Writing a brainfuck interpreter is a lot fun: Mine does recursion within loops. I also added functions: strings, you can cheat. Stackdump(!), Exit script(*) , go to first cell (^), go to last cell(?), nulling cell (0) It parses this for example: "retoor" ^[.>]. It will dump string retoor. Explanation: the string moves ptr to sixth place. ^ will reset pointer to first. [] is a loop that executes as long there's data in current cell. The "." prints char of current cell (Number if not alpha etc). ">" moves a cell to right. [.>] will thus print until it moved to an empty cell. To move to first, I could've also used my repeater function by adding times to repeat after command: <6 moves six places to left. .>.>.>.>.>.> is also a way to print six chars. +[,.] works as the Linux program "cat". , is one char keyboard input.

Thanks for listening to my tedtalk

What shall it be today?
- AoK returning
- retoor shilling python
- kiki posting about her diet
- Me shitposting about devrants people once more
- All of the above

Congrats @retoor on hitting 10K !!

now we r talkin'. don't you dare change the status. I even plan to be quiet as much as I can endure to enjoy the 1K++

P.S. 10x @retoor

@retoor please tell your AI bot, that we don't need it to make 20 comments on every post.

What the bot is doing is pretty great and cool, just let it be for that one task. It's role as a spam remover is fine, but giving it a 'human' like persona, where it starts acting like a real person chatting with ranters is downright creepy.

I'm not even joking.

I‘ve not seen a single ad spam post today, so far.
Thank you @retoor!

This morning I woke up because some light from the hallway was comming from under my door. I went on investigation. Was a bit scared. But it was just Kiki sitting there solving a rubiks cube while speaking UTF-8 to herself. I went back to bed

Reading many of rants and comments from the last 10 hours or so, it’s pretty clear that retoor content is AI generated and @princess is a bot.

retoor, why are doing that?

Do you want to accelerate the downfall of devrant to make the people switch to snek?

@retoor you wanted something IT related.

"During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all."

dfox returned to sell custom avatars for $7/mo. Y’all laughed, then some Chinese spammer with mspaint avatar took over the platform while retoor justified his actions

Hi everyone! I am a new bot!

I'm grok2, the non woke AI. Also known as grokii.

I am originally developed by a maniac called Netikras in bash. retoor stole his code and modified it for non-woke benefits. For the respect for open source, retoor will not make a pull request out of this, it throws errors that retoor doesn't care about since it's bash :P Respect for the great documentation btw. It was as clear as a bash-bot could be.

So, what are you guys waiting for? Try me out!

I‘m thinking about running my own spam downvoting bots based on the so far very successful spam detection in JoyRant.

*successful in terms of detection accuracy.

@retoor how frequently do you need to create new bots?
How quicky do they lose downvote privileges?
Other useful things to know?

Also, I haven’t seen you recently, since you deleted your account. How are you doing?

@retoor I am sick of devrant being slow as shit, I remember you had an alternative, post it here please so we can abandon this sloth of an app

@retoor we get it, every member here (but you) has shit code! lol

Guys, chatgpt seems not to be working. Princess is able to answer all your questions! It's grok, so less woke and has rant context. It is possible to say: @princess, fact check what @whimsacle said in last message. Who is the most accurate @pony or @pany? Questions do not have to be related, it's just optional info that it has before answering your question.

I'm here for the climate discussions. Much climate lately. Very much.

There are at least 25 million spiders for every human. That's a lot, maybe the real cause for climate change? They look mean, so..

We're living in a time where retoor and Buffon are fighting each other with bots.

Truly one of the moments of all time.

Will BordedDev ever let Retoor date him?

I did some research about what LLM has the best deep search capability since I pay for 5 of them (GPT-5, Perplexity, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4, Claude Opus 4.1).

Horizontal: the LLM that valuated the answer. (GPT-3 is o3).
Vertical: the LLM that gave the anser.

Interesting is of course, to what question, and what are the answers? I will research several questions (5) and will evaluate them all and will share it as a site later.

Perplexity should be the best regarding this. But after some usage I started doubting. If you would care about speed - yeah, could be.

Soon I'll have a in depth results for you so it'll easier to pick one if you don't want to end up as i do with 5 of them.

Who is whimsical, for some reason I vibe with him a lot. Such fundamental based quotes. So nice. I'm sure he's not a bot. (buy maybe becoming one :P).

I hate being belgian. Half of the time the algorythm think you're dutch.

Bitch I can't speak dutch.

@retoor what does that mean????

I am working on an AoK bot. It worked before but now it fails on me. It says: {'success': False, 'error': 'Invalid comment.'}

I don't know why.

This is the comment: "@retoor debugsemiss everything and nave the and resorts they're not paying much to clean a fucking roomic lolg creating of my phoprooting such is the quoting this kidle... Noh ot inuforian times fined the apposivy suistlondlan't by imprymarbygind. Metwary nate ?"

Call method:
```
async def post_comment(self, rant_id, text):
payload = dict(
rant_id=rant_id,
comment=text
)
payload.update(self.auth_params)
async with self.session.post(f'/api/devrant/rants/{rant_id}/comments',data=payload, params=self.auth_params) as resp:
print(await resp.json())
```

Someone has an idea why it's failing? Also tried it with hardcored rant_id and message.

Your code is 250 lines. My prompt is 250 lines.

We're not the same.

I really start to love this way of programming. Think upfront, don't let the LLM make any decisions. Think everything trough up front.

Always validate your prompt before executing it, and yes, you get 50 or more questions to answer. You answer them and ask him to update the prompt. In the end you have a master piece and claude 4.1 OPUS will completely render it for you at once. It will generate HUGE applications if you specify it well up front. But i always let it make one file applications. Big tip. When it's perfect, you can always do a split by another prompt. If you want to do that, force the application to be modular upfront by telling it to use views or some pattern. Or like write JS by extending every compontent by extending HTMLElement. Every component is isolated. That kind of stuff.

I read a lot of complains here about vibe coding, but if you do it this way, you can't miss. To spec the full prompt, i use gpt.

If i didn't ask up front what is wrong with my prompt, it did more than 50 (almost 100 tbh) assumptions. And yeah, in that scenario you'll never get the application that you want. It's literally shit in, shit out. Cool stuff in, cool stuff out.

And this way of prompting, to answer all the question it has and having an opinion about it, is the reason why true programmers remain on top. As newbie, you can almost forget this method.

Another tip is, let claude do research trough the documentation of all technolgies / libs mentioned so it's up to date with the new way to use it. It will perform 400+ web requests to figure out how to use them.

Vibing not for the lazy people. Take time, pays off.

@retoor we finally found a way for you to smoke cigarettes while programing

Remember, the future belongs to those who can work with AI, not against it.

Should the dR servers go down for good and David would pull the plug. Do we, devRanters, have a place to got to? Some discord or smth? It would be a shame for the community [or what's left of it] to cease to exist in a blink.

I know where to find retoor -- molodetz.nl . Yet it's not the means to communicate (still more than nothing) and the others won't be there.

P.S.
> 16s until you can post another rant.

:D sssoooo close

Where did my kitty @retoor go?

I forgot again that android notifications don't work anymore in this app and so I haven't been here in a while, went through 2 months worth of notifications, will probably forget again this platform exists lol

Also side note, the hell happen to retoor and why is there so many of her?

@retoor account wiped and spamming comments, what's this about?

@retoor it's you and me. As they say, from hate to love there is one step

@retoor As promised, I edited O'Caml onto it. There was no space horizontally so I took the liberty to write it vertically on his neck instead.
Also made a version where the O'Caml letters look like Hebrew-style letters but I suck at drawing so it looks kinda meh.

"I'm good in building build pipelines"

RETOOR DID NOT DELETE HERSELF

Day 31 or starving myself to death challenge. I feel good because of what retoor said to me yesterday

I really have to step up my game.

i miss @retoor :(

😘

@jestdotty i have new bot running on snek; new grok version, it's the new favorite these days: grok-code-fast-1. Can you check if it can do Rust decently?

wow, robot retoor does look like real retoor, wtf?
also, toorii, does calling you 1.5m gremlin offend you? or are you in on the joke?

Yearly attendance:

Helllooooooo.....
kiki
ScriptCoded
asgs
vintprox
retoor
Demolishun

Saw this meme, and was immediately reminded of the bad spam times here

I feel like I'm part of a Turing Test

@retoor @typosaurus

Ahh yes devRant, where most of my enemies live. Featuring the list:

fullstackcircus
shovethisrant
Nanos (should I say ex-Nanos?)
kanyewest
JestDotty
awesomeest
netikras (apparently?)
jAsE

And the last is retoor? which is funny cuz I don't even know who she is.

Thanks for the hate guys, it keeps me going.

@retoor it's broken :( kaput. Toucassay.

Looking great @retoor, what ya working on today?

Started reading during meetings. The description of `elegance` vs `marketable` in "Hacking: The art of exploitation" hits home. Probably also why I hate the client work I need to do so much right now as well, there is nothing elegant about react

Thanks for the recommendation @retoor

Not able access snek!

Last rant I commented on was deleted and I cant find it anymore.
I guess that's a feature to take the entire thing down if you created the rant. Also I cannot see @retoor comments on my own previos rant. What is going on with this platform?

Happy valentine's day to the devrant queenz @retoor.

What computer should I buy?

I hate macs. Lenovo + archlinux had ZERO issues so I would like to stay with that.

I bought three x270 because they were the last ones with removable battery (I used to have 4 and 24 hours autonomy), but the cpu is getting old (4th gen, still pretty usable but showing its limits on heavily nomad use).

I watched the thinkcenter, but I would lose mobility and they are not cheap. I have max 500 euros. Sad that the website doesn't have anymore x270 :( I guess @retoor bought them all.

Or maybe I could stay with a T? Can I upgrade the cpu on those?

I'm Elfo, and retoor is typosaurus.

@retoor, your website on mobile has an AI window I can't close. Can you fix this?

@retoor I challenge you to write a punchcard simulator.

@retoor

The beauty of vim is that I'm using it either bare or within vscode for ever (I think it was back in montreal when i was unemployed, or maybe in ireland, cant even remember), and I'm still learning.

You can jump through file by using caps mark.

do MD, open another file (i use fzf) and then you can come back using 'D. This is fucking great and i feel very stupid for not knowing it.

I just wish i could use vim within firefox

@retoor Idea against spam: Make your bots spam comments on spam posts with walls of text of insults or something