My lovely colleagues from planning bought me this for "my continuous help over this year".

I love those guys.

My proudness accomplishment?

My relationship with my sibling

> made tea 3 hours ago in a thermos
> got distracted by stuff
> tea still warm

it's the little things in life

tldr: I no longer like my job.

Several years ago I got hired at this company. It was great. Lots of things to learn. Able to make a big impact. The manager is great. Lots of flexibility. Raises were decent for the most part.

6+ years later. I have nothing to learn. I feel my career is stagnating. I'm quite good at my job but things are boring and there's no challenge. In the end my company has proved to me I do not make enough to justify my skills. I keep being told things are going to change and there will be new opportunities to change roles and learn/grow, but Ive heard that for years and trusted my leadership. They didn't lie to me but there are so many things out of their control that things just never happen.

My manager has become a good friend and I hate to think about leaving but finally just have to accept that all I'm doing is hurting myself and my career.

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

So, StackExchange has renamed Luigi Mangione's profile. Not a complete removal as of yet, it seems.

So if I am even accused of a crime, they're gonna remove my scientific publications and contributions?

Like idgaf about the guy, but how's this not censorship? How's this any better than burning certain books? (I'm going out on a limb here, but you get the idea)

Very excited to announce I've started another project I will never finish

This $1 mofo created more engineers than Harvard or Stanford.

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. */

today i was asked to encrypt a public key, because "it's sensitive info".

a PUBLIC key.

smh

it's not even hard (literally 1 line of code), but come on...

i haven't even updated to win11, so why tf does Microsoft think i want copilot on my task bar

Trying not to be an asshole when my first reaction is "wow that's shit"

The handle on the faucet in one of the bathrooms broke off today. You can still operate the faucet with some finger strength. It is just difficult. We also got a reminder today that we are not to be streaming video or music using the company wifi. They ask that we use our own bandwidth on our phones.

So on the bathroom door where the faucet handle is broken I placed this sign:

I support the idea that we rename devRant to WTFRant. I feel like the WTFs per rant is steadily increasing.

When I see the term "self-explanatory" in documentation, it's usually not.

If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.

Getting into a bed with fresh sheets after a long shower is heaven

Not many things would get me out of bed rn

My colleagues are morons. They're "evaluating" AI research tools and it's going about as well as you'd expect.

Hiring Manager: Thanks for interviewing for the position. But the things we listed as "nice to haves" are actually required for the job so we aren't going to hire you.

Medium: Create account to view full story
Me: Ok, let me create the account
Medium: Upgrade to read full story

Holy fuck, I hate the internet

Remember everyone. 5 hours of ChatGPT will always save you 5 minutes of stackoverflow

I want a job where I'm left to just refactor a horrible legacy codebase and make it easy to change

45

...

45 is the number of calls in my call history today.
Needless to say, my brain was fried by 1400

I'm so fucking done.

I hate the tech influencers that talk about clown strike and they obviously have no idea what they’re talking about go watch John Hammond before talking about what cnn said you assfuck
Y’know what maybe I just hate tech influencers

No work today....

Uno reverse card

first day back from vacation

Do drugs, kids. Stay away from programming.

- @SoldierOfCode, 2024

Cunt: hey i need you do to Thing
Me: sure, send me the details
C: yep! How long do you think it will take you to finish it?
Me: yes

It's always fun when the app is crashed by a... logger