I had the strangest occurrence today.

Client lost priv key to some ec2 instance.

Sure, I detached the volume, and attached to another instance to go and add a new key to ./ssh/authorized_keys.

Sure thing, I mounted the partition successfully, and then shit happened.

Say I mounted to /mnt/old

It would mount without issue but...

ls -la .

(With /mnt/old as current directory) Would show nothing, as if the directory was empty. df showed it wasn't the case.

Completed another lap around the sun.

Whoever guesses the number gets a cookie, unless they are in Europe and haven't consented xd

Fuck, two power outages in three hours.

Good thing bars are open now, so might just go there so I can get something done.

Well, the rant is because I have to go to Madrid twice a month, which is annoying.

But now I'm writing your GPU drivers, bitches 😂.

More concretely, for those who may care, gonna work in HLSL to spir-v conversion.

Well, shit is kinda hitting the fan literally.

Two of my four clients are closing down, and it all happened in a month.

Not really fearing for job security, but now I've scheduled an interview with nVidia that I dismissed two years ago. Let's see how it goes.

So yeah, I kind of thought it was exaggerated, and above all, not anywhere outside fucking woke Spain.

I just had a Moroccan today not only molest my friend, but also literally tell me (after watching two girls go home on their own) "let's go after them, they can't do anything against us."

Am writing from the police station now, hopefully they will lend me a baton to beat him up some more.

God, if there's one thing I fucking hate about Portugal are messaging companies.

Fuckers that literally park their van in your driveway, drop a "recipient absent" note in your mailbox, and happily drive away without even ringing. (All the while being recorded by the very non -absent recipient from the very window.)

Well, it's a 4k € PC you are delivering. I better have it tomorrow first thing in the day or all hell will break loose.

Jfzktdlhdlhxsdlgzmh 😡😡😡

Started getting crashes constantly on all browsers, games and whatever.

Seems to be related to gen 14 Intel CPUs and Asus motherboards but my BIOS didn't have the settings I was told to change.

Anyone knows about this and has any pointers? They would be much appreciated.

God, so tilted right now, after having to "urgently" (joke's on them, they will get charged the urgent rate) check why some deployments weren't working due to some npm dependencies not being found.

(Just from mentioning npm you surely think I'm gonna bash JS, but no!)

I'm tilted by TS devs that don't bother to learn the very basics of git pathspecs and just add "dist" to their .gitignore, not knowing that it's gonna exclude any file or directory named "dist" *ANYWHERE* in the project.

And when your poor CI pipeline tries to transfer the build artifacts (so, keeping the .gitignore excludes but manually including node_modules and dist), it excludes the dist dir in some packages and wrecks the deployment.

Please,, please, PLEASE.

if you want to:

A) Make your entry relative to the .gitignore...

Put a slash first.

B) make it only match directories and not files...

Put a slash last.

Fuck yeah, euro cup champions 😁😁😁

Finally. Fuck you, Spain, and fuck its stupid government. I won't be there when they end up ruining it all 😁.

Agora eu sou orgulhoso cidadão portugués.

Suck it, perro sanxe.

Green dots, don't try this.

t3d, wolfenstine, enemy territory, c, the c programming language, YHWH, young, cute, girls, brides, quake, kill, pussy, work

We'll see...

After like, 7 years, I had to code a native (as in, c++) VR activity for an Android project.

I had forgotten how much I hate fucking JNI.

Anyone from Portugal here?

I have some questions about residence if they don't mind.

It gets fucking old, yet it always keeps coming back like Christmas.

If I had a fucking euro each time a CTO asks me why they need CORS and TLS to use webrtc (even on LAN??!1! 🤯), I'd be fucking rich.

At least this time the time I wasted explaining it again was paid for at a much higher rate...

Ooof.

In a meeting with my client today, about issues with their staging and production environments.

They pull in the lead dev working on the project. He's a 🤡 who freelanced for my previous company where I was CTO.

I fired him for being plain bad.

Today he doesn't recognize me and proceeds to patronize me in server administration...

The same 🤡 that checks production secrets into git, builds projects directly in the production vm.

Buckle up... Deploys *both* staging and production to the *same* vm...

Doesn't even assign a static IP to the VM and is puzzled when its IP has changed after a relaunch...

Stores long term aws credentials instead of using instance roles.

Claims there are "memory leaks", in a js project. (There may be memory misuse by project or its dependencies, an actual memory leak in v8 that somehow only he finds...? Don't think so.)

Didn't even set up pm2 in systemd so his services didn't even relaunch after a reboot...

You know, I'm keeping my mouth shut and make the clown work all weekend to fix his own hubris.

Not quite a rant, but it'll devolve in heated debate anyway 😂.

So I was discussing deployment methods with a client's CTO today.

He was fervent on using git for deployment (as in, checkout/pull directly on target host).

I was leaning more on, build npm and web bullshit on the runner, rsync to target host.

Ideally, build shit in the runner, publish to an artifact/package manager, pull that in the target host.

Of course, there are many variables and pros/cons on each side, but would like to hear your opinion.

Hogwarts legacy is out, and here I am, on a nice free Saturday, walking 6 fucking miles to a fucking mall to spend the fucking afternoon in fucking clothing shops.

Fucking *kill* me.

--Years_to_live

Because if postfix I'd never die, because none of you are static. 😁

Wasted a bloody hour today wondering why a route was giving weird errors...

Turns out I inadvertently wrote a for ... in ... loop instead of a for ... of ...

It's my bloody fault for being retarded, but I swear this unholy mix of JavaScript and python I'm dealing with is doing bad things to my brain. 😔

!dev

Fucking covid.

Three days before I had a week trip to meet some clients / see old friends... Fucking covid.

My gf tested positive just now, and I tested negative, but taking into account 3 days incubation time, the most sensible thing is not to travel.

So, yet another "senior" web developer employed by my contractor who utterly fails to understand CORS.

I mean, easy enough to config their servers to provide the headers. A good and quick buck.

But I swear the level of idiocy I find in so called "seniors" infuriates me. I swear, he didn't even figure out that

A) you can't make the browser omit the Origin header.
(But it works on curl 😭😭😭)

B) it's the *server* who must include access-control-allow-origin in the response, not you in the request. Like, what use would that be? I don't even...

😞

I guess if I ever need to hire web devs again my only question during the interview will be "explain CORS to me".

Bloody cunts at Twitter could provide the fucking grammar for their filtering rules...

Now I have to write the grammar for the lexer and the parser from scratch (in fucking JavaScript to boot 😡).

Mind you, I know my lex and bison, but I haven't done this shit in fucking ages, and the combo of JavaScript debauchery and being rusty, is making me want to send angry tweets to Elon musk, see if they can provide decent tools for their shit API.

So, some years ago, my old firm was bought by a much larger company.

A couple years later, my CTO resigned, as he needed a week deserved break. I acted as interim CTO for half a year, with the full support of the CEO.

But then higher management removed my CEO for a politician 🤡. His first move is to ask my ex-CEO who to consider for CTO.

He adamantly vouches for me, but in the end, I'm not "political" enough. (Sure I admit I'm not the most organized person, and do not sweeten arguments to suits, but I had won the full trust of my previous superiors *and* fellow devs, and had people to cover for organizational stuff, and have successfully navigated situations with the world's biggest tech orgs).

So I'm again a dev, and they hire this new CTO at twice my salary. But as you can probably guess, who ends up still doing all the CTO work on top of his dev work? Yeah.

That drove me to quit, not because of the demotion, but for a denied minor raise when I was doing the work of someone with twice my paycheck.

As could be expected, once I quit, the CTO barely lasted 6 months.

Fun part is, I've been freelancing (successfully) from them on, and I've been contacted by this CTO, trying to hire me to do some work in his new company...

I'm torn whether to tell him to bite me, charge him a shitton of money or any other funny ideas.

Mind you, I don't dislike the guy, and he's not particularly annoying to work with, so I guess this doubles as a rant against corporate clowns, and a bit of advice seeking.

Fucking taiga wasting my day.

Client asked to set up a private taiga (taiga.io, some open source Jira alternative).

All goes fine and dandy until you need to link domain user creation to taiga user creation.

Seems I have to choose between having public registration (allows to programmatically create users, but also randoms to sign up) or use their private registry API that asks for a fucking token that is supposed to be returned from their membership/invitation API, that, guess what, doesn't return any bloody token. You can only get the token on the Django admin control panel.

Guess I'll have to end setting up LDAP or integrating with their existing gitlab, but this gig is already starting to smell, and we are close to the weekend 😡

Hi devrant. Super-long time lurker, (years), but now introducing.

Expect the Spanish (ranting) inquisition.

Even as a green dot, I post in joke/meme just to not annoy innecesarily with non-rants.