Yesterday, our manager told us he put in his notice last week. He'll be gone next Friday. I'm physically in the office today with the start of whatever knowledge transfers we'll be seeing.

He's been the lead designer on our current project. The architect is mostly in his head and he has all the domain knowledge. It doesn't hit production for a few months, but he's essentially dumping this huge pile of AI generated mess on me.

I hate physically being in the office. These hot desks suck so bad and I hate seeing all these sheeple.

For better performance, visit https://dr.molodetz.nl. The site now enables intelligent local caching of resources, with a 1-minute local cache for HTML content. It successfully proxies all external domain resources (e.g., avatars), caching them while excluding API responses to ensure notifications remain current. All resource patches are done decently using beautifulsoup, no regex shit.

It brings back the original devRant experience! Yes, avatars work again on opened threads but not on the feeds list / notification list, those are rendered by JS. Could patch that but for now out of scope.

A forty-five minute daily standup for a team of twelve is absolutely criminal and I feel like I'm the insane one for being the only one to not be okay with that.

Have you ever wondered what happened w/ all the unsold devDucks?

Pyramid Head Duck: https://amazon.co.uk/TUBBZ-First-Si... ,
Merchant duck /* "Welcome! Got a selection of good things on sale, stranger!" */ : https://amazon.co.uk/TUBBZ-Boxed-Co... , etc.

/jk

Found those purely by accident, given how I had been looking for controllers.

I was reading FreeRTOS documentation today and was reminded of ostream.
"Tasks are normally implemented as an infinite loop; the function which implements the task must never attempt to return or exit. Tasks can, however, delete themselves."

There are too many js librarieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss

Typical experience of a test monkey receiving new hardware: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... .

@SoldierOfCode is very busy in Lebanon. I have a very good friend there. Keep her whole svp.

https://gudtrip.xyz/

Wauw.
- Cannabis, Bitcoin, and AI in one user-powered network.
- The first agentic cannabis device
- Building a user-powered cannabis network

Isn't it aggravating when you want to make a project at the company better structured but the lazy dev that makes the company the most money decides to reflect their despicable attitude onto the code, not structure anything into project folders and make your life harder by forcing you to understand the project every time you look at it? : )

Yeah... coding standards are beautiful but only if the company's culture allows it and the managers aren't ignorant fuckssss.

resentment.sh

I wonder if I should start looking for new work. I've only been at the current shop for 8 months, I could potentially get them to pay for part of my MBA (although I'd have to stay at the company for a year after reimbursement) and there might be management positions I can apply for once our current massive project goes live.

Still, I hate working with .NET, the AI stuff is making all our software worse, and it's still going to be difficult to get even close to my former pay level with local jobs in this town.

I'm just tired. I actually miss the company I got laid off from, but I'd also never go back there.

Why am I getting a NPE? After a while I discover why... I had the file of the wrong project open.

LOL

It's a beautiful day. New glasses. New drugs for cheap. Had gluhwein for breakfast. Cycled 12km while drinking beer. Made 200, - today. I live for days like this.

Coding privately:
"Ah... :typing:, click, having a look... run... edit... draw on paper.. think about it.. edit.. recompile.."

Coding at work:
"type as fast as possible and make a jumbled mess of everything and in the end deliver something that barely runs and meets requirements, only to have tons of headache from every company layer later, mandated by themselves"

Snek gives a 500. Don't know what it is but I'm nipping beer at beach. In a hour or so I'm home and will fix it. Very interesting, a 500 did not happen before I think.

It's summer again. Bye bye internet for retoor. I have three internet connections, all failing. The park ain't even open yet. Tomorrow it is. But the internet is already failing. Failing on two 4g connections and a fiber one over wireless. I can't recieve 5g here. Only option left is starlink but I don't need expensive power internet. I just want to be online full time with 20mb/s. That's all I ask. Especially now I do development mainly trough AI, it's very important. I'm switching connections all the time. It does actually does help somehow. Poor retoor.

I created a report a few weeks ago about the game's display being fucked up due to the sensor housing && the required inset, explicitly mentioning the iPhone X as a device that was tested...

...Got a reply from the lead tester that he && his underlings were unable to reproduce the issue on the iPhone 8.

Well _no fucking shit_. Why _the fuck_ would you try reproducing an issue about sensor housing && insets using a phone w/o that feature?

Fuck me... another day, another retard...

I was just watching a youtube showing of that he was the only one having the perfect score on a TV show. It is a test, on how good your memory is. He was wrong. My mother did have the best score too on that very same TV program. It is very interesting. My mother is more known as an empathic person more than being a smart person. But she loves media. Had her own radio show for many years and was countless times on TV. It was so important for her making her capable of winning that show. Its interesting what motivation can do with people. My stepsis is unable to calculate anything but when she plays a game, she is unbeatable while it requires that skill. I never won a game from her.

We were told that one of our frontend guys is no longer with the company. There was no notice period. Our manager couldn't really say anything for privacy reasons. I sent him a text but haven't heard back. We don't know if he rage-quit or was fired. Makes me really uneasy.

I'm tempted to send that cat-teary-eyes-thumbs-up gif whenever I get a rejection e-mail.

Enough of this sheet.

youRant alpha 0.2 - The Notification Update!

https://github.com/yuriKhordal/...

Managed to finish this update JUST in time, literally going away for the deployment tomorrow.

First of all, Yay, with the addition of notifications, it's first **actual** alpha release (until now I considered releases as MVP.

New Features and Changes:
+ Added Caching. Rants and Images are now cached for a certain amount of time speeding up re-opening rants, not needing to load them again.
+ Added automatic retries for the dreaded Slim Application Error! GET requests will now retry up to 5 times before giving up. The error message in the app now also actually says it's a Slim Application Error instead of the previous unclear "Value <html><head><meta..." error.
+ Added devRant avatars in posts and comments, replacing the previous flat-coloured dots, now only actual dots are dots. :P Also replaced the ugly red dot that shows you are logged in with your actual avatar.
+ Added Notifications for mentions, using the RSS feed provided by retoor. They are currently limited, and do not work in the background for some reason. Regardless, when you open the app you will get notifications of all mentions since the last time notifications worked.
+ Added a limited profile page you can open by clicking the username row in a rant or comment. Currently only dispplays user info, but not actual content(rants, comments, upvotes, favories).

Bug Fixes:
* There was a function in a helper class that was accidentally using a feature of a high API level. It was rewritten.

Ignore this, need to test notification mentions for youRant.

(youRant)
Blyat. Actually finishing with the notifications themselves wasn't really that hard, there was less work than I thought. But instead what was hard, is god damn doing background shit in Android.
Fucking spent the entire day today (well, not wntire but something like 6h) trying ,any different ways to make the app "poll" in the background, checking the RSS for mentions, and after trying so many, fucking none of them work.
Also fuck the android docs so much. I fucking hate this platform(Android, nor dR).
So I guess no notifications in the background for now, only when in the app.
I'll do the "correct" thing and do the stupid Firebase thing, that will be for a future version tho. Ugggh, I could've been done by now if not for this stupid shit.

Stay tuned (Hopefully, very hopefully) for a youRant update tomorrow(/today, depends on TZ), or the day after that. I'm trying to Blitz through finishing the features I've started trying to implement because I'm (potentially) getting deployed again in a few days and I have no clue if there's gonna be internet there, so I'm trying to release the update before then while trying to find time to code between a million other things (apologies).

At minimum you can expect Notifications about mentions(Which is mainly what've I've been doing lately on the "hour here hour there" I have), and not seeing the "Slim Application Error" anymore when browsing rants. Which embarrasingly has already been implemented in the development version for at least a month or two already, and I just didn't have the time to work on the other parts of the update.

This could've been finished 2 months ago if I didn't keep getting distracted and having to split my attention between a million things.

Would be a shame if I don't manage to finish in time :/

The following game is currently free to claim on steam. You can claim it and play it later (or never)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/...

Here's a funny thought:

In my attempt to make a game of GTA 5 quality
I may have missed that GTA 5 was released 13 years ago

It's still my north star, I don't care :P

What the fuck ms teams.

Adding your account...
Almost theeeeeeere...
Setting things uuuup...
Almooooooooost...
Omgggg...
2 minutes later
Thanks for hanging in there

What kinda fuckos. lol

I give my opinion about vibe coding in the C reddit. Permanently banned for trolling. Moderators do not respond to me. I hate this leftist platform so much. Ban ban ban. Everything is a ban.

I'm convinced Microslop is now 100% staffed by vibecoders, because what PM/dev/CTO/etc... with ANY real-life experience, in their right fucking mind would approve to forcefully change every user's theme for VSCode to a new one?!

(I mean i know why, they are desperate for validation because they dont actually do any real work, so they went full manager mode and wanted to show off their new “dark 2026” theme by forcing everyone to look at it)

Okay what is this shit.

You apply for a job, they dangle the carrot on you for over a month, cancel multiple appointments, finally you have an interview, they seem happy. Then they go on vacation two weeks.

In the end they end up rejecting me because of 'internal decisions'.

bull shit. Shit bull. Fuck cluck fuck muck.