Quote of our co-founder today: "Recently I've learned we should be doing market research before building something"

Explains why we are so much in the red now...

import legacy project on new laptop

some gradle shit is broken and i dont understand why

i dont remember having to deal with it years ago and and i have no idea how to fix

cant see the settings difference between it working on old laptop

A friend of mine asked me to help him develop a simple ios app. After spending few year with lisp Swift looks so syntactically difficult to understand how to write code. I feel I have to learn Swift, SwiftUI and their specifics before.

But preview in XCode is fantastic btw.

Job at Duckduckgo

$178,500 USD annually and stock options

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-...

Wish I was skilled enough to bag this

Tbh, ostream is a nice guy. Once you get over his

- Racism towards Germans
- Racism towards Jews
- Closeted racism towards anyone, really
- Psychotic episodes of rage
- Borderline criminal tendencies
- Bipolar disorder

It's actually fun to talk to him. You have to invest time and patience though.

Love you ostream bro.

The person who invented powerpoint and those who use it/love it should be skinned alive.

FUCKING SHIT OF A PRODUCT.

On the other side, instead of torturing someone to death, force them to use Power point for 2 hours a day and that will be enough for the person to beg you to kill them.

Join me in this journey against power point.

A message to the LGTBQ community.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

For fuck's sake, management is now asking us to provide data converted in % as to how genAI is actually making us more efficient as developers. How the fuck do you even measure that empirically?

It is already BS enough that they track how much we query these AI tools everyday in our development environments, but now they want genAI to produce most of the code templates in our SDK. It can barely produce a working regex or a working python script, let alone a small piece of code that won't stack overflow itself into oblivion. It sometimes takes more time to debug and refactor than to do it myself from scratch.

They ask for our professional opinion, we tell them, they don't give a fuck about it, proceed to think all is rainbows and unicorns, and still ask us the same moronic things as if they were the new messiah's on earth.

Don't get me wrong, genAI can be useful, but why the fuck does management think it will magically solve all our problems when they don't even understand how it works even on the surface.

The only thing that would make sense is a lot of them got money at stake in some AI investment sales pitch bullshit and they try to jam it up our collective throats because otherwise they will loose their investments like there is no tomorrow.

Fuck all of this, I just want to do engineering and build something useful to society. Is it too much to ask?

I got so good at optimizing $3 VPS servers' performance that I want to buy https://shitbox.engineering domain and start a company.

my scrum master keeps changing the format of retro and it works worse every time. We're at the 2.5 hour mark right now. It is aggressively hot and humid in the office. Everyone is asleep.

I don't think there's a way to explain to him that the purpose of a retro is not to magically fix things within the format but to financially commit to the preference for conversation, from which the hidden work of resolving conflicts can be billed.

So we are looking for a ML summer intern.
The amount of fake ML genius is astonishing.

These kids would put projects like "increased state of the art vision transformer model for automated guided missiles technology by 500%, leading to the destruction of ISIS in Irak and Syria", and then proceed to be unable to give you the derivative of Relu(x)=Max{x, 0} which is 1 or 0, or explain what batch normalization is ?

>been chemist student
>got a decent degree
>could land a job on that field
>just random think that chemist field(especially analytical one) is not a safe place for weeb like me
>just realized i got good enough python shit to land as a junior
>some friend told me his company need AI Engineer(just writing python code to wrap API)

now im being import engineer and got safe zone as a weeb

If you are good at coding and afraid of work because you are a hard core no life weeb maybe tech shit will suit you as long as you are on the technical stuff.

(Cause some nerds doesn't even want to work cause they are too afraid of meeting ppl lmao)

Designers are divided into those who did create fonts and those who didn't.

The difference between my CSS and your CSS is that you write z-index: 999999, and I write z-index: 2 to get the same effect.

https://folkdancefootnotes.org/danc...

Bulgarians are weird

I'm working w/ idiots.

Since a week ago, builds have started being bundled w/ this interesting folder called 'DeleteBeforeSubmission'.

Immediately mentioned the problem, but no action has been taken thus far. Sure, they might !care whether it is bundled or !. If whoever submits the builds for release manually removes those folders prior to submitting the game - fine.

Thing is... the shit is heavy. Depending on the platform, it's ~~500 MB up to some ~~2 GB on top of the actual size of the build. So, apart from our NAS storing garbage, people have to download unnecessarily larger files.

But hey - why do something about it. It's fine, right?
/s

My daughter: "why don't you want to do a pinkie promise?"

Me: "because promises have been supported natively for like ten years now."

If you want to make a passable UI, let chatgpt make it.
If you want to make a good UI, make it yourself.
If you want to make a great UI, test it in iOS Safari as you make it.

God, i fucking HATE tech that involves running it through legal!

TIL json can't encode NaN or +/-inf. wtf!?...

new kiki zoo reform:
- only unreleasable animals are allowed to be kept in zoos
- ban cages, replace them with large ecosystems with glass panels. ecosystems are open areas with recreated microclimate that is native to the animals that live there
- ban animal shows/performances. ban circus-like animal training. let animals do their own thing
- ban private zoos. profitable zoo = cruel zoo

I achieved this with almost one line of prompt: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screenc...

What i did is first get some authentication of https://random.molodetz.nl since the llm can't figure out unique usernames and such. Then just do that simple instruction like "Go there, register, go to general chat, send message, press enter, wait 30 secs, close browser'.

DIT IS FUCKING WORKS. What a time to be alive.

I was actually building this myself, but this sick thing even solves captcha's.

It's the browser_use library. Impressive shit.

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.

Life update: high as fuck in switzerland

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.

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 🇨🇭♿️🇨🇭♿️🇨🇭♿️

we need autistic james bond

Company wants to change to a different cloud provider because of credits :/
Thus rebuilding the infrastructure from ground up.

Worst part is Azure sucks.

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

If you ever wondered how a lab-rat inside a labirinth might feel like, go and try delete that facebook profile you setup ages ago but still get spam mails from. The whole account deletion process has been engineered to maximize the likelihood of not deleting your data it's actually pretty amazing.