@donkulator I forgot to add in the original post that I understand in certain cases, project has to be suspended due to client no longer being forthcoming with payment or not feeling convinced by their vision. I've been in this situation during my early days and while I did complete those projects before demanding payment, it ended up being more of a learning experience for me rather than vocational labour. I will not advise it today and hopefully won't finish it in the hopes of selling it to someone else interested in the idea

I guess that only works for ideas that are my brainchild

So to answer your question, the one client pays for

@melezorus34 It's windows. I removed the external battery and forced shutdown. I think it happened cuz of those useless updates. I've disabled it from services.msc and settings but it still downloads automatically whenever I connect my Internet. On me old windows 8 workhorse, it was permanently disabled donkey years ago. On this one, don't know how to go about terminating these disruptive patches. Internet costs in my country are exorbitant. When I connect my phone's hotspot to do my work, next thing it's Microsoft draining all my data bandwidth for their useless patches

After whining about my miseries, decided to hibernate as usual and get some sleep. Laptop started blinking and has refused to go off. When does the suffering stop

@molaram Quick google search showed this

"Requirements for Obtaining Licenses:

Minimum Capital Requirements:

Vary depending on the type of license. For example, commercial banks need substantial capital, ranging from ₦10 billion to ₦50 billion, according to Mondaq."

https://mondaq.com/nigeria/...

It's extremely expensive so most plucky guys wishing to eke a living from the fintech sector perch around projects with superficial capabilities, leveraging apis provided by highly funded startups or banks where possible

@Lensflare your over flogged Nigerian scam cliche is boring.

@lungdart it's more about rejecting to perpetuate or act as corollary to a poor codebase. It's not about having a higher moral standing, I genuinely can't. Why would I start copy pasting code everywhere instead of refactoring usages of the same functionality into a unified, reusable method spanning across the system. That is one of the pillars of software engineering, not typing or copying everything all the time. Always annoys me to see such low-level thinking littered everywhere. It doesn't even show that the developer properly understands toolset in their arsenal. Imagine if all the utility methods in your favourite language/framework had to be spread out each time instead of being in the nifty format you currently summon it in

@jestdotty YOU GET IT!!!

@retoor is it a popular LLM? I've been looking for one I can feed sql and xlsx documents to so I can query it using natural language. Do you know of any?

Average day working with mongodb

@netikras here is the cheatsheet

https://x.com/devmodefun/status/...

@jestdotty haha, wow. Nice! That is the legal term, correct. The original post was intended as a pun for "cron job" BTW. In case anyone missed that

@antigermgerm "designed to make people dumb as fuck"

Respect TikTok

Same. It hurts when you get serially banned across multiple platforms. When that happens, it becomes less of the platform being snowflakes and the individual being xxx

You can define "xxx" however you want. Personally, I've come to terms with people hating me naturally, before and after coming in contact with me. Another thing is, those apps have this flagging bot that once unleashed on a user for one post, every other harmless post can bring them behind bars

Facebook bot is the worst. English is a 2nd language in Nigeria so some of my comments are not literal but can be interpreted differently by my people. But the trigger happy bot perceives it as bigotry and started penalising me always

The reddit one hurt the most cuz that's the php primary community so I can't evangelize my framework further. I got banned from not just that sub but the entire platform. Then you need rep to comment so you can't create new profiles

Nairaland, useless antispam bot

@cafecortado yes, that is the WhatsApp embedded LLM (meta ai). It comes in handy cuz I don't have to install another app or open the chatgpt website. But as evidenced here, it seems dumber than the chatgpt model

@scriptcoded I think the actual reason behind its failure is that integer argument is max value, not max characters as in string. So, since 200 >3, it gets truncated/breaks the operation

Spring webflux security is a bird of the same feather. I created a question about it on stackoverflow. My question and the answer both got downvoted cuz (according to the downvoters), token based authentication is discouraged. Meanwhile, this is not mentioned anywhere

One of them posts a link to the recommended implementation, and it's just a roadmap/spec document on a github thread https://github.com/spring-projects/.... It's like a prank. A bunch of the guys there thank each other, but there is no mention of any api or implementation detail /sample of spring webflux security on there

@jeeper yea, the aging janitor

Sorry about what you are experiencing. It sounds serious to me. Maybe you have to check into a hospital and seek professional guidance

A 10 /10 rant. Angular was notoriously crappy back in the day. Don't know about now. I picked up react native back then but each time I've seen a tutorial of theirs along the line, I find it very difficult to reconcile the syntax to javaScript. It's extremely cryptic, convoluted, they keep churning out new terms and constructs for basic stuff that should be nobrainers

Vue is bearable. I used it more extensively than the rest, although a lot of water has passed under the bridge now. Last I looked at it, they've evolved a lot, I'd have a lot of catching up to do. Sucks to work where your bosses impose shitty tech but suggest svelte and turbo hotwire/htmx to them. Those are bliss and imo as easy as dx could get

@Tounai except they are all involved with the male staff. Are you familiar with the term "work husband"? Some couples were caught on camera almost pants down and were let off with a slap on the wrist

It's a me problem, unfortunately

@Tounai I don't think he used nextjs for anything, it's all react. I looked up the differences after seeing your comment. It's just ssr and authentication. He used neither. He used more of typescript though (tsx)

The main feature of nextjs, which is writing back end on the same codebase and sending it to the view before page load, we don't have that. BUT, I'm grateful regardless. I've used react native in the past and now nextjs, but never react itself. All the "context", redux, hooks and stuff sucks and makes me sick. I see them in articles and am glad I never have to actually put up with it

@Chewbanacas the call sound makes my stomach churn despite years of not using it. The ptsd is still here. In all fairness, what I hate may not be teams directly. It just reminds me of where I worked then. I associate it to that terrible time

@netikras fair enough. But Such a slight divergence is very easy to miss

@retoor which languages are your favourite? Are they easy to break into ie are there opportunities for devs in those languages without much prior professional experience?

@retoor I will be surprised if trailing slashes are a spec-level concern. In all my years of internet usage, this is my first time to ever come across a strict demand for adherence to TRAILING SLASHES. The more I contemplate this disease, the weaker I get. This is analogous to the punctuation of a sentence. It is not the path and should be treated separately rather than determining url is nonexistent. As a server, You are not supposed to rely on its presence unless it's followed by other characters. This isn't xml or yml. It's literally TWO extra regex characters to your route parser

Shameful

Now I'm reluctant to visit my system again. Not to solve bugs in the user story. But because the platform itself makes me feel less of myself and decelerates progress

@netikras I actually thought I loved the framework after reading "spring in action". Craig Walls is hilarious af. His habuma spitters and conventions. Turns out the book was painfully outdated and nothing like professional development. That spring doesn't seem so bad. But hell, who would assume this reality after watching spring crash courses on YouTube? Everything just flows, smoothly and merrily, until you dip your feet in the water. Then you realise the tsunamic storms beneath the surface

The point is, I'm not even coding. I'm fighting the framework. From point a to point b, it's a contrivance not captured by those media. Every time, always one hitch hindering productive dev

Without freecodecamp, I'd be fucked, for real

@jestdotty I already tried to disrupt the establishment by creating the Suphle framework but the cancerous community shut it down before it could even see the light of day.

I saw Brentgd release a by far, more inferior framework fairly recently, to much acclaim from the community. Further proof that the announcer or face matters more than the thought or objective behind a product. Perhaps the age of pioneer competitors is far behind us

Then again, maybe I'm taking things too serious cause you always rub off as someone trolling me

@Lensflare funny enough, the first framework I built did exactly that! Saved rendered content in html files and served them each time their id was being requested 😁

@jestdotty I don't know whether I agree with your take that "fancy" (oop patterns and structural designs) makes delivery faster. If anything, it's the inverse. Glossing over the intricacies that would be useful tomorrow or make code more maintainable obviously takes more time than someone doing everything the easiest way there is, or someone not thinking things through. If both could be achieved in same time or with same effort, there would be more incentive to being a carefree developer

Code reviews sound great on paper but are actual nightmare in reality, especially when the reviewee perceives they share similar or greater competence with their supervisor. It creates bad blood more than it improves skill-set, even though the idea behind it may be noble. Maybe a middle ground is the reviewer defending their rejection of incoming code using publicly available standard practices informing their decision