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/...

We at www.PinkiesForCash.com will buy your old pinkies and give cash in hours.

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

All sales are final, our pinkie removalists are the best in the industry with quick and painless removal techniques, you'll never know you had a pinky before!

That's www.pinkiesforcash.com don't miss out!!

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.

im just going to leave this here.

have found now.

Question Time.
Has anyone around here used Krita before?
https://krita.org/en/#

Im trying to find something Photoshop-like that isn't GIMP - i've never really liked it for what ever reason.

i dont do design work enough to pay Adobe's BS subscription, but something opensource / donationware would be more appealing.

Has anyone felt the astonishing effect that is writing a whole bunch of test classes, hitting run for the first time and they all pass.

I'm kinda sitting here staring at my screen in disbelief, either these tests all passed, or I've really missed something and they passed anyway, or it's just a lying piece of shit trying to question my own abilities... all are possible right now.

And no, they are not " assert(1,1) "

What a satisfying and yet freaking scary thing when you run

# git checkout -b feature/lostHoursWorkingOnThis
# git reset -- hard <commit from 3 months ago>
# git push upstream master --force

Just when you're at the final sign off of a major change and the business goes "nope, we want to make even more changes before we sign off ok this"

🤷‍♂️out of scope gone wrong!!

Well fuck you, I got shit to deploy, all this work can get out of my way!

When your week has been so stressful... you just want to curl up in the corner and cry.

Murphy's law is taking me for a ride of a lifetime right now, and just when you start seeing light at the end of the tunnel, it's just a lightbulb and another dead end.

F£~*{*}£{*\€|>\€\£~£¥\\*£,'%]#]}[#>\£|¥|+>]£\€£|€|!{¥]*$;&,!:@&;&939/);$$CK!!!!

Glad I could get that off my chest 😆

Did someone beak the swag shop?

https://swag.devrant.com/

Because sharing is caring.
For anyone whom cares, I've extracted the CoronaVirus data for total infected / deaths from the world health organisation and shoved it into applicable csv files per day.

You can find the complete data set here:

https://github.com/C0D4-101/...

Since i cant use these, first come first serve!
Here's two steam keys for whom ever wants them.

i already own these, so no point in letting them sit around collecting digital dust.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - $51.95 AUD
H3LAB-KMRWP-WYA9Q
https://store.steampowered.com/app/...

Sinking Island - $11.50AUD
NK5QI-D0N90-X2LQ7
https://store.steampowered.com/app/...

if you use them, leave a comment.

Quirks of.... PHP 😂😂😂😂

It's just a quirky language, you either love it or you hate it, or you hate it because you caught the bandwagon in town.

Weirdest quirk though, would have to be function naming conventions and order of arguments.

Shit be crazy at times but you get used to it.

Because my steam library keeps growing recently, how about you grow yours too And not feel bad about spending your money.

fanatical games has joined in on the Aussie Bushfire Appeal and will be donating proceeds to the WWF to help our toasted wildlife.

https://fanatical.com/en/blog/...

Games that are part of the sale:
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore
- RiME
- Doom
- Dishonoured 2
- Prey
- Wolfenstein 2
- Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
- Wreckfest
- Learn Japanese to Survive! Trilogy
- Train Valley 2
- Everspace Ultimate Edition
- Mr. Shifty

Is it just me, or has @LastPass hired too many interns lately?

First: you can't login for hours before they actually go and admit they fucked up.

Now: the chrome extension has been deleted from the web store.

I'm a patient guy, but what on the unholy fuck is going on.

https://status.lastpass.com/
The LastPass extension in the Chrome Web Store was accidentally removed by us and we are working with the Google team to restore it ASAP. Thank you for your understanding and patience in the meantime.

What a day.
Reviewing and merging a months worth of work, configuring cloudformation for the new changes, and deploying to the staging environment when err mer gawd AWS decides to shit it's self.

Nothing like spotting "rollback in progress" and then not being able to access the EC2 instance... or ANY instance for that matter, from the console, so I'm like fine , I'll just wait for the roll back to finish.... it's usually only 5-10 minutes but no.... 3 hours later.

Guess I know what I'll be trying again tomorrow.

https://itnews.com.au/news/...

Why!!!
Why must some devs make life complicated!!!!!!

So, here I am enjoying my day (well enjoying the meetings that are taking me away from working) when I get a bug report that script X isn't sending out emails anymore.

Ok that's weird, this as far as I know uses the same email class as every other email being sent out from this project, and they all work.

Let's go have a quick dig...

function sendEmail(){
/*do a bunch of stuff*/
}
Is being used, well that's odd, it should be $emailService->send()
But what ever, it's probably an old wrapper for legacy sake since this script was written years ago. But nope, I almost cried, it's a wrapper for mail() isolated into this script.

Like for fucks sake, why in the hell would this be used when there's an entire fucking class that's tried and tested and only looses 1 email every few months, coz shit happens.

Errrrr.... sometimes i really wonder why people can't just do what they need to do the first time round.

that weird anxious feeling you get when trying to work out if this is a good idea or not.

"There was a problem downloading the required files"

OK, well that lasted long.
MS cant even have their installer finish anymore.

Anyone wanting to get a bundle of steam games + help us Aussies with our Bush fires.

Now's your chance!!

Humble Bundle is donating 100% of purchases of this bundle to Wires, RSPCA and WWF.

https://humblebundle.com/games/...

!rant !!PSA

CentOS 8.1 has hit the downloads page people's!!!!

I guess it's too early for release notes yet but what ever, I know where my next few days will be spent making sure projects can be lifted up without to much hassle.

http://isoredirect.centos.org/cento...