@cafecortado > "Mediocre apps is all we can expect from them"

And 'retiring' apps people love and used on a daily basis like Google Reader and Picasa.

UPDATE

Senior leaders decided to do nothing.

I suggested to my boss (which he was already contemplating) that we allow a 'cooling off' period and then suggest a somewhat rube-goldberg solution (outside ping). When they had time to actually think, it was a one time fluke that didn't warrant the complexity, time, and the most important piece, money.

#winning

@antigermanist > "liberal fault if your wife's cousin is a stupid bitch?"

It's liberal/socialists policies that coddle and attract these types of people. I've had 'conversations' with individual (I listen and don't engage) and she is 100% on the democrat "kill the rich", "I want my free stuff" bandwagons.

The extreme left-wing nutjobs know they can pander to these type of people and get their vote, knowing they are simply 'useful idiots' and have zero intention on doing anything to better their lives.

The extreme right-wing nutjobs don't get a pass with me either.

The whole "vote for me, or those evil democrats will take your guns...then your FREEDOM!!"

and

"Vote for me because Jesus says so"

Makes me sick.

@lorentz > "universal consensus that black boxes should be legal"

This little black box records me swerving to miss a skunk and I get a $300 ticket for 'reckless driving' and because I'm part of the 'evil rich', nothing I can do because Liberal/socialist bureaucrats love it.

Meanwhile, my wife's cousin drives her *brand new truck* down the median and runs over the little wire barricades (not sure what they are called), over-corrects, runs into another car (luckily no one was hurt). She was texting, but because she claimed to be indigent (which she is) and without means, the other driver's insurance had to pay (for his car, not hers).

Nobody...NOBODY asked "Where did you get the money for this new truck?" *We* know (her boyfriend is a drug dealer), and in this liberal/socialist utopia where black boxes are legal, the criminals are rewarded and the 'evil rich' are punished.

@PaperTrail > "This week we are having a department wide BBQ at a local park. There will be food, games, 'engaging conversations', etc."

Update: Let it slip that we had this BBQ-thing to my wife (I was trying to be nice and offer to run errands over my lunch for her, and she got suspicious) and she flipped her lid (I've got to stop being so anti-social..blah blah..etc...etc)

Attended...it was fine..did end up having some engaging conversations, learned some stuff.

*sigh* ...stupid social anxiety.

Side note, there was a *ton* of left over burgers & brats, buns, cheese, brownies/cookies

Mgr1: "Anybody want this stuff"

Crowd: "No....not me...no....No, I'm full"

Mgr2: "Throw it away, I'm not dealing with it"

Mgr1: "Yea, me neither."

Me: "NOOO!!!...I'll take it! All!"

Mgr1: "You want the chips too? Soda? I don't want to haul it back"

Me: "YES!"

I'm sure I seemed like a homeless man in the back of Dairy Queen, but there was probably $100+ of food they were throwing away.

@kiki > "A pistol won't stop it"

My boss has a 454 Casull that might.

He calls it his "stupid" gun because when he shoots it, he says "I'm stupid for buying this stupid thing". Its a replica of a gun he saw in a western and thought he could use it as his fun conceal-n-carry (to show off at the range)

The shot volume, the recoil, he said is "just stupid". After about 3 shots he said his hand hurts and had to upgrade his hearing protection. I can imagine impact of hitting a boar at 50 yards with that thing.

@CaptainRant > "Well, you can always say no, right?"

I don't say 'no', there is always some emergency that pops up. Darn.

Example: This week we are having a department wide BBQ at a local park. There will be food, games, 'engaging conversations', etc.

I'm very, very seriously thinking about saying at the last minute (as everyone is getting up to leave), "I'll be there, I've got to stop by the DMV and renew my driver's license. Save me a burger, or five..ha ha ha." Drive in the general direction and come back to work. Everybody will gone for at least two+ hours.

#bliss

Then when they come back:

S: "PaperTrail, where were you? Did you get your license renewed?"

Me: "No, I waited in line for almost 2 hours, I knew I wouldn't make it to the BBQ. Sorry."

S: "No worries. Saved a couple of burgers in the break-room fridge."

If you're wondering, 'Has PaperTrail done this before?'. Yes ... yes I have.

@int32 > "it doesn't bother me too much"

Don't know if it's sad or just how things are and will always be.

Debugging a state issue in Blazor (whether or not a POCO is 'Dirty'). Step thru the code...true...true..<doing/changing nothing>....click a button ...check the state....false.....WTF! Nothing changed...the UI still shows as TRUE!!

Lots of console outputs of 'here' I stumbled on a user control I wrote that was holding a stale state (TL;DR). Never ever would have figured it out my 'stupid' without console.log.

@int32 > "do they log out highly sensitive data"

No, a lot of "Here" and "This value should not be null, but here we are."

@antigermanist > "who cares?"

I don't. I have them in my production (Blazor) code right now.

@Demolishun > "Why is it stupid?"

I'm told it's not sterile and not the same medical grade they use in the hospital. I'm putting some dangerous chemical directly into my blood stream.

So what I got an infection *once* from where I used superglue. I say the cut would have gotten infected anyway. "You should have gotten stitches!....You should have kept the wound clean!" blah ...blah...blah.

I'm a senior software developer darn it! I know what I'm doing! :)

@Demolishun > "oh my, bless her heart..."

She's a nurse, like a one of those superhero nurses you see on TV (170 IQ, smarter than the doctors, etc). She watches those dramatic medical shows like they are comedies (points out all the things they do wrong).

Last week her mom fell (she's almost 80) and hit her head on concrete, my wife was there and figured out/diagnosed/controlled the issue immediately. Had to call 911 (it was bad) and when the paramedics eventually got there they were like "Good job in keeping her still and not moving until we got here. At her age and this kind of fall, a neck injury could have paralyzed her if she tried to get up." and they jibber-jabbed a bunch of other medical words I didn't understand. They were quite impressed with her ability to asses and take control of the situation.

I pretty sure we complement each other since I still use super glue to cover up cuts on my fingers. Apparently that is is a "stupid user" thing medical people make fun of.

Yea, it's kinda scary. I enabled Copilot in VS about a month ago and it is like its reading my mind.

I've been finding myself relying on Copilot more and more for the POCO type plumbing code.

Right now I am moving code from the depreciated Microsoft Teams Webhook to PowerAutomate/Workflow. I started to type some of the AdativeCard plumbing and *BAM!*, it somehow knew the exact fields and how I was going to use it.

I almost said out loud "Get behind me satan!"

- I wrote 'business logic' in an OnClick event

- I only wrote 4 tests for a 5 method interface

- 'Hardcoded' a database key value because I didn't want the hassle from the DBA for creating another FK relationship.

<fist pump>

Let's go!

@Lensflare > "Skype was good before bought and enshitified by MS."

And written in Delphi, which means/meant it was a single .exe (or maybe a minimal number supporting dlls) and "just worked" everywhere.

Skype, I will miss you.

Can seem that way. My C# lizard brain is just above the 'Hello World' project. I wrote a function that prints 'Hello World'

We had a need to update a db table at EOD, so my boss (brilliant dude) wrote a custom C# process executor (you create the class, with the code you want executed) that is instantiated from within a Docker container, that runs inside another container (TL;DR) on/in our container environment. He essentially wrote Azure Functions from scratch for this specific project, complete with thread mgmt/scheduling, and the works. Even wrote an extension so you could create+execute jobs from your local workstation if you needed to debug "the cloud".

When I asked "If all we needed to is update the ABC table, why not create a console app, write the update script, and run the app on a schedule?"

<puzzled look>

S: "I don't know, there wasn't any other way to do it"

And the whole "if we catch you using java, we're going to charge you $$$ for everything that plugs into a wall" money grabbing scheme Oracle has going on.

We're in litigation with Oracle because Oracle says they have network traffic logs that we downloaded java some years ago and because Oracle knows knows we have hundreds of PCs/servers/etc (TL;DR), they demand we pay a java license for everything that could have an internet connection. It's our burden to prove we're not using their paid version of java.

Does not matter we have proof that that the java download in question came from a third party install (I think it was OctopusDeploy) that had to download+update java order to *uninstall* the java runtime.

Network guy said "When we showed the Oracle rep the logs and java is no longer on that server, he said straight faced on zoom, 'That's not proof you didn't install java on other servers.'"

@lungdart > "Wtf are programmer socks?"

I think they are what some marketing department sold to tech companies that programmers like colorful/cartoonish socks. I don't know when the trend started, but every conference I've been to in the past 5 or so years, the vendor booth(s) hand out socks.

I use them as my 'outside' socks (what I wear when I work outside, exercise, etc), since they are typically very low quality and I don't care if they get tore up.

@Demolishun > "This is how bad these POS tech companies have gotten"

Facebook 'banned' my 18 year old daughter from Marketplace a couple of weeks ago because they couldn't verify her age. She's been on Facebook for a couple of years now, been buying and selling on Marketplace with no problems.

She sent the required video selfie and a picture of her driver's license. About three days later she gets a DM from Facebook saying they could not verify her age and she would not be allowed to access Marketplace. WTF!!?

I care 0% about FB, but everyday it's "Dad, I need to sell these cloths....can you fix Facebook?"

Facebook is a billion dollar *technical* company, they have zero technical support, no phone number, and no way to resolve *their* screw up.

@Demolishun > "Musk has been under fire"

I still laugh when the left attack Musk for essentially duping liberals/socialists into the "electric cars will reverse climate change" craze. They already mandated by law electric cars by an arbitrary date, tax rebates, etc before realizing it was all a scam. Not saying I wouldn't own an electric car, but it's a rich man's game I'm not qualified to play.

@Demolishun > "The fishy part is the MSM praising this great breakthrough"

I want to upvote this 100 times.

oy, I didn't do the math, my raise was only 1.5%. Still a decent raise at my level, but same as me, my boss assumed the 3% was standard. The new "standard" will be 1.5% with any market adjustments when the company sees fit to apply them.

The senior leaders just fired the president/CEO. Its fine, nothing to see, move along.

@retoor > "Three lines of python."

Fumbled around and got a C# example working. Pretty easy. Not three lines, I'm not a madman. With enough refactoring, might be worth posting.

@retoor > "I will see what I can do."

I found the java client repo (JavaRant). Pretty sure I can translate that to C#.

@retoor > "@kiki has written a solution in node that doesn't require dependencies (good job!) to download the rants."

Node? That seems like a big dependency. I'm looking for something simple.

https://devrantapi/rants/...

Not "Install Node, first install Linux, then learn all the obscure linux commands, configure the memory for this ...update the drive mounts for that...don't forget to update network drivers, and follow these 64 easy steps to get Node running..."

Great question (s).

Is there an easy way to download all of my rants?

@cafecortado > "You can say it's already encrypted, they won't notice the difference"

Base64 encode/decode. A bit ashamed I've used it to (lie?) convince users that data was 'secure'.

I haven't updated mine in over 10 years.

Back then, LinkedIn was the only 'social network' allowed at work. Facebook, etc were all blocked at the firewall. Any+all attempts to access blocked social networks were logged and reported to supervisors and managers. Luckily devRant wasn't flagged as a 'social network'. Whew!

Even then, LinkedIn traffic/posts were monitored and if you, for example, updated a job skill, managers questioned if you were updating your skills to be more attractive to other employers.

The catch 22 was they (upper-mgmt) wanted more LinkedIn activity to make us more 'attractive' for LinkedIn's searches, but didn't want to look too attractive for head hunters to make job offers to devs/DBAs (which did occur).

All that changed when the owner+CEO started getting requests from other CEOs asking why he wasn't on the socials. When 99% of the employees were on their phones anyway at these sites, it was dumb to take system resources to restrict it.

Hilarious, well done.

Add some sound-deadening material to get rid of the room echo and you got a podcast studio worth listening to.

Yep. Played X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter on a 386 with the turbo button. Those were the days.