Now I know why no one uses the google cloud. Making TTS and STT working costed me the whole night. Gemini was easy tho. But fuck google, you costed me a lot of energy. You guys are crazy. Now my api connects in a magic way i don't even understand with the gcloud cli app. The rest of my application is totally rest, don't use much of the google library.

I implemented google TTS and STT into ChatGPT. I use for somethings google because it's cheaper. It works using a JBL Go! speaker. I can just turn it on and start chatting with it. I implemented google search and gave it a memory. It can remember numbers for me. It accepts dutch and english. I can say 'google' and google is the main action. It will fetch results from google and uses gpt to summary the results. It works perfect! BUT FUCKING AI. I want to know the color of the hair from Mona Lisa. Not freaking Ona Isa! I send it literally correct. The speechtotext works great. But fucking API with it's reading. Pathethic. How far is AI? Barely usable as home assistant. So far - besides auto completion and giving code snippets / concepts AI is freaking useless. You need more patience for AI than a kid.

I hope the inventor of oauth2 dies alone. He should.

There is no traffic cone emoji.
Sorry.

This is to me the most amazing tattoo I have ever seen. This dude got a mini lemon on his head and he made lemonade with it.

can't beat human

So...
I'm pretty sure that my satirical, educational, metaphor-esq, response was warranted... but just to check:

I'm having an issue with an online gambling platform... I'm in the USA-- recently several states allow online gambling. This specific one is a huge company so extra careful about proxies etc. To play via browser\desktop you need to install 3rd party, constant, network verification software... network architecture pro with my company's network, manually written ofc, running my static IPv4 /28 from my home = f that
app version even told me i had to uninstall rustdesk (it thinks i obeyed)

the issue is nothing controllable from client side... it's the same problem regardless of device, os (android phone, tablet, and iPad... fresh factory settings, bare bones and container versions... yea I was using it to procrastinate), network type, etc, etc

so i finally take the time to take a video of the issue (would be super confusing via screenshots)... even compress it to 1.5x speed and 240px, leaving the full screen (not cropping) and metadata intact. I point out that im a dev, and even worked for online gambling platforms...

i quickly mention all the noob troubleshooting bs, that i literally know every bit of data that moves on my network... that this issue is identical on both an iPad and android phones (so totally different apps\OSes)... the "live support" already tried(my req) totally deleting then reissuing the problematic promos... 'deleted' one persisted...etc

I clearly lay out all this info, even suggesting they forward it to someone in tech... give them the specific model numbers and OS builds of the primary devices(ipad and android phone)

...

I get back, an equally long, form response... summary:
we r soooo sorry you're having trouble
we care sooooo much about your\customer experience!
the tech team says (heavily implying it got escalated\forwarded) if you try these things itll fix it:
*imagine every generic troubleshooting guide from the early 2000s, plus a few notes like "(smartphone)"*

...and i shit you not, it even gave instructions to restart devices, power-cycle my modem\router and clear my browser cache. (all clearly nonsensical to anyone who read my initial email with a vague knowledge of English and/or tech)

Despite only having 1 valid hand to type with, i type nearly 70wpm (on my prefd keyboards)... so I lectured them, explaining their disrespectful bs clearly... and including a dumbed down metaphor relating a friendly request for a specific salsa recipe using\not using specific available ingredients... and replied to with a children's description of what a tomato is.

Explicitly gave a second chance to actually read the initial issue\email and forward or respond appropriately.

I was way more polite than my depiction seems...too polite.

soooo... i sent an additional email response...
i changed the subject so it'd still align with their ticket system but also identified the rep, with heavily implied disdain.

the contents of the additional response:

Dear 'Mary',

It seems that I forgot to include a very important resource for you.

I apologise. Please follow this link and complete all steps\levels. I want you to have a great online experience!

https://bestdosgames.com/games/...

Best Regards,

Sara Range

things like the "Best Regards," are artifacts of their formatting.

so... im not sure if i was too much of a dick, not enough, or if it even matters because it may go over their head.

opinions pl0x?

Week : 70 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

So eventually Cat gave birth to 3 amazing kittens, obviously in my basement. I think she is moving out. I heard them talking last night that she is tired of this shit

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/12275079

Someone broke boost and modules, at least I managed to make a workaround but come on

Guyz so I found this climbing gym with a sauna, it's all good and stuff but I wonder if i shouldnt supplement with a side of ashtanga what do u think? Long term i want to improve my surfing

gonna try working from the hospital while my youngest brother is in surgery from a car accident yay american work culture forcing productivity in difficult times

A software developer's experience life cycle:

0 - 5 years: attempt to replicate what your current senior is preaching, assuming that's the right way. Reading "Clean code" and preach it as gospel, even though you don't practice any of it.

6-12 years: gained the belief that you are better off coming up with solutions yourself, usually "sophisticated" and "elegant" which to everyone else (and also yourself a few years later) is an over-complicated inheritance ridden shit show. You have realised the "Clean code" movement is actually a cult but still believe code reuse is the holy grail.

13+ years: finally realized that simplicity and pragmatism is the most sensible way for most software development. Code is now readable, maintainable and functional. You took the few good bits from "Clean code" and ignored the extremism. These are the golden years.

The problem is most developers jump ship and stop developing before reaching the golden years, thus resulting in most software projects looking like shit.

Unpopular opinion, but it doesn't make it untrue.

Does anyone else ever drink too strong coffee in one go because they're tired only to get a headache and still feel 10 years younger

I still attend JSA (javascript anonymous) meetings...

Happy New Year Devs!

Week : 70 ( Year 1 )

Plans for the first weekend?

My cat (well, my neighbour's cat. Sometimes visits my place) looks like pregnant. Any advice to do something? or let nature do its thing?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/12057280

Safety first

I asked my wife to make bacon wontons. Yes, they turned out very good. Would request again.

happy new year 2025! 🎇🎆

Whoever ++ this, their new year will be fantastic!

Happy new year.

What’s up with that placeholder’s aspect ratio?

Why is spaces the de-facto over tabs? Tabs seems better in every way including the fact you can make them any width you want...

Week : 69 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

As we approach the final weekend of the year, let's make it count! How do you plan to spend it?

Resolutions for next week maybe?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11708341

Previous Year - last weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/10065108

Update on my 60% keyboard and (neo)vim journey:

I've been getting much more used to the motions and hand posture required to use vim, but I still don't understand people who use it as their main editor.

I'm still using vanilla nvim, because:
- I am afraid of learning to install plugins
- I want to master the baseline experience before adding more

I enjoy the snappiness, and I feel my keyboard skills further improving, but everything about neovim is disappointing me from the syntax highlighting to the clunky copy/paste to the difficulty of finding code you need.

In VSCode, I can just do ctrl + p to go to any file, f2 to symbol rename, ctrl + shift+ f to do a recursive directory search. These are things offered only by plugins in nvim, but are available out-of-the-box in vscode.

Even saving your file is clunky. I've gotten used to esc + :w, but it's just more keystrokes than ctrl + s.

Sure, my hand is RIGHT in the middle of the keyboard, and key for key, I'm probably writing code faster when I'm in a groove. But there are so many things that are easy in vscode that are difficult in vim that I know that I'm losing time anyways.

There’s a guy at work I hate so much. He doesn’t know when a problem shouldn’t exist, he never checks to see if there is a better more maintainable and efficient way to solve a problem, lacks attention to detail, has the attention span of a goldfish, writes shitty overly complicated code, fuuuck

If you talked to this guy in person, you’d think he’s a genius who has it all figured out, but he’s just a professional bullshitter

Want to give Google a giant "fuck you" to their AI results?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/...

I now have a custom google search that Firefox defaults to. It looks like I don't get AI results on first try. YMMV

So I decided I needed to tell you all a funny Christmas story.

I got a bunch of shirts for Christmas (not surprising). A couple of them were t-shirts and one was a red plaid shirt that buttons up. So to show my appreciation to my wife for the gifts I decided to wear a t-shirt and the plaid shirt (left unbuttoned so you can see funny t-shirt). I put them on and went to talk to my wife in her office at home:

me: Do you know what I would do if I had a wife like you?
her: I dunno, what?
me: Two Christmas shirts at the same time.

If you don't know the reference here is a link:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

z-index you set minus z-index that was necessary is the number of whips you should receive. Whips with barbed wire that is.

Suddenly remembered that, at one point in time, every few rants here I would read something about wordpress, and how nightmarish working on this or that blazing dumpster funeral pyre was.

So, hot take: you deserve it.

I'm sorry wordpress devs, but you do. If the whole point is getting a site up and running "without extensive coding knowledge", then the whole point is not needing to hire a developer. You get that, right? These folks straight up tried to take your job, realized they couldn't, then came back crawling, and you accepted the offer right after getting spat in the face.

Mother fucker, have some self-respect. On both sides of the equation.

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Family, family, family, charity, charity, some coding. Some dR. Even had a Grinch. A lot of snow. This Christmas is perfect and one more evening to go!

Happy x mass guys!

Unpopular opinion: given your server has enough entropy, UUID v4 is a good session token.
It allocates 122 bits for the randomly generated part. OWASP recommends session tokens to contain at least 64 bits of entropy while being at least 16 hexadecimal characters long.