*typing a python script on my laptop, 5 minutes before the next lecture (I was in the school)*
*a girl from another class passes by*
She: Hey, why do you prefer vim over nano?
Me: O_o

Guys, I think I am in love 🤗

Teachers!

Why can't they just leave me alone!?

I was using my laptop. (Linux) and I have it set up so that I do basically everything from command line.

My teacher then walks by (he was checking on people) then he sees me.

I was using a split terminal setup with a client web browser and nano open. (I was taking notes)

He sees this and like all teachers, he immediately decides that I am hacking.

So.. I saw him and was like "fuck.. this will be interesting"...

To keep this short,

I got in trouble then he spent for ever telling me about how much trouble I could get in for using "that thing" (a terminal)..

I have lost hope in all teachers..

This isn't the first time too..

Software requirements

Ctrl+X and Y

I have made this RGB LED tie. One of my friends and me had the idea at 2 am and now it has come to reality :D

It runs on an Arduino nano, 8 rgb leds and is powered by a 9V battery.

I have prom tomorrow ('abschlussball' in german) I probably won't wear it during the official part but definitely at the party after prom.

The current animation is a bit too fast (I was listening to hardstyle while coding it) for the music they will play tomorrow at the party so I still have to make a slower one.

Tell me what you think about it :P

Starting to feel that devRant is a really nice place to hang out.

Even though we have differences in languages (C#, PHP, JavaScript, JAVA), culture (semi brackets, tabs and spaces) and tools (Sublime, vim, nano, Atom) but we strive to be a better coder by encouraging one another or ranting to blow some steam.

Like seriously guys, you guys are awesome! It feels that I am becoming more human by visiting devRant (or maybe I'm turning into AI).

Password complexity checker for big car rental company is set to insane mode
☑️ 30 char
☑️ symbols
☑️ numbers
☑️ upper & lower
❎ still 'too weak'

I like how nano not only shows you unnecessary whitespaces, it throws them in your face and and screams "YOU SEE THAT? WHAT IS THIS SHIT? DELETE THIS DISGRACE TO CLEAN INDENTED CODE!"

It's Friday!

Real Programmers

Working From Home. Living the Dream.

And i'm just sitting here like sudo nano

Software development process

What the fuck, I just discovered that my father knows vi.

He's not a programmer.

Why, God, why I'm only able to use nano... What did I do wrong...

logger.info(String.Format(" User {0} changed their password from {1} to {2}", username, oldPassword, newPassword))

Production system. Plaintext log.

I am so fucking fed up with being brought into a meeting because you "understand the technology" and then no fucker actually listens when you say that their idea won't work because the tech isn't magic.

Month #1 at CS University. We write C on the terminal, with nano. No vi no ide no highlighting. Neither makefile is allowed. Professors don't know what git is.

I am pissed off.

To people who don't know how to use Linux: Just because I use nano instead of gedit or any other GUI text editor does not mean I'm showing off. Why can't you understand that ssh-ing into a server and opening a file in the terminal itself to edit three lines of configuration is much easier than opening FileZilla, connecting, downloading the file, making the changes and uploading it again. It's fine if you want to do it that way. But please don't judge me for doing it my way.

To people who are good with Linux: Can you please stop suggesting me to use vim instead, EVERY FUCKING TIME? I know it's more powerful, but I haven't been using Linux enough to have surpassed it's learning curve. Plus I google up how to use it and do use it when I have the need. Please let me be?

To people who tell me to use Windows for everything: Go suck a fat dick, you uncultured morons.

Share your most useful terminal aliases and functions.

alias gs='git status'
alias gcm='git commit -m'
alias push='git push'
alias pull='git pull'
alias hosts='sudo nano /etc/hosts'
alias glog='git log --graph --oneline --decorate -n 10 --color'
alias mykey='cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -sel clip'

function mkcd () {
mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -P -- "$1"
}

As well as one for each major project (lets say 1+ weeks of dev time) to immediately cd to it from anywhere. How about you guys?

Always looking to improve my terminal commands, so am curious what everyone else uses for shortcuts.

"Please send us an e-mail with your name, address, e-mail address, ..."

Oh come on.

I would be in the nano row.

Some clients are a real patience test.

Client:
"I want to be able to edit every detail on every page of the whole website"

After site is coded, and admin page is available for page edits, they send requests like:
"please update the text on page x"

Intelligence and ability cannot be measured by education.

I have a client who asked a Master in Computer Science to develop a small system, for querying product title and their code. The guy used python, vanilla js, and... Txt file for the "database". Then my client asked me to integrated this in... WordPress.

This was in 2016. And idiot as I'm, I agreed and adapted his code to use php and a database.

April this year, my client said they are still using the python system to add new products all this time, in parallel. And wanted to update the WordPress with the data.

- No problem! - I said. Just send me the SQL file.

So the Master in CS sent me a SQL coded in ANSI. I asked for the SQL again, but with a more appropriate encoding. He took 1 month to reply back, and said it would be better if I get rid of the database and just use the txt file for querying.

This is outrageous.

I really hate people who are educated but completely useless.

Barbecue tools

Switched to Fedora after using Ubuntu for a long time.
while working on a project, I had to use the git editor. I expected nano like in Ubuntu, but Vim showed up.
I had no prior experience using Vim 😭

The End

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.
Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

— Martin Fowler,
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Let the hate flow through you!

Ain't I right?

Today, one of my coworkers had to translate a bunch of pages to French ...
He did his job, committed, pushed, and asked someone to validate his branch in order to merge.
Tests didn't take long, the login screen was broken, because there was an there was an <input type="mot de passe"> ...

I prefer nano over vim

Client: Hi there, we worked together I few months ago and loved what you created for us! We have another job and would like to see if you are available?

Me (1h later): Sure! Let me know more details about this new project.

Client (15min later): Oh, sorry, since you took so long to respond, we've decided to choose another freelancer. Thank you anyways!!

Me: ...

Bought a second hand e-reader and now importing nearly 1k of PDF files into Calibre's library.

Its taking huge amounts of ram and my laptop started freezing.

~$ nano clean.sh

while :
do
sudo sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
done

~$ chmod +x clean.sh
~$ ./clean.sh

👌

A rant about my OS teacher. The PCs in the lab does not work well and sometimes are unable to start x server on pc startup.

Teacher: To start writing c programs on redhat, open terminal and type gedit and press enter. Then start writing them on the application that opens up.

Students: ok!

*2-3 weeks later*
A female student turned on a computer and x server failed to load. So teacher suggested her to use nano.

Teacher: Type nano and start writing the c program.

The girl started doing so but she was unable to save the file and used various key combinations and kept losing her work. So I started helping her. Teacher scolded me for helping her out and said that she can do it by herself. But then teacher saw her unable to do so.

Teacher (to her): Do like this, *presses dozens of key combinations and kept discarding the contents of the file*.
Teacher: Damn use gedit... Why are you using nano.
Me: The x-server is not running and keeps crashing...
Teacher: ....?
Teacher: The display server is not working.
Teacher: huh?
Me: PC is not working correctly. Let me tell you how it's done. *pressed ctrl+x and saved the file and compiled the program with gcc*.
Teacher: Well whatever... So, students use another pc if gedit is not working.

Why would you even?

Estimated a project would take 30h. Ended up working 110h.

Preach it sister.

When you just saw a devrant, and remember you have a perfect picture to add to it that you've been holding onto for years, for just this very moment to post it, so you quickly look for the picture, and then you can't find the rant again !

The rant I saw was about excessive warning signs..

Reminded me of my then local library that was relocated and the architect didn't notice the floor level between two rooms was different so when they knocked two into one, this was the result..

I did suggest they simply put a ramp in, instead of spending a small fortune on signs!

But no, they went with the signs and I heard, had regular accidents involving people falling off the step still..

You know 💩 got serious, when you type 50+ line of codes in nano editor.

A few months ago, I decided to let go some old clients with bad behavior and/or bad projects, since I noticed this was affecting my mental health (lowering my self esteem, make me feel depressed, anxious, etc).

I was exhausted of doing miracles in projects without git, build files, staging enviroments (yes... you can imagine), and receive all sort of curses when sudenly something stopped to work.

I set some requirements to work with any new project/client: 1) project needs to be under version control, 2) it must have staging enviroment, 3) I must work with build files.

As I still have contracts running, I'm communicating this to clients as soon as I finish my obligations.

Today, one of these clients told me they are leaving to work with another developer.

Reason: They said my new requirements are unreasonable and they prefer doing the old way.

Biggest rivalries right now ..

Windows vs Linux,
Chrome vs Firefox,
VMs vs Containers,
Vim vs Nano,
SQL vs NoSQL,
React.js vs Vue.js,
Tensorflow vs Pytorch 😎😎

I forgot to claim my free stress ball, but then the ++ required were increased so here's a rant about exiting vim:wq
ESC
recording @q
:wq
^C ^C
:q
:Wq
:wq

Wait, shit, I made a typo!
$ nano file.py

People argue all the time what text editor is the best: VSCode, Sublime, NP++, Emacs, Nano, Vim, etc.

I just remembered when I used to do my HTML, CSS and JS in regular Windows Notepad, as a requirement in my Web Developement classes...

I think some good came from that, I picked up a habit of writing my code very neatly, easily readable.

Vim everywhere :-)

Was it it with clients and wanting to restrict the height of webpages?

Client: Can you make it all fit on the screen?

Me: What this particular screen?

Client: Well all screens, some people might not realise there is more content.

Me: What if the screen is tiny?

Client: make it smaller

Me: What if you add more content to it?

Client: Hmm, your the developer.

Me: Teeny tiny text coming right up.

Using Nano even though i know how to work Vim.

Git it?

Finally got my new phone (from China) today.
*Opens package all excitedly*
*Backups everything to pc of old phone and gets ready to swap the simcard*
*Notices that the new phone only supports a nano sim*
*Realizes that I only have an old school simcard that you can't cut down to nano size*
*Realizes that I'll have to wait until after the weeked to receive the new simcard*

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

I want to play with it now :(

Nano or vim?
Me?.. Nano

There are two ways to give advice, example:

Car is parked badly:

"Hey mate, your car is parked badly."

"Hey asshole, did your mother teach you to drive or what, such shit parking, you should go and kill yourself."

Notice one is fact based and rather devoid of personal insults and emotional triggers..

Unlike the last one..

Why are so many folk, like the last example..

Kali Linux offering Certificate programs. Main problem.

It feels like 1985..

Not,1986, as in that year, we got Blitters for smooth screen scrolling ! (Though, if you knew what you was doing, you could make smooth screen scrolling before Graphic Hardware chips started doing some of the work for us..)

I drag a window across several monitor screens, why is it not smooth, why do I have to fight it like I'm wrestling an alligator !

Maybe it's my weak GTX 750Ti 4Gb graphics card, or the 3.4Ghz quad core CPU..

Instead it feels like FAST MODE on a ZX81..

Yes, thank you bash, I know Nano is the easiest and I am a pussy developer for not using Vim. Now shut up about it.

You have Google Chrome installed..

Yet, constantly you open other browsers, and it asks you "Want to install Google Chrome?".

No because I've already got it installed you bloody stupid piece of software, can't you tell !

Any way of stopping that ?

!rant
What is your editor/coding environment fashion setup?

Here is mine and I am very proud of it:

Termite terminal + dvtm (like tmux) + Nano with semi-custom syntax files.

Left language is C, right top C2 (c2lang.org), right bottom my build-system

Debugging code on the production server with nano #iTooLoveToLiveDangerously

I have a confession to make:

It took forever to get SSH access to our office network computers from outside. Me and other coworkers were often told to "just use teamviewer", but we finally managed to get our way.

But bloody incompetents! There is a machine with SSH listening on port 22, user & root login enabled via password on the personal office computer.

"I CBA to setup a private key. It's useless anyways, who's ever gonna hack this computer? Don't be paranoid, a password is enough!"

A little more than 30 minutes later, I added the following to his .bashrc:

alias cat="eject -T && \cat"
alias cp="eject -T && \cp"
alias find="eject -T && \find"
alias grep="eject -T && \grep"
alias ls="eject -T && \ls"
alias mv="eject -T && \mv"
alias nano="eject -T && \nano"
alias rm="eject -T && \rm"
alias rsync="eject -T && \rsync"
alias ssh="eject -T && \ssh"
alias su="eject -T && \su"
alias sudo="eject -T && \sudo"
alias vboxmanage="eject -T && \vboxmanage"
alias vim="eject -T && \vim"

He's still trying to figure out what is happening.

Running nano inside a terminal emulator buffer inside vim 8)

I put a nano receiver for a wireless mouse in my friend's pc when he got up to do something, then spent the next hour wiggling it periodically. Not enough to be obvious, but enough to disrupt the regular mouse movements and make it seem like the mouse was sticking. I heard him say to his friend that the computer was possessed.

I just had my cell phone cloned yesterday. End of the day, my phone lost signal suddenly. I thought it was a problem with my chip, so I decided to check that on a store and buy a new one next day.

Today, after I recover my chip and number, I started to see the mess. Someone used my number to send message to all my contacts on whatsapp, asking for money. Also, I had some contact info changed on the bank broker, which is really serious. I do not know what else is compromised, and I'm truly worried about it.

Someone has some good tips for improving security while using cellphones?

Ladies and gentlemen.

Back in 2009 when I started coding, some dickhead told me to not learn Vim because professional developers normally use IDEs for shit instead of text editors.

Being the kind of person that I am, I shrugged him off as the cocksucker that he was and decided to learn Vim anyway.

Fast forward to 2015 up to 2018

I
Use
That
Bitch
Religiously

At work. For fucking everything since it is what you have when you ssh into a server and lemme tell ya this:

I you guys thought being a Vim master ain't dropping no one's panties....boy u wrong af.

And nano is fine too, but why settle for less when you can be a complete vim black wizard?

alias vi='nano'
alias vim='nano'

My first Drone
Arduino nano + L293D + hc-06
Objective: learn how to use Bluetooth with Arduino.
V 0.1 (no direction, commands by serial terminal).

Today a potential client contacted me after seeing my works and said they were really interested in having me work on their project. Then, they demanded that I scheduled a call with them, using their calendar app. I did, just to them cancel it a few hours later. Without any explanation.

Deal with people is so discouraging sometimes.

So I just received an email from a developer, saying my client hired him to take care of their website from now on. This client counted on me since 2012, so I felt a little... Betrayed. Even though this client was not big and a little difficult.

It's weird. I am trying to transition to something better in my professional life, but I'm not feeling confident of what I'm doing. Sometimes I feel my professional life is ruining. Uncertainty sucks.

Additionally, my desktop decided to stop working today and won't turn on. Oh well.

3 hours making this beautiful circuit to test stepper motors.
Arduino nano + L293D + pot
Fucking bitch has a short circuit somewhere and can't find it out...
Made the same project in a breadboard in 15 minutes and it's working.
Fuck hardware bugs.
Cutted in the middle of all connections, took out excess solder... Nothing.
Fuck it, moving to the next ideia

Was office SharePoint bitch at one point. This guy wanted me to build a workflow for him that would enforce insane checks on his (peer) colleagues. Asked if his manager approved and obviously they hadn't. So this guy started telling me he would build his own application from scratch and host it on his home server if I didn't help him. Pointing out the business might object to their confidential data being put on his home server didn't put him off. Getting laid off a few months later for gross incompetence did however.

I just decided to take some time off from work, and use my savings to survive next months. I have been dealing with work related problems for a few years now, and since last year I was sure I needed time to recover my health and improve my skills, to get better job opportunities.

I was trying to balance my life and my time, working a bit less, trying to rest, study, and so on. I was hopeful I could achieve my goals just fine with some adjustments. But now... I just don't care.

Last Thursday my mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Two weeks ago, my only brother lost his job.
The same happened with my bf, few months ago, and he needed to move to another state to get a new job.

There is so much going on... Sometimes I just feel like panicking.

It's sad to fear the future, and deal with so much uncertainty.

It's hard to deal with work and money issues. It's even harder to deal with serious health issues.

I hope things will get better somehow, but I needed to vent this. Sometimes life can be a bitch.

When project is finished, everything is according specs, and on final review the client says: "everything looks nice! But I would like to change just a few small details. I would like a different design and functionality".

Seriously?!

Happily agree to help colleague with 'a quick problem' on their pet project. Realise a few seconds in that they can't actually see a difference between JS and JSON.

Looking for job opportunities, one grabbed my attention and I decided to apply. First, I had to fill a form with 40 questions, explaining and justifying development processes, best practices and overall knowledge. Ok, no problem. Form submitted, and I see a step 2. Now I have to build a single page site from scratch, and send another form with code, link, and more justifications regarding development. After that, my application will be sent.

Then I found this observation, saying the position was for a freelancer, that will receive work occasionally. Not a full time position as I thought.

Sometimes cleaning bathrooms sounds a better option.

Weak AI example:

Me = "Alexa turn the light on"

Alexa = "Which light do you want me to turn on?"

Me = "The one in this room !"

Alexa "I do not understand.."

Strong AI that doesn't really exist yet..

Me = "Alexa turn the light on"

FX [ Light in room turns on.. ]

I tried vim for a few weeks. I almost used to it. But I didn't see how I could be more productive with it than with Visual Studio Code, at all, so I switched back. Maybe because I'm super fast with my mouse because of my 2500 hours of Dota. But knowing how to use vim is super useful when doing remote stuff via SSH. Nano too basic.

This day is fucked.
At my CS Class my teacher gave us a pdf to make notes about basic Windows stuff like moving files to a directory, how to use a mouse and basic shitty windows stuff, that I knew when I was 5. I hate her. As for homework, she gave us to make a audio recording, make squares and elipses in paint. And make a business card in wordpad. But here is the catch. I don't have Windows laptop. I have Macbook Pro and I'm not planning to install that shitty os there. So what I did was use nano for the business card, illustrator for paint stuff, then photoshop for convertion to bmp (required format) and for the recording I will use audacity. Please tell me if you had worse cs class than me.

why does Tux the Linux penguin always looks so concerned? it's like, cmon little man, you're awesome and it's ok that that user is using nano instead of vim, he/she will learn. ^^

I worked two months for free, 15h per day, including weekends, due a contract trap. On top of that, client was emotionally blackmailing me and I was feeling threatened and helpless.

I even lost weight, skipping meals to save time and money. One day, my body collapsed. I ended up in bed for 10 days, feeling stiffness, pain, weakness, and shakiness. I even had to ask for help to brush my teeth.

I abandoned the project, and didn't receive any payment. The client went crazy and made me feel the worst person in the world for being sick and unable to work. But didn't put his menaces in execution.

I still remember the joy I felt when I was able to walk again.

That was the worst burnout I had, and also one of the biggest lessons about limits and evil people.

anyone else use nano over vim?

Bhramari Pranayama.

Every time I stop playing a game, W10 helpfully says:

---
Your notifications will remain quiet here in Action Centre whilst you're gaming.

Only see notifications from your important people and apps.
---

It's not important to tell me every bloody time !

There is a button labelled:

---
Turn Off Now.
---

But what does it turn off..

The last time I saw someone press a button like that, it took me 3 days to find out how to turn something really quite important back on again !

Door knobs !

Don't you hate how they attack your sleeves, your pockets, and your belt loops!

No more, just replace them with one of these, and you too can now brush up against doors with no more fears or concerns about side tummy jabs either.

2019 goals:

- finish my masters
- improve my code quality
- build at least 3 personal projects
- learn 2 new technologies
- find better clients or a good job

Why in the world IT work is so stressful?
I never been like that since I start developing code professionally, 8 years ago.
Since then, I had many health problems due stress, and some were really scaring (heart problem).

I'm trying to adapt to a healthier way of work, but I'm starting to doubt if that is possible.

Work in technology seems cruel and soulless sometimes. The constant pressure to learn new things all the time, to specialize in a lot of skills, simultaneously. The urgency nature of ALL tasks - even a simple form field slightly out of place seems to be an issue of life and death for clients.

Easy and quick communication made some people lost boundaries and respect. Many times I received calls and messages after midnight, about things like elements alignment.

And the worst is when clients blame you about their business problems. If they are not selling well this week, it's fault of the website you did ( which they are using for months now).

This actually happened to me today, first thing in the morning. After I slept just 3h, because I worked until late yesterday (oh yeah many more of these life/death updates).

What happens in this industry? Will this ever be different some day?

"Adding more people to a late software project will make it later." - Fred Brooks

I know I'm gonna catch heat here but if you insist on using vim or emacs on any OS that is in GUI mode just know I think you are mental... I get it you have shortcuts but so do sublime, atom or vs code. Plus intellisense.

Don't get me wrong I started with vim and have a special place in my heart but I know people only use it to beat their chests.

And just so everyone knows a little about me:

Spaces>tabs
Vim>emacs>nano
Linux>windows>macOS
I hate JavaScript
And mtn dew is a better drink than coke or Pepsi.

Lets try Snapchat..

Download..

Install..

Create new account..

"There was a problem connecting to the server. Please try again."

I'll just check on the internet for solutions, oh look, lots of people having the same issue..

I'll just try a few dozen solutions..

None work..

Well, its probably no good anyway, even if I could get it to work !

Be just like KiK..

FUCK ARDUINO IDE!!!
Had a project with it (~ 1k lines).
Made some small changes to it and presented it.
The fucking thing just hung at a specific animation and I couldn't tell why!!

Turned out the compiler on my laptop fucked up pretty hard with one specific condition:
for(int i = 0; i < repeat; i++) { ... }

Turned out the fuckwit of compiler just kept compiling the "i < repeat"-statement to be always 1/true and thus turning this for-loop into an endless-loop.
Tried it before to debug and got the same result!!!
Compiling the same code on another pc worked fine.
The compiler just can't compile properly. Be aware of it when you encounter a problem on Arduino but can't figure out the cause.

Mr robot use nano. Does this means that the debate of via vs emacs is over?

In fact I'm a sinful dev, so that I can't easily decide which one is worst. From indenting with tabs, or using nano instead of vim/emacs, to hardcoding database credentials on server, to many hacks and workarounds I use as actual "fixes" when the deadline is upon me and I've tried all I could. But it always led only to my own regret. For instance, my latest sin was that I prefered Debian over Arch and used proprietary graphic drivers to speed up my new setup. But ended up with a curse from St. Ignucius. (check my last rant)

But my worst sin probably goes to when I was "printf-debugging" some issue for a GSM controller on a raspberry pi. I forgot to remove one little print line and deployed the new "fixed" version. I didn't follow that project after that for like a month or so, when the client posted back the device and said that "it just doesn't work anymore". It seemed that raspbian didn't boot beacause the sd card was curroptted. I dd'ed through the card and I noticed that there are billions of lines of "DEBUG:: reading stream from 192.some.shitty.ip", took almost all over the 32G sdcard. Just as I suddenly remembered the cursed line I just added a month ago, I declared the sd card dead with no hesitation, dunce-commented the line (so the history would remember), implemented a time out for the thread containing it, setup a journald unit for my service and removed the redirection of process output to a log file, found a new sd card and installed everything again, and finally posted back the new "fix" to the client.

Moral: Never comfort yourself for the sins you have commited in the past kids, they certainly will come back to you. And also not to do any io especially write to a file on an SD card with ext fs, in a potentially infinite loop with no timeout.

P.S: I'd posted my last rant just before the new week rant last nigh. I really liked the St. Ignucius meme so decided to create a new one. He's very adorable :)

Linux is shit, OSX and iOS are trash, windows is the only OS that actually works, open source is always inferior to closed source, if you use VPN or encryption youre a criminal, java is slow, vim worse than nano, ..

Now that I've got your attention and you probably raged and downvoted.

Downvotes don't actually work on devrant. (not a bug)

This has been going on for months already - why have that function to begin with, if its just not fucking working? The usual answer to people throwing a fit is "just downvote it", WHY? it doesnt fucking work.

For a while specific options while downvoting DID actually work, but now any of the downvote options are just straight trashed and ignored, they are saved, dont get me wrong (or else it would be too obvious), but they dont affect any of the scores at all.

I understand mass bot downvoting should be prevented, but why take away anyones voice by completely ignoring downvotes. I really dont get it, its not "punishing" the creator of said post or comment, its simply reflecting what the users actually think of said comment or post, it boils my blood how thats even a thing, I am honestly disappointed.

Why should also downvoting something hide it from the feed (especially on the "recent" filter), let me fucking decide what I want on my feed via option then atleast. What if I don't agree with a rant, downvote it, but then want to see what others thought of it? how am I supposed to find it again?

Windows OS..

Shutdown PC..

Start PC..

Minutes of your life lost..

Hey, lets use that hibernate option !

Hibernate PC..

Start PC..

So much faster !

Lets do that again..

And again...

And again..

And, oh dear it hangs..

Damn !

Not sure why, maybe because I left a video running, or I've too many icons on my desktop ?

After months, years, still don't know why it does that !

So far best answer is, after about a dozen hibernates, do a restart !

Answers on a postcard..

Still, I suppose we have to be thankful it even works in W10, as going way way back since it was ever created, I couldn't even get it to work properly, let alone repeatedly..

Maybe Windows 11 it will work perfectly..

The problem I have with atom, vscode, sublime, and notepad++ is that none are available on the command line over SSH, inside tmux. And that's where I do the vast majority of my text editing.

The first text editor I used on the command line was pico, the technological successor of which is nano. I used it because when I was in college in the late '90s, we used pine for our email, and pico was the default editor for pine.

When I got my first job out of college in 2000, I found out about vi, and very quickly fell in love with it, and its technological successor: vim.

The only reason I've never gotten into emacs is because I've never wanted for more than vi/vim. And also because as a system administrator, I'm logging into dozens, of not hundreds of servers a day. While vi or vim is guaranteed to be on all of them, emacs is not.

So, for me, the use of a desktop text editor like the ones I mentioned at the beginning of this post, just doesn't make sense to me. I almost never edit files that live on the computer where I'm sitting, and I'm not interested in doing a commit/push every single time I want to rerun a script.

FX [ Sits in bed, watches 32" TV.. ]

FX [ Peers at screen, can't read programme details as screen is too small... ]

FX [ Buys a bigger screen.. (43") ]

FX [ Peers at screen, can't read programme details as screen is still too small... ]

FX [ Buys a bigger screen.. (50") ]

FX [ Peers at screen, can't read programme details as relative font size now means its smaller than previous screen! ]

What idiot designs the software for a 50" screen so it's so small you can't read it unless you are 1ft away !

FX [ Dreams of having a 65" screen... ]

FX [ Realises will need a bigger house as the walls get in the way.. ]

The joy of running your own experiments.

So, after several decades I can report the following about Asthma..

Or at least, the form I've got, as many decades ago I read a book about how there are different forms, and some apparently respond to exercise.

So, I regularly exercised, it went away.

Tried not regular exercising, its come back..

So, I'll try regular exercise again, and see if it goes away !

This has been a public service announcement.

Note: I've no idea how you tell the different types apart, perhaps someone else knows the answer to that one !

Client wanted a site for the 100th anniversary of an important local musician. They wanted to show calendar of events, biography, store, and more. We started the work 8 months before the commemorative date, and after 4 months, the site was 99% complete and waiting final review and approvement. 2 weeks of silence has passed, when I got an email saying their deleted the site from server and all backups, and now they wanted all the work back.

With luck, I could restore a partial backup, and the client didn't want to pay for redo the rest of the work.

10 months later (yes, after all the events has started and the site being off) they contact me again, asking to continue the work.

I was happy to say no.

Just got selected for Udacity google scholarship!!!

It's two stage process
Got selected for first one
After 3 months if I did good enough I can be one of very few to get a nano degree program. There are 10000 in first program and only handful of 350 will be selected for nano degree.
Let's fucking get that one 💪
Looking forward to learn everything I can.
It's gonna be awesome year, finally some shit is happening 😬😄
How's your all week going ?

New project, sent a 7 page contract to the client. First day of work and client begins to ask things outside scope and terms.

I explained what is written in contract and he interrupted me saying "I READ THE CONTRACT".

One minute later, he starts asking the same things again.

Whose stole the ++ ?

Browser login, I'm sure it was there yesterday, and now its vanished !

-- is there..

Question = What is it like living in Oceania ?

Answer = I'm not allowed to tell you . . .

I got a rejection email today. No feedback. And that's it.

Worst part of rejection is not knowing the reasons.

Whinny monitors..

Well, any equipment really, for those with super levels of hearing.

Then you spend hours trying to find the perfect spot to wedge something to stop it humming at you.

Of course, no one else can hear it !

I was reminded of people's posts about preferred text editors in another post, so I thought I'd do the same, but also add some super old technology that I used along the way.

The first text editor I consistently used was pico. I used it to write my first webpage at school.edu/~username. It was a natural choice, because the it was the default text editor in pine, which is what we would all use for our email after opening a serial connection to the college's Digital Unix server. Or if we were the lucky ones who had a computer in a wired dorm, telnet. My dorm was not wired until my sophomore year.

I got my first job in tech in 2001, working as a night shift tier-one support technician. By this time, most people were using web based email, or POP3, but I wanted to keep using pine (or elm, or mutt) because I was totally in love with the command line by this time, and had been playing with Linux for two or three years by now. I arranged a handshake deal with a guy in my home town who had a couple well-connected NetBSD servers, to let me have an account on one for email and web hosting (a relatively new idea at the time).

I recall telnetting into my shared hosting account from the HP-UX workstations we had in the control room. I would look at webpages on HTML conventions and standards, and I kept seeing references to this thing called vi. I looked into it more deeply, and found that it was a text editor, and was the reason I always had to CTRL-Z out of elm. I was already finding pico to be lacking, so I found a modern implementation of vi called vim that was already installed on the aforementioned NetBSD server, and read through vimtutor on it. I was hooked instantly. The modality massively appealed to me, and I found editing files to be an absolute delight, compared to pico, and its nascent open source offspring/successor, nano.

My position on that hasn't changed in the years that have passed since then.

What's your text editor origin story?

devRant has nearly caught up to my 'reddit addiction.

VIM! ViM! vim! Vi Improved! Emacs (Wait ignore that one). What’s this mysterious VIM? Some believe mastering this beast will provide them with untold mastery over the forces of command line editing. Others would just like to know, how you exit the bloody thing. But in essence VIM is essentially a command line text editor at heart and it’s learning curve is so high it’s a circle.

There’s a lot of posts on the inter-webs detailing how to use that cruel mistress that is VIM. But rather then focus on how to be super productive in VIM (because honestly I’ve still not got a clue). This focus on my personal journey, my numerous attempts to use VIM in my day to day work. To eventually being able to call myself a novice.

My VIM journey started in 2010 around the same time I was transiting some of my hobby projects from SVN to GIT. It was around that time, that I attempted to run “git commit” in order to commit some files into one of my repositories.

Notice I didn’t specify the “-m” flag to provide a message. So what happened next. A wild command line editor opened in order for me to specify my message, foolish me assumed this command editor was just like similar editors such as Nano. So much CTRL + C’ing CTRL + Z’ing, CTRL + X’ing and a good measure of Google, I was finally able to exit the thing. Yeah…exit it. At this moment the measure of the complexity of this thing should be kicking in already, but it’s unfair to judge it based on today’s standards of user friendly-ness. It was born in a much simpler time. Before even the mouse graced the realms of the personal computing world.

But anyhow I’ll cut to the chase, for all of you who skipped most of the post to get to this point, it’s “:q!”. That’s the keyboard command to quit…well kinda this will quit the program. But…You know what just go here: The Manual. In-fact that’s probably not going to help either, I recommend reading on :p

My curiosity was peaked. So I went off in search of a way to understand this: VIM thing. It seemed to be pretty awesome, looking at some video’s on YouTube, I could do pretty much what Sublime text could but from the terminal. Imagine ssh’ing into a server and being able to make code edits, with full autocomplete et al. That was the dream, the practice…was something different. So I decided to make the commitment and use VIM for editing one of my existing projects.

So fired the program up and watched the world burn behind me. Ahhh…why can’t I type anything, no matter what I typed nothing seemed to appear on screen. Surely I must be missing something right? Right! After firing up the old Google machine, again it would appear there is this concept known as modes. When VIm starts up it defaults to a mode called “Normal” mode, hitting keys in this mode executes commands. But “Insert” entered by hitting the “i” key allows one to insert text.

Finally I thought I think I understand how this VIM thing works, I can just use “insert” mode to insert text and the arrow keys to move around. Then when I want to execute a command, I just press “Esc” and the command such as the one for saving the file. So there I was happily editing my code using “Insert” mode and the arrow keys, but little did I know that my happiness would be short lived, the arrow keys were soon to be a thorn in my VIM journey.

Join me for part two of this rant in which we learn the untold truth about arrow keys, touch typing and vimrc created from scratch. Until next time..

:q!

I shall not judge a developer's skill by their choice to use nano ...

Windows copy & paste bug.

Will they fix it with W11 I wonder..

Hasn't it been with us since about W98SE..

Write something, copy it, paste it, fine.

Write something else, copy that, paste it, oh no it pastes the previous copied item !

Grrrrr !!!

Hold the copy button for several seconds, its fine..

Remind me, why am I using a computer like its 1984 and expecting it to be slow when it can do 32 billion instructions per second, and can't quite keep up with whether I've pressed a key or not in the last 2 seconds..

Wtf man, you are using fucking Ubuntu for 5 months and I really have to tell you how to edit fucking /etc/hosts? Fuck you... I should be the fucking boss...

Just read about the leap second being added at the exact moment of going in to New Year (31/12/16 23:59:60!!!!!). I can't be the only one thinking what the fucking fuck are they thinking and why am i hearing about this for the first time 24 hours before it's happening.

I’m hired as pizza making burger flipper for $12/hr since I have no formal schooling and then I am walked out back to the utility room to do what cooks REALLY DO... Secret network engineering and admin... Never fails... They always find out and I always end up replacing whatever company or person they used for tech/admin work.

Time to at least get some Oracle certs and a nano degree!

Have a positive mindset. If the work in general sucks, you can almost always find some micro or nano task that you can focus on. Then you find something more fun to work with and switch job. But until then, stay positive and be happy. And use devrant to blow off steam.

"Do you want me to remember your password?"

"Click here"

FX [ Clicks.. ]

FX [ Time Passes . . . ]
(Bonus points to anyone that gets that reference..)

"Please enter your password"

Grrrrr !!!

Why is it so hard for some applications/etc. to do this, whilst others I've had the same password remembered for over a decade !

Even worse..

"Check email for password verfication."

That'll be the, it takes 4 hours for the email to arrive email server..

Or the email server will be down at that moment.

Or so full of unread messages it takes you half an hour to find the one you want..

Or they just don't send the email. :-)

I just wanna log in !

Sometimes its just something like a game, you know, not a national priceless treasure that needs protecting by a dozen layers of security.

Whatever happens to a desktop short that just loads the game and plays it..

But no, we have to have an internet enabled game to cut down piracy (Even though you can download it someplace with that bit disabled..), and when the company goes out of business, or stops selling that game, oh dear it doesn't work anymore, even though you paid for it !

Grrrr !

Newer is better right..

Lets see, did this ever happen to you and your Hard Disk connector when it was PATA instead of SATA..

Firefox browser..

"Whoops closed the wrong tab there by mistake."

"I'll just look at the history and.."

Oh look, "show history" and "clear history" are right next to each other..

What could possibly go wrong..

Oh I'm sure there is one of those 'Are you sure you want to ?" dialogue boxes..

No..

So, now you can't go back to that tab, because its not in the history anymore, and neither is anything else !

Undo command perhaps...

Lets take this now spare HD and put it in the backup PC, shouldn't take 5 minutes..

First off, backup PC is the wrong way around in its enclosure, so I have to take the whole thing out to take the side off..

So far so good..

One empty drive bay, great. :-)

Oh wait, cables in the way..

Unplug cables (Remember to put them back in the right places..) and viola, HD in place.

Only access to one side for screws though, oh well, three screws on one side should be enough..

Slight torture to plug the cables back in, as everything else wants to get in the way..

Oh look, one cable has popped out..

No wait, its the connector on the motherboard has come lose..

I'll just push that back on..

Oh wait, one of the pins bent..

FX [ Time Passes . . . ]

Straight pins.

Put it all back together again. (You know what that means don't you..)

Click, click, click goes something inside..

Boot HD not seen..

Joyful..

But at least the new backup blank HD is seen !

So, now I just have to reinstall both backup OS's on the backup PC before I can use it as a backup PC..

Boot HD seems ill, click, click click.. :-(

FX [ Several hours pass.. ]

That was the condensed version.

I missed out the part where the monitor wasn't plugged in at first..

No problem, its plumbed into the sharing unit, oh wait, the sharing unit doesn't seem to be working now..

Bypass that..

Oh wait, the cable isn't quite long enough...

Reconfigure top shelf..

Or the, where did I put those PC HD screws I had the other week, which draw are they in..

Now, where did I put a copy of all those really hard to find drivers for the backup PC..

Windows Update..

1803 I think..

Lost my graphic drivers again..

Great, 4 monitors and only one is working !

Don't be afraid that pair programming will show up your inexperience, embrace it as the quickest way to build that experience!

Oh look, X dating site says person so and so is only 44km away.

Wait a minute, they are on dating site Y, and it says they are currently 69km away..

Both statements can't be true !

Perhaps they are putting more effort into stopping us triangulate someones position !

Doesn't help when you are trying to find someone local..

When I'm too tired and just want to get rid of obligations:
I write down 3 to 5 most important things I need to get done. Then I put myself on autopilot.

Am I the only one that immediately assumes people who use nano are complete psychopaths?

You know you've been using nano to much when you press Ctrl+O to save in VS Code

This week has not been fun. I worked 12-14h everyday, slept 4h, felt like a zombie. It's 3pm and I still have 8 tasks to go.

Ebay being unhelpful..

Oh look, that looks nice it says:

"It's almost sold out, so buy it now before you miss it. "

But it also says:

"This item is out of stock."

And it also says:

"Postage: Doesn't post to XXXXX"

So, its not in stock, and wouldn't sell it to me anyhow, but Ebay thinks I should know about it all the same..

Kinda like when you get a catalogue in the post from a company whose items you can't afford, and don't deliver to your location !

Anti-rant: I love my text editors and ide's: sublime, brackets, pycharm. Nano. What do you use?

As an introvert, this is a big challenge. A few years ago, I buried my social life to be focused on my work. But after some years, I realized this was doing more harm than good to me.
Since then I try to dedicate more time to friends, social events, and family. It's not easy to keep in touch, invite to a coffee, joining a class/activity and meet new people. Everyone's life is so busy today. But it's worth.
I always feel so much better after have a good conversation, sharing experiences and ideas.

Keep your game collection safe with 'Origin'..

Been busy as of late, not much time for games, so haven't used it..

It just sits there, icon on the desktop, waiting for me to click on it..

I haven't updated it for a while, let me just do that at least..

Oh look, the, remember my password thing is, again, not clicked..

FX [ Logs in... ]

No games listed..

WTF !

Oh, well. Work on bad projects with bad clients/managers, for the sake of the money, it's a life sucker. At first I thought it was not a big deal. I was collaborating to someone's elses business and doing the best work I could.

I was tired, depressed, sleepless, having allergic rhitinis every two weeks, frustrated without any opportunity to grow intellectually, fearing clients calls and emails, and... in denial.

Since last year, I decided to stop working on some kind of project and for some kind of people. As the remaining contracts and projects were being wrapped up, I started to feel relieved, despite of all anxienty of let go long term clients and see income lowering.

Then I started to use my free time and savings to futher my education, send cvs and work on side projects. It's not an easy transition. I'll still need to keep working on not-so-good projects to pay the bills, however, I've been selecting more.

Slowly I'm recovering my life, health and enthusiasm for cs again.
I'm learning to not give a fuck and it really helps.

To everyone who wants a terminal editor but hates how overly complicated vim/emacs is:

Micro is like nano but with lua extensions and multiple tabs.

IoT device endpoint: public fixed IP, raw TCP socket, no auth at all

I have closed tabs way too often in chrome after changing from working in nano

I learned to exit vim, and got happy.

Server crashes, i boot into rescue mode and shit. It forces me to use vim as the texteditor, because fuck nano i guess.
Additionally, the fucking buttonboard layout changed to english instead of danish, which results in i have no fucking clue where which characters are.
Im dead.

Question?

Did you or anyone you know take a nano degree from Udacity? Is it worth the money ? Do companies or academic bodies recognize it?

Some of their nanodegree courses look very interesting!!

Linux is wonderful..

Boots up PC..

"Software Updater"
"Failed to download repository information"

Great..

Now what !

<-- Linux Newbie.

After 3.5 terms, I still see people running Linux in a vm && writing C code in nano.
Should I be concerned if that really freaks me out?
Usually I'd say use whatever floats your boat but I just don't get why they don't dual boot, they'll need Linux in pretty much every term...

I had so much fun working on my side projects this weekend that now I'm sad to spend next 5 days on client projects.

Hey guys
I think I just burned 2 Nanos.
I'm using a 30W soldering Iron and had to resolder the pins of one and solder the pins of a new one.
Now they don't work. One allows for code upload but won't turn on, other seams to have a short circuit.
Could have I burned the circuits due to a 30W soldering iron?
Also used a little of flux on the pins, can flux pass energy and make bridges?
Thanks

I recently updated all the stuffs on my Raspberry Pi 3.
Now nano* occasionally NULs out files I edit 🤔

*best CLI editor ever, change my mind

My devRant stickers arrived today! So cool!! Thanks @dfox and @trogus

Windows: Notepad.exe. Best ever, supports any language, can edit any text file, and comes as default on all computers, so I can develop on any computer which have internet access.

Linux: Nano. Easiest to use, and supports almost all flavours of linux.

Kinda curious as to why some people rave over vim?

Just tried it and instantly I prefer to use nano as a CLI editor, am I missing something or is it literally just a super subjective thing?

IBM Notes. Ultimate example of developers each working on their own bits of functionality with zero thought to how the whole thing fits together. Just need to look at the preferences page see what a mess it is.

Alexa works perfectly..

Two Powercuts later . . .

Alexa won't connect reliably to wifi..

This is why I don't like wifi !

I like cables..

Hey can you just install Magento and this theme for me? .... Today is going to be a bad day.

So… I prefer nano over other terminal editors (Mainly because I don’t understand how to use others properly) and I wasn’t really aware of the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables. So on my Arch machine most things would default to vi. Vi to me is like an annoying pop-up that really doesn’t want you to close it (Tho, one thing I did learn eventually was how to close it ). So at some point I quickly wanted to edit crontab as root and I just couldn't manage to get crontab to use nano. So what did I do?

sudo pacman -R vi

ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/vi

I symlinked nano to vi and it finally worked. I know that there are probably countless ways this could’ve been done better but in that case I wouldn't have posted it here under wk81 ;)

Nano vs. Vim

Zero client complaints today.
Life seems worth living again.

Is it weird that I'm actually starting to like regular expressions?

Steam..

Every time I log in, it wants to know if I've changed my email address or not..

And then, just to be extra annoying, on the dialogue box the close icon is almost not reachable, hiding away in the corner..

Why, every bloody time does it need to ask me !

Is there a switch / hack to turn off this annoying feature.. ?

Last week I received an invitation to lead the development of a e-commerce redesign, replatforming and data migration. I was excited to work on it, and started the analysis and planning, glad to spend time focusing on quality. But Murphy's law is never asleep - this Monday, I was asked to speed things up and reduce a 4 month project to 1 week.

I didn't rest this weekend and it's Monday already.

It was our first session for FOSS Lab(a paper we had in 4th semester).
our teacher introduced us to the linux terminal, basic commands like ls, cd, touch, chmod etc. and asked us to write a shell script to append ".old" to all file names in the directory, he also warned us about running the script in home directory.

we all started doing what we could.
my friend who was sitting next to me:

*opens terminal*
~$ touch script.sh
~$ nano script.sh
*writes his script that puts a .old extension to every file/directory in the current directory*

~$ chmod +x script.sh
~$ ./script.sh

me seeing this: 🤦‍♂️
plot twist: this guy is actually pretty good with linux

What editors/ides do you use? I use: Java: Eclipse
Android(java): Android studio
cpp/c#: MS Visual Studio
Linux text editor: nano(sometimes vi)
Np++ for the rest

QTCreator, cause it fucking works.
GCC, cause it fucking works unlike others.
zsh/bash, better than any other.
Sublime Text, being awesome while not murdering my PC or having DPI issues *cough* Atom.
Linux kernel, cause it doesn't fucking bluescreen when using strtok().
SSH, remote controlling a PC has never been so enjoyable.
Git, cause otherwise my version control would be a mess.
SDL2, cause the following two are cancer: X and winAPI.
GNU coreutils, it just works.
ArchLinux/Debian, it works for me okay? don't judge (but still pacman > apt)
valgrind and gdb, cause I can be an idiot sometimes.
nano > vim > emacs. fight me
C/C++, portable enough whilst not being shit.
Win 7, shutting up people about how the creators update broke everything.

PS Well, I know I went offtopic but these are my true opinions about software/programs I deal on a daily basis.

Test...

Simple Vs Powerful

Any former freelancers who decided to move to traditional employment?

I have been doing freelance since I finished University. 8 years now. I really liked the flexibility and opportunity to work on different projects and people, but my enthusiasm is wearing thin. I'm currently updating my cv and setting up my LinkedIn profile, but it's hard to "prove" my experience, and many projects I worked on are private.

I am not sure if I can mention the companies I worked for, or how do to it... Feeling lost and doomed to keep freelancing.

Anyone made this transition before? How did you do it?

After like 15 odd years using MySQL I'm about to delve into the world of document orientated databases ... Wish me luck :)

MOTHERDUCKER!

I've spent two days trying to make a LED control system in my room (basically controlling lights in my room).

The thing consists of an Arduino, a Bluetooth module (which i'm going to rant about), bunch of transistors.... yada, yada... you know the drill.

after getting all the parts necessary I figured out that if the lights are powered by a 9V adapter, and the Arduino Uno can be powered by 9V aswell. Maybe the Nano could do too.... 5 minutes of research shows that I can, just use the Vin pin on the Arduino.

And so I did, I wired everything up (quadruple check if there aren't any undesired connections)

It worked (or so I thought).
But the bluetooth isn't showing up. (I wired it up on the 5V pin, which it says that you SHOULD)

But after dismantling the thing and using a resistance meter I found out that there is 0 Ohms between Vin and 5V.

Now I ended up with a dead component because of some lazy motherducker who works at Arduino.

God why do you hate me so much when I try to do something on my own.

I seriously have no idea who to blame here.

Just been cleaning out an old cupboard and found the book that really helped me to understand OOP ... Python for absolute beginners .. Before I picked it up, I was having a hard time getting my head around it all. Good times, good book :)

termux : Android terminal with apt repos like vim, nano, tar, zsh, wget, plugable & more. Also small footprint.

.. htop in gif (incase if don't know)

My keybo§rd is broken. I tested it on two different m§chines, ch§nged keybo§rd l§yout, tried to cle§n it up, but no luck. Left side of 2wsx keys is completly useless. I'm so dis§ppointed@@@ ( @ used to be excl§m§tion m§rk :( )

After I took some time off from work, I decided to accept the offer for maintenance of two projects. Those are from two old clients, so I think I will not stress too much, since I know what to expect most of the time.

The issue is, sometimes I have a hard time to keep concentration. In the past, I could work for 3h straight, totally focused, would pause for 20min for stretch, and then come back to work. Now I can only focus for 30min or 1h, and after a pause, it's hard to concentrate again.

There is a lot going on in my life right now, and I know the worry is probably distracting me. I'm trying to listen instrumental music, drinking coffee... But that's not enough. Somebody has any tip?

So a friend got on MATFYZ (best and probably hardest Uni in our country - Math& Physics) and told me some first impressions today and well, fuck me.. or us..

One dude said he hadn't had much of a time for preparations on getting onto the Uni because he was busy writing learning book about nano stuff and not only for students, but for fucking TEACHERS! He was at the same age as I am now when he wrote this. There were more stories but this one's insane.

Meanwhile I'm here programming fizzbuzz not even studying IT related school (don't ask, bad decisions, or maybe good, probably good, but still) and not knowing shit really.

Is it just me orrr ?

My face hurts from all the facepalming during code review

Message aps that block phone numbers..

Why !

It's pointless as everyone just then says zero one two three four five six seven to get around the censorship !

That old classic..

You leave a folder copying whilst you go to sleep, only to wake up and read:

"The filename(s) would be too long for the destination folder. You can shorten the filename and try again, or try a location that has a shorter path."

And folk say:

"Thank goodness we don't have 8.3 character limits on filenames anymore.."

Note, there are lower folder number limits on things like USB memory sticks than HD's..

Now, I wonder about PCMCIA RAM cards..

I use spaces in vim/nano, I use tabs in my graphical IDE which translates it into spaces. I guess I'm on the spaces side, even though I don't really mind both. But seriously, why do people keep arguing about effing whitespaces...

Fuck you, debian. The command is "vipw," not fucking "nanopw."

Are people using Vim doing it for the sake of it? Is there such a thing as a Vim hipster?

I mean, nano is just nicer 😇

I really hate when I have to work on something wrong. I mean, the client wants to embedded a third party service on their website, using iframe. Then, they want us to change the layout and behavior of the embedded page. And well, no matter what, I have to do what they want. Great job.