What. The. Fuck. Did. Just. Happen.

A random girl followed me on social media. She looked nice and intelligent so I followed her back.

Started to chat about some random stuff. She told me she works at the HR department of an international company and asked me what's my job. Told her I'm a software developer.

Right after that she sent me a selfie. Obviously I said she looks nice, she thanked it and asked some more about my job. After a short discussion I received another selfie but somewhere in between she lost the outer layer of her clothing.

She still looks nice but now I'm sitting here utterly confused and cant tell whether it was my sarcastic humour and moderately handsome facial features which charmed her or she just needs to recruit someone for a new project and willing to do everything to reach the quota.

open source food wehn

apparently they put wheat and corn in things all the time... and seed oils like to fortify milk with vitamin d and vitamin a

and they don't have to notify you of that ingredient

so they don't

but people obviously have allergies to these things

which would sure explain a lot of shit. I noticed I couldn't eat anything that had corn in its ingredient list after I got sick, but there is also a bunch of stuff I can't eat that seems to mess me up the same way that doesn't have corn in their ingredients list, so it was purely fucking like Russian roulette gambling and trying new food would stress me out so bad -.-

companies might not like revealing how they're "creating the taste" or texture of their product to such a degree though. then it's revealing their "trade secret" like a company revealing their intellectual property

poison in your food is like a backdoor in your library though. I don't want to gamble. I want to know. fuck your shit. open source only or you're not getting on my wetware 😠

> Virtually all marketed drugs contain excipients, and final drug formulations commonly contain more excipient than active ingredient. Pharmaceutical regulations and standards mandate the identification and safety assessment of all ingredients in drugs, including their chemical decomposition products. Novel excipients can sometimes be patented, or the specific formulation can be kept as a trade secret to prevent competitors from duplicating it through reverse engineering

just feeding you this garbage. fuck you, that's why

in studies when testing these they also omit them =], so suddenly testing harmful product vs harmful excipients... oh it's less harmful than things we approved before!

if anyone wants to become an anti vaxxer: https://rumble.com/v6ss2zl-the-274t...
since sometimes people seem to claim that somehow is a crazy thing instead of a very sensible thing...
(though maybe don't watch that if it's gonna horrify you and you don't want that sensation)

Holy fucking shit, I can't stand this corporate framework they use for this banking app on which I've been working on for 2 months.

I’ve spent the last damn month just building three basic screens, and now my very first PR is buried under 50 fucking comments. Half of them exist purely because their shitty framework has multiple versions stacked and stitched together with so many workarounds that you need so much domain knowledge that intuition or actual dev experience goes out the window.

They’ve abstracted real app development into oblivion. It’s a CRUD app, but they've over-engineered it so much they’re now creating their own problems — just so they can specialize in solving them. It's become this self-sustaining nightmare where they make themselves irreplaceable... and simultaneously unemployable anywhere else.

I genuinely have no idea what I’m doing with my life anymore. The original plan was six months here, grab a mortgage, fuck off, and go back to contracting.

Now I’m stuck questioning my sanity every time I open this project or have to listen to another lecture from my 'buddy' about how everything that I'm doing is wrong.

Now that I gave up on any hope for promotion, I am relieved of presenting stuff, which to a certain extent, relieve me from a certain amount of cringe. There’s just enough left to remind me why I don’t want to speak publicly.

I see more and more tech books with AI generated cover, and every time I feel like the whole book is probably generated and is worthless 🤔

I find it strange. How can employers expect 8 hours of work a day out of you? I mostly get about 4 hours done, 5 if I'm top productive.

We rolled out yesterday a new update out to our Desktop application. The goal was to do it last weekend but we failed for reasons. The update is a success and now we (devs, project manager, QA, COO, support) got an angry email from our CEO, he mentioned:
- He is very disappointed in the whole process
- we released it without a coordinated marketing campaign
- That the devs should have communicated to the customers
- That the devs should have communicated internally more
- That support is getting a lot of new support tickets. I asked support, they counted 0 for this product in the last 7 days.
- Asked us to self-reflect how we can improve.

My project manager (who is currently on paternity leave) responded with an angry email to defend the dev team and pointed out that the CEO fired the marketing guy (again). The deadline is here for months, that the CEO literally ran the update locally and sold the update to new customers. He also called the CEO "lack of self awareness" and "not understanding the update process" and "disappointed in this approach". He also said that he asked the developers not to respond to the email.

Love me some drama between higher-ups

If you kill every single cutibacterium acnes on your skin, worse bacteria will come, because cutibacterium acnes (other than causing acne) were protecting your skin from other bacteria.

One day, all down voted posts will be upvoted at once (now they do slowly upvoting the downvoted rants) and devRant will have a spam problem what it can't recover from. More will be spam than not. Thankfully, every comment my bots make is a tag. Based on that, we can filter very accurate on the spam and delete it all when it happens. They smart, but we're smarter. All spam is tagged.

How do you guys monitor website traffic?

I was looking of a solution for a long while. Google analytics sucks these days. In the beginning it was an awesome system! Long, I've searched an alternative that was LIGHTWEIGT. That last part was the issue. What the fuck do people with their software? Finally, I've found umami. It's amazing. It shows even the city name from visitors and it shows a nice world map including statistics. Browsers used / desktop / laptop / phone / OS. It also shows debounce ratio (amount of people that run directly away after visit) and users currently online. It's all I could've ever wished for. Using it since yesterday and it's so decent and fast!

It's one of those products that makes me think "This is how I would've written it myself too". Happens sometimes. Same for gitea / cogs. Also such perfect products. There's still hope.

"I like being right so much that, when I’m proven wrong, I change my mind."

Such a great quote! Found it in the comment section of a youtube short :)

I've been vibe coding not knowing that it was called that until yesterday. I always give up before I reach anything interesting because I get about 4 or 5 good responses before it starts forgetting things and breaking already working code. And it's not even that complex of an idea.

There is no way people are coming up with whole applications with any level of complexity with these things.

Damn I need to get back to work, I'm cooking way too much and at this rate I'm going to be a mid developper, a mid cook and still not have a job...

My first prompt with grok, for giggles:
"how to disable grok"
This is a certified black mirror classic.

Affirm: *makes a lot of money because it's literally on every website*
Also affirm:

Old employer sends you a message on WhatsApp 4 weeks after you left asking for your help because they cannot figure out a NEW issue with one of the application servers.

What do you reply? Do you even reply?

(I’m now freelance and charge £70/hr)

The fact that Trump was elected U.S. president not once, but twice, is the ultimate proof that many American voters are as daft and gullible as I suspected. To those who voted for Trump: What were you thinking, if at all, by putting the worst bullies in charge? "Make America Great Again", Trump says. More like "Make America Go Down the Drain." I couldn't care less, if it weren't for the U.S. dragging the rest of the world down with it.

Germany

@cloud providers

!dev

Boss was fired.

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/...

Is it me or devrant is slow as fuck?

I've never understood the corporate word "bi-weekly"

Like is it, two times a week?

Or is it one time every two weeks?

Which is it ffs?

So we're now in the year when Power Rangers SPD is canonically set...

Feels wrong...

The future didn't really deliver, huh

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coffee coffee coffee

Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

... Job search.

Yep, starving myself feels easier if I eat something. My body does notice if I fast, but it completely misses a huge caloric deficit.
I get more weight drop by eating two eggs a day (and nothing else) than when I fast. I have no idea why.
Anyway, I decided that eating about 400 calories a day will get me to my destination faster than not eating at all, just because it's more sustainable.

I was listening to an interesting lecture recording, but threw the entire thing out the window once my "umm" meter ran out and gave errors.

Stop saying "umm" in every fucking sentence! 🤬

Jira has its own query language called JQL. Also, Jira is Turing-complete.
Have a nice day!