It's obviously a Friday because to delete the file I accidently made called ~ I decided to run rm -r ~

Fml

I have no idea why the server does this, but everytime I Ctrl+C a process it prints a unicode heart out.

It doesn't look open to me...

I think I need to start writing unit tests for my unit tests...

All of the USB ports on my PC have suddenly stopped working...

And how am I supposed to fix this exactly given I no can no longer use a keyboard or mouse...?

Brilliant.

I setup an email server a couple of months ago.

The amount of port scans and brute force attacks I've received this month alone is awful.

JUST SOD OFF ALREADY, PLEASE.

Well, at least they're honest about their involvement with intelligence agencies...

What's your favourite under appreciated programming language?

By that, I mean a programming language that isn't widely used but deserves more recognition?

I'll leave the exact definitions for you 🙂

Reading all these hacking stories has made me nervous that my server isn't protected enough.

I've disabled password login and setup SSH keys which as far as I know is a big step in the right direction.

Is it enough? What more should I do?

In case you can't tell, I'm no expert in server adminy stuff 😛

I have a local variable that is completely unused, can be of any name or type as long as it's assigned.

Yet, if I delete it the program no longer works.

Huh?

Since finally fixing my email server I keep periodically getting emails with random subjects like "asdfasdfasdf" from all my test messages...

I was happily folowing a tutorial earlier on setting up an email server but the site got taken down for maintenance just as I reached the last step...

IT'S BEEN 6 HOURS NOW AND IT'S STILL NOT BACK UP.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING AND I'M GOING TO BREAK SOMETHING AND BE SAD.

I find it amusing that if you tell an SMTP server "quit", it responds "Bye" before closing the connection...

It's the little things in dev life...

Just wrote a Python script to generate me a JSON file.

I forgot the 0th command line argument is the file you're running...

On first test it overwrote itself.

My beard now matches my devRant avatar... Hooray!

I've had so much tea today that I feel sick...

On the bright side though, I've had great productivitea...😃

Help... 😟

The recruiters have finally found me on LinkedIn!

And in a surprise turn of events suggested a job I'm actually qualified for... 😮

While trying to install OpenSUSE on my home server, something has gone wrong...

I appear to have installed OpenSUSE onto the flash drive plugged into my server instead... 😐

Git for Windows just dropped me in vim to edit my commit message and I genuinely had to Google how to save and exit...

I guessed right, but I had to check just in case 😐

Heroku allows you to deploy your webapp from Dropbox...

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE!

Let's play spot the error!

Hint:
THERE'S A COMMA ON THE END OF THE LINE THAT HAS BEEN CAUSING MY LIST TO BE WRAPPED IN A SECOND LIST AND IT HAS TAKEN ME AN HOUR TO FIND.

Good luck finding it, it's hard!

Hmm this website seems to redirect me to localhost... That's not helpful...

https://tersesystems.com/2013/11/...

Installed GNOME terminal and so went to uninstall the default XTerm as it seemed unnecessary.

Turns out removing xterm removes the entire X Window System...

I can't remember my username...

Null: the mortal enemy of every dev's life...

Except where it makes logical sense of course...

The problem with those USB sticks that don't have the cover over them is that you can insert them upside down.

That turns out to be harder to fault find than when it just doesn't go in...

4 and a half years doing socket/network programming and I only just learnt my understanding of TCP was largely incorrect...

Well then... That's something...

It appears Facebook Messenger has started supporting a very limited markdown...

You can now use stuff like *bold* and _italic_ it seems...

Finally learnt how to use MSBuild.

I should have done this much, much sooner...

Since there's a lot of hatred for certain programs here, what's your favourite program/software?

Can be a web app/desktop app/smart phone app etc.

Choose only one. No excuses!

Just had the first pull request on my repo! ❤️