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Just drew devRant stressball on public canvas. It's on recently popular Minetest server - mtPlace.
A bunch of cultural swag there, mostly libre and 1337, so I thought it would be wonderful to have a piece of dR as well to liven things up. 😁9 -
Last week in dR Hunger Games...
▶ https://youtu.be/Aj97BNLuhZI
Watch as 24 tributes from the number of devRant users beat each other in this violent simulation. Introducing the 2nd week of craziness, now in entertaining video form! 🤣51 -
MY LAPTOP just scared the shit out of me. It screamed words like a demon. I thought that I am hacked. But it was just a screen reader... I accidentally activated it or something while unlocking the lappy.2
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Oh my lord. Even with JSP option available, some frick decided they should put everything in Java method including JavaScript. And to make it even worser they utilize syntax with StringBuilder. Just... take this away from me!6
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Like, seriously, bruh. Some junior have managed to run Notepad++ that consumed a lot of RAM... on our development server... on CentOS... using Wine.15
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So, we have massive desks in office and there is no much space for them to fit +2 newcomers. Occasionally, my old youtube recommendation "Tetris Original Theme" started playing out loud. :)10
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If point-and-click game made in PowerPoint, that my grandma actively played because of boredom, is "creative hacky solution", then there you have it.
First game is "The Adventures of Sayid", second "Hide and Seek" with creepy pasta sound and graphic assets from Shrek: Activity Center.
Well, that's my childhood without Internet, what I can say!3 -
dR Community Server Showcase is open for suggestions! From devRant users, for devRants users. 🔗 https://devrant.com/collabs/3221539
You will find: guides, videogames, software w/ source available, useful web extensions, gamedev assets, and other stuff.2 -
Video adaptation of the rant from @Wisecrack - https://youtu.be/_zo7mMeH2xU
Have fun watching 😁
Original: https://devrant.com/rants/4519564joke/meme objection.lol wageslave ace attorney look mom i'm on tv youtube videorant corporate novel capitalism11 -
I just compiled a color palette for devRant-related drawings that anyone can import into GIMP and Inkscape. Already successfully using it for graphics promoting dR Community Matrix (more on that later), hence the name: "drcm-palette".
🎨 https://github.com/drcmatrix/...
For reference I used colors produced by "Tailwind CSS 10-color Palette Generator": https://tailwind.simeongriggs.dev/19 -
Dang, dR Meetup 5/6 was a super fantastic game night! 😄
Mostly, we played Codenames, in which the host brought custom dictionary of programming terms.
⭐🗓 Join us for more events: https://devrant.com/collabs/3221539
Press the 🔔s and you won't miss any! -
Open source software repositories don't deserve contributors like JamesCrook. It's a shame, really, that maintenance befalls on them.9
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"This page looks better in the app"
No, it f**king doesn't! I checked it, you lazy analytics-hungry monstrosity.1 -
One employer has just contacted me, said that my resume seems very interesting and invited me.
Now I'm looking at their website, all from 00s and with cringey fonts. Ok, they do "automatization of financial systems" and etc.
Alright, scrolling down... Suddenly, I see cut from the familiar soviet cartoon "Vovka in the Far Away Kingdom", where in the end Vova says:
- Well, that would do!
IRONY 😂
Now I'm questioning my will to attend this interview.4 -
For those who whine about authors putting "TL;DR" after the text that was supposed not to be necessarily read...
"TL;DR" means "Too long; didn't read". Hence, we have all the audacity to insert it *after* the long text. When you don't have time to read, you usually scroll to bottom and find a summary if any.
At least, scrolling can be done even by monke and author can concentrate on writing the streams of text to their heart's content instead of fishy semantics.8 -
I hold the stance that the best development tools are the ones with enough novice tolerance and no tendency to stay on contributors' way. The worst tools will make you adopt opinions that serve to make more harm than good, be it on the communicative side of things or codebase.
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Made these intros some months ago, but haven't got time for the full dR Hunger Games 3 video. Still, here are your appetizers!
Rev2 Final: https://youtu.be/r3WAlLTDMSc
Rev1: https://youtu.be/J--p-kGB36Y14 -
We're declaring an active season of events at dR Community Server! 🎉 https://devrant.com/collabs/...
Join our guild of 100+ members to get hold of fresh ideas and game events tailored for active devRant community. You are welcome to organize your own events in here.
Showcasing notable userscripts or projects every week. Cohesive threads and always enough channels for everything you like, all await you at dRCS. 😄3 -
Encapsulate tasks
To abstract your case,
Full of the catharsis
And exceptions to face.
Didn't commit, oh wait,
More trouble? One reset.
We return and all hail
This programming mindset!3 -
HP employees bored confirmed.joke/meme irrelevant capitalism traffic ideas at midnight seo hewlett packard hobby minecraft content1
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Full HD wallpaper
"Black Kite severely slices KiKi with a sword"
I'm working on a video for dR Hunger Games 3. It takes a heck of time, since I'm learning more video editing techniques. Meanwhile, have this ;)9 -
I've made a fun video transcribing one of the hot discussions on devRant: https://youtu.be/kL4TgNUS-9I
Please leave suggestions about what I should transcribe next in familiar format, also I wouldn't mind like and sharing! ;)3 -
Just wanted to know: am I a single maniac in the world that likes to select text on websites and press-hold buttons/links often to check how they look in `:active: and `:focus` states, just for naught? 😂4
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I invite you to participate in private Clash of Code tournament for devRanters @ https://discord.gg/jMp64VH
We await you at Saturday 12/5 10:00 AM Eastern Time 😉🛡⚔7 -
Of course, CDN had to fall down on the day (out of 1k days of ignorance) when I finally decided to unsubscribe from Medium and other bs newsletters. I'll delegate this to the spam folder.2
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Continuing the trend of devRant stressball entering places! Previous attempt: https://devrant.com/rants/6483141
Within FSF conference, LibrePlanet 2023, there is a temporary Minetest server. More info and art: https://techhub.social/@vintprox/...2 -
Hidden pixel just scratched my finger while I was wiping the screen with my palm. Lesson successfully learned.1
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Unironically, Fireship's "React for the Haters in 100 Seconds" is a treat.rant react js make frontend svelte again javascript went wrong youtube video library facebook fireship1
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When "imposter" is more like of lifestyle rather than syndrome, funny answer comes to mind, but I'll excuse myself without telling it.4
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(Questions below.) At this point I probably just whine about job search in IT w/o much commitment. It's because I don't learn stuff from interviews and have no willingness to prepare for primitive questions from HR's book. You know, stuff like: "What was your experience on previous jobs and why you quited them?" and "What are your advantages and cons?"
Even though I see them a bit discriminatory. I barely find words and make them audible alrite, and so rush to the stack questions. I answer 50% of them in average, 20% ideally. As a result, I get no conclusive offer. Fair... probably not. Doesn't matter.
All of a sudden, idea chimed in to make a personal website with all of the frequent questions answered in advance. At last, I've got some time to make the decent replacement of the CV into a landing page that communicates my professional and emotional ability to headhunters.
TL;DR: I wanna make my personal website portfolio and I need your word about the following.
1) Can I make up for the absence of my own live projects with OSS commitments or other smooth talk?
2) Is there a merit in answering the common interview questions right off the bat in written form?
3) So, I already prepared 4 conclusive theses with thoughtput choice of words, that I wanna place as a grid in first scrolling section. I call it "Principles", but perhaps there is a synonym to this one or it's good as it is?
4) I don't want to represent myself as a blunt set of "features". How do I transite into explaining the usage of my stack in these circumstances? Less text better, right?7 -
Fuck these frequent "URGENT TO REVIEW" pull requests with 10+ files changed by lead each time, amirite or amirite?1
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*sigh* What am I doing? I should have started with contributing to this! https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/...1
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Today I tried teaching a 36 years old student about HTML and layout. My inner self is always restless for practice as an excuse for less talking, but in the end I end up doing even more talking and getting kinda embarrassed.
Good thing is that student understood everything well enough in this 1 hour. I also inserted some good stuff: tips and tricks, conventions mentioned, trends... He even craved for more information.
I'm going to prepare to make further studies more fruitful, because the next synopses won't be as theoretical as today's one.1 -
I'm working on a prototype for The New Oil revamped landing page and wanted to know your opinion so far.
Issue for context: https://gitlab.com/thenewoil/...
How do you perceive "clear screens" design paradigm? What could use more improvement?question nate prototyping cybersecurity thenewoil website surveillance report techlore tno design privacy16 -
Whoever uses "status" as boolean in responses to indicate whether error happened (true) or not (false)??????!!4
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At this 5th week of Codenames fun we get bombarded with the most ridiculous clues we have ever seen!3
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I want to make a game that collects a lot of questions for reuse and where players answer these one after another to make up the most dumb funny stories. Alas, it's in planning stage now.
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Kind of a teaser for the upcoming dR Hunger Games video:
▶ https://youtu.be/1x0KCfWT2w0
This week introducing a live reaction featuring @Synthron!1 -
Play Store's $25 registration fee - for getting PWA listed in their shitty catalogue? Who in the right mind would even jump in this clusterfuck of store to find a *web* app? For all you know, Google, there is such thing as QR codes - and customers can just scan the code (or type in that sweet address). Voila! Boom!!! Ching-ching!
Hello-hello, monopolistic cashgrabage! I came to inform you that your TWA bullshit is unneeded in ETHICAL space. The only ones who would benefit from this thing are permission-hungry publishers. And I'm already sick of this culture where people are put into store bubbles. You can't hide the fact that this data and features you provide, with "native" layer, may be misused in a jiffy - and by big players, no less. Of course, as a vile dumpster that you are, you don't mind it.
Don't even bring up a battery consumption that comes with PWA and browser. This doesn't matter if you use an app for some 2 minutes to tick your mental checkboxes! I'm just sick of app stores and native apps that collect the data without normal warning, and dare to take more than 1 second to fucking load the cached data. Take a lesson or two from PWAs that collect (probably useful) cache, instead of my specs, and load almost instantly.12 -
https://github.com/PwnFunction/...
Who led this flattening user input object into the Next.js codebase, also thinking that `runContext` is going to make better companion than `eval`?
Yet another reason to switch over Sapper and other Svelte minimalistic solutions, in my opinion.rant nextjs security react gone wrong pwnfunction this is fine in the light of recent events with log4j code review disasters1 -
If you ever make rating request pop up when user makes something else, I SWEAR TO GEEBUS, I'll make you regret your life choices!5
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Guess, I'm slithering my way out from "tough dev days" by mentoring. I tell you, it's very convenient.3
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Every Friday, we be playing. Custom word collection, challenging topics, teamwork!
Join the party! 😄🎉5 -
We can't have good things, can we, SVG implementations??? Apparently, I can't re<use> anything from adjacent file, because only Inkscape understands it. Or to seek support in browser, server is required to see a group from one SVG file in another. Why?4
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And there I was thinking Maven is going to make life simpler, with this granular dependency management and IDE independence (no extraneous classpath and module management required). But wait, it turns out that to run simple Ant task I need all my dependencies to have *.pom. Every. Fricking. Dependency.
I mean, sure, only if I knew which sub-dependencies they all had, but that seems like heck a lot of work to make external JAR libraries to work with Maven process.
WHY TODAY? Yesterday I had no issue: uploaded few libraries in corporate repository, refreshed index, dependencies downloaded, even had time appending javadoc to one of them and it worked. But today is the day, right? I just run simple task with maven-antrun-plugin (mvn antrun:run@<executionID>), and it starts scanning each dependency for *.pom file. I DON'T WANT THIS. Google, help me. Oh, no direct answers and clues?
Just... fuck you, Maven. With all 2 days effort I could just litter in IDE's classpath, write build.xml in no time, make normal webservice, but that would require me to also litter sources with required libraries. FML!4 -
I find it insightful when people actually convert their rant into a knowledge bomb 💣💥😅 https://hackersandslackers.com/flas...
Finally getting to know clear advantages of "application factory" over how Flask apps are usually sugar-coated in scarce tutorials.
This article also points out one of the core problems with Flask documentation and, consequently, a public view on Flask's feature parity with Django.
Ever wondered why it's looked upon as not very strong rival to Django? That's documentation... again, we come to that 😔⌨️🗑 It stretches a lot of commentary and side notes, but forgets to mention best practices from community.rant overlooked patterns where are my blueprints monopoly of django poor documentation tutorial hell make factory great again flask python -
Mostly, it's being interrupted by my fam a lot. Also, recently my laptop's wi-fi adapter went turtle mode (of all the times - during quarantine).3
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♫ It's high time we reviewed our design, ♫
♫ The code behind our system is just too byzantine, ♫
♫ We'll rewrite all the legacy and take it off line, ♫1 -
Everything from https://devrant.com/rants/4289918 but on the side of projects I happen to work with and dependencies. Applying this scope of change on one human is a bit cheap, don't you think? 🤷♂️
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Who asked for RedDatabase and RedXpert? You guessed it - nobody 😑 It's a buggy Firebird and DBeaver domestic knock-off!
My student was assigned with making Flask app by "simple" requirements. But guess what? We can't figure out hecking RedDatabase?! Figures out that they sent incompatible *.fdb database file, on which we wasted entire 3 hours troubleshooting obscure error, while clean database doesn't cause any trouble.
Last error that completely drained us is following:
"""
Reason: unsupported on-disk structure for file /var/rdb/test.fdb; found 12.3, support 12.2; IProvider::attachDatabase failed when loading mapping cache [SQLState:HY000, ISC error code:335544379]
"""
So now, he basically recreates database by scheme on image. What also shady seems to me is that application also has to deployed on virtual OS which he can bring on USB stick or by cloud later. -
CircleCI takes the cake for the most annoying of constant development advertisement campaigns on YouTube, change my mind.
I mean, the product is nice and everything, but what the hell? Why should *I* make sense of your changelog - just go and show what it does in practice! Ugh, why I must teach you marketing, CircleCI, smh...1 -
TFW video freezes because of buffering and plays after a minute of waiting, then 5 seconds later buffering starts again. Gee, I just want you to keep playing whatever is possible, not stare at the screen poorly awaiting next 5 seconds of content! Rewind a bit, I dunno, just don't tease me like that...
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I became familiar with basics after my mom bought a PC and disc with software which included FirstPage. She wasn't *that* angry getting a $100 receipt for the month of Internet I trafficked - oopsie, thatta large price, even after inflation.
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In case of hot debates...joke/meme tgaa troubleshoot windows visual novel count to 11 with microsoft reply ace attorney argument1
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Tired of having to copy-paste channel names in YouTube stream live chat for proper mentioning? Here's the thing for you.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/...
Use Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey to embed this userscript.
Also, fuck you, YouTube. Fix your shit already!