Life update:

- Got a job. Will start in Jan. I lost my other contract in september, so it's almost 3 months of stress. I really have to find a way to diversify income. 2025 will be the year of me finding a sidegig.

- I needed a better sound to mix my album, so I went to the pawnshop and bought a NAD amplifier and 2 ITT speaker cabinet. I think the amp is from the 80ies and the speaker are from the 70. Danish.

- My deskie suffered a catastrophic harddrive damage. I could exfiltrate all the data but the bios diag is failing so I will go buy another one

Merry christmas

One of my minions gave his 2 weeks notice. They grow up so fast 🥲

What it's like working with a boss with 170IQ

<we have an elaborate in-house developed company project system, like Jira>
System Request: Ability to duplicate project tasks

Boss: "That could take a few months. We would have to create a separate UI for each data point, allowing the user to granularly select every piece. They may want to copy data from one, or more previous records. We'll need lookup data points for this...that...and the other...then testing...oh, we'll have to create mgmt infrastructure to manage those lookups. DBAs will need to be heavily involved. And then we'll need reports to track the state of those duplicates. This is just the tip of the iceberg."
Me: "Or use the existing Clone methods we used for testing. Only data we wouldn't copy to a new record is the audit history. The new record UI wouldn't change at all. At worst, including testing, maybe a couple of hours of work. I could have a new version by this afternoon."
Boss: "No..users will want more control. Too many mistakes could happen."
Me: "I only ever see Nick using that feature, since he is the one who requested it. Maybe we should keep it simple for now and add the complexity if its needed later?"
Boss: "I'll have to think about it. Right now, I think we should do all the work now so we don't have to do it later."

Wow, I found a new low for companies when looking for a job. I thought forcing someone to sign up for a newsletter was bad. Well, it is not the same company, but a different company is now spamming me their services. I applied for a job and am now a few weeks later getting spam emails from them. I am not even sure how they got that address as it isn't my main job email.

Starting to hate companies more. Some company in their online application was asking for SSN, birth date, and legal name. When you apply to a company that is ONLY provided when doing background checks after an offer has been made. Any other time and it is a red flag for a fake company stealing identities.

I reported the fuckers to linkedin for fraud. Also messaged them directly and told them it was inappropriate and makes them look like identity stealers.

Hundreds of people applied to this company. Stupid fuckers.

God i hate this country. Every job requires dutch and french (who tf speaks both), and when they don't they want driving license for no reason. I can't do psychology because I don't have the right master, I can't even get a bullshit job to pay for food because they all require some bullshit gouvernement program so that the employer can not pay taxes. I have no right to unemployment, and CPAS are gonna be overflooded.

I hate right wingers I swear they're ruining the fucking world with their bellybuttonism

Software keeps getting worse, users just have to use AI out of desperation. Is it because of layoffs, churn and missing documentation or on purpose? Google Analytics and Google Search results are only two examples. Now users already claim that AI is getting worse after a temporary climax of usability on top of the genAI hype

Code tells a story.

It is usually not especially interesting. It is not captivating. But it is a story.

The story often goes like this: Instead of using the class directly, an interface was used. Someone expects this implementation to change a lot. Or they want to break the logic of the code apart. Speed up compilation times. Maybe they plan on having multiple different implementations.

That's, well... no, it is not exciting. But sometimes you look at it and wonder why. And you muse to yourself, what could be the reason for this curious choice. Is the whole project written like that? Maybe two developer developed the feature together and they agreed at the very beginning to write the interface in order to be able to cleanly work in parallel. I did this with a colleague. We worked on a common feature. We decided to write an interface first, then we worked separately and in parallel on the two sides of the interface. In the end we left it in and we were asked why we decided to use an interface.

Code tells a story. But so very often now, the story I hear when I ask why is "copilot did it." Fuck you. And fuck your "hey, copilot says you could do something better" in merge reviews.

I don't care if you want to use AI. I don't think it is good. You dull your skills. But hey, I don't really care about it. I don't care if you decide to use a plastic fork to remove your left eye. I mean, I would have recommended a sharper instrument, but fuck, if you want to mutilate yourself. Go for it. But when git blame tells me it was you who wrote the code, then don't fucking excuse any decision with "copilot did it." And when copilot tells you there is an improvement in my merge request, you don't need to tell me that it came from copilot. That is no authority. If you think copilot is right, you argue for it, and you give me arguments and reasons. But if you don't even understand yourself why it is supposedly better, just fuck off.

https://careers.altar.io/jobs/...

look at this shit. 40k was what I was making 8 years ago as a junior.

Got refused from another job.

The reason was that even do my test had "some features" (no more nor less than the ones they asked for), I didn't bring up some stuff that they like to hear or I didn't show the right kind of enthousiasm.

Aka it's based on vibe man there was a mismatch on the astroplane or something

The more I go the more hate is consuming me. I can take criticism, not arbitrary decision

guess who's back?!

soooo... long story short... i got super ill... like so ill i dont wanna give many details cuz
1. rather not bum you entertaining weirdos out... that'd make this bittersweet.
2. i dont wanna get a bunch of emo comments of best wishes etc

it's fixed, enough, now.

just to be clear, "ill" is not some paraphrasing for mentally ill/unstable/depressed/whatever else may pop into your heads... nor is it code for something like substance abuse/rehab or incarceration, etc... there was definitely entropy at play so it doesnt need more =P

Fuck, I had an initial screening on Tuesday. Recruiter said they would send me an email so I can look over some stuff this weekend. No email. I tried messaging them on Indeed where they contacted me about sending them a targeted CV. Nothing. I found them on linkedin and requested a connect. Nothing. I am trying to be relaxed about this, but I will be pissed if they are ghosting me. They need someone before January. Bitch, I am right here!

Why are companies that can't get anybody to do the work locally, then try to get someone remote, and STILL try to require a short onsite stint?

Either be remote or don't please.

I dunno, see where this goes I guess.

Got refused for a job again for zero good reason. Apparently they're "scared" because I was a freelancer instead of an employee and they want some submissive dicksucking twat so they can pay them minimum wage.

I swear to god moving back to this retarded country was the worst move of my life. Bureaucratic, corrupted, full of white wingers, pedos, mafiosos and racists cunts.

This is europe

Do you know why Gen X people have better immune systems than all yall whipper snappers?

Because we chewed the gum we found on the bottom of our school desks.

We didn't care if we drank from the same soda can.

It was common to play in parasite infested waters. (Actually a kid I knew in high school that got amoebas in his brain from that shit. He lost of a year of high school he had to repeat.)

Truth be told we probably don't have better immune systems. The younger gens are fucking each other and think condoms stop disease. So yall probably got Syphilis.

Christa McAuliffe said to her husband before the launch: "You feed the dog, I will feed the fish."

What kind of operating system takes 11 minutes to start and then requires yet another reboot in order to work properly?

If there's one thing that is universal truth, it's that Tailwind CSS is doodoo.

Week: 115 (Year 3)

How is the weekend going?

Question: What's the best and worst thing that happened to you this year so far?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19384618

Our German friends made us lunch:
Spaetzle, Jagershnitzle, Gechmorter Kohl, Tiramisu

I felt like we should have been playing German marching music during lunch. They also confirmed that Germans don't have a sense of humor. They did tell some good jokes. Mixed signals.

They served pork, I could have told concentration camp jokes and been mostly safe.

THE FRENCH WERE RIGHT IN CUTTING THE KING HEAD AND WE SHOULD ALL DO THE SAME TO YOUR PRIME MINISTER / PRESIDENT / KING / EMPEROR OR WHATEVER ITS CALLED

GENERAL HEADCUTTING DAY.

SPREAD THE WORD

No matter religion, skin color, feet size, hair color, genre, what united us all is taking a good shit after 3 cups of tea and holding it through the day.

update: oh boy, spent the whole day in the hospital - bronchopathy. They did some exams and you know that propylene glycol thingy vape liquids use to produce all that vapor? It seems that while that shit's safe to eat, your lungs can't digest it, obviously. Therefore I am now stuck puking that shit out the next couple of weeks. Don't touch ANY sort of vape, friends

"The burnt pen-is mightier than the sword."
- Vaporator User ostream

"Mind if I smoke?"
- Concentration Camp Inmate 107984

"C++ is made for segfaults."
- Flaming Rust User @sucksemballz

"LSD is a key component to vibe coding."
- @retoorii

"If you are not offended then I will try harder next time."
- some asshole on devrant

I don't really understand the flow that my senior dev wants to do for graphql. Normally graphql should be 1 request for your data with what you need but this is proposed flow.

1) Get all custom fields/columns of "products"
2) Append the custom fields in the frontend by all hardcoded default fields in my object
3) Fetch the relationships
4) Fetch the custom fields of the relationships
5) Add hardcoded default fields + Append that to my "master object"
6) Fetch the custom fields of "secondary key" that is not included in step 4 or step 1
7) append that to my master object
8) Fetch data

So the frontend needs to be rebuild the database structure and send 4 (or 5) graphql requests to load in 1 table... I don't know how to describe it anymore lol

This flow has to be redone for every table

if they say jump,
don't ask how high: that's insubordination

Gamers should boycott Nvidia.

They abandoned us for making crypto mining machines, leaving gamers with expensive and hard to get cards.

They abandoned us for making AI bubble machines, leaving gamers with expensive and hard to get cards AND crashing our economy.

No more Nvidia cards!

Another coding test that takes 2 hours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

After coming back from vacation, seeing that the project manager has used AI to try and do some of my tasks, completely failing and running performance and code quality/readability into the ground I must confess that I am strongly in favour of completely banning AI for non-tech people

Just came back from my first day at cloudflare. I've already removed quite a bit of dead code.