Working on an OS again has made my *really* appreciate ChatGPT

I've always thought that it's a useful tool if you can use it, but most of the time I couldn't. Low level engine work or whatever where the hardest thing is knowing what you want to do doesn't benefit from an LLM at all

But for os dev? It's honestly insane. Not that chatgpt is always right (it's mostly wrong) but the *ideas* it gives you to try other stuff and check other stuff. Those are invaluable. A dozen times it has saved my ass over the last 2 days when I was stuck

I think a big part is that when you can converse with someone who comes up with new ideas it keeps your motivation up. I remember doing osdev 5 years ago and I just quit after 2 weeks because I was stuck and I didn't know what to do

What's the point of having a filter "Job not already seen" if the first one that appears are marked "You have already applied to this job" Indeed?

!dev
Guess who burnt their ENTIRE face today while skiing? Thats right I'm a tomato now!

Use IDE to easily refactor extract methods

Notice it doesn't order input parameters by order it uses them

I don't want to manually update

I hate SVN

Spent 4 hours trying to figure out why API endpoint keeps returning a 404, the data guy checked the database and the row exists. Didn't know the one endpoint it was using was for debugging, which also isn't working.

Turns out Angular somehow decided to switch environments and called the wrong endpoint. I was working in an HTML template and then suddenly shit stopped working. Someone probably committed the debugging endpoint by accident and I pulled the change into my code. Imagine a dev puts some super secret API key in there and pushes it to the remote repo. Congratulations, you now leaked a potentially private API key.

"Good practices", my arse.

The way Angular uses environments is retarded. Just use fucking .env files, why is it so hard?

Angular is retarded.

Yeah, no daily starving to death updates anymore. Making the decision to starve came with a lot of drama, but it's resolved now — I accepted my fate and just carry on starving myself in silence. I'm back to no #2 club! I'm now the lightest I've been in years. Bad news is that some weird and obscure stomach pain appeared, and it comes and goes as it pleases, no matter if I eat/fast/vomit or not. It's killing me.

People of
"<in the first 5 minutes>
Sorry if I pronounced your name wrong
<continues on hours long obvious power trip>"
..

What is your home address?

The spammers are going hardcore.

They upvoted their downvoted rants. They did it automated probably, because the rants were not visible on the site anymore.
I downvoted some with the anti-spam bots but they seem to be ip-blocked for downvoting or something. They don't work anymore. Maybe I need a proxy or something..

It sucks, they have such an advantage. Upvoting is easy and unlimited.

Do some charity, downvote:

https://devrant.com/rants/11436748/...
https://devrant.com/rants/11534679/...
https://devrant.com/rants/12086556/...

Whoever invented this format.

I just want to talk.

On the day of my birthday, both Skype and Boris Spassky, the chess grandmaster world champion, died. Our metamodernist timeline is so fucking weird

I've been off caffeine for over two months*. I've also had a ton of 8am/9am meetings and they hurt so much. Last week I picked up a vape for the nicotine because I desperately need a stimulant for focus as I'm behind on tasks at work. I'm hoping I won't need another vape once this runs out.

Thankfully the US has the daylight savings switch next week, so my 8ams move to 9. It lasts for three weeks before they move back to 8 since they're scheduled by someone in the UK and their DST comes later.

I'm also going to talk to my manager about the 3x 8am meetings last week and how I'm not doing that again.

I hope I can get this PR done today.

* (with the exception of 1 Dr Pepper Blackberry Zero, and 1 Coke Orange Cream Zero because they're new and I wanted to try them)

Pinecone is a scam service. Billing for assistants per hour... Making every assistant costing you more than a euro per day for not using on top of your monthly contract. They're as scammy as AWS. Cancelled directly. Paying a euro per green dot behind your assistant name. They're like unlimited x, unlimited y, don't think so, Bye.

Sad, i did like the service.

The orange juice in United States looks and taste different

Nothing quite like when a client is whining about something incredibly obvious/predictable/intuitive and you can hear how it's breaking their tiny little civilian brain

It’s not wise to play chess with a pigeon. It will throw all pieces away, shit on the board and tell everybody it won.

Scrum is like low-management, similar to low-code.

With low-code, we say our programmers are not very good. So the less they program, the better. With low-management, we say that our managers are not capable of managing people, so the less they manage, the better.

yesterday my phone upgraded from Android 14 to 15
soooo, nothing's new?

there's some "auto transcript" for media or something
Like I'd love to see you try transcribing my "hidden camera POV JAV" bruh

So uh, I haven't been here in a while.
Are there actual rants about dev topics anywhere or is it all schizoposting, AI and politics..?

Saw someone complaining not enough dev rants.

I have a coworker who's a good friend. Got him this job. He has good output, smart kid, but our coding styles clash.

I believe in DevEx (since we write internal tools). He sees it as premature optimization.

Example:
He won't validate data from input we don't control because "it shouldn't change that much".

Results:
He codes fast, but delivers shit that breaks in production and others (me) have to fix.

It's frustrating.

If any of you play counterstrike or have friends that play counterstrike, watch out for a scam where a friend might ask you to vote for their logo/team on some bs "varsity clash whatever" site.

The thing pops up a fake steam login window and tries to phish you as far as I can tell. It's even styled as a Window window (which is fun when you're on linux like me)

I made a throw away account just to test it and I got some fun logins from Russia, though I revoked the access fast enough so that I retained control.

as far as I can tell the site only exists for a couple of days according to WHOIS and all the steam login assets are hosted on some unrelated non valve server...

This PSA is not really for the more skilled and careful people here, but I thought I'd stick it here for the possibly lurkers and less experienced users just in case.

In Software Development, if you have a problem to solve, you break it down into smaller, easier-to-solve problems.

Does this always hold true? I imagine there are situations where you can't do this. I would need to see different perspectives.

I'm half assing my job and my manager thinks micromanaging me is a good solution.

"Any junior engineer could try those things"

Yes. And then need help to make it actually work.

I'm slow because he's an asshole. I'm still better than anyone else.

Fuck him.

I have the urge to write a torrent lib in Rust but I really have other priorities to take care of…

I've just wasted 3 hours on this shit

Apparently when you use -device loader in qemu to load raw code into your vm and start executing it, qemu thinks that - actually - you didn't really want to execute from 0x00007c00. What you *really* wanted is to execute random fucking gibberish at 0xffff07c00

Yes qemu, that's *exactly* what I wanted!
*grumble* fckingpieceofshitsoftware *grumble*

Starting the new gig tomorrow. Don't really know what to expect from this one but always hopefully. I was really hoping to finish up the freelance project by now and have no overlap but oh well

In the light of the recent events.....

I've almost made my peace with the fact that I will probably be nicked in the upcoming few years, as well as many others trying to stay free and/or flee countries in conflict. I just hope it won't be too long and agonising.
Thanks to the miracle of the internet, I will still be alive there in a form of online profiles and my posts/rants here. Maybe retoor's dR-trained LLM will be able to mimic me well enough to trick you all I'm still out there :))

just some doom and gloom shower thoughts.. running circles in my head for years now.

How are you declaring your arae's? 🫣🤣💀 Guess the accent :D

— There is a bug in prod!
— Omg, why aren't you fixing it yet?
— No, I'm just raising awareness!

Still haven't watched the matrix but I'm pretty sure the story is just this:

All countries should agree to destroy all bombs and guns.