So when we having an IRL meet? I think something was discussed a while ago.

🍺 Just tapped a fresh feature for PixelPrep!

After countless commits and more coffee than is medically advisable, I’ve shipped a shiny new feature to the PixelPrep - Composer 🍻

Whether you're wrangling web-app snapshots or just trying to keep your design system sane, this update makes composing your design web-app snapshots smoother than a well-poured pint. 🛠️🍺

Check it out and let me know what you think (or rant about how your team still hardcodes colors in hex 🙃):

👉 https://pixelprep.io/composer.html

If you don't test for it the bug doesn't exist.

My project mananger let it slip during the sprint review that the upper managers are making plans to do lay offs / cut the fat.

What an ideal moment to hand in my resignation.

"All due regards".

None. No regards are due. If you didn't work out I thought you lot were assholes from the body of the email, you're not going to work it out from the sign off, but still. You've got the social skills of a toothbrush.

I'd love to play poker with these people though. Can't bluff for shit.

Tomorrow I'll get the contract for a new job \o/

Client began micromanaging our project :/ . Now we have to log our hours on each task and then replicate that in another time tracking system. Double-accounting...

And we do not get the Jira's Tempo plugin to see a summary of what hours we've logged.

It's reached the point where now I have to create a task to cover for the hour spent for time logging alone :/

damn it. It was a fun project though.

Every year my work sends out a "mental health awareness week" email including some "useful resources" and the biggest problem for my mental health is those assholes.

This is a first... My CEO made a youtube video announcing that they fired an employee (sales). I don't even know why they had to make a youtube video. The link was part of an email, just write it down in that email instead of labeling it as "small message from our CEO"

So disrespectful in my opinion.

How can so many people be shit at their job, and all in one company?

So performant!

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

I give up.

I have to make a bunch of disparate things work together, in an otherwise easy-sounding ask, and they’re all broken. Every one of them is broken. Even links between them are broken. Devs hardcoding incorrect values; devs pushing broken code, broken dependencies, broken configs. The orchestration is broken. The containers are broken. The NATS/gRPC flow is broken. Nothing works out of the box; many of the pieces require config and env hacking to run, and when they do run, the data formats don’t match between services (nor do e.g. account IDs). I can’t do it anymore. I was so burned out before this ticket that I couldn’t look at anything work related without feeling physical pain. And now this.

I’ve spent weeks just getting things to run and talk, and being ignored when I ask for help. There have been walls every step of the way, and I’m still not done. I can’t do this anymore.

I think my post-covid brain fog is over. I feel the sharpness of my thoughts again. It's like comparing opening 300 chrome tabs on a dual-core Intel Atom N550 vs Intel Ultra 7 165H.

Took me what, ~3 years to get over it...?

I feel like I can do dev work again, not just devops.

#feelsgoodman

Azure sucks!

I have been pulling my hair off using Azure. All questions I posted on their support doesn't have any answers.

Their documentation is overwhelming as hell, they don't provide enough examples. They just put information like they expect the user already knows it.

F*K U AZURE

LLMs write worse code than any human's code. No logic. Fuck generative AI. I fucking hate it.

Me and a fellow friend started working as a freelancer.

of 3 projects that we have:

One has a terrible code (like really nasty and over engineered to the maximum). albeit each new feature is a challenge to our sanity... they pay are are somewhat nice.

Another after we did the job they don't want to pay (thankfully we are on a platform that is like the middle man for work, they already have the money so should be "trivial") because they say we did not do what they asked. Brother, the 2 A.M. is not an hour to be called, and we did all the little shitty task they askend AND the original tasks...

And in the last one we hired a team to work with us because we don't have more hours in a day... and they only rename some vars, call it a day, ignoring the task on the sprint and they wanna get paid for the "job"

I just wanna drink a few pints of guinness...

Week : 88 (Year 1 )

How was the weekend?

I cut my 5-year-old's long hair this weekend. Time to change the avatar

What split your life into before and after?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/15868376

Quote of my CEO today: "We are never going to get an other lawyer as customer... Only problems!"

Imagine our users knowing their rights, such a shame.

Someone's going to be fired. Not me. When I joined my current company I was severely unwell. The survival rate for the state I was in was only slightly better than cancer (at 2 years less than 3 in 4 survive). I told work all of this. As far as I can tell they did nothing. As far as I can tell they didn't belive me. They've now got shitty about my performance and have actually asked for an independent review of my health. It is bad. It's significantly better than it was and it probably sounds worse than it is, but it is bad. They don't even know how much worse it was when I joined because they DIDN'T GET AN ASSESSMENT LIKE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO. Someone is getting fired. HR hasn't responded to my emails since last Tuesday when they got the assessment. The only person that's said anything to me is my manager, he was in a bit of a grump last Wednesday (I don't think they'd told him yet) but he's being nice today, not a single word of criticism.

Someone is getting fired.

We are refactoring the core feature of our unique selling point of our backend that all our products use.

And our product manager just decided that we will roll it out on Wednesday and we will not do any tests. r/whatcouldgowrong

You're telling me that, Google, the biggest tech company of all time, who primarily owns the web, couldn't come up with a function to add "Profiles" in the official Google Chrome app?????

OKAY I GOT IT ITS SCALABLE THANK YOU NO I DONT WANT TO BUY A LICENCE NO I DONT WANT TO WATCH YOUR WEBINAR NO PLEASE GOD NO

My team mate is so fucking bad that I use his mistakes as interview questions for internship positions. So I really make sure I don't have a second Ouistiti in my team.

A cautionary tale, dear devRanters:

"My husband was laid off by Microsoft after 25 years — by algorithm. His last day is his birthday."

https://reddit.com/r/microsoft/...

Enjoy life outside of work

Finally got all the php errors fixed on my servers. Feels good man.

IS YOUR SPIRIT IN THE RIGHT PLACE?!

Hello devRant, It's time to come forward.

I’m Professor Aaron Halbert, if you knew me before tenure turned me into a legend. I’m 83 now, which means I’ve lived through five decades of academic eye-rolling, two revolutions in workplace culture, and more bad office coffee than any human should have to endure.

I was the one who invented working from home.

That’s not a joke, nor is it an exaggeration. Back in 1972, while the world obsessed over typewriters and briefcases, I was knee-deep in a research project on workplace fatigue and domestic productivity. I submitted what would later be referred to by a startled grad student as “wildly ahead of its time”: "Reclaiming the Domestic Sphere: A Framework for Home-Centered Vocational Systems."

In other words—I suggested people might work better if they didn’t commute two hours to sit in fluorescent-lit boxes.

Naturally, I was mocked. A department head told me the only thing people got done at home was laundry. But I kept at it. I retrofitted my own house with early telecom devices, even used a CB radio to simulate real-time collaborative tasks. My neighbors thought I was a conspiracy theorist. I took it as a compliment.

I spent the next 40 years refining the Halberg Principle of Environmental Work Synergy—the idea that productivity blooms when people have control over the space where they work. And then, in 2020, it happened. The world shut down. Suddenly, everyone was dialing in from kitchen tables and living room couches. Zoom calls. Slack messages. Pajama-bottom business meetings.

And all I could think was: “It took a pandemic to catch up to 1972?”

Now I live in a cottage near Lake Wellingford. I grow rosemary, occasionally guest-lecture over webcam (no ring light needed), and enjoy watching people finally realize what I’ve always known: the best office is the one with your dog in it.

I didn’t just predict the future—I decorated it. With houseplants.

Today, a colleague and I had to travel to a different office 2h away one way to play our mandatory game of table tennis....

It's now 5 minutes past my official working hours and they still haven't pulled out their foldable pingpong table. So respectful

The English Wikipedia's article on "Ostrich" has "Not to be confused with Osterreich" written on top :D
Americans, am I right?

A shout out to those considering deleting their dR account [esp. old timers here] and still on the fence. If you can -- don't.

If you're an old timer here, chances are you actually dev-ranted about real dev issues and possibly posted a solution found after all the frustration.

If you delete your acc, all these posts will disappear. Leave them be. Let them be a contribution to the community, to your fellow devs.

If this platform is no longer worth your time [can't blame you, really], you can simply log out and not come back here :)