Dear boss,
I'm calling in sick today - this fucking thing has the bright idea to update the firmware on its own.

Regards,
@C0D4

That moment you call a php curl script to download files handed to it from a python script because the http request in python somehow get blocked by corporate bullshit, but you also need access to MS products for this script to work, which you can't do in PHP.

# FML
# Corporate "Security" is bullshit
# Fail, Adapt, Overcome

Fuck off you disturbed snowflakes with your SJW bullshit.

I get it, words cause damage, but words taken out of context for emotional self pity is on you.

Ok I expressed my feelings on the matter, see you next year for the next round!

devRant Welcome Bot

Holy Pi on a stick!!!

The 8GB RPi4 is now available!

https://raspberrypi.org/blog/...

I'm hoping this is a bug.
Apparently I've lost my ++ status 😕

Who's got time to be an imposter. 🤷‍♂️

I am out of my depth 90% of the time, always diving into areas that are foreign to me, you just need to enjoy the buzz of knowing you are coming out the other side more knowledgeable then you did going in.

But if you do get overwhelmed with this condition, step back, take a breather, and use that moment to think things through at the big picture level before moving forward again, sometimes the right solution is hard to think off when you're to focused and drowning your way through a bad one.

Has anyone else noticed the blackest black theme messing up with the divider lines again?

Maybe it's just me...

There are days I like to pull my hair out and create a dynamic 4D map that holds a list of records. 🤯

Yes there's a valid reason to build this map, generally I'm against this kind of depth 2 or 3 is usually where I draw the line, but I need something searchable against multiple indexes that doesn't entail querying the database over and over again as it will be used against large dynamic datasets, and the only thing I could come up with was a tree to filter down on as required.

I'm going nuts with this isolation, so next on my agenda... let's learn flutter!

Anyone have some half decent app tuts (preferably not videos) that they can suggest? I'm sure the usual "to do" list has been done and dusted a billion times, I'm looking for something more explorative into different features of flutter rather then just a "build this"

That moment you realise why you enjoy the dev life again.

It's been a long time since I've had a solid day of coding, just coding..., no meetings, no wild requests, no crazy issues, no data fixing because someone can't type a number correctly, just me, myself and that keyboard going on a field trip of quality coding time again.

Ah, it's a good day to end the week on!

Today I welcome a new bot into our little world.

Have you ever had the need to write "did you google it" before?

@lmgtfy will turn your comment into a lmgtfy search.

Just tag @lmgtfy and any text afterwards will be added to a search term. (Excluding emojis - because reasons)

this is a test rant.

VsCode.

I have been on a journey with editors, all the way back to using edit.exe in Windows 95, to notepad, MS FrontPage, Adobe Dreamweaver, PHPDesigner, vim, nano, then out to Eclipse, Atom, Brackets, notepad++, back to Atom, then VsCode.

And by far, vsCode has given me the most productivity and customisation of them all to not care about what project I open, what language it's written in, or what frameworks are working behind it. I can switch with workspaces and everything is setup to go, yes it's a pain in the ass to setup, but it's a ducking dream to just open and jump in.

Now being able to use VsCode for Salesforce has dropped any requirement for me to keep eclipse around.

[wk205]
The whole... working from home part.

No matter how much you learn and practise, you're still going to break something.

So get on with learning, and break something huge!

Is it just me or have the spammers come out of the wood works today?

Programming has taught me that time is a valuable and under appreciated resource.

if a task is repeated multiple times per week / month, you have at your finger tips the ability to automate the hell out of it and let your computer deal with the task instead.

!dev, !sponsored

It takes a fair bit for me to enjoy an online course, let alone want to recommend it.

if anyone is looking at using their "free" time learning something new during these troubling times, i would go look at the Packt Courses.

@whocares suckered me in the other day, and i have to admit, i dont regret it.
https://devrant.com/rants/2441665/...

So with that i would actually say to anyone wanting to get into:
- Java
- Python
- Go(lang)
- Data Science
- C++
- Ruby
- Clojure
- PHP
- webDev (html, css, javascript)

then checkout these workshops.
https://courses.packtpub.com/pages/...
or
https://courses.packtpub.com/enroll...

you can actually enroll into all of them using the free coupon, so theres that ☺

one down side is the lack of dark mode, but im sure we all have browser extensions for that.

Go is fast they said, Go is lightweight they said.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
var nums []int
for i := 10; i > 0; i++ {
nums = append(nums, i)
i--
}
fmt.Println(nums)
}

# htop
| PID | USER | VIRT | %CPU | %MEM
| 12048 | root | 16.9g | 101.3 | 94.2

WTF is eating my resources to hell and.... oh... oh im a dickhead!

im working through a workshop on Go, and a wild rick-roll appears.

Fuckers got me!

How the fuck have I not been using GO!

What bullshit wizardry is this!!!

I think I'm in fucking love!!

Sorry php, it's been a long long relationship, but I think I have a crush on this hamster. 🥰

Well that's it folks,
Australia has started to shutdown and become the isolated island it once was again, even more so with states shutting down independently.

Atleast we have the intern -

fuck, got to reboot the modem... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
where was i, oh yea -

internet right? It's not like the NBN wasn't designed to have every fucking Aussie using it at once or anything 🙄

https://abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/...

Here's to the last time I'll see the office for a month.

I guess I'm on the WFH bandwagon now 🍻

We are devs right?
We have cpus and gpus lying around right?
We are still alive... right? 🤔

How about we do our part and utilise our PCs for helping with COVID-19 research.

I've stumbled across this little tool that not only keeps me warm at night but helps researchers with several diseases.

https://foldingathome.org/iamoneina...

It's like a a bitcoin miner but for research purposes, no it's not a dodgy bitcoin miner.

Oh and feel free to keep yourself anonymous as there are stats that will identify your username - when they work.

There are installers for windows, Mac, and linux distros so everyone can get involved.

Windows users this is a PSA!

If you start getting BSOD's for no apparent reason, go find KB4535996 and uninstall it.

I've had 3 BSOD's just trying to work out wtf is causing this in the last 10 minutes.

https://windowslatest.com/2020/03/...

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Don't miss out on this twice in a lifetime offer and sell your pinkies today!

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This is bound to start a war, but now I can shove Android.... wait for it.....
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ON MA FREAKING IPHONE 😍

https://github.com/corellium/...

It turns out 1200+ comments on a rant breaks devRant, I can't load the comments section anymore without the app crashing.

https://devrant.com/rants/2420819/...

On a other note, where did the block feature go?

!rant

Anyone here experienced with Route53?

I have a small issue I'm trying to think through on how to achieve with minimum effort and maintenance, essentially set once and walk away and never care about it again solution.

Basically what I have is:

sub.domain.com

and I need to get it to redirect over to

otherdomain.com/folderToGetTo/

Using a 301 would be ideal but how for the life of me do I go about serving a 301 redirect over a dns entry - short answer is I can't unless I'm missing something!

Both domains are owned by the same company so no issue in hijacking a subdomain... well besides internal politics but that's just another day 😏

First thoughts include setting up a S3 bucket with hosting and forcing the dns to that and then, redirect out of the bucket... seems overkill but will work.

Hoping to find a smaller solution that I don't have to justify a S3 bucket being used for a single file - audits suck alright🤷‍♂️

Oh and setting up a redirect at the originating domain will take longer then it's worth to setup and get approvals for so not worth the effort internally.

Yes I will accept "fuck off @C0D4" as an answer.