I do apologize for the radio silence regarding youRant, I have had my hands VERY full recently, and every time I think I'm going to get some time to work on projects like youRant I remember yet another thing that I urgently need to take care of. Plus, University.

Do hope I'll get some time to work on it, add profile pages and whatnot

devRant is the ultimate backend to test my proxy server with since it's random responses. When your proxy server can handle devRant scenario's, it's robust. Making a proxy server that is actually robust and don't let it flaws itself with slow connections / servers is quite a challenge. Depends also what you're writing it with. In python was way simpler than in C. In Python some things magically just worked. If you think that python sockets are native, you're wrong kiddo, they did al sort of shits under the hood. Had to do a whole rewrite of my original proxy server to allow pipelining. Pipelining is req>req>req>resp>resp>resp instead of the traditional req>resp>req>resp>req>resp. It's keep-alive on steroids. Most server don't support it out of self preservation but I just want to. Caddy is a huge pipeliner. What most servers do is, they close the connection the moment the second request is sent / marking the second request invalid. Clients support that behavior and will do the second call under the hood.

My new proxy server has exactly the same dashboard as the previous one but the many statistics that it has have zero performance impact. It persists every second a quick snapshot to database, every 60 seconds a big one. The statistics are persistent for when the server reboots.

What an adventure.

Bored of peace.

I just realized that in German there is one word for both, "invented" and "made up".

Erfunden.

I didn’t make this up. I also didn’t invent it. 🤔

Son of a bitch. You can't have gaps in your CV or you are considered a red flag. Companies want good-working rats that never take breaks in life!

Sick of this shit.

Fuck taxes

Every damn time I touch a legacy codebase, it feels like I’m spelunking into an ancient temple of forgotten loops and cursed dependencies.

I find a “simple bug,” open the file, and 47 tabs later, I’m knee-deep in recursive functions that haven’t been touched since JavaScript ES5 was hip. Like… how does a one-line typo spawn three dependency hells, a circular import, and a forgotten regex that only runs on leap years? 🤯

And testers? Oh, they love it.
Tester: “Could you make this feature better?”
Me: “Sure.”
Tester: “But keep it fast.”
Me: “Cool.”
Tester: “…And don’t break anything else.”
…Me, opening the project:

???
Error 404: sanity not found

At this point, I’m convinced legacy codebases are just devs’ way of telling future generations:
“May the Stack Overflow be with you.” 😂

++ If you’ve ever fought a rogue npm installation that promised to fix things but added 12 new bugs instead. 🙃

Next step on my job hunt... Automated coding interview... All the surveillance bullshit. Share your whole screen, camera and mic, we will record every word. Don't look anything up, no AI.

Fine.. Can do, you surveillance state arseholes... So I get to coding. Coding challenge stuff. Easy enough. Took me ten minutes to get into the groove. Then I made it in optimal big O. Some smaller stupid mistakes. Not incorrect.

But I have a toddler. Anyway, turns out I sing to myself when I am focusing. So, when they open. The video, they will find the applicant solve their test while singing:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I want to know what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky...

Guess next time I also should try not to look like a psychopath... Let's see I'd someone will bring it up.

Looks like devrant paid for their certs and https is back on the table (so I am back).

Update: I signed an offer two days ago. I battled myself for a while because I am self conscious when it comes to money, but talking to the new team for 3+ hours and chatting with some close peers helped me realize that I have enough money, it's still good money I'd be making, and my work life balance would be great even for a startup.

Saying the job market is rough would be an understatement. It's really a battle of perseverance and a numbers game.

I know LLMs are emotionless robots but I still feel bad telling them they are wrong :(

when time is a metaphor, the world is an oyster

When I woke up this morning, I was wondering why I had set my alarm on a Saturday.
I slowly realized the horrible truth that it was only Wednesday.

Retoor is really refusing to let devrant die. At this point DR should be put out of his misery

Also have a wonderful 2026

who wants kiki back???
i do! so view this as a petition to get kiki back... and protect kiki from any 'retoor' crap!

Kobo readers are made with feet
how come feet smell and noses run

i woke up today and decided to write assembly

WOW, i'm the first!

Happy Christmas! May the source be with you 2026.

Jay Jesus!

I am actually downloading a Linux ISO using torrent.

This weekend (So, tonight and tomorrow, if I have the energy) I will be archiving my devRant data. I'll build my own tool which not only downloads rants, images, and comments, but also displays it in a readable (static HTML, if possible) format.

By next weekend or the following, I will be deleting my account. This is not due to drama, but due to the inactivity of the platform and the need to clean up my digital footprint before servers go down and it's too late.

Yeah - everything on the internet is permanent, but there's no need to make it easy for stalkers, I guess.

If you are interested in my progress on the tool or want to have a chat before I go, I'll check the comments every once in a while. Notifications are broken enough to be useless, so don't expect fast responses.

Tata, and good luck to all the ranters staying put!

Working is terrible. You have to do stuff and stuff. And when you're done, you have to do more stuff. It's kinda stupid huh.

So once day I just quitted with it and was like, oh, that's nice.

You should try it too!

Life update:

- Got a job. Will start in Jan. I lost my other contract in september, so it's almost 3 months of stress. I really have to find a way to diversify income. 2025 will be the year of me finding a sidegig.

- I needed a better sound to mix my album, so I went to the pawnshop and bought a NAD amplifier and 2 ITT speaker cabinet. I think the amp is from the 80ies and the speaker are from the 70. Danish.

- My deskie suffered a catastrophic harddrive damage. I could exfiltrate all the data but the bios diag is failing so I will go buy another one

Merry christmas

I am enthusiastically waiting for Friday to come around these days.

I don't know if my life's heading in the right direction.

One of my minions gave his 2 weeks notice. They grow up so fast 🥲

Has anyone ever...
well, never mind... me neither...

Forget I said something.

Should I order a McDonald’s happy meal at 1 am?

Writing user documentation is still such a boring part of the job :((

Holy hell, aoc day 9 part 2 is diabolical!
Has anyone solved it and can give me a hint (not the solution)?

The naive approach would be to make an array with 100000^2 elements, or an image with that many pixels, but that's just too large.
There must be a smarter way.

Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.

AI flagged the Declaration of Independence as being 99.9% AI generated.

Well, the crown considers the writers to be Actual Insurrectionists. So technically correct.

Also noticed people on linkedin have less humor than on reddit, if at all possible.

DARPA unleashed the deadliest bioweapon and psyop since the bubonic plague.
COVID-19 and the vaccines that destroy healthy immune systems.
The majority of people don't notice?

What happened after the 2020 vaccine rollout:
- The RCMP and goverment lie about a trucker protest against the vaccine being dangerous and carrying weapons in their trucks. CSIS testified in court that there was no evidence. RCMP had no evidence.
- The CDC and media backpedal and says "We never said the vaccine was safe and effective" as people die in their sleep, or hiking from heart attacks.
- Prices soared and the majority of people cannot afford quality meat and food
- Bovaer: a super toxic chemical they put in cow feed that causes infertility of breathed in by humans
- Apeel: Apeel is an edible, plant-based coating developed by ‘Apeel Sciences’, a California-based company founded in 2012. It’s made from monoglycerides and diglycerides—fatty acids derived from plant sources like grapeseed oil, soy, or other seeds.
- Health Canada has approved the sale of animal-free milk protein, which is produced using a genetically modified yeast strain, marking a significant step in alternative protein options in Canada. This approval allows for the development of various products like cheese and yogurt that mimic traditional dairy without using animals.

A guy selling apricot seeds to cure cancer gets sent to maximum security prison for 5 years
https://x.com/DanielGilr44222/...

Ivermectin a nobel prize winning drug is demonized for being the cheapest anti-parasitic drug that rapidly reduces cancer/tumor growth in 2 weeks to a month.
https://x.com/MakisMedicine/status/...

The canadian governement is killing all of the ostriches that were recently used in research for medicine that is used to completely eliminate covid-19 https://x.com/PizzaPepe/status/...

What else am I missing? How many CIA/DARPA bots on this site will instantly respond to discredit my view? The same thing that happens on reddit?

Help me out, am I right wing or left wing?

- I am okay with closed borders and throwing people out who are here illegally.
- I am even okay with open borders and letting everyone in who wants to come.
- I am not okay with dozens over dozens of ways of staying in a country and becoming a citizen after arriving illegally which are just a backdoors, so that we can still claim that we don't have open borders while they are defacto open.