclipse.ini, disabled unnecessary stuff from completion, changed delay to 1s.

Effect?

I type "new Arr<ctrl+space>". Instant window with text "Computing proposals". After 10s I finally get list of possible completions.

How can this be so slow? Even vscode works better

How do the trees get on the internet? They log on.

How many lips does a flower have? Tulips

How to become a CSS God?

I had to remind our companys self-proclaimed "Excel Wizard" how to do a vlookup today

Lovely, We just got told to ditch Sentry and just check the /var/log/ of the server for issues......

How do I argument back against this...

My how times have changed...

Algorithm: A word used by programmers when they don't want to explain how their code works.

It’s time for me to be on the other side of the table. Any suggestions on how to be a great interviewer?

Hi, how y'all doing?

How comes im fucking pissed at each Windows update but excited about getting updates on my Fedora machine

Stakeholder: We have users who are putting like “John and Mary” on their membership’s first name field. Can we restrict that field so they can’t do that?

Me: But what if that user does identify as “John and Mary”?

Besides, what’s to stop any user from taking out the “and” and making it “John Mary” so they can get around input validation for words like “and”?

I just called somebody beside me an idiot while the call microphone was on. Quick question: how do I dig a hole and bury myself?

How is the shopify developer experience actually so bad.

Shopify Buy JS docs suck
Product ID's are inconsistent
Token management is not built into GUI

To all the Jason out here, how do you feel every time someone says JSON?

Devs who became managers,

How?

How long can you work in a role with no potential that bores you shitless but pays an astronomical amount?

Stick to one project about which you want to learn but don't know how to do it,complete it...and now you have learnt something new

I love how I watch a tut for a specific problem and then go down to the comments and see ppl say things like, "Awesome, dude you saved me hours. Now, can u show me how to do, this, this, this, this and this?" 🤦🏾 I'm like, bruh, u can't figure out how to do at least one of those things on your own??? 💀

How to manage when you start something good for you, start taking decisions for your good and people start spreading hate about you. It obviously will effects your mental health right?
How you guys manage it? I mean how?

Today I'm feeling of getting bullied and getting bullied again from the same person. I'm correct but can't show the correctness just because there's no proof I've in-hand.

I'm literally tired of people now!

Your life is a line. You don’t decide how long it is, but only you decide how wide it is.

How long is this at the duckduckgo corner?

How can you tell a vampire has a cold? They start coffin.

how to code with no bugs(99%).
it's like a bug condom.

Anyone else noticed how Comp Sci teachers are always useless so you just end up teaching yourself way more than they've taught you?

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how good nvim is at it's job

How do you guys get LinkedIn recruiters to annoy you? I want to be annoyed too - I reckon it would help me find places that are hiring

How fucked up is fucked up - Part 1.

What's your most frustrating moment for developing software from scratch in a start up company?

Ohm.. How can I have objective judgement by being able to watch only subjectively censored content? Is there a no censored version of youtube and google?

How do you organize an outer space party? You planet

How could I?

Got this design for a button.
Now I'm writing an essay in the ticket about how this is problematic for localization and accessibility.

How accurate is this guys ? I came across this reading comments on youtube. The moral of Star Wars rogue one ^^ and project management at its finest...

How I approach the project: got an idea run at super speed thinks something important on my way there and return with the same speed. 🤔🤔🤔😐

How would you deal with the fact you might be dying soon?

Must be nice not to worry about work.

Poll: how do you manage Git?
A) CLI
B) GUI

My answer: A
Tally: A:1 B:0

When I hear the word "service" I think of something that just runs in background and you can do stuff with it. I have no idea how to create one, I almost had to make one on Android and use it properly, now I'm back to Windows and Java and we have something working as a service, I have no idea how it was created and how it does work, I just know how to start, restart and stop it. If you asked me how it works and how to communicate with it - XD no idea lol but let me google that. I have almost 4 years of professional software development experience.

And at this point I'm too afraid to ask ;____;

How do you deal with relatively complex Boolean logic requirements?

Here's a simple example, of which I missed 50% of the cases because it was non-intuitive to me:

A year is a leap year if:
- it is divisible by 4
- except it is also divisible by 100
- unless it is also divisible by 400

To my intuition, the logic tree is as follows:

if (year % 4 == 0) -> true
if (year % 100 == 0) -> false
if (year % 400 == 0) -> true

so I ended up with 3 cases and I initially missed all the others until I started coding.

The full solution is:

if(year % 4 === 0) {
if(year % 100 === 0) {
if(year % 400 === 0) {
true
} else {
false
}
false
} else {
true
}
true
} else {
false
}
}

I don't like it when I don't immediately see all logic paths.

How is Monday after Superbowl a working day? It should be a holiday

I'm in awe as to how quickly time just flows when I'm coding at work

How we used to treat our computers back around 2000-2010 when they don't respond.
SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP !!
SLAP THE MONITOR !!

How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.

Mad how Zuck can instantly stop everyone talking about all the creepy, weird shit by simply renaming the internet. Prince Andrew missed a trick there.

How would you react if you got a dev job but had no technical stage at all? (coding/take home/quiz)

How fucking hard can it be to show a simple image. Guess which app has this feature.

Images are cropped to frame, but you can tap to fit the whole image to frame instead. No way to see the image on full screen. Pinch to zoom works, but it will immediately unzoom if you let go even one finger.

Simple question, I'm writing a coding course that does some cloud stuff.

Which cloud providers actually allow you to limit spending without some stupid "setup a service to nuke everything" fuckery?

As far as I can tell, Azure and Oracle. It's stupid how often this is raised as a concern for beginners and how hard it is to actually limit.

How do you pronounce uint?

Please share any links on AI creating code based on text input. Let's see how many years we have left as developers.

Question - How are computers and air conditioners similar?

They are both useless when you open windows.

How do you guys deal with really stupid PMs? I had one ask me 3xs to call the client and send emails because he's lazy and doesn't know how to be a PM + he's dumber than a box of freaking rocks.

!rant

So Today the interviewer dont know how to interview me, I feel like interviewing myself.

I HATE SQL SO DAMN MUCH

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO LOVE IT

i wanna be data engineer

!rant
Wdym I just wrote the entire curriculum in one day?! 😅

I did some online shopping on the weekend. And oh man, this retailer’s checkout had so many problems.

I placed an order for a 2022 edition of their magazine. My confirmation page lists the 2020 edition. I didn’t get a confirmation email and I’m sure my email was right.

I chat with customer service and they said my order was for their car buying guide. You bet my my response was what the fuck.

How long has GitHub been rendering Jupyter notebook files? That's slick.

How do you find open source projects you want to contribute to? I'm trying to find projects I'm interested in but don't really know what to do.

How to relax when you need to do so much context switching, many meetings and then your own work?
My breaks are not enough for recharging me.

How did the good teacher know how to teach computer programming to the inpatient boy? He taught the kid about computers bit by bit!

If git merge automatically performs a commit to the main branch, how do we add a message to that commit?

Developers, how many monitors do you use for coding?

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

How the fuck am I supposed to code and attend meetings with a broken heart?

Relationships are the fucking pits.

Curious how devRant's "Top" (weekly) feed works? How are the posts sorted? ++ count? ++ count + comments? ++ and comments each have different weightage?

The posts seem to be in a haphazard order

Go is pretty nice!

Loved how it is simple and kinda forces you to use FP

How often do you go for an interview? A senior once told me to go for job interviews regularly to know where you stand. WDYT of this advice?

How do you manage your time after works for your side projects?

These days I'm being a victim of random frequent procrastination after office works.

Lady: How do I spread love in this cruel world? Random Dude: [...💘]

so i updated to android 12 recently, and there's this annoying bug where if you're on multitask ("recents") screen and lock, then you open up to a blank/black screen.

how, just how tf did this pas testing? or was there no testing? it looks like this is an issue across multiple fones and ik 12 has been in beta for a while. so just like...fuggin how

Does any one know how Containers (?) like Zip or exe files work? I mean when you open it with a texteditor you can't see much?!

Starting a new position as a junior dev tomorrow. Any tips how to behave among the big bois in office? What to avoid and etc.?

I would prefer to resolve to some rum and porn. But with how often it happens lately, its for the best i dont resolve to any of that.

usually when I don't get enough sleep, I feel sleepy, all day.

for some reason today was different.

slept for less than 4 hours

no coffee, etc

feeling alert AF.

Here's the edit @Fast-Nop

Can we all appreciate how good nvim is at it's job.

So... Quick question, how do I enable Devrant plus again?
Had to stop behind a supporter 2 years ago cause of unemployment, now I want back in :p

Question: How to deal with an idiot product owner?

Doesn't understand the job description. Thinks he's the manager. Controlling. Loud. Annoying.

Football/futbol/soccer analogy:

Frontend engineers are like strikers - you see their work, good and bad, and you don’t notice how many contribute to their success. Backend engineers are like goalies - you only really notice when they do a _bad_ job and don’t see how many things contribute to their failure.

Old-school tabletop RPG and board games.
Taught me how to work out data and stats tables, establish many-actors processes and strategies, how to ask for clarification (and give it), and even gave me practice in drawing a representation of what is in my mind, and understanding someone else's.
Who have ever surrounded a dragon in D&D knows what I'm talking about.

Hello devranters 👋
I’m back again 😊
How you all doing?

What is your most favorite CS Book or one that influenced you a lot and why/how?

So, any idea how many users on devRant after the spike and drop of yesteryears?

How many of you work in IT and just use programming to assist you in your job?

How do you get yourself out of a childhood trauma?

Me: What algorithm prioritizes food no matter how you use it?

Coworker: Idk, never heard of that one.

Me: Bread-First-Search

How we should treat depressed teenagers ??

The tech lead is doing most of the changes without even notifiying the rest of us.. How normal is it?

Windows's cmd shortcut for copy is the same as taking a screenshot.

How retarded can people be to actually use that piece of crap?

How do you track your job applications? I mean in terms of the number of applications you’ve sent, which stage each application ended, etc

Any 4 working day employees here? How do you feel about it? Really wish my company did that haha

How can an iMac with M1 chip load blender this fast!‽ My Gaming PC takes ages to load blender

Officially Running node-cron as separate thread in nodejs to update 27600rows every minute. Honestly, I am Supprised how well it is behaving.

Well i spent an hour debugging to find out i wrote throw instead of return somewhere. I have no idea how i even managed to do that.