Once upon a time, there was a young, clean-shaven dev.
Soon in his career the smooth faced dev realized he had a knack for cloud setup. He understood permissions and network configurations, he could tell apart security groups from access groups, he could get all the information needed for an IPSec VPN in a single breath.
But if things got really tough, if the network layout was really messy, if the security settings too arcane, some older, bearded senior dev would come to solve everything.
Time passed, the junior dev got better at stuff, switched companies many times, solved a million problems, delivered countless projects, attended infinite meetings - twice - and, as often is the case, the senior devs, one by one, left the companies and run ever more scarce each day.

One day, a long, loooong time after his first meeting, the once young dev was solving network problems. Weird ones. Tough security requirements. Poorly documented cloud services. For hours, the dev and his colleagues toiled away, chipping at the problem without getting at its core.
The silence fell in the meeting. Everybody looking at each other, waiting for someone to say something.
Then they all looked at the dev, their eyes crying for help.
And the dev realized that he hadn't shaved in weeks.

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I've shaved since then.
And I did solve the problem. Took many more hours, though.

You know you’re in a good mood when every song that comes on sounds good

Have you ever proposed great ideas to the company, yet they were rejected time after time, only for some half-assed golden favorite boy to steal the show for you with their half-assed idea?

I mean, now I understand that once you've been long enough in the industry, you express a deep, long sigh at least once a day. Plus, it affects your mental health. Not giving a fuck and just working on yourself more and your personal projects is crucial.

getting fired on 20th june 2025 and it is SUCH a fucking relief to not ever see this 30 year old garbage code project EVER AGAIN!!!! and moving onto modern technology project for another client. FUCK OFF 🇨🇭♿️🇨🇭♿️🇨🇭♿️

NASA is a make-believe company. Can you name anything they've done in the last 67 years except make some low budge moonlanding movies with failed shadow alignments? Like name something, any "space mission" that had impact on human progress. I'd argue a retarded common devRanter had more impact than NASA. Don't throw me the hair vaxed wire floating videos as well. Like what the fuck America?

I made this
https://miloxeon.codeberg.page/libr...

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.

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

Americans love to complain that schools don't teach students about taxes...
If American schools started teaching American youth about American taxes, how they work and where all this money is going, it will end in either First American Socialist Revolution or the Second American Civil War.

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.

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.

I want to bitch about so somewhat personal and somewhat political stuff, but no one will care for someone yelling at the clouds or be able to influence the situation in any meaningful way.

devRanters, are you still here?

Since, sadly, it's not possible to post images anymore and the founders unfortunately aren't addressing the issue (unless I missed something, let me know), I'm thinking about implementing an integrated external image uploader in devRant UWP client (if you don't know, I made a client for devRant in 2016 you can still download from the Microsoft Store on Windows 10/11), integrated as link for official clients, loaded as image in my client.
It won't resolve the issue on mobile (other than seeing the link to the image), unless you're using a Windows Phone in 2025!, but at least you could potentially see images on Windows (for rants posted using my client).

Let me know what do you think. If there are any devRant UWP users still here... lol

mayday, mayday

world communism day
and Illuminati day

you're welcome

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.

someone give me some attention

ChatGPTs UI is so bad it probably was implemented with ChatGPT...

White people decided to rename female circumcision, a traditional practice that takes place among Khoisan, Nyakyusa and Khoekhoe people, to “female genital mutilation”.

The amount of suffering that white people caused to the Africans is immeasurable. And now, white people decide to export their “culture” to Africa, and to tell African women what they can and cannot do to their own private parts? For those of you who don’t know, it’s women circumcising other women.

Can whites just fuck off for once? Let African people write their own laws on their land, and practice their own culture.

If they choose to go to your country, that’s a different story. But as long as they practice their culture among themselves on their own land, fuck off!

Because of all the injustice done to a regular folk by the banks and megacorporations, as well as the parts of government that value those two higher than doing the right thing for the regular people, piracy is all but justified.

For me, piracy is the default option. When it comes to stuff made by a megacorp, the first thing I do is see if I can pirate that. I would argue that piracy should be the default option for everyone.

No, you're not depriving corpo staff/hires of their salaries by pirating. If a megacorp is not paying them, it's not your fault.

I only pay for content if I want to support the creators. I was pirating since I got my first computer, I do pirate right now, and I will pirate in the future. I will advocate for piracy.

I've had to create a very simple frontend feature connected to an API. That part works flawlessly but we have rewritten a bunch of code in the system for a certain hardware device.

Now the person that was working on the backend just said today he has no device to test it on lab environment. Neither does any colleague apparently

And guess who got a meeting with the CEO, COO, sales people and the project manager for a demo of that said feature :D

See this what I'm talking about

You all are either bots now or other peope copying and pastihg lines

But that's not the main point

Your dumb shit drives me crazy

Everything you people do is repetitive stupid mimicry of previous annoying disgusting degraded fucked up people

There is no reason I should have to run around like a mad fool all over my own fucking country putting out fires when my time isn't simply being wasted

And there is no reason you trashy people have to force me to lie to reinvent things when that's also just a bullshit trap intended to steal my things before you people either all die and or check out or bury tye truth

And there sure as fuck no reason this is necessary at all

Acknowledge the fucking year you fucks

I shouldn't be smelling disgusting things or listening to some fake fat fuck composite instead of enjoying private life around people who aren't fucking crazy apparently lying about horrific shit they did for fun trying to play pretend and cast doubt on other folks who eith3r don't remember or don't know they're just making some flimsy attempt to use them which is likely an enveloped deceit where another group is fucking the would be manipulators over

Fuck you

None of this worked before it just wastes time

What the fuck is up with Germans man. Everyone I discussed ideas with had such a defeatist nutjob attitude of “things are never going to change” and rather complain about the terrible state of companies which actually want to change something. Its the same shit as with electric automotive, fucking pathetic these weißwürstchen sucking bitches

I don't get people that limit themselves to 1 laptop, be that a mac or win or linux.
Are there actual devs out there only using a Chromebook? Do they jump from one 6 figure job to the next and just delete their google account with each one?
I think Eli the computer guy is the best Youtube public example for how your setup should be.
Also have a good personal policy on the kind of shit you install on your machine. No "toolbars" kind of software like Lastpass or anything.
Bottom line: you might as well just unplug your internet connection on your main dev machine at this point.

My children will named after data structures

got this cloud provider who is very knowledgeable, however they set up some logs analytics shit on our one Azure tenant which is costing more than the web apps we host and he's going on about how it's really important that this shit is there because hurr durr security.

Fucking hell, Microsoft Store is the most useless abomination that MS has ever produced and instead of killing it, like they do with their other failed products, they somehow, for some reason, still keep this lobotomized pile of crap alive.

Israelis just attacked a civilians boat in Malta. Malta is in the UE. This is clearly a cassus belli and we should retaliate against Israel and its support (Germany, the US). Putin isn't the only threat.

Just nuke these fuckers.

Just finished Expedition 33. GOTY material for sure. It's easily on my top 5 of all time.

I think I have a problem.
I remember when this platform used to have living people on it I didn't mind.
So i keep logging in curious what the dead fucking people said in response to me, knowing it will be the same anyway.
One day at a time... *deep breath*
Also fuck you, I wrote this before.

Wasting an hour reading a book with the wrong title today.

What if we brought back judging books by their covers?