Guys what should I get my wife for her birthday?

What about a monkey?

https://exoticanimalsforsaleonline.net/...

Funny how clients demand for pixel perfection on apps when they took their sweet time on vacations.

Oh well, let's do it 💪

Trust your guts!

Just remember that your gut is designed to take the most tastey things and turn it into shit.

I'll keep on going about my vacation.

Went down the piste from where I took the picture, usually takes half an hour on average, I took less than 15 minutes.

I'm a tiny bit proud of myself :)

That feeling you get when you write code so complicated, that a few weeks later, even with tutorial-level documentation, you don't know whats going on, so you just rewrite from scratch.

Yeah that just happened to me.

No time for deep work to re-grok what the fuck I was working toward, so I just rewrote the core of it to relearn the entire process.

Had comments, documentation, step-by-steps. Still the ability to understand and reason about it noped-the-fuck-out of the building apparently.

Might have had something to do with zero sleep three days in a row and too much red bull.

Sleep-deprived me operates on a whole different plane of existence.

I just want to talk to people, more people, new people, friends, anyone,

I want to explore their culture, their life, I want to learn.

Otherwise I feel like I'm wasting my life.

I just want to go out and explore the world.

if someone in the group blames you for something, do you "accept responsibility" even if you didn't do the thing?

why or why not?

I want a rave bitches

https://youtube.com/watch/...

apparently the ability to want to try something new is creativity...

the what. that bar seems too low?

What happened to SliTaz was so unfortunate. It's old (2008, latest release happened in 2025) and very lightweight.

It's also half-abandoned and running out of steam. 2022's donation campaign only raised 263 dollars.

It's community page (https://scn.slitaz.org) is defaced. It's Twitter (https://x.com/slitaz) is suspended.

This distro is really unique. It's not just Openbox plus Ubuntu. It's near and dear to my heart. If you can, please give it some love.

Lady next door was visiting me. She is 67. She is a kinda psychologist and she needed a new site. With her just sitting here, i generated one with gpt and explained her html a bit. The instructions are as follow:
- if you add a page, duplicate the other page and remove the text you don't want. Do not remove html unless it's around content what you don't use anymore.
- learned her how to copy a href and change the link.

So, first, she asked me for a website. The last thing I want is somebody's website in maintenance or even work on it. Making "beautiful"/commercial sites is not my hobby.

Now, for 1,80 per month she has a domain name (i asked if it will have SSL, that's still bit unclear) and 1,- hosting per month. I think it can be even cheaper. It doesn't support php/python and stuff.

TLDR; i gave someone a HTML site generated in 5 minutes, tried a few style sheets and she was happy with it. Bye bye designers :P No one cares! Also full responsive.

yesterday my 9-5 posted a devops job offer that hires a devops engineer and it very closely describes my position.

should i fear?

can't beat human

I work at a research institute (part of probably the largest research body in whole Europe). And it's driving me nuts. Forget about the lack of interest to improve yourself in terms of software skills or basic digital hygiene so that others don't have to pick up the mop and clean after you. The ancient mindset is what is making me curse everyday. Only a few years ago we switched to GitLab. Before that versioning, if at all a known term, was done explicitly via email messages - code snippets in the message's body, versions in the subject of message attachments...A freaking nightmare. Constantly broken links to files and folders on our NAS since some people have never heard of relative paths or writing even the tiniest bit of support for configuration files in their software so that a tool does not completely brake the moment you transfer it onto another system or - God forbid - the person leaves and there is no information whatsoever what's where. Everyone is complaining about the clutter on our servers but no one is willing to actually clean their own (not someone else's) crap. If you mention to someone something like "Can you please pack your stuff in this GitLab repo with this folder structure, so that I have an easier time integrating it into the main software that we need to ship to our customers in a few days?" all you get as a response is a blank facial expression and the occasional "I have my own processes. Don't bother me with this!". I have been trying for almost 4 years now and its budging a little bit but the lack of support is abysmal. My boss, as enthusiastic as it is, is incapable of putting his foot down. The fact that I have two heads of my team (one not really but acting like it) does not improve the situation at all especially since both are pulling in a completely different direction. We are literally wasting hundreds of thousands of euros of taxpayers' money to buy new hardware that people are either inadequate to use to its fullest potential (think buying the latest GPU to play Minesweeper) or not having even the smallest clue on what they need it for. And we are always complaining about our budget! You don't invest a couple of hours to investigate how PyTorch can work in a distributed manner on multiple CPUs, GPUs and even systems, yet demand you get a new server for 80K with a more powerful GPU and CPU to run your crap models on so that you can publish a half-ass paper that nobody cares for let alone will ever bother reading (beside the AI reviewers).

Live coding interviews basically make no sense.
It's even worse when you can't use an IDE.
Like, bro, what the fuck? You want me to write code in fucking notepad?
Alright then, I can play that game. It's so easy to memorize the algos and pass the test, yet that's not indicative of a good engineer.
I wonder if the roles were reversed, how good the interviewer would perform.

ladies and gentlemen, goto in JS!

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.

As much as I dislike google, it's so much more pro-active compared to Bing and Yandex :v

google already indexed my pages n removed the ones per updated robots.txt

Bing doesnt know I exist even though crawlled in webmaster, and Yandex still shows the Novemver version of pages in their results

no man, I can't rebase, I don't work for you anymore

okay, it's time.

a friend of mine left Microsoft a while ago. he said that the reason he left was The Microsoft Way Of Doing Things that, upon accepting and embracing it, will make you unhirable to everyone else. Doing so was a requirement — you won't make it long without becoming One Of Them.

he may or may not have used Visual C++, C# and F#, and he may or may not have touched Windows.

Years ago, I joined a company making games for handheld consoles.

Because a game's audio needs to be tested, too, I connected earphones to the console so that:
0. I wouldn't bother others w/ the sounds coming out of the console.
/* !Everyone wants to hear that crap. */
1. I could hear the sounds better.

PM: * Enters the room. *
Me: * Focused on testing the game. *
PM: * Walks up to me from the side, starts talking. *
Me: * Focused on testing the game. *
PM: * After approx. 30 seconds of complete lack of response from me, kind of irritated, knocks on my desk to get my attention. *
Me: * Take out the earphones. *
Oh, hi, how can I help you?
PM: Haven't you heard a word I said?
Me: Well, no. I am testing the game, including the audio.
PM: You need to pay attention to what's going on around you.
Me: Testing audio is one of my responsibilities. I am using earphones because of the reasons [0-1].
PM: Even still, you just need to pay attention to what's going on around you.
PM: * Finally explains the reason for him bothering me, then goes back to his lair. *

Moral of the story: Fuck being good at what you do && knowing your responsibilities.
When PM wants something from you, you better give him the attention he wants.

/* The expectation being I grow an extra pair of eyes && ears, so that I see the guy coming && am prepared to listen to him whenever he wants something _while_ doing the best job I possibly can. */

8am meeting on Monday. It gets cancelled at 5am (while I'm asleep) and gets moved to tomorrow .. at 8am 😪 😡

I hate working with Europeans

…and I think it’s beautiful.

I was curious about the geographical distribution of Top Tech Jobs (i.e. how many FAANG jobs are in Europe, where they are mostly focused, etc)... So I came up with a draft (prototype) of the Tech Jobs Radar:

https://jobs-radar.com/

I'm sharing it here just in case someone else is curious about analyzing such data

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.

node modules real meaning.

"Remote jobs that pay over 200k/year"
*clicks link*
Number 1: Vice President
*closes link*

Consulting is fucking burnout. 'Be better, faster, smarter'. Oh yeah? And a life, how about that?

It's almost my birthday. My mom wanted to give me a month ChatGPT for my birthday but I have it already. Actually amazed by the spot-on suggestion. Recently for xmas she was spot-on too. She gave a 10kg warm blanket. Ever slept under such heavy blanket? You sleep in NO TIME. Heavy recommend!

Tip for when somebody asks what to give you for present and you have no idea: supermarket stuff of their own choice. You'll learn some new products that way and will have stuff you normally don't buy. So asked that.

A good friend who lives in Ukraine comes to my birthday so I'm happy.

Am I going crazy or is the web dev community on some otherworldly drug?
Now "server-side"-whatever is the coolest thing ever?
To the point where client side validation is not recommended anymore and actively discouraged? Are you kidding me? So, you mean to say after filling a long form with millions of fields, the page will RELOAD when I press submit and after waiting an eternity for your shitty server to respond then and only then will I know what fields are invalid?
GTFO with that bullshit.
How in the world is that good UX/UI?
I've always had this theory that we humans are the dumbest species to ever walk this earth. I mean, serisouly, how is this even a thing?

Imagine if a mobile app had to restart to tell you that your email is invalid in a simple form.

But.. but... but... what if the client has disabled javascript? Then fuck them! Who the fuck cares? What's next? Some dumb user is still using Android 2.1 Eclair and we should make our app support them? Fuck no! Fuck them, they should update.
Newsflash, if Javascript is disabled, then pretty much everything will be broken anyway.

Form validation should be instantenous. This isn't rocket science.
It should happen as the user types so they can see what's valid/invalid in real-time.
This does require effort and consideration, something many devs lack apparently.

This is just ridiculous.