They chose mine! THEY CHOSE MINE!

What was your worst "OK, I'm getting fired for this" moment

Why Linux is better than Windows (jk, it would be biggest shitstorm in history of devRant)

Easter eggs you've added to your applications.

Most stupid feature requested by your client.

Why did you become a programmer?

Me? Because I can make things the way I want.

Do you write **and use** your own apps?

Show and tell :)

Out of ideas guys? 😄

If you couldn't work any more as a coder / programmer / hacker / it-master-guru, what would your profession be?

Like, not your ideal profession, but the most likely thing that you would end up doing outside of the dev world.

Your 'oh shit, what have I done? 😳' moment.

What bad practices (regarding software development) you are aware but can't get rid of?

Favourite place to get updated on news in the programming world and why?

“What OTHER skills do you have?“

Best commit message you have seen

What do you do during your compiling time?

Best / Worst interview question

wk46
"Which language/framework do you avoid and why? Rant about it!"

It'd be nice if it creates a storm of "insultfull" rants.

What one piece of advice would you give to a developer starting their career?

We need to be learning from other's mistakes. A good weekly topic would be "a time you really failed as a dev, and what you learned".

Pick top 3 software tools you mostly use for your job
Terminal does not count)

When you see 'wk46' and realize that it's been 46+ weeks since you joined devRant.

Tell us the funniest thing you said to your client.

what kind of startup would you support?

What was your first computer

Most embarrassing app idea you've had...

What was the hardest job interview question?

Your favourite coffee type.

I think it would be a nice theme to discuss.
Because it is our energy source. :p

Personal favorite programming languages?

Confessions: Worst things you do which are 'bad practice'

Worst partition experiences.

Tabs or spaces, and why?

What's the best tool you didn't know you were missing, but could not work without it now

When, where and how was your very first interaction with programming.

Worst issue you got blamed for, but wasn't your fault.

Best story about a dev you know who's angrier than you.

Best time backups saved your ass.

Story about a traumatic dev experience.

What would you do if you had a passive income high enough that you could live off of it?

Atom or VS Code?

The unexpected sequel to the 'vim or emacs' debate.

So, apparently you guys are having some trouble understanding wk46.
When someone suggests the topic, you should not actually reply with a rant you'd post in that topic.

Keep the content and post it when the topic gets used.
(you'll also get more upvotes since it'll be a rant instead of a comment)

I type in somewhat broken english the steps on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich.

A time you've been asked to implement something you felt uncomfortable with.

Idea for Weekly Rant - What have you developed that you're most proud of?😁

Idea for Dev Rant in General - Ability to add and message friends. Groups or Communities to join and chat. 👫

How do you deal with monkeys and the code they write?

Topic idea: biggest effort you accidentally deleted.

What's your favourite animal on O'reilly book covers?

What was the worst lie you told during an interview?

weirdest/longest/worst name you had to concieve for a class/function/variable

What do you think about JavaScript

uhmm, rant about co-devs who are not good in teamwork ?

When do you know it's the right time to fire someone ... asking for a friend

Shit you do when you procrastinating?

What's your best code comments ?

Here is mine ! Wrote few days back..

Why did you learn programming??

Why do you love devrant?

The person with the most upvotes will get a free stress ball.

Best dev moment in college/work where you felt like the king of the world

Dev frustrations that almost made you quit on the spot.

Dream job or most wanted IDE feature?

Idea for weekly if you need some:

What's the most interesting problem you encountered/solved?

❤ @dfox

Why MAC is so popular for developers ?

Setupwars. Show off your epic coding zone setup.

Your biggest oh fuck moment as developer. "I dropped the prod DB"

Go meta and ask what would be a good future weekly rant prompt.

Dogs or Cats?

Your best source(s) of learning?

Why being an expert in your choice language matters.

Best idea to gain ideas for a part of your app that gets refreshed every week *cough* :P

What was your "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" moment?

best/worst experience with a language you're not familiar with.

also, most hated language you had to work with

The first annoying request by people, who have no idea what programming is all about

What is your most effective "soft skill"?

Best coding practices and tips

Just in time for my Spartian score ~

This just popped up in my mind since I saw this post in the week :

Do you ever code in your free time ? And do you use your applications ? Or propose them publicly ?

I like how this one gets you out of 2 weeks of making up topics. Well played @dfox @trogus 👍

Art of estimation..!!

The best thing you ever learned at school.

Which type of coffee do you prefer?

Do you think your job is actually making a difference to the society? Do you think it's necessary to make a difference?

The day i wrote a live patch.💣

working as developer, actually android and java. Maybe not a big deal for you but it is, for me at least

Given how much talk there's around security, I think it'd be grand idea to dedicate a weekly rant to cybersecurity. Could spark an interesting discussion, especially in today's heated climate. Thoughts?

E.g. Best way to increase security/privacy?

Why not : How school make you love/hate a specific domain in Computers in general ? Like Databases, Model Driven Development, simple coding, whatever

What is the most demotivating thing that can happen to you at work?

Worst project team handled

What is your best stories while installing OS ?

Vim or emacs

Maintaining other's code

Projects you would do if time/money/complexity wouldn't matter.

What were your expectation-vs-reality moments from your previous employers/projects?

What about some fun coding challenges?

Besides Owncloud and Gitlab, what's your favorite open source project to self-host on your own private server?

Good programmer/programming memes?

'Scrum but' pointless deviations

Prompt in which you have friends and you can sort them by favorit language or other things.
You can invite friends and they got to confirmanf then you have friendship with the other guy/girl/other.

I am sorry that this is not for weekly rant but for devRant.😅

What is the most horrible bug you ever solved or were really proud of?

How about ' What tech/framework/language do you trust will truly stand the test of time' ? Sorry if someone has already suggested this but I would love to see opinions.

worst project ever

Bad algorithms (on purpose). People have been doing that lately and it's really entertaining.

Biggest challenge you face with agile development at your workplace.

What’s the worst git branch management you’ve seen?

Mine was on purpose:

What do you think is the next feature to land and why?

How do you switch off after a day of technical thinking? What hobbies do you enjoy that don't have you sitting in front of a monitor?

A gadget you really wish for

How about "version control blues" about version control tools being more trouble than help? Because I'm having some wonderful time with subversion for VS2010

Which four persons (living, dead, fictional) would be part of your Avengers style dev team?

What is your biggest "if people heard me now without context, I'd be going on a trip to the authorities" moment?

What's the most nonsensical thing someone ever told you during your dev career?

So this semester we started to explore how to create interface using html php and so on.Bonus marks will be given for project that have interface.Because we are too excited about the interface we forget the main objectives were update,delete,insert and record.. 🙃🤣

I think it would be interesting to turn a experience into a haiku. Like take a memorable experience, good or bad, funny or serious, and turn it into a Haiku.

Re-boosting your motivation. 😂

Attack of the Bots: Do you think that this tech has invaded the internet?