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Right, budget constraints, in out project. Shop site. Lets go with a good online shop system (shopwired) and just brand up a suitable theme. Client wants to see design flats prior to starting. OK brief designer. Pick one of the themes that is close to their current brand styling. Grab the theme pages, set your browser to 1280. Mock up over the top with brand colours/fonts etc in Indesign and png the pages over to me (make sure we have them on google fonts). Designer comes back a few days later with branded up theme page visuals. Cool, they look great, shouldn’t take too long to rework the css and get this thing working. Client approves mockups. Great, so open the theme files and realise the designer has fucking moved stuff around. This has turned into something more than a styling job. Fucking hell. there goes my budget and deadline. Why don’t you designers ever fucking listen!!!!!
I should’ve done it myself but needed to save time as I’m already busy. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!

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Suffering from concentration, meaning my coffee is cold. I can’t drink cold coffee, it makes me retch. That’s the second cup today I’ve let die on me. It’s pissing me off now.

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Having a look at ‘brave’ the new browser on the block over the coming weeks. It looks great on paper. Saying that it’s 8 times faster than chrome/safari. wondering what it’s dev tools will be like.
https://brave.com/

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Wozniak, Apple don’t give a shit about what you think, they didn’t 34 years ago when you left and they certainly don’t today. Please stop commenting, you are irrelevant.

rant wozniak shut up

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Well done Rami, you absolutely deserved it!

rant mr robot freddie mercury

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I discovered today why IOS is superior to joe public. Sorry but infinitely superior. Android just sucks. end of.

rant wk142

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Travelling to the Toulouse Lautrec museum in France, ‘cos I am a massive fan of his work.

rant wk142

Had to ring the UK tax office, have to pay a sizeable amount by 31st Jan, but I have spent any savings on essential living based shit. I was dreading the call, but best to do it before 31st or you get an instant £100 fine. Well I was totally shocked to find a really lovely lady on the other end, she was most helpful and not like the cunt I got a few years back. It just goes to show that two people doing the same job with the same procedures and outcomes, 1 can be a complete cunt and the other kind and compassionate. Moral, there’s no need to be a cunt.

rant tax customer service

Thanks CSS, not sure if I should but I am using ‘vw’ unit for font-size on desktop as it scales according to browser width. It works a treat and saved some shitty reflow breakpoint requirements. Until someone tells me it’s a shit idea, i’m gonna use the fuckr.

rant css vw

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Who the fuck is responsible for the ui/ux of the youtube app its fucking annoyingly shit. Terrible!! Fucking start again you alphabet wankers.

rant youtube youtwat

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I can see serious problems with this whilst ‘watching’ porn.

https://youtu.be/0QNiZfSsPc0

rant google soli

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Deciding to do some work is much harder than actually doing any. This New Year Depression is killing me.

rant new year sucks

I fucking hate Christmas.

rant hate christmas

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It’s my birthday today and I shall be doing fuck all, just like I have for all my others.

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It came to me, a brilliant idea, a simple solution to an everyday problem and easy route to market. Great, starts looking for domains and writes down idea in full in case i forget. Later that day, picks up 12 year old son from school, tells him my great idea. He told me how shit it was and why straight away.

rant can’t see wood for trees

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Great article on getting shit done when you really can’t be arsed.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm/...

rant can’t be arsed

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Goodbye google+, you were totally shit and no-one used you. Piss off now.

rant google -

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DO NOT UPDATE WINDOWS 10 (October Version 1809). Could permanently delete your documents and pictures.
https://forbes.com/sites/...

rant wk123

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Client: Can I speak to the developer responsible for my website?
Developer: Speaking...
Client: You have a deep voice for a 5 year old.

rant wk123

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Day 9 of non smoking (attempt no. 16). How do people cope without smoking? its so difficult. After phone call with client... go for a smoke. Get off plane/train go immediately to smoke. Done some good code/solved something, go for celebratory smoke. Have a rehearsal with my band... go for a smoke. Go to the pub...go for a smoke. It’s woven in to the fabric of my existence and unpicking it is a long and painful task. I don’t do the e-cig thing. I don’t want to swap addictions.

rant help

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Right, just put next doors new garden furniture and gas fired barbecue stove on ebay... fancy a new iPhone XS. 😀

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Nearing the end of my holiday in this fantastic city that is Warsaw, Poland. Great place, lots to see and do. No computer only my phone, too scared to look at emails. Fuck them, everyone needs a break and change of environment. 👍🏼

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Outside photo of desk/setup or laptop.

For all those that stop reading after 6 words, I have changed the order for you. 😀

rant which bit of outside don’t you understand

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Just interested, I am self employed, have been for over 12 years. As a matter of self inflicted policy I buy a brand new (desktop) computer every 3 years. For those company people how often is your kit replenished?

question new computer replenishment

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rant fucking clients

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The shittiest thing a sales guy has said in a meeting/client meeting.

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Fuck Off JPEG you piece of ancient shit. Hello HEIF! Not apple tech but they are certainly adopting it across the board (also replaces gif). Safari is the only browser supporting the format. Now we have to wait for every fucker else to arrive, could be 5 years for Mucroshite (wankers).

rant cool heif

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I think we need to invent a word/phrase/choose an emoji even, something that describes a newbie post purely fishing for ++’s and stickers.
stickerworm🐛
I know thats shit, any suggestions?

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Having to sort out the domain and hosting arrangements and dns management as the client has no clue where anything is or who owns what, and the previous web developer is intentionally not giving a fuck.

rant wk109

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Does devRant have a minimum age? Noticed there are some very young people on here, children. I’m personally not comfortable with that, especially as i like to use expletives in my rants and comments, such as cunt, fuck, bastard, shit, wanker etc. What’s the official line on that?

question fucking minimum age

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