In response to:
https://devrant.com/rants/2149067/...
I took your advice.
She said yes 😁

So I got laid off because they told me I wasn't communicating enough.

For what I encountered
Reference:

https://devrant.com/rants/4979669/...

https://devrant.com/rants/4675369/...

https://devrant.com/rants/4956866/...

https://devrant.com/rants/4691189/...

https://devrant.com/rants/4699002/...

https://devrant.com/rants/4717638/...

For how I feel About after got laid off:

https://johnmelodyme.wordpress.com/...

Last week in dR Hunger Games...
▶ https://youtu.be/Aj97BNLuhZI

Watch as 24 tributes from the number of devRant users beat each other in this violent simulation. Introducing the 2nd week of craziness, now in entertaining video form! 🤣

LOL Have I Been Pwned has pwned itself, cost-wise. Here the steps:
1) Go all in on cloud shit like Azure
2) Think you're a smartass
3) Trick the cost side with even more cloud, this time Cloudflare
4) Be not quite as smart as you think
5) Enjoy your 7000 EUR bill
6) Make some tweaks and continue with step 2.

Source: https://troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwne...

Bonus laughter: he's a "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional", though not an actual employee.

this is ridiculous...

I have to use a tool that only works on IE browser. (yes, I know, sucks. Regardless...)

1. open up the IE. Navigate to https://google.com
2. google is opened in Edge instead
3. Edge insists on setting Edge as default
4. google.com loads up and insists on installing and using Chrome as default.

... I just wanted to search for stuff and instead, I got 2 offers to change my browser....

I really liked this xkcd, so here are the links to the Wikipedia articles mentioned!

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I want to get this fake axe: https://amazon.com/Realistic-woodcu...

I want to hang on my wall at work and label it:
"merge conflict resolution tool".

Is that too violent for a joke?

Fuck chromium devs and their hate for linux. Piece of shit

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/...

TL;DR
Screen share with audio is broken under chromium, because some user didn't want the desktop audio appear when asking for input devices, when there's no microphone available.
The thread doesn't mention a specific cause for this besides "for some reason pulseaudio does this"

So what did the gigabrains working on chromium decide to do? Not list monitors (basically recording devices for on desktop audio) at all.

Why?
* UI is hard
* Because we say so
* Fuck standards

And they only do that on linux. Windows, which uses a similar concept works just fine. Mac? Yeah, just hacked it in. Linux? GL won't fix

Meanwhile they decide to add all shits of non standard, bug causing events for shits and giggles, but when you actually want to resolve issues you're met with silence and arrogance.

Once again, what a piece of shit. Chromium devs must love making things worse with every passing version

It's official, I've come full circle:

"I assume you're not looking for a new opportunity right now, but do you know anybody that might be interested, or do you have someone to refer?"

Yes, let me do more work for you, even though you aren't interested in me at the moment. Shameless linking to a previous post which is the same: https://devrant.com/rants/5404347/...

At this point, I'm convinced its going to repeat until about 2050 when the entire software industry comes to a complete and catastrophic standstill.

You’re my friends! Right?

… right? 🥺

But in all honesty, it’s this and Virtual Coffee for me. I’ve made so many friends from Virtual Coffee (https://virtualcoffee.io). ❤️

Nvidia might stop being a douchebag about Linux: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/... Right now, that doesn't change much yet, but it opens a possible road.

You think jQuery would finally have died after the IE era? Or that it would only be used to still pander to IE users?

Well... nope: https://w3techs.com/technologies/... says jQuery 3 has overtaken jQuery 1, which was the only version to even polyfill IE.

WTF is wrong with web devs, just WHY?! jQuery's use cases are shit that would be simpler and with less code without jQuery, shit that should be done in CSS instead, or shit that doesn't belong on websites to begin with.

My daughter showed me a "computer" she made in Minecraft using 2 trapdoors. One for keyboard and one for screen. She folded the screen one upward to show its like a laptop. It was the oak trapdoor that has the four square holes:
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/...

Me: So your computer runs Windows?
She: No!

Gotta love npm open source packages

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js”

https://snyk.io/blog/...

https://theverge.com/platform/amp/...

https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/...

ha...

that I did NOT expect.

Opening a website in chrome. Laptop's transforms into a drone and tries to lift off my desk and fly away with its fans. I see warning popups telling me that CPU Tº is 100ºC.

Opening website in FF. Laptop calmly opens it up and raises Tº from 50ºC to only 75ºC.

And here I thought that Chrome is fine-tuned for anything you can throw at it.

And the website really has nothing fancy in it... Just some text to read, images to see in the background and some buttons to click on.

https://ignitis.lt/lt/...
its EN version, however, does not have the laptop-heater feature installed.

WTF

Beware of NPM packages maintained by Brandon Nozaki Miller alias RIAEvangelist. He added IP-specific malware to node-ipc.

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/...
https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/...

Seriously, fuck Discord's new community guidelines! They now think they even own you outside of ther shady app:

"We may consider relevant off-platform behavior when assessing for violations of specific Community Guidelines."

Addressing harmful off-plattform behavior:
https://discord.com/blog/...

"When we talk about off-platform behaviors, we’re referring to any behaviors taking place outside of Discord, either in other digital spaces or in a physical community. If we become aware of specific off-platform, high-harm behaviors with credible evidence committed by a person with a Discord account, we will take the off-platform harmful behavior into consideration when assessing whether that account has violated a specific Community Guideline."

"We are applying this off-platform behavior consideration only if we become aware of highest-harm threats, including using Discord for organizing, promoting, or supporting violent extremism; making threats of violence; and sexualizing children in any way."
Yeah, suure...

Why does every fucking internet company think that they own their users?

https://lwn.net/Articles/887970/

For frigging fucking fucks sake, universe put the cactii away.

I HATE THE UNIVERSE.

I FUCKING HATE IT.

!rant

It's funny to consider that my previous rant (https://devrant.com/rants/4510906/...) before I stopped checking this platform as regularly was about what the perfect job would look like to me

…

Because I just landed it today, people!

Signed with a very chill, medium sized, local dev company that appreciates me as much as I do appreciate them. Starting next month I won't be just a random intern (although they never treated me as such anyway) anymore but a professional developer, with even a slightly more important pay than what you (at least I)'d expect for a junior

Adios annoying courses and mediocre marks, now the fun begins!

Follow up to: https://devrant.com/rants/5047721/....

1- The attacker just copy pasted its JWT session token and jammed requests on the buy gift cards route
2- The endpoint returns the gift card to continue the payment process, but the gift card is already valid
3- Clients wants only to force passwords to have strong combinations
4- Talk about a FIREWALL? Only next month
5- Reduce the token expiration from 3 HOURS to 10 minutes? Implement strong passwords first
6- And then start using refresh tokens

BONUS: Clearly someone from inside that worked for them, the API and database password are the same for years. And the route isn't used directly by the application, although it exists and has rules that the attacker kows. And multiple accounts from legit users are being used, so the person clearly has access to some internal shit

Atlasssian Bitbucket has broken umlauts since version 8.0 ...

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/...

Ladies and gentleman,

it's the year 2022.

In the internet, dat "Neuland" as Mama Merkel used to say, Atlassian managed to revert back to the good old times of ASCII.

Who needs proper multibyte charset support anyway?

Just display broken shit - as broken as the quality management of that misanthropic chum bucket company called Atlassian.

Oh and the last upgrade to Confluence broke, too.

Was just very needed because of an remote code execution.

Cause you know the usual deal. Oops zero exploit, let's make it public, telling our customers that in cloud their data is safe, otherwise they need to shut off their instances or pray that they have a WAF that can filter strings...

What broke you might ask?

Unique constraint in database, the migration wizard loved to add few extra rows, solution was to fry the rows while instance running, followed by immediate cache drop, otherwise fun started again.

I hate Atlassian.

WE TEST ON THE STAGING SITE. I DON'T BUST MY ASS WITH A SEPARATE STAGING API AND HTTPS://STAGING.WHATEVERTHEFUCKYOUWANTOBUILD.COM/..., SO THAT YOU CAN MESSAGE ME THAT NOTHING IS WORKING. THAT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ON THE STAGING SITE. IF I HAVE TO REMIND YOU AGAIN, I AM NEVER TALKING TO A NON TECHNICAL PERSON AGAIN

THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME. ITS LITERALLY LIKE A BROKEN RECORD SO WHY DO I EXPECT ANYTHING TO CHANGE, EVERY CLIENT IS THE SAME, EVERY TIME, GOD I HATE IT MAKE IT STOP

Funfact you can access devrant via https://dfox.devrant.com/. I'm currently posting this rant over this domain xD

We're declaring an active season of events at dR Community Server! 🎉 https://devrant.com/collabs/...

Join our guild of 100+ members to get hold of fresh ideas and game events tailored for active devRant community. You are welcome to organize your own events in here.

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It powers nodejs.org. It has 7.8k stars on Github.
It was installed 5x as much on NPM in the last 4 months as it was in the previous 5 years. https://metalsmith.io

I've been doing a lot of outreach to individual users, websites, and related Github projects, yet community involvement is hard to get by. If you value copy-left or free open-source software and are interested in bloat-free nodejs static site generation or build pipelines, please reach out.

I have a full-time job and am thankful for any help, be it feedback on the Gitter chat: https://gitter.im/metalsmith/... maintaining one of the 15+ core plugins, creating starters or writing blog posts.

Dang, dR Meetup 5/6 was a super fantastic game night! 😄
Mostly, we played Codenames, in which the host brought custom dictionary of programming terms.

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macOS facts:
- Darwin core is open-source (https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu). Not the case with Windows.

- You can use macOS without using any Apple online service like Apple ID, FaceTime or iCloud. Terminal will still work without restrictions, and any app can be installed manually. It's totally different from Google services on Android, without which most of the apps won't work at all.

- macOS updates are trivially to disable. It's a matter of unchecking "Update this mac automatically" checkbox in software update settings. Not the case with Windows, Windows updates are universally hated among developers for intentionally complex UI and update services being very hard to disable.

- Almost every feature or default behavior you dislike can be trivially disabled with one console command. Features won't re-enable automatically like I heard update service does in Windows. The only feature I dislike that I wasn't able to disable was a notification about unsafely unplugging a USB flash drive.

- Out of the box, you get a sophisticated disk manager that allows all kinds of manipulation on drives, just like what you get in Ubuntu.

- Just like on smartphones, you can trivially restrict or provide access to certain features like camera, microphone, etc. on app to app basis. I don't know how to easily do it in Linux, let alone in Windows.

- Apart from mastodons like GIMP, I find open source apps for macOS to have better UI than their Linux alternatives.

- Objective-See offers useful FOSS apps for macOS, they help with privacy and malware detection: https://objective-see.com/products....

I don't want to start a fight. Please, abstain from commenting on one OS being better / worse than the other. Please, don't comment on Mac computers being better / worse than computers of some other vendor. I'm very confused now because of my Dunning-Krueger thing (read my previous rants), so I just want to present the facts about macOS that I think deserve more exposure.

I can’t remember if I shared this cringe with you all or if I was too embarrassed by it, but…

In the spirit of giving, I gift you all this cringey parody song I recorded 3 years ago. “I Program in C”. Lyrics written by Chris Frederick on amiright.com, song parodied is I Go to Extremes by Billy Joel.

https://smule.com/recording/...

Happy holidays, friends.

I made a chat box
https://loneliness.one/chatbox
Enjoy

The fun with the Slack continues (context: https://devrant.com/rants/5552410/...).

I got in touch with their support (VERY pleasant experience!). Turns out, even though I specify a `filetype` when uploading a file via Slack's API, Slack ignores it and still scans the payload and tries to determine its type itself. They say Slack needs to be absolutely certain that the file will be readable within Slack.

IDK about you, but that raises some flags for me. I again have that itch to password-zip all the files I'm sending over.

I've raised this concern to the support rep. Waiting for his comments.

Creating a stripped down version of a product is a big red flag to me (e.g. "easy/light mode").
It means the main product is too complicated; it handles too many things. Instead, shift the focus back to the core of the product by removing features.

In the our day-to-day it is completely normal to stumble upon things that used to work but now have been changed: they have been deprecated.

Deprecating and removing features should be added to any product iteration. Thus being "normal" and a common occurrence in any changelog; just like features and bug fixes.

This gives non-tech product owners "permission" to remove bloat. Devs stop whining about "the big rewrite". And end-users don't suddenly have to learn yet another tool with "basic" features missing.

I think the best example is google (https://killedbygoogle.com/) and the worst is the amazon shopping website (what a mess!).

I think I may have shared this a while back. Just played with this a little for fun. I was playing with an ESP8266. Apparently it takes very little code to turn it into an access point and have it redirect to a landing page just like a hotel wifi does. Every platform I had connect to the AP seemed to work properly. I setup the AP without a password and let people log in. I named the AP "Virus Distribution Point". Here is what they would see:
https://htmlpreview.github.io//...

Don't mind the name of the repo. It is a junk repo I made for making mom jokes.

Follow up to my other rant https://devrant.com/rants/4994932/...

I have finally fixed the bug i couldnt fix for over several weeks. I was just missing a fucking if statement check. Not expecting this to work, i compiled, tested and it worked perfectly on the first fly.

Immediately i shit you not have i broken down crying. Sobbing in tears. Uncontrollably crying down on my table for several minutes and cant refocus to continue coding. I have NEVER cried because of a fucking bug fix! But i have also NEVER had a problem so much difficult that i needed several weeks to fix it!

..

https://dr.03j.de/

Maybe I'm gathering statistics every hour of your score.
Alle angaben ohne gewähr (All data without warranty)

But why are most of you loosing points?

Fullstack node developers of devRant, I have a job opportunity for you. No dumb managers, no crazy clients and deadlines, fully remote. Dm me on Telegram https://t.me/mvoloskov if interested

If some of you front-end devs haven't used CSS-Grid yet and are still annoyed by using nasty position and JS hacks to place stuff, I strongly recommend you to take 1-2 hours and read this incredibly useful guide for CSS-Grid:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/...

and this one for Flex:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/...

These two links have saved me PLENTY of hours struggling with all kinds of responsiveness and placement/sizing issues.

Back in https://devrant.com/rants/5492690 @Nihil75 referred to SlickVPN with a link, where you can buy a lifetime licence for $20. I thought - what the hell.. I don't need a public VPN rn, but for $20 for a lifetime lic - I'll take it, in case I'll ever need one.

I had some trouble signing up - the confirmation email never reached my inbox. So I got in touch with support. And they.... generated and send me a password in plain-text.

And there even isn't any nagging requirement to change the pass after I sign in for the first time!

IDK... As for a service claiming to be security-oriented, the first interaction already screams "INSECURE".

Well.. should still be OK for IP switching, to unlock Netflix content I guess. Don't need anything secure for that 🤷

A recruiter at https://skillcombo.com/ was conducting an interview via video link, the candidate was wearing a pressed white shirt and a stylish tie with doughnuts from The Simpsons. During the interview, the quality of the connection began to deteriorate and the candidate asked for a moment to turn up the volume on the speaker behind him. This required him to stand up and then my eyes were opened to the stunning lingerie of Homer Simpson and those same doughnuts, they complemented his whole image magnificently.

I can be manipulated. Yes, I’m now more resilient to manipulation than ever because I’m autistically good at recognising patterns, yet I’m not perfect.

For a manipulator, there is just one problem — now and then, my disorder obliterates my entire worldview, together with the foreign manipulative framework, so I can start with a blank slate. It protects me. Yes, this protection is akin to our body’s “we’ll boil all the germs in our own blood” tactic that instead of defining winners and losers only leave survivors, yet the force is unstoppable. You cannot secure the land that is hit by a tornado every three months.

That inner Nemesis is so strong that it even defeated a complex, almost fractal-like manipulation of my own mother that I lived in since birth, leaving her with a wound that will never heal. Wannabe manipulator exes didn’t even stand a chance. I don’t care if that force destroys me or not, as during that time, there is no “me”.

About my mom, long story short, she told me “I want to stop treating my cancer to die as soon as possible just to not see you anymore” after my coming-out. Full story is here:
- part 1: https://devrant.com/rants/4923052/...
- part 2: https://devrant.com/rants/4924040/...

https://devrant.com/rants/5565999/...

This reminds me of the time the upper management that took over a government contract didn't know how to use Lotus Notes email correctly. We had an entire day of people in the upper group hitting "Reply to All" for company wide emails. Then people who got the email again, also in upper management, would angrily "Reply to All" for them to stop sending these emails to everyone again. Like I said, this went on for a day. These were the so called geniuses who got paid the most in the company. This is how they introduced themselves to the company.

So I saw a blurb about AlphaCode from DeepMind. I went to look at their website:
https://alphacode.deepmind.com/

What I see is the most insanely detailed spec for code I have ever seen in my life. I haven't even seen college programming problems this detailed before. Most specs "I" get are like one or two sentences long "if" it is even written down. A lot of the time the direction is: write some stuff and we will tell you what we hate. Just figure it out.

So DeepMind is claiming they can produce code as well as the average programmer because they ranked 54% in a coding competition. What a complete misleading claim and absolute bullshit conclusion. I am all for creating new tech around generating code, but this is just to sell snake oil to an idiot manager at a startup.

This is going to lead to some really fucked up rants here at devrant.

I created an app that plays background sounds to help people focus/study/relax. It’s free and open source. Feel free to try it.

Download from here: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/....

Source code here: https://github.com/jenius-apps/....

https://devrant.com/rants/5155862/...

Alright! I take it back. I don’t like “this”. Hooks are better. But are they the best? We will see.

Namaste.

Follow-up on https://devrant.com/rants/5001553/...

How the fuck are Jupyter notebooks so popular in research? Like some dude had an idea to take perfectly good markdown and python code, add a whole lot of transitional properties to make version control impossible, encode it as JSON on the assumption that a human could somehow look at it and make sense of countless escaped characters and base64 encoded data, create dedicated software people need to install in order to read what used to be simple plain text, and think "This. This is what 99% of data researchers will use from now on." And somehow, overwhelming majority of researchers agreed that this extremely inefficient data format is the best there is and they should develop all their tools around it.

So, I am currently on Spring Break, and what do I do when I am on Spring Break: I take a moment to experiment with different languages. This time, I decided to check out Objective C since it mixes up two languages that I love dearly (but that I do not use outside of academic endeavors) which are C and Smalltalk.

Going around the net I found this https://github.com/Flying-Toast/...

Notice: I have nothing against Swift, I stopped developing apps for IOS back when Swift was in its infancy, so I was forced to use Objective C and tbh I never had an issue with it, I had learned it before through GNUStep, the language was obviously strange when I started learning it, but I did not hate it, I tried following Swift to see if I could use it at least in some portions, but at the time of its release it was still pretty much beta for me, so I passed. I feel it is much better now, but the issues with the language at this point in time I feel are more from the side of XCode which can either be just ok, good or an absolute piece of shit depending on the release. Either way, I found the link to be funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is an interesting read.
May have applications of measuring the randomness of RNGs, as deviation from Viswanath's constant

The following paper combines recurrent neural nets for vision with methods from reinforcement learning research:

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/pape...

Apparently an agent learned to catch a ball 85% of the time, without being explicitly told to track the ball. The RL algorithm rewarded the agent *only* for successfully catching the ball. The system itself used this reward signal to set its *own* policy/goal, which was used to guide it toward the goal of tracking the ball itself--all on its own.

Behold, the very infancy of the paperclip maximizer problem.

I finally get it. Symfony: The Fast Track (https://symfony.com/doc/6.0/...) is not supposed to be a learning tool.

It's an elaborate joke! Now it all makes sense.

Kind of a teaser for the upcoming dR Hunger Games video:
▶ https://youtu.be/1x0KCfWT2w0

This week introducing a live reaction featuring @Synthron!

I've read the docs but my tired brain overrided an important detail.

https://haproxy.com/documentation/...

"By default, HAProxy Enterprise will serve these pages only if it initiated the error itself. For example, it will return the page for a 503 Service Unavailable error if it can't reach any backend servers."

I had _the_ return part for interception of the error page from the backend added, not the default override for the error page of HAPRoxy itself.

Took me 4 hours, crying, madness and screaming to realize it.

This week is really wringing the last bits of the gooey slime what should be my brain out...

-.-

Another fun part is that I mistakenly thought the delimiter for multiple strings to an ACL comparison is a comma... It's a whitespace.

acl is_evil hdr(host) -i one,two is wrong.
acl is_evil hdr(host) -i one two is right.

I used to write HAPRoxy configurations blindly, today it was more like writing two lines of codes 100000000 times and still doing it wrong TM.

I need new brain.

Anyone got an offer?

"Fast" random-number/sample based estimation of logarithms:
https://pastebin.com/niVB57Ay

The result of rAvg(p) is usually "pretty close" to log(p)/2

rAvg(p, 1000) seems to be the golden number. 100 is a little low, but I've already pasted the code. Eh.

Don't know why it works, or if average results are actually considered "close" for logarithms of e.

Hey guys, could I ask you to upvote my question on stackoverflow or take a look and help me solve this if you can, I'm stuck with this problem for one week : https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

I would really appreciate it

Steve Jobs talking about gigabit internet, cloud and SaSS in ‘97

https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

watching old Jobs videos from 90s when Steve was at Next and just after back to Apple with great ideas and fresh mind, damn he saw that all in 90s

Did this question really deserve a down vote?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/...

Stackexchange community is so annoying at times. It's just that a few handful of experts are helpful.

But again my recent questions on stackoverflow were answered by myself only after a week or so 😐

An update on my previous rant: https://devrant.com/rants/5367639/...

Today different recruiters from the company’s main office line have been calling me non-stop, hitting voicemail, wanting to talk about different roles. Please schedule calls in advance over LinkedIn. They are completely unprofessional and demanding. I don’t think I want to work with them at this point.

Looking for someone to test a new factorization script I wrote.

https://pastebin.com/Td2XTKe6

Tested against a set of products from all primes under 1000. Worked even on numbers up to 87954921289

Worked for about 66% of the products tested.

Obviously I'm cheating a little bit because I'm checking for four conditions n%a == 0, n%a == 1, n%b == 0, and n%b == 1

It appears it is possible to generate the series from just the product, and then factor each result. The last factor in each each set of factors becomes x, and we do p%x and check for zero.
if it works, we've found our answer.

Kind of wonky but basically what its doing is taking p, tacking on a 0 to the right, and then tacking p to the right of *that*.

So if you had a product like

314

The starting number we look at is

3140314

The middle digit becomes i, and the unit digit becomes j.

Don't know why it works more often then not, and don't know if it would really be any faster.

Just think it's cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For those not familiar with it.

So, just how do you stop mobbing from spreading ?

I don't know the answer, all I can see if perhaps to spot it happening, as it does with a single individual who spouts hate towards you when you disagree with them, and then that hate is taken up by others who see you as a weak target, and then others follow too..

Kinda reminds me of a war..

Maybe that is what drives some in conflicts, being influenced by others.

Just yesterday I saw someone I had known and chatted to for 30+ years, suddenly turn into an aggressive hate spieling identity with no ability to think for themselves.

I left the situation, so that their hate may be directed at someone else, and perhaps others might see that they are the hater, intent on picking on the weakest in the herd.

But of course, I can't do that all the time, or else, where will I find intelligent conversation between folk who can be civil about disagreements, and allow exploring the problem space, and solution space together.

Rather than just trading insults like simple mammals who throw poop at each other.

So, any advice ?

https://github.com/PwnFunction/...
Who led this flattening user input object into the Next.js codebase, also thinking that `runContext` is going to make better companion than `eval`?

Yet another reason to switch over Sapper and other Svelte minimalistic solutions, in my opinion.

Every problem I ever had with a game development engine, only made me hope for something better.

After all, we’re independent developers, not activision! What the hell is an “indie” anyway? I’d even grown a sort of disgust at the term, as if saying it, without having published anything, was being fake. The word felt vapid. Like calling yourself an e-celebrity, or apple putting an i in front of everything.

(Don’t you know its year 20xx, we attach coin to brands now! Dogecoin, ecoin, walmartcoin, hospitalCoin for when you really really just want an appendectomy).

This is my newsletter, Y Intercept, and the story of my many embarrassing failures, and what I have learned from them.

Indie Game Development Tools
https://yintercept.substack.com/p/...

Stay tuned for more, like "how I once redesigned the same interface over two thousand times."
and gems like
"I wish it was more like Minecraft, But With Guns - and the awful ads that FLOODED the internet from that one little, terrible, god awful suggestion."

Microsoft C/C++ code keeps on giving:
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-g...

Too sad, that Microsoft is too poor to afford good devs. As a lot of devs here are sure, that good devs surely can code safe and secure in C/C++, Microsoft probably just lacks the resources to get such devs to work for them.

To give my own old rant here a bit more background:

https://devrant.com/rants/5319171/...

Cloud solutions offline for some customers, a bit longer than a week...

https://theregister.com/2022/04/...

Bamboo release fucked up...

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/...

They've withdrawn the new release 8.2.0 and instead went for 8.2.1 ...

Well just because you had to give everyone admin rights in an minor release as they fucked up permissions, who cares.

Holy shit!

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/...

I hope they are able to incorporate this.

So I found put what is maladaptive daydream is. I always had it. Recently when I experienced it again, I tried to understand, and I got to a lot of things about it. Researches on handling it are very new and doesn't provide much support but I will deal with it. This podcast talks about it, I can relate to everything but the suicide part:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/...

In short, when you daydream so much that you have very detailed daydreams and it interrupts your work, your relationships etc. that's when daydreaming becomes maladaptive. As so many people have it but it is not talked about it much, I wanted to put this post on.

I will try to control it with mindfulness and taking care of my body. I hope it will work.

My laptop is having some power issues and it often turns off randomly.

Last time, it happened while running some git stuff and since git didn't finish properly, the whole git directory fucked up: I could not do anything with git anymore.

Later I find this dude: https://stackoverflow.com/a/...

If you're in here, Nathan VanHoudnos, just know that you save more lives than any politician

Remember this post of mine: https://devrant.com/rants/4537512/...

Now this happens. LMFAO

https://linkedin.com/posts/...

If you have time, go through the entire series posted by Mona.

!rant

I've built a small survey tool on the side. Maybe you want to check it out: https://fastsurvey.de/

It is free when cloud-hosted (by us) :)

Feedback is welcome!

I made this Hi Tech pardoy using that scene from the matrix. Was astonished how little I had to change for it to fit :)

https://youtu.be/fNlrNfNhPDQ

P.s
I'm actually trying to transition to YouTube, so many silly video tries up ahead 🫣

I have just been made aware that not everyone in this community knows the legendary tri-state boolean.

It is impermissible for anyone in this community to not know of the legendary tri-state boolean.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/..._

For a moment I thought I was living in a crazy world..

Then I realised I was..

Reference:

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/...

So.. let me get this right, a huge digital library of text, can only let one person at a time, look at a copy they have..

I can't for the moment, think of a more absurd thing !

I mean..

"You are number 1,392,293,943 in queue to read the book you have requested, estimated time for delivery is 134 years, 3 months, and 4 days, do you wish to continue waiting ?"

It's going back to the old days, when I'd order a book at the library, and wait 2 years to get to read it..

Your kidding me right !

No, I think this is real, and I guess one of the conditions for it being available online..

I did ponder this kind of crazy idea myself a few years ago, but everyone else said it would never work..

But I had in mind to have more than just one copy available for folk to view..

I mean, if you own 10 physical books, you can lend them out to 10 different people at once.

So, if you have 10 physical books, and one digital scan, then you should be able to lend out 10 digital scans at once right ?

That was the idea..

That might seem a bit random, but I started off this year with a nightmare (a literal dream) where I've fallen victim to remote code execution, because I cloned someone's git repo.

Is such a thing even possible? The closest thing I've found was this blog
https://blog.blazeinfosec.com/attac...
(and the info on it was already worrying enough), but that shouldn't have affected my dream computer.

Some details I more or less remember:
* The execution happened right after git clone
* The uri to the repo was a custom domain (no github, gitlab or anything)
* no submodules
* GNU/Linux

Follow-up to my exp with Travis CI: https://devrant.com/rants/5006826

As my allotted credits are set to expire on December 23, I sent a request for 25k monthly OSS credits to Travis support on December 18.
Mind you this is only half of the credits of their lowest subscription price and I didn't ask for extra CPU, so not much to ask.

While for the previous credit request, I got an answer within 24h, this request has gone unanswered for over 2 working days and I noticed it got labeled with "Priority: low" although I will be unable to continue my OSS work in 2 days.

Let's see whether they plan to really uphold their promise that "they will always support open-source"

Follow up rant: https://devrant.com/rants/4943574/...
(Funny link btw.)
I tell him "Fine, upload it to the GitLab repo I created a week ago and you never used it." on Friday.
Today, the day *before the presentation*: "Here, have the GitHub repo, ask for permission and you're all set up.".
He's getting the boot.

Following on from my thread where I got wrecked for being brain damaged, and posting about dividing by zero, it is time for round two!
Lightening round: Electric boogaloo!
Episode 3: "Glutton for punishment"

You can read that thread here if you like or skip over.
https://devrant.com/rants/4931841/...

Can we divide by zero? Is there some representation where thats the case? And what are the implications if we can?

In this round Devranters, you will be challenged to determine if OP is 1. insane, 2. a genius, 3. high on mushrooms. One contestant will be eliminated. The winning team will get a bag of rice and sunscreen, while the other team will have to vote to send someone home from the island.

Get ready.

Heres the full rant because DR wouldn't post it for some reason:

https://pastebin.com/qBg80ujN

I'm reading "A class-based reflective minimal kernel"
https://books.pharo.org/booklet-Ref...

... do you ever get the feeling like you understand something perfectly and don't really understand it, at the same time? what does it mean?

i can even rougly imagine how this would be implemented on assembly level, but it still feels like... i don't know. it seems too straightforward and simple, i guess, so i suspect i'm not understanding it properly, since it can't be that simple...?

https://devrant.com/rants/5124329/...

Half a year later, absolutely NOTHING has changed. Except I have more work on my plate in addition to that big project and those integrations and shit… I’m fucked. So badly need some time off, but ain’t got time for that.

I find it insightful when people actually convert their rant into a knowledge bomb 💣💥😅 https://hackersandslackers.com/flas...

Finally getting to know clear advantages of "application factory" over how Flask apps are usually sugar-coated in scarce tutorials.

This article also points out one of the core problems with Flask documentation and, consequently, a public view on Flask's feature parity with Django.

Ever wondered why it's looked upon as not very strong rival to Django? That's documentation... again, we come to that 😔⌨️🗑 It stretches a lot of commentary and side notes, but forgets to mention best practices from community.

Hi guys 👋

I've just finished setting up my personal portfolio page. Could you please check it out and share with me your feedback, thanks 🙏❤️

URL: https://azizfcb.github.io/azizfcb/

Looking forward to hear your opinions 😊

Your yearly reminder of the Wordpress market share:
https://tooltester.com/en/blog/...

Looks like it is at 43%

P.S. You won The Game.

Low-code?

https://blog.tooljet.com/multiplaye...

how is this low-code exactly?

So I was browsing the https://travis-ci.com website and was bothered by the weird gradiants, familiar layout and awkwardly timed animations (normally I only use https://app.travis-ci.com).

I navigated to all their top-level pages and paid attention to the incoherent/ sluggish design (see screenshot). So I got this feeling that it was a cheap-ass Wordpress template purchased from Themeforest and implemented by a webmaster with little to no dev-skills.

Sure enough, I checked the Wappalyzer extension and it is using Wordpress. Compare that to the old https://travis-ci.org which was custom-built on Ember and looks professional.

I'm aware of the negative PR they have generated over the past year but gave them the benefit of doubt and they have been good in their support and credit allotments, but man... that WP site looks so amateurish and marketed to the wrong target group. I don't know maybe I'll be forced to reconsider

1. Open private browsing window
2. Navigate to https://github.com

That's a really well-designed and inspiring product landing page.