My proudness accomplishment?

My relationship with my sibling

You only appreciate the present when it becomes the past.

I have made an interactive talking AI but it's not open source. It contains passwords/keys and tasks that are personal. But, a lot was learned while the code is nearly nothing. I spend many hours on research and didn't want to let it go to waste.

If you are interested in TTS / STT, this will be a nice resource: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/...

Side note: the builtin webkit TTS/STT engine is maybe even better and has a great API! Amazed by the quality of that thing.

This is python research. I hope that I can motivate someone but devRant is always empty on Saturday.

If someone needs help with an implementation regarding this, you know where to find me.

Trust your guts!

Just remember that your gut is designed to take the most tastey things and turn it into shit.

Funny how clients demand for pixel perfection on apps when they took their sweet time on vacations.

Oh well, let's do it 💪

Soo... Turns out, if your laptop has usb-c charging and it has several such usb-c ports, you can use them simultaneously.

My lappy has issues with usb-c sharging, i.e. it becomes sluggish when charging w/ usbc (compared to on-battery and charging through barrel plug). Aaaaand Linux tends to occasionally crash if I unplug the charger while it's "awake". I wanted to change chargers, so I figured I could plug in the second one (hoping not to see any smoke) and unplug the first one. As soon as I plugged in the second one, all the lag disappeared and the battery keeps charging.

So if you have an usb-c charger that's too weak for your laptop, try using two of them :D

Never would have thought....

i dream of having a working dev and test environment

or being good enough to have my own stuff working

i don't go out of my way to fuck around with any of it, i just want to do my work, clock in, clock out

A fancy position opened up in a good spot, which I should be applying for. I want to. But this soul sucking place I currently work for has crushed me and I really don't see it in me anymore. The robots have more soul in this corridor than people.

if someone in the group blames you for something, do you "accept responsibility" even if you didn't do the thing?

why or why not?

I just listened to the devops at my new place recite a strategy that I recognised to be git flow. I surprisingly wasn't traumatised or suffer the ptsd I have at the sound or sight of SLACK and Microsoft teams, despite using them roughly within the same era

For some reason, the instructions for git flow now sound straightforward:

Pull from staging. Checkout to a fresh branch on your local. Push there. Once approved, merge to staging or send a pull request to staging

But slack and teams are an indication that the gig/position is going to hit the rocks soonest. Has happened more than once, it just makes me sick now. The beep of their notifications, their ui, their stupid rules and regulations why it doesn't work on the browser but want me to install their dumb apps on my phone (even if you use desktop mode)

I'll keep on going about my vacation.

Went down the piste from where I took the picture, usually takes half an hour on average, I took less than 15 minutes.

I'm a tiny bit proud of myself :)

urgh the nebulous decision between how fast you want a processing script to run vs how many computer resources you want it to use

I just want to talk to people, more people, new people, friends, anyone,

I want to explore their culture, their life, I want to learn.

Otherwise I feel like I'm wasting my life.

I just want to go out and explore the world.

Is there a hidden joke in the fact that stand up meetings/daily stand-ups share the same word root with stand up comedy? It would seem the creators of that pointless activity thought it naughty/mischievous, if not a humorous giveaway that those gatherings are more for fun, entertainment, a joke, and a platform for product managers to not feel left out from the development process

That feeling you get when you write code so complicated, that a few weeks later, even with tutorial-level documentation, you don't know whats going on, so you just rewrite from scratch.

Yeah that just happened to me.

No time for deep work to re-grok what the fuck I was working toward, so I just rewrote the core of it to relearn the entire process.

Had comments, documentation, step-by-steps. Still the ability to understand and reason about it noped-the-fuck-out of the building apparently.

Might have had something to do with zero sleep three days in a row and too much red bull.

Sleep-deprived me operates on a whole different plane of existence.

acquiring ownership of the bitchwork disaster recovery nobody wants to do

Now I know why no one uses the google cloud. Making TTS and STT working costed me the whole night. Gemini was easy tho. But fuck google, you costed me a lot of energy. You guys are crazy. Now my api connects in a magic way i don't even understand with the gcloud cli app. The rest of my application is totally rest, don't use much of the google library.

I implemented google TTS and STT into ChatGPT. I use for somethings google because it's cheaper. It works using a JBL Go! speaker. I can just turn it on and start chatting with it. I implemented google search and gave it a memory. It can remember numbers for me. It accepts dutch and english. I can say 'google' and google is the main action. It will fetch results from google and uses gpt to summary the results. It works perfect! BUT FUCKING AI. I want to know the color of the hair from Mona Lisa. Not freaking Ona Isa! I send it literally correct. The speechtotext works great. But fucking API with it's reading. Pathethic. How far is AI? Barely usable as home assistant. So far - besides auto completion and giving code snippets / concepts AI is freaking useless. You need more patience for AI than a kid.

I hope the inventor of oauth2 dies alone. He should.

This $1 mofo created more engineers than Harvard or Stanford.

Finally.

Ios build on MAC: *runs ok for weeks*

Ios build on MAC [today]: bundler failed to load command: pod [thats the whole error]

devs: we need to update cocoapods

tell me, please, how is this any better than windows...? No sensible errors, no sensible debug options, no sensible solutions but trial-and-error bruteforcing...

Calendar event literally has information about why the presenter is busy and it's being rescheduled. But then colleague comes and everyone is already there waiting me? Like what kind of retarded fuck writes rescheduling on the event memo? My god communication error and language barrier is fucking my mood so much. Honestly, I said things in English last year to a colleague and he thought I was angry and told the boss. I was warned to be careful talking to people. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK.

apparently the ability to want to try something new is creativity...

the what. that bar seems too low?

Lady next door was visiting me. She is 67. She is a kinda psychologist and she needed a new site. With her just sitting here, i generated one with gpt and explained her html a bit. The instructions are as follow:
- if you add a page, duplicate the other page and remove the text you don't want. Do not remove html unless it's around content what you don't use anymore.
- learned her how to copy a href and change the link.

So, first, she asked me for a website. The last thing I want is somebody's website in maintenance or even work on it. Making "beautiful"/commercial sites is not my hobby.

Now, for 1,80 per month she has a domain name (i asked if it will have SSL, that's still bit unclear) and 1,- hosting per month. I think it can be even cheaper. It doesn't support php/python and stuff.

TLDR; i gave someone a HTML site generated in 5 minutes, tried a few style sheets and she was happy with it. Bye bye designers :P No one cares! Also full responsive.

Why is windows still dog shit on this day the 15th of January in the year of our Lord 2025.

pLeAsE dOnAtE tO hElP mE aFfOrD hOsTing

lolwut? you have a free-for-all project with no premium features. Users can’t create accounts. All of your code is JS, you don’t even need a server. Just host your stuff on Cloudflare. I have just about a gigabyte of data uploaded there on my free account, so if I can do it, so do you. Just use a CDN for your client-only, JS-only project.

domains though… yours is long and costs around 40 bucks a YEAR.

if you made a good product and want to make some money with it, that’s completely okay, so just say so: “I want money for my work, but I don’t want to take away features that were free and can be provided at no additional cost, so please donate”. Why lie? It’s not like people who won’t donate to you based on this justification will magically donate for “hosting”.

Good way to code:

vim

Bad way to code:

No-code. Frontpage. IA-assisted. Winmac. No you don't need bytecode. WYSYWYG. IDEs.

If I was the president of programming those people would be on their way to the moon.

Live coding interviews basically make no sense.
It's even worse when you can't use an IDE.
Like, bro, what the fuck? You want me to write code in fucking notepad?
Alright then, I can play that game. It's so easy to memorize the algos and pass the test, yet that's not indicative of a good engineer.
I wonder if the roles were reversed, how good the interviewer would perform.

There is no traffic cone emoji.
Sorry.

As much as I dislike google, it's so much more pro-active compared to Bing and Yandex :v

google already indexed my pages n removed the ones per updated robots.txt

Bing doesnt know I exist even though crawlled in webmaster, and Yandex still shows the Novemver version of pages in their results

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