Week: 93 (Year 1 )

The weekend is here. Planned already?

Question: What are the signs your body tells you that you shouldn't ignore?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/17489835

Found this ancient, forgotten task that was basically a QOL improvement.
Given that the feature would shorten the time of testing from some 10-15 minutes to 2, I left a comment mentioning that it would be immensely helpful.

!too long after, the report started seeing some traffic && the feature got actually implemented.
Checked the implementation as soon as I could.
- Speedup worked well regardless of platform.
- Slowdown /* which was never actually mentioned in the task as it wasn't crucial */ was also implemented, but the mobile phones were omitted, since the implementation would be too complex for the time allowed for the feature implementation. I was perfectly fine w/ it, as this wasn't actually necessary for those.

I left a proper comment, thanking for the feature implementation.

...then the lead tester chimes in, bitching about the lack of implementation of the slowdown on mobiles.

Got the same explanation as I mentioned earlier - too complex for the time allowed. Plus, the feature had other platforms in mind. Having it working on mobiles was just gravy.

Good call, lead, now - ask for another favor.
I'm sure it'll go well, since you can't be satisfied w/ getting what you need. You need that special pampering, too.
/s

Well, dR just disappeared for a bit but glad it's back, but I can see that recent rants are gone (because I was trying to catch up on missing rants)

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...

TIL: mechanical click of a touchpad is now managed by os in new lenovos. Suspend os and you can no longer click your touchpad.

Not tap. Click.

Wtf..

Initially I didn’t like mold in my apartment, but since then it grew on me.

Dear GPT, dear Gemini,
cher Claude, cher Copilot,
thanks for wasting my time
with your contradictory advice!
I could as well
roll a dice.

Incompetence. Incompetence everywhere.

Who the fuck decided to call a napkin made of fabric a fucking “handkerchief”?

I try to change some code in a VERY obvious way, no code that might be interfering. Compile, open browser, no change. Recompile, check, that the compiled output indeed contains the changed code, refresh, no change ... what??
Delete browser cache, also reopen with new tab, clear IDE cache, restart, rerun with npm i. Still no change... ??? What is this black magic?

Because of how English language works, fingers do fing, brothers do broth, and water do wat.

age++

Had 1 beer in a pub. Had difficulty walking back to hotel.

You can tell I'm not a big drinker.
2 more weeks to pass here, in Dublin. And not get run over while crossing a street [u know, opposite traffic].

Somehow...

All for the sake of that promising project.

Fatal exception? More like fatal rule.

I've been gone a couple months. On a secret mission. TOP SECRET.

Can anyone tell me what it was?

Where my homies at?

Everybody atheist till it’s time to upgrade bios

Bought a brand new Asus Laptop for my studies, because according to my asshat teacher "nobody is using a MacBook these days"...

After 2 minutes I wanted to punch a hole through the screen and my teacher's face.

Everything I fucking opened stopped responding

I hate windows

There is nothing special about psychedelics, it’s just a drug that temporarily affects the brain which controls how we perceive the environment, there is no extra dimension, no spirits/beings, just a really hard drug. Take it from me, I had a really bad trip about a week ago.

I never owned an Apple product. I prefer other stuff.

But kudos to Apple for bringing sexy back with the Liquid Glass.

God fucking damnit I miss the Windows 7 days. We didn't appreciate it enough.

Me in an email: "This information was not shared with you for your entertainment, and yet..."
Translation: fuck you, you incompetent bint.

Week : 92 (Year 1 )

I am tired, guys. Mortgage, EMI—I have to keep up.
I wanna exit this loop. I am stuck. How are you gonna spend this weekend?

Question : What’s something you still don’t understand as an adult?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/17187723

I work with a team of morons where they just keep overriding my code and business sending us mails saying this requirement hasn't been implemented so please done.

Those morons are just getting on my nerves

When Russians talk about someone who is still a part of their group but is shunned, they use the word нерукопожатный — literally “nonhandshakable”.

architecture/framework/schema/system is best judged by how much neglect it can take before breaking down.

They started measuring deleted and added lines of code as a metric for productivity at my company. I have heard it's been done in other companies among friends... WHO THE FUCK IS PUSHING FOR THIS!?
Like WHY EVEN DO THAT USELESS SHIT???

"Attending" WWDC 2025 ("attending" is a stretch). I'm starting this thread as a multi-rant (comments count).

To start it off, WWDC 2025 is, like all these other virtual 2020's WW's, BORING... World Wide Dull Cinema.. It's like being in developer-solitary-confinement. After going to the in-person ones, I can safely say that it is hard to care about anything in WWDC beyond the keynote...

And when Tim gets on there /still/ trying to extoll the virtues of it being virtual, it is pretty clear that they are trying to compensate...

1. no collaboration
2. uninspiring without your peers
3. random because there is no real schedule
4. boring because you don't meet anyone new
5. career limiting, can't trade vCards & resumes
6. cringy trying too hard announcements

(just sayin', love you guys but come on here...)

WWDC 2019 and prior were awe-inspiring. WWDC pre 2020 collected enough IQ in one place to make the world wobble on its axis.

WWDC needs to go back to in-person /with/ streaming for those of us who can't make it. Change the venue to Las Vegas for crying out loud, they can handle the *worlds* *largest* *trade* *show* (aka CES) there... WWDC is small potatoes by comparison.

ever seen the artificial snow in those classic black and white movies? that was pure asbestos.

yeah.

Dear Windows,

How hard is it to actually update and shut down? No, don't restart. If I wanted you to restart I would have chosen that option.

Sincerely,
The last decade

PM is on his period again

Opened devRant after exactly 4 years. Brings back so many memories!!
Hello again, devRant community! What's life like rn?

If your manager is an asshole in unrecorded 1-on-1's, buy a dictaphone.