Me: *quietly looking at mechanical keyboards*
She: Why do you want another keyboard? $80 for a keyboard? What's wrong with your existing keyboard?
Me: *glances over a wall of bags she owns*
She: ...
Me: *clicks add to cart*

I have always respected companies like Mozilla. Especially during the years when it was Netscape. Battling MS and Internet Explorer. This is just one side. But still...

I always dreamed of doing data analysis while playing my favorite game.

They made an offer that's hard to refuse

I was young and stupid. Remember floppy disks? Yeah, we still had them when I was studying. Went to a computer cafe, rented a PC and DOS was already booted up (I'm an old fucker). I didn't want to reboot because PC rental was metered. I inserted my floppy disk and got infected by a virus that deleted my work. No git back then and my backup was on the same disk (fuck me). Back home, rewrote the whole thing from memory.

I got mad and wanted revenge. De-constructed a floppy disk, replaced the magnetic media with sandpaper and went to each and every PC on that computer cafe.

It was closed for day.

My current state right now, both mentally and professionally.

! rant, but should I be concerned?

I'm writing an election results API and I imported the bottlepy+pandas and prepped the CSV that contains the data. The first row contains the column names, followed by the actual data.

As I typed my routes, VSCode kept suggesting route names, parameters, and return values. At first I was "nice!" but then it kept suggesting my intent, as if someone was reading my brain. I do have GitHub Co-pilot installed, but I didn't realize my access had been approved.

How many layers of tin foil do I need?

Our consultant is an ass and he's a friend of the President of the company. Guess I'm screwed.

Sometimes, I feel like these recruiters are just typing keywords, and spam people who fit.

I did one NodeJS project and I keep getting invited for an interview even though I have less than 3 months' worth of knowledge while the job description states 5 or more years of experience.

Any experienced VueJS developer looking for work? 100% remote, employer is German (German language is not required). Send me an email, fruitf.cker at gmail with the subject "devRant sent me here for a VuewJS job" and I'll forward it.

I've just been asked if I can help find a PHP developer. For backend.

I guess some people do really like pain.

Hey guys, remember Experts Exchange?

Me neither

Thanks for the “upgrade”, Apple. I don’t have to worry about running out of space.

Does anybody here use Keybase.io? I'm looking for a more secure messaging platform for a startup I'm helping build.

I never thought I'd enjoy watching someone code Python. In French.

https://www.twitch.tv/keia_cg

Please post a picture of what’s in front of you right now. I’d like a glimpse of what everyone’s life is like. Context is optional so that I (and maybe others) can observe the picture a bit more.

!tuo teg t'nac I dna tnaRveD edisni deppart m'I !pleH

Just reviewed my custom security questions that I haven't looked at in years.

Accepted a freelance job. Fairly simple, just need Apache to redirect domainA.tld to domainB.tld but the address bar on the browser would still read domainA.tld. Based on the job posting, nothing else is needed after that.

At first, he didn't want to hire me because of my race. The previous person, the same race as me, fucked up his CPANEL (so he says). But I assured him that I can help.

I completed the job but then he said he also wanted domainB.tld to redirect to domainA.tld. I don't think he understood the concept of a redirect. On top of that, he wanted it to be a *permanent* (301) redirect.

I wish I had the power to punch someone on the Internet.

Just saw this rant:

https://devrant.com/rants/4683684/...

Then I remember an article about MS business groups being unproductive in remote work mode:

https://geekwire.com/2021/...

Are you guys more productive in the office or remote? If going a hybrid setup, what would be a good office/remote ratio for you?

What the actual fuck is a "Happiness Engineer"? A client asked me to add a line of code on wp-config.php (WordPress) so that Jetpack will work:

define("OPTION", "setting for this option");

I added it at the top just after <?php. Somehow, the service isn't working so I asked the client to get in touch with Jetpack. Jetpack Happiness Engineer replies back that the location of the code is wrong and should be above:

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */

and informed the client that Jetpack is working flawlessly.

I put back the line where I originally placed it and Jetpack is still working. Motherfu

I had a developer connect to my machine remotely to fix a flutter issue opened in vscode. I had given him full access on anydesk but complains he could not type anything. He kept reconnecting and me giving full access. After about 30 minutes I realized I had a vim extension on it. I couldn't bring myself to tell him. I just asked him to reconnect one more time while I disable the plugin and restart vscode.

Oopsie

Any Flutter devs? I'm a new dev on this platform and going to release native a native app for iOS _and_ Android.

I'm kinda getting frustrated. It's a great concept (one codebase, multiple platforms, etc) but I didn't realize I have to watch out for changes in my java and/or, swift changes that might break my build. (ex. A dependency that's deprecated, requiring a newer java/jre only to break something else).

Should I scrap Flutter and learn something else?

Also, it's just a one-time build. Once I'm done, I'm planning to switch to PWA, maybe React or Svelte.