Forgive me father, for I have sinned.  Alot actually, but I'm here for technical sins.  Okay, a particular series of technical sins.  Sit your ass back down padre, you signed up for this shit.  Where was I?  Right, it has been 11429 days since my last confession.  May this serve as equal parts rant, confession, and record for the poor SOB who comes after me.

Ended up in a job where everything was done manually or controlled by rickety Access "apps".  Many manhours were wasted on sitting and waiting for the main system to spit out a query download so it could be parsed by hand or loaded into one of the aforementioned apps that had a nasty habit of locking up the aged hardware that we were allowed.  Updates to the system were done through and awful utility that tended to cut out silently, fail loudly and randomly, or post data horrifically wrong.

Fuck that noise.  Floated the idea of automating downloads and uploads to bossman.  This is where I learned that the main system had no SQL socket by default, but the vendor managing the system could provide one for an obscene amount of money.  There was no buy in from above, not worth the price.

Automated it anyway.  Main system had a free form entry field, ostensibly for handwriting SELECT queries.  Using Python, AutoHotkey, and glorified copy-pasting, it worked after a fashion.  Showed the time saved by not having to do downloads manually.  Got us the buy in we needed, bigwigs get negotiating with the vendor, told to start developing something based on some docs from the vendor.  Keep the hacky solution running as team loves not having to waste time on downloads.

Found SQLi vulnerability in the above free form query system, brought it up to bossman to bring up the chain.  Vulnerability still there months later.  Test using it for automated updates.  Works and is magnitudes more stable than update utility.  Bring it up again and show the time we can save exploiting it.  Decision made to use it while it exists, saves more time.  Team happier, able to actual develop solutions uninterrupted now.  Using Python, AutoHotkey, glorified copy-pasting, and SQLi in the course of day to day business critical work.  Ugliest hacky thing I've ever caused to exist.

Flash forward 6 years.  Automation system now in heavy use acrossed two companies.  Handles all automatic downloads for several departments, 1 million+ discrete updates daily with alot of room for expansion, stuff runs 24/7 on schedule, most former Access apps now gone and written sanely and managed by the automation system.  Its on real hardware with real databases and security behind it.

It is still using AutoHotkey, copy-paste, and SQLi to interface with the main system.  There never was and never will be a SQL socket.  Keep this hellbeast I've spawned chugging along.

I've pointed out how many ways this can all go pearshaped.  I've pointed out that one day the vendor will get their shit together they'll come in post system update and nothing will work anymore.  I've pointed out the danger in continuing to use the system with such a glaring SQLi vulnerability.

Noone cares.  Won't be my problem soon enough.

In no particular order:
Fuck management for not fighting for a good system interface
Fuck the vendor for A) not having a SQL socket and B) leaving the SQLi vulnerability there this long
Fuck me for bringing this thing into existence

Me: *Sees AvatarOfKaine commented on my post*
Also me: "Fuck no"

The thing with meetings is that most don't know what a (formal) meeting is.

A meeting has a specific time frame, a defined agenda with specific topics and a moderator or an agreement on a common netiquette.

That's a meeting.

A meeting is not a place to put your willy on the desk and proof to everyone that your cock is thx to operation a long schlong who won't get hard, nor that you don't know how to shave, even less to measure the size of your genitals.

It's neither the time to eat and slurp like a fucking hobgoblin, nor to drink like an alcoholic who hasn't had a drop of alcohol in the last hour.

Parents, I don't care what your satanic offspring achieved today, nor how cute they are, even less what booboo they have.

Crybabies, keep your whining for after meeting time, maybe even stop crying and just have a nice talk outside of allocated time frames to discuss whom hurt whom the most and who has the most sand in his clit.

Get to the fucking point.

If I wanted to read a trilogy to understand what you contribute, I'd have written it on the agenda.

If it's not on the agenda, cram it in your butt cheeks for the next time you need to shit.

If you can't converse with people at all, the meeting is allocated at least 24 hours before it happens.

Prepare yourself for goddamn sake.

You could even read out a predefined text if you want, noone cares.

Cannot handle this amount of tags...

I have done nothing today 👍

Oh look, a new fancy MacBook Pro 2018.

How come noone is talking about the extreme heat throtteling problem they have with the 2018 laptops?

They can't even hold their base clockspeed when doing compiling code. And they become extremely hot (worse then the last gen, which was already insane).

I know devs/creators/editors want the most powerful computer out there, but supporting something like this is just laughable.

Regards, disapointed customer who tested and returned the laptop after 2 days.

What if I told you : you can use whatever the fuck OS you want, whatever the fuck stack you want ?

And IF you take a job in a certain stack, don't like it ? Quit your job !

Stop beeing whining bitches. Don't like current job ? Find a new one.

You think your app is revolutionary ? TRY and push it (And fail)

You think that at 16 you know better than people who are 30+yo ? prove it by actions.

It's easy. You have full control of what you can do.

Stop bitching, start coding.

windows, linux, mac, MS-DOS. Noone cares what you use. As long as you do the job.

Holy moly, who needs these much tags?

Not dev-related but...

6 + 3 = 3.

Genius.

Wtf just happened?

Tip: Use Ctrl+Backspace to delete a whole word.

How do you guys deal with work that doesnt really care about what you do?
I mean everyday i come to work i make my own schedule and think of things to do, then do them and at the end of the day noone really cares.

I’ve created a huge inhouse analysis tool and that was my job for a long while untill the project was mostly done. Now it feels like i just go to work to sit there for the hours and collect the paycheck, i watch youtube for half of the day and noone cares. Noone really knows what i do there. I feel like shit because i need to fight with myself everyday that i didnt finish something, but noone besides me really even knows of what i do though. I work alone and I think thats a big part of it. What should I do?

I made this simple calculator app using Svelte and Spectre.css and packaged using Tauri.

So I made this drawing tool thing in QB64...

Fuck my wifi

I N F I N I T E P O W E R

I waste 50 minutes reading tutorials and StackOverflow answers just to configure to my Git and GitHub account so that I can push the main local branch to the main remote branch from my terminal, and I still can't do it.

Fml.

Another update for whoever cares about this text editor that no one cares:

The cursor (which is now a block instead of underscore like before) is now finally functional, but is quite flawed (e.g. If you type two lines with the first line is longer than the second, there's a chance that the cursor might jump to the end of the first line). There's also some text that greets you when you first open the editor, but it will be hidden when you start typing in Insert mode.

wait, if there's ice cream in Zootopia, who's getting milked?

(Not my meme)

So in the morning today, I played with some game engines and libraries, one of them is Orx.

When I `git clone` the repo and setup for it, the doc says that I can use `init.sh` to setup my Orx game project. Sweet!

When I run it, the program ask me for the path, I thought that it will allow me to create a game project at any path. So I entered `~/Projects/Games/my-orx-game`.

After that, it asked for some other stuff and I just skip though it.

Then, I went to `~/Projects/Games` and use `ls` to check my game project, but I don't see anything. I went back to where I installed Orx and realized that it creates a game project __in__ the directory that it was installed. Now, there's a directory called `~` inside the directory. I remove it using `rm -rf ~`, but Linux stopped me with `Premission denied`. Then for some stupid reason, I typed `sudo rm -rf ~` without thinking. After doing that line, my fish shell comes to it original prompt. And I realized I fucked up.

I restarted the computer, thought that I wiped the whole OS. Luckily, it just wiped the configuration files. The softwares works completely fine. My Project files and any content in those default directories (Like `Music` and `Downloads`) are also wiped. But I don't care about them at all. At least not right now.

Now I know that I need to be more careful when typing a command in the terminal.

I can now leave freely without any regrets!
The slight misgivings I had about leaving this place over the toys they provide, is now gone because I re-realized that while this place adopts new tech, it doesn't adapt to it. So they have shiny tools but the people and processes won't change.
It seems to me that due to pressure to deliver, there is little thought/analysis behind any tech change.

They don't plan to change their wretched delivery pipelines. Everything will be same but on git. So no velocity gains, and same bureaucratic review request process. Such a waste. This attitude applies to their other tools too. They are using a unit test library to write tests that don't use mock. They are using modern languages but without modern idioms. It's like writing C code in C++. And of course theoretically we are agile but actually we're just a waterfall team with managers on our ass everyday and tighter release schedules.

Reminds me of @boombodies recent posts and discussion about business spaghetti reflecting in code.

There are possibly multiple reasons for these problems but I think a large part of it is a lack of empathy/mutual respect. Everyone's too insecure, noone cares for anyone but themselves and people just try to outwit each other.

Lol. (Have to add some words because dR don't allow posts shorter than 6 chars)

Ugh... some people...

Just left the office early because of the toxic climate. That one infamous collegue is basically unable to communicate without being a narcissistic 5-year-old and was arguing whether we should write a test (I was going to write the test) that would need a single additional branch in the build system.

(The test was for a parser and it should test whether it can handle absolute paths. A simple regression test with a file and an expected output. Because absolute paths are different for every platform and user, the files to be parsed would have to be generated with appropriate paths before the tests were run. Well that would require one single python script and a single line in the script that runs the script and DONE)

Well that guy was unable to focus on his own work and started an argument about whether that test was necessary.
Even though I still think it is necessary, it might have been a reasonable argument if he would have acted more agreeable. But he was saying the feature was useless anyways "everyone will use relative paths only anyways" and "because noone here cares a ratass about maintaining the tests it will all fall on me again" ..

Wtf was this guys problem, I (CAPS) was going to write the stupid test and since when do we not write tests in order to better maintain our product? I get that he worries that the test environment will get more messy, but thats better than having the product code go messy or unfunctional! And c'mon guys, how are absolute paths a redundant feature...

Typing from a screen mirroring app on Linux (guiscrcpy). Feels good.

Someone approves a very old answer I gave to them 7 months ago for a question about "compiling Python to improve performance". And now, I don't even understand my answer nor the asker's question.

Edit: The Q is asked on Replit

mkdir <name here>

Just some text editor thingy that I made. Severely broken.

I kinda want to do animation as a second hobby.

Do you have ever experienced where:
- You have an idea
- You design it, choose core features that you want for it
- Start the project
- As you work, the project goes messier and messier, and also more complicated than you though, and then eventually you have done with it
- You abandoned the project and move on

I experienced it quite often. And I haven't had a finished project since quite a long time ago.

Maybe I should scale it down.

I make a mistake today.

The incident happens when I opened my computer, open Vivaldi, and after all tabs are loaded, I update my Linux distro.

Unfortunately, when it updates the kernel, it got lagged, really lagged. My CPU load goes up to 14,56 (which is also the PB of CPU load of my computer). I barely can move my mouse. I decided to Ctrl-C, nothing happened. Then I decided to turn off my computer by pressing the power button once, nothing happened. Then I hold the power button for a few seconds, don't really hesitate or think of anything.

When I start my computer again, it goes to the GRUB. I realized that the GRUB load is slower than usual, but I don't really think of anything. When I choose the 'Alter Linux' option (which is the name of my distro), the GRUB says that it cannot find the kernel and thus it cannot boot. At this point it's pretty fucked up.

2 lessons that I have learned after this incident:
1. Turn off every single other window (except the Update window) when you are going to update.
2. Never turn off the computer while it's still updating, especially if there is kernel update in it.

(Luckily, I have an old version of the distro burned to a Kingston USB, so I can run the live environment of the distro from the USB, and then install another distro to that USB)

Today I found out something called Alpine.js. And I absolutely love it. It is really easy and simple to make apps with it. A simple to-do list app that I done just now is a HTML file with only 30 lines.

The moment when you accidentally delete the final product instead of the experimental one because they have the same prefix and the shell's completion choose the final product when you type the name.

That happened to me today. I accidentally deleted a postfix calculator that I wrote in Scala instead of the sbt one (Which does nothing) because both of them have the same prefix (nimtha is the program's directory name, and nimtha-sbt is the sbt one). I don't notice that until I go back to the project directory and don't see the program's directory. I tried to recover it with TestDisk, but it can't. All because of fish's shell completion, and also because of me.

At least that was a pretty small project so I don't feel very bad.

For some weird reason, my HackerNews submission blew up after 3 days.

Open filecoin.io and then my main web browser crashed. It crashed so hard I cannot open it anymore and it just crashed multiple times.

Bruh.

Lol.

Hey, know that joke where people say it runs yesterday but for some reason it doesn't run the next day? The same thing happens to me here with Hecker (a Hacker News 'client' written in Go that I am currently working on)... Oh wait a second it works again!

Btw, if you care about this, then the error seems to be a JSON error, which means that one of the submissions the program scrape has wrong JSON format, and its error is an invalid character error. Bruh.

Draw the cursor for my program. Doesn't look as horrible as I thought.

(Random, but probably can be rant/story)

Me: *responds nothing*
The AI: "I think you're probably right. :("
...
Me: "Bruh"
The AI: "I know, I know. I just want to know."

(Yes, it does type the sad face)

I actually like where I currently work, sure it has problems and some office politics. The work is not always exciting but what makes it good is not having someone breathing down my neck about timesheets, noone cares if the hours you work are not exactly business hours and a bunch of other stuff.
What I really like though is having a boss who backs my judgement. If I refuse to commit to timelines or work without being given the information I need he'll support me. I've had too many yes men as bosses which always ends up with the devs coping all the blame when everything goes belly up.

Update from the last two rants:

The good ending :D (Solus Budgie)

I failed NNN :(

Tip: Type `sl | lolcat` in the terminal for a nice rainbow train, or `sl | lolcat -a` if you want a glitchy one.

Wow, reason why I should use one of the most fundamental language of the web ever? I'm in.

What is the most shell program you have ever used? To me it is zoxide. Zoxide is like `cd`, but instead of just `cd` to the path, zoxide also remember the path, so the next time you enter the name of the directory you `cd`ed with zoxide before, it will automatically teleports you to the path. Which is very useful because now I can just type `z uluto` instead of `cd ~/Projects/Python/uluto`.

Happy New Year 2022! 🥳

Damn, time flies.

A random idea that I have a while ago but don't know how to make it: a ML app that can detect if the input image is porn or not.

What the fuck?

Today I went to a website, and it forces every visitor to do CAPTCHA to get access to the website content. It takes me 5 times doing CAPTCHA just to get access to the website. The same happened in the morning.

Am I stupid?

Should I do streaming (I am a nobody)? I'm currently half want to and half not want to. And if so, what are streaming platforms other than Twitch, YouTube and Facebook?

Is this just my Internet or is YouTube fucked now?

So currently we are moving from studying on Zoom to some platform called K12Online (not to be confused with K12 because this one is Vietnamese with K12 thing is not). And it doesn't have a fking sign up button. Not on their website nor in the app. There's only the Sign In button, and even that, if you think about creating a new user through the Sign In button like some platforms do, well, you are wrong! It also doesn't work as well!

Nice job, team!

This is the sequel to my previous rant, if you don't know about it, go check my profile.

So, for some reason, when I opened YouTube Vanced, I am trapped into a loop of loading animation. And I thought "Hmm... Maybe my Internet sucks, let's try again.".

Then I switched my Internet on and off, go back to YouTube Vanced, the same loading animation loop.

Then I do switching the Internet for about 30 minutes, go back to YouTube Vanced, no progression.

Then I thought "What about YouTube?", I open Youtube, and you know what, YouTube loads it PERFECTLY. The loading animation takes longer than usual, but at the end, it still loads my recommendation and anything!

I thought "Wait, do they have an update?", then I go to Vanced Manager, and no, there is no new update for both Vanced and Vanced microG. There is a new update for Vanced Manager, though.

I decided to report a bug, but then I realized that the problem I am facing is too ambiguous for the developer to fix, so I decided not to do it.

So yeah, now I am sticking with YouTube, since I cannot find a solution better than it, and if you ask me, YouTube Vanced is still trapped in the loading animation loop.

I have this pretty weird problem when using GitHub on my Firefox.

YouTube comment translation feature is by far the best and most useful feature (in my opinion) YouTube has added since the creation of it, and then came the worst...

sina li pona :)
You are good :)

Toki Pona day 1, I guess.

Howdy. Not making any new posts for a while. Mostly because of tinnitus and because I started to lose interest in programming.

`git checkout <hash> .` saved me a very important deleted file.

Running the memoized fibonacci with 2^64 crashed my computer.

Ok, it's the second day and still the same problem: creating JS apps takes like forever. I think it's maybe with the servers since my Internet is completely fine.

Ayo what

I just realized that the interpreted Python version of a programming language that I am developing is faster (two times faster) than the compiled version using Nuitka.

unusual or unusual

How can I use Trello?

Just watching a normal YouTube video and then got a mini jumpscare because of a Touhou game ad.

I just deploy a simple Svelte app using Vercel today. It is pretty easy.

O( what?

My computer after installing Solus has some pretty weird behavior.

It is with the keyboard and the mouse. The keyboard often writes the highlighted part, which is super annoying, because I have this habit of using the highlighted feature as a scrollbar, so if I am using this feature to scroll in the terminal, when I am editing, the keyboard will paste the content of the highlighted text when I am typing randomly, which is why I have to highlight a space, and also why I have to put my cursor to where I am typing to prevent it from randomly teleporting. And the mouse often left click / right click randomly, and sometimes the cursor has a seizure.

This is not something that happens to me recently. It has been happened to me when I was using Manjaro (which was way long ago), and at that time only the seizure cursor is happened. Now more stuff happened, and they are happening more frequently than ever.

The Internet on my computer is also terrible today, I cannot access to any website on the browser (Until now). I first thought that it's my browser (Brave)'s fault and I tried on Firefox, also not working. I tried to reconnect to the Wi-Fi, reboot the computer, nothing worked. Then I think of switching between Wi-Fis, because it's a strat that worked with my phone, and surprisingly, it worked!

(I really don't know what to end this rant, so I will just put this text here as a way to end the rant.)

What's the general consensus on the forced training courses? We now have a 3rd party arranging a course about FooBar and our managers though it was a great idea for everyone in my team to participate. Since...well you don't know when you need FooBar, so it's good to learn it now! And any education is only good. Makes employees smarter.

Except that I am not interested on FooBar. I don't use it. I can google it when I need it. I can read a book. I could travel to a 3-day course with 9 hours of straight lecturing per day and 200 slides with 10 second pause between them. But I am dead shit sure that after 30mins you lose the focus and after 1 week you remember nothing.

And everyone who's ever been on any company arranged courses, you know that there's always some guy who already knows everything. So starting from the first second he wants to challenge the trainer. Have a dialogue. Discuss about the problems that he has seen. Noone else cares. So you have 30 people listening to 2 guys debating.

But hey, maybe after 6-12months our company starts using FooBar and then we have a couple of dozen geniuses who have taken that multi-thousand-euro class. Or not.

At least you get a cup of coffee and a sandwich on mornings and afternoons.

Trying to port my raylib game (written in Golang) to C to compile to web. When I add raylib to /usr/ it somehow fucked up the Go game and now I cannot run the original game.

An update to that text editor thing that no one cares:

Now it has a default font (although it looks like horseshit), and a "working" cursor. It is also set to fullscreen by default, and remove the separate piece between the editor and the status bar.

Playing the sequel of my childhood game. It is pretty good, although it runs like 2 FPS on my potato PC.

(I have to take it from my phone because the WiFi device I currently have is garbage)

F# is fun.

Fuck my family are F3s now.

I just create a useful GitHub Issue today.

When I run this Python code on Dcoder, they shows that they are using Python 3.6.8, and not 3.7.1 as they claim. This is why I cannot use dataclasses.

(And yes, I am having an idea about a template engine)

I don't know if this is just YouTube or this is a feature, but there is a time bug with YouTube. Every video that is >1 week old (and younger than 2 weeks) will still using the format "... days ago" instead of "1 week ago" like how it is intended.

For example, this video is >1 week old, which means that it should show the "1 week ago", but instead, it still shows "12 days ago".

The Allow Cookies and Decline button on this website doesn't work. Bruh.

My computer is so bad it cannot handle a live reload from my React web without getting lagged for a few seconds.

Lesson learned, never use Vim's 'd' to move a large chunk of code from file to file. Need to move a large chunk of Rust code from one file to another, when I quit the session and edit the file needs to be pasted, the entire content, disappeared, divided into atoms.

Edit: I found that the 'd' command means 'delete command', so that may explain why. But still.

Just a parser combinator thing that I am working on...

Update from the last rant: I moved all necessary data to the USB, but now I ruined the bootable USB. Fuck. But it's not the end yet.

Hi colleagues,

I'm thrilled to announce I am now a Rollercoaster Tycoon.

I could never imagine accepting such an amazing position.

#GreedIsGood
#VeganRecipes #ChickpeaFlour#LickForLick#GreedIsGood#LikeForLike#PleaseHelpMe#Blessed #MarketingHacks #MarketingWizard #WhizzingOnMarketers

Fuck YouTube Vanced. It sucks now.

Trying to add the loop function in my programming language, and for some reason it doesn't work, more specifically, it runs once and then stop, or it runs once and then trapped in a loop. So tired of this.

Hey, dumb question: How do I include images in my Markdown post in Hugo? And where to put the image?

HOW CAN I LINK THE STYLESHEET FILE IN MY HTML????????? I have struggle with this problem for so many times, yet none of the time I succeed and have to start over. This one single question has had made me got headache so many times in the past, yet I never can solve it.

I don't know if my Ubuntu system is on high or anything, but I realized that if you remove a package, you also lose your ability to install it again.

For example, when I remove a package called `dmd`, and search it, it just shows the package `dmd` without any description, with the tag `residual-config`. And if I try to install it, it will split an error back to me, says that the package `dmd` doesn't have any release candidate. And if I `purge` it, it will magically vanish when I search it, and install it will just say `No apt package "dmd"`.

I wonder who has the idea of showing the opposite of the parenthesis. Like when I move my terminal cursor to the open parenthesis of a pair, it will show the end (the close paren) of that pair. It makes me confused so many times.

Hi. Does anyone has this problem that your phone keep showing "Google continues to stop"? It happens to my father's phone, and now it also happens to my phone after I charged my phone.

So our teacher is telling us to join some kind of competition thing that the government creates, and uhh, when I went to the website, sign up with a separate account that I will probably never use once again in my whole life, and then I notice that when you click to the TOS link in the "I agree with the TOS", it does... nothing, yes, it doesn't lead you to an actual TOS page or anything, it just teleports you up, what?????, did you just create a fking TOS link and it doesn't actually lead to anywhere else? Then why do it anyway? Also, you can literally find a TOS template with some English keyword and then plastered it on some obscure page and then use the TOS link to lead to that one instead of blatantly do nothing. Also, I noticed that they use a authentication service called Eids Authentication. Who the fk is this guy? Why don't you just use something already popular like Auth0? They have way better UI/UX than whatever that is and supports way more platform logins like Google and Faxbook which are more familiar to us.

So we watch some videos when we are learning Chemistry for the first the in school and the videos is like 1 frame per second. Of course we are learning online through Zoom so it maybe is just because of the screen or the internet.

I thought my OBS Studio just crashed.

Hey everyone! I need your help!

So I am working on a game engine thingy called Polita. Now I want to import Polita's core module (`polita/polita.py`) into the `test/simple.py`, which contains a simple test (See the image). But when I tried to run `test/simple.py`, it saids `No module called 'polita'` (See the image) although I have added `__init__.py` to indicate that `polita` is a module.

Any ideas?

There is something wrong with my Internet...

Why is creating an Remix app takes like forever?
And this happened to other JS frameworks (that I tried) too!

Today in my house, all the internet on everyone's device has failed for a while. My Linux computer and my phone are the only devices that are not affected for some reason.

Hello fellow squid game people

Copilot is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDD

So one day I have an idea of making a HN client in the terminal using Go. When I try it, I got stuck at the scraping part (the very first part of this project). The scraping works, but it just have a problem: the first submission's data is duped (duplicated) with the last submission's data. And that problem is why I end this (potential) project. The more I tried to fix it, the more insane I got. Yet that shit is still there, never fixed. So I think "fuck this shit" and remove the username part and the points part of the data. Eventually I end the project.