This is influenced by my current situation but best tool: Visual Studio. Versatile and rich debugger, good language integration for what I do. Worst tool: eclipse. What the fuck is this permacrashing nightmare of an application. And what the actual fuck are these keybinds.

So I want to build myself a custom buttonbox for star citizen and warthunder, my hotas really doesn't have enough or fittingly placed buttons for either of those games. What would be the best approach for this?
My first thought was to take an arduino or some AVR chip on an USB connection and write a custom JoyStick driver but that would be a major pain on the buttocks.
Also would I buy an Arduino or go full custom stuff and buy some chip from TI and DIY the board completly?

On the other hand if I'm gonna tinker with stuff on my own time I propably should pick up an ARM processor so I get familiar with the architecture, but that's propably overkill.
But 8-bit AVR is so constrained so maybe if I want to expand and create something like an MFD the poor 8266 would propably just go up in flames.

Has anybody a better idea or knows some ready to rock board for this kinda stuff? Best case scenario with a Joystick driver or something?

Politician or Actor. I acted in plays since my childhood, even though only minor roles, and my interest in politics is still high to this day. And if none of these had worked out I would've become a soldier. Leo goes wroooooom.

!rant
*me logging into the demo system*
Me: so what is the login data?
Boss: we are a security company, what do you think?
Me: admin admin?
Boss: admin admin.

Can somebody please explain to me why I need to be an expert at witchcraft & dark magic just to merge 2 SVN branches. And why the fuck anybody still uses SVN when there's git.

We're installing a new kitchen right now and basically every 2 hours I have to help carry something.

Today I've got the energy of a wet matchstick in a dark cellar.

FUCK TOMCAT
FUCK JAVA
FUCK SYSTEMJS
FUCK SYNCFUSION
FUCK THIS SHIT WHOEVER DESIGNED ANY OF THIS GARBAGE SHOULD BURN IN THE LOWEST CIRCLE OF HELL.

Java, or: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome the programming language.

The disaster starts with the following sentence: "so marketing had an idea..."

To my fellow windows users:
Anybody else using the fullscreen startmenu?
I prefer it over the classic one, just using the entire screen to give me quickaccess to programs seems like the better way to me.

!dev
When you have to change your avatars skincolor in devrant because you haven't seen the sun in ages...

Two hits from the bong, fresh coffee and 8 hours of sleep.

Happy fucking christmas I hate being a christian.

I just love customers:
Customer: "ftps doesnt work! It says Port blocked you are using the wrong port! Fix this now!"
Me: "did you open the port and allow it through the firewall?"
C: " yeah ofc i opened the ports on the server! Do you think i'm stupid?"
M: "On the client too?"
C: "...."
C: " let me call back in 30min"

I propably mentioned it in an earlier rant but my father was a programmer, my grandfather was a programmer, and thus my son shall be too.

SAP shit. Bad documentation by design.

Just had a presentation of my application. There was an error my colleague knew about but didnt tell me because I should've asked him. After he went full shittalk mode on me because of a different bug.
Yeah that was totally my communication mistake. I also expect people I just shittalked with all my energy to ask nicely for the other bug i didnt mention.

I'm a 3rd generation developer in my family, my grandfather did it, my father did it, and my grandson will do it.

How to torture developers:
Step 1: put a cookiefactory next door.

I'm so full of myself that's not an issue. Confidence is key.

Yeah a week late but I got an update: I'm propably gonna get reduced to 20% work/pay. Yay.

So management decided that they wanted to reduce the infection chance by 50%. How? Half of the employees are gonna be working from home. I mean they are technically right.

Today is my last day at my current employer(a big german insurance company, boring af) and next monday I start at a medium sized company in an R&D position 😁

has anyone else here the same bad luck as me and has to deal with Oracle APEX? That shitfuckery should burn in the management hell it came from.

Every time I read some script kiddy insult here I just think: "you propably did the same thing 10 years ago, not JS but PHP, but it was the same level of shitfuckery and the C/C++ Devs looked the same way at you you look at NodeJS developers now."

Maintaining a legacy Apache x86 PHP application that is coded in a way that it requires windows as an operating system.

Oh wait thats my job

!dev
There is no greater embarrassment for me as a german then the Deutsche Bahn. There is no greater accumulation of incompetence than this bundle of dillitants.

If the files linecount could be your birthyear you propably are doing something wrong.

OS as weeddealers:
Windows has standard weed. Nothing special, but reliable.
Linux got a great selection, but you always gotta haggle with him for hours until something works out.
Mac sells oregano.