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Previous rant: https://devrant.com/rants/1554399/...

TLDR: Ever wondered what your project's intro/theme song would be?!

Here's mine..
https://youtu.be/SH8wDkqA_50

Share yours if you ever thought about it or some particular song plays in your head while reading this..

Long(er) version + story: project I am currently working on is notorios in our company.. everyone avoids it, parts of code are untouched for 10+ years.. I used to think it was a 'shitty' project, many frameworks, many parts, many coding styles, many bugs... but longer I worked on it, more I came to realisation, it's not the code, it was the coders.. sloppy coders who didn't give a flying f..

Yes, some things are outdated still, and could be rewritten better (hopefully it will start happening soon! Yay!!), some were already rewamped, new things added... but for the time it was going live, it was majestic. I love solving bugs n problems so I must admit it has grown on me.. my little baby/devil..

Anyhu, one day on skype out of the blue I got this pic from my coworker.. made my day, laughed my ass off.. later that day I was debbuging something and youtube started rolling saw theme song (https://youtu.be/9fwWS6Xo1go)...

When I realised what I was listening too, it made perfect sense.. I was relaxed, at peace.. it clicked.. the song, the project, the bug, the code.. it all made chaotic sense..

I want to play a game..

I realised, project wasn't mean, it was just misunderstood and mistreated.. it can be your best friend if you play nice.

I replied to said coworker that I rhink I just found out my project's theme song and pasted the link.. he laughed, I laughed, my project laughed then it killed my test server.. It was a great day!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

// all true except the project killing server part, that in fact happened on a different occasion

So.. you guys had any moments like this? Any theme songs, intros for your projects?? Or am I the only weirdo who makes associations like this all the time... 🤔🤣😇 ???

Do any of you know about Dracula?
It’s this great looking dark theme that you have to check out!
https://github.com/dracula/...

Everything it supports:
alfred
atom
base16
bbedit
brackets
chrome-devtools
coda
conemu
emacs
gedit
highlightjs
hyper
iterm
jetbrains
kate
konsole
light-table
lightpaper
liteide
macdown
mintty
monodevelop
notepad-plus-plus
nylas-n1
pygments
qtcreator
quassel
quiver
sequel-pro
slack
sublime
telegram
terminal-app
textmate
textual
ulysses
vim
visual-studio
visual-studio-code
wox
xchat
xcode
xresources
zsh

I know you all do love the dark side. Let me help out with the web version for ya' too :)
Dark theme:
https://userstyles.org/styles/...
Optimize for big screens:
https://userstyles.org/styles/...

Have fun :)

Working on a fucking wORDpRESS + Vue.js single page application theme. For 9 months now! Fuck this shit! Even though I have turbo-boosted my tech skills during this time as never before (learned Docker, Nginx, Git workflows, Unit Testing, included PHP OOP on a daily basis, became a Vue.js architecture and Webpack expert ) and developed a unique SEO friendly (without SSR/Node.js) SPA theme system for wORDpRESS on my own - the project became a really huge pain in the ass. I'm just too much of a perfectionist. Because any time I've worked with a commercial WP theme before this project, it was always a horrible experience. So based on this trauma and my previous two years of experience as a freelancing custom wORDpRESS theme developer, I didn't want to produce same shit as many of the existing wp theme devs out there. I've hand coded almost every part of the theme and developed a bunch of custom SPA plugins for the theme (including a Mailchimp plugin with a cool form generator and a custom written Mailchimp API client).

Since March of this Year I've been living below the poverty line and had even to borrow some money from my previous clients 🤦🏼‍♂️ . This is even more painful since my revenue before this project was at 3000-4500€ per month.

But now I finally coming to a finish of an MVP and will start hopefully to sell this fucking shit next month.

Features already build:
- fucking Polylang integration
- fucking Mailchimp plugin
- Yoast compatibility out of the box
- fucking fastest loading time regardless whether with or without perfomance optimisation: between 300 and 600ms and despite an app size of around 500kb (GSAP Business Club, Vue and Babel make together around 350 to 400kb)
- preloaded pages / posts / lists (defined in theme options) reducing load time of additional request after the initial load (again which is at 300 to 600ms from Germany) literally to fucking ZERO
- WP Rocket integration - makes this motherfucking theme even more faster on the initial load
- fucking genius plugin system which let you split the functionality of a fucking SINGLE PAGE APPLICATION in a usual wp plugin system way without breaking the SPA flow (no reloads of any route added through the plugins - all of them get cached via vue's native keep-alive feature). This way I can charge extra for any fucking shit I will add on the top of theme in the future.

Even though the theme has become my baby (after 9 months - lol), I'll hopefully gonna sell it next year when I've finished all the planned features, as wordpress is a piece of shit from the perspective of a high level developer and limits and disrupts your growth as a dev.

But what is even more critical to me: wordpress.org is a bunch of hypocritical fascists. Just google "Jan Dembowski wordpress banned" and also the main supervisor of wordpress.org Samual Wood aka Otto, who literally told me that it doesn't matter what wordpress.org users think - according to him wordpress.org is a private forum and everybody have to obey to their fascist moderators dictatorship regardless of any objective moral and ethics, is part of the wp fascists gang.

After my experience with this two fascists from wordpress.org I've googled more information on Mullenweg and found a lot of interesting facts. First of all it seems as it was from the beginning of wordpress his intention to collect big data. And when I look at his ugly face from this time he reminds me of all this fucking dumb privileged "startup" hipsters and yuppies I had to deal with at Factory Berlin last couple of years. Already in the beginning of wordpress he had his spying Akismet and Gravatar in his portfolio. No capitalist would give him any fucking cent (currently over 600 millions) if he would take all his "green washing" bla bla like "Democratize Publishing” seriously himself. It's all about money and control. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech, open source or democracy. If the product is free - YOU ARE THE FUCKING PRODUCT! Obviously AUTOMATTIC is exploiting the efforts of the great independent wordpress community for its own profit. For example WooCommerce was bought for laughable 30 Millions whereas Shopify was valued around one billion at the time Automattic purchased Woo, which is related to GPL of WordPress which means Automattic could also just take the source code of WooCommerce and make it own. So the WooCommerce owners can be lucky they got even this amount of cash. I think it was primarily for the staff and label. But the "technology" itself (which is partly also piece of shit) was obviously robbed.

I will probably post more here in this dumb shit.

But now it's about my fucking my theme. You can find out more about it here:
https://wue-theme.app
https://github.com/Tech-Nomad/...
Though the current online state is of July. Hopefully by the end of the month I will update it to the current state of the finished MVP.

Renovated my desktop from light Mac like theme
https://devrant.com/rants/878731/...
To dark theme.
Feels so good to return to dark world.
Until now I was not using computer much so it was still a bright world. Now it is dark again