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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.

random

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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. 😀

rant

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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. 👍🏼

rant

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.

devrant wk115

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?

random

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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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devRant suggestion: Comment Bump. Bump up the comments on a rant, the ones with most upvotes get bumped up to the top. Possible pitfalls, where comments have replies which could break the order and make no sense. I guess I just talked myself out of that one. Meh.

devrant suggestion

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Don’t fight it, sleep/wank. Try again tomorrow.

rant wk107

POP mail, I just prefer it over IMAP, but I am probably the only one, and my reasons are questionable. But I care not.

rant imap fucks me off

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Any iPhone app developers. desperately looking for a very basic app that controls iPad screen time. For example between the hours of 9pm and 9am the screen is locked and requires a passcode to use it. The passcode has to be different to the device passcode to be set by parent. Set for weekdays etc. a bit like you would set central heating. apps out there are way too involved and based on setting individual app time. Hope someone can do this, i guarantee it’ll sell. Keep it simple.

question iphone app screen time limit

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If you want a laugh, take a look at the source code on indeed.co.uk https://indeed.co.uk Its a mixture of shit tables nested in divs, absolute positioning. its shocking. They are a big recruitment site in the UK.

rant fucking hell

Client Email: Are there any good templates on mailchimp we could use?
Me: Delete.

rant twat