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Boss was fired.

These Wounds, They Will Not Heal.

— There is a bug in prod!
— Omg, why aren't you fixing it yet?
— No, I'm just raising awareness!

A coworker just died. He wasn't even 50.

Everyone make sure you're keeping your stress in check, and prioritizing your health. Go get that thing checked out you've been putting off.

This career is lucrative but it has its toll. Make sure you're taking time away.

I really want this whole industry to die. I want it to happen from the bottom of my soul!

Their whole job ad was about web technologies where they were asking for a 7-10 years Symfony developer.

One would think being a programmer for 10 years should superseed your shitty LLM prompt crafting requirements.

Truly, there never was a better time for global EMP to happen..

Missing a meeting because I was reading devRant. Worth it.

Got to stage 3 of 5 of an inteview and just discovered the person at stage 4 decides who is qualified to continue, interviews are crazy this days, am lucky i got a job and am not desperate else i would be screwed by this assholes 😡.

Some people were just never given a chance.

can't feel my fingers

It's fucking incredible how boring work can be.

There is literally nothing exciting or new or challenging whatsoever.

I swear if we don't get any interesting projects soon I'm bailing after I finish my training, no matter what they offer me.

I can't work like this. It's only tickets, tickets, tickets, tickets, tickets...

In CSS, never ever enlarge anything by hover. There will exist a set of cursed cursor positions somewhere on the edge of fully zoomed out and fully zoomed in states, which will make your UI element twitch between two states at 60+ FPS.

If you want this effect, wrap the element you want to enlarge in a wrapper whose size won't change. Add :hover state on the wrapper, not the element, and change the element in that selector. It will make the curse go away.

wrong:
.zoom:hover { transform: scale(1.1) }

right:
.zoom-wrapper:hover .zoom { transform: scale(1.1) }

Day 20 of starving myself to death challenge. My yesterday's fasting trick didn't work, and I have no idea why. My body is full of energy, twitches like crazy, the anxiety level is through the roof, with an average resting heart rate of 118 since 6pm yesterday. Fuck.

So, Postman requires you to create an account on their systems to... lemme check...
Perform HTTP requests locally.

I need to create an account to perform HTTP requests.

And the whole dev community is looking at this and say "yeah ofc it's perfectly reasonable"

Police bears, now!
- sense of smell 7 times better than that of a dog
- runs very fast
- intimidating
- proven to be very smart and trainable, google Wojtek the bear

For small explosives, you wear an explosives suit — it can absorb the impact of a standard hand grenade.
For big explosives, you wear a T-shirt: with that big of a destructive force, explosives suits are gonna protect you as good as a sheet of 2 ply toilet paper. But not wearing a heavy and bulky suit gives you that much more visibility and dexterity you do need in your situation.

Day 17 of starving myself to death challenge.

Yesterday was… different. As I already said multiple times, I do eat from time to time, but yesterday I decided to fast.
By the evening, my body was completely exhausted. Couldn’t really stand on my own without holding onto something.
Then I laid down and got ready for sleep.

Because my body had zero energy, for the first time in 15 years it wasn’t twitching. It twitches all the time: I have restless legs syndrome, but it’s not just legs for me but the whole body. I can’t stress this enough how much I twitch every day. But right then and there, my body was calm.

As my brain was shutting down and falling asleep, I felt euphoria unlike anything I have ever experienced. I was in heaven. Calm body, empty mind.

I want to say it was worth it, and I probably will do it all again someday.

In the meantime, on I go, without fasting, motivated more than ever!

Have you ever started a new job and they have a bunch of legacy and technical debt so much that it doesn’t even makes sense trying to fix anything

If I've offended you with my posts I am sorry.
I honestly didn't think you could read.

Also, its FUCK YOU ALL FRIDAY!

Today I learned that power-to-weight ratio of modern passenger aircraft is so high that they can do a vertical takeoff. It should be almost impossible to stall those planes. I bet they can do barrel rolls just fine.
Even one engine is enough to fly safely.

@MammaNeedHummus, can I get that audio recording of you peeing that you've sent your cousin?
👉👈

How you spend your days is how you spend your life.

If you want a terrifying name for your metal band, don't call it “Whispers from the Abyss of Despair” or “Through the Veil of Darkness and Desolation”.

Call it “Surgery Robot From Temu”.

pLeAsE dOnAtE tO hElP mE aFfOrD hOsTing

lolwut? you have a free-for-all project with no premium features. Users can’t create accounts. All of your code is JS, you don’t even need a server. Just host your stuff on Cloudflare. I have just about a gigabyte of data uploaded there on my free account, so if I can do it, so do you. Just use a CDN for your client-only, JS-only project.

domains though… yours is long and costs around 40 bucks a YEAR.

if you made a good product and want to make some money with it, that’s completely okay, so just say so: “I want money for my work, but I don’t want to take away features that were free and can be provided at no additional cost, so please donate”. Why lie? It’s not like people who won’t donate to you based on this justification will magically donate for “hosting”.

ladies and gentlemen, goto in JS!

> I made it through the security! Finally, time for some blues!
> *guy on stage pulls out the guitar*
> *It's a $5,000 PRS*
> oh no, it's going to be lawyer blues!
> 🎵that nasty prosecutor, he got me by my balls🎵
> 🎵LORD! that that nasty prosecutor got me by my balls🎵
> 🎵I wish I could finish the paperwork…🎵
> 🎵LORD! I wish I could finish until the morning falls🎵
> *five minutes of minor pentatonic noodling*

The purpose of this vessel is to obscure the location of real vessels

The downsides of coding drunk: Implementing the same thing you've already implemented but forget you did

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.

If I had a dollar for every time my mom tried to literally convince me that I wasn't in fact me, but was an impostor planted by aliens… I would have one dollar.
Yes, it did happen. I was twelve.

z-index you set minus z-index that was necessary is the number of whips you should receive. Whips with barbed wire that is.