I managed to get a group of people to use an open source and privacy respecting service instead of its proprietary (surveillance) competitors today.

The experience was good for everyone and I wouldn't be surprised if at least some people who participated will remember this good working FLOSS solution.

My work is done here for the day :)

"Oh no this platform is serverless"

I hate this "serverless" term.

How does a cloud platform run serverless?

HOW?!

"yeah but like we don't have to run updates and manage the underlying stuff and can thus deploy stuff serverless"

NO.

THERE ARE ACTUAL SERVERS RUNNING IN ORDER TO RUN THIS PLATFORM.

YOU CANT RUN THIS FUCKING PLATFORM WITHOUT ACTUAL SERVERS.

HOW WOULD IT RUN THEN, ON FUCKING STARDUST?!

IT. IS. NOT. SERVERLESS. AS. LONG. AS. SERVERS. ARE. INVOLVED. AT. SOME. LEVEL.

This site prospers because of how much we procrastinate at work

I got the following question from the client:

After last batch of changes the name of the downloaded file is now `<file name > (2).pdf`, can it be like before, without `(2)`

npm install stuff

I should call myself a "full-stack developer" now.

When you break the Mc Donalds ordering system, and you don't feel bad, bcuz it runs Windows...

(Took 5 minutes for the system to reboot...
McDonalds should have run Linux... ;_;)

When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.

Someone must make an icon of devRant's logo and add it to fontawesome

devRant should have a character limit of 1024 instead of 1000...

Ahhh DDoS attacks

When you work too late and can't mentally switch off so you just start the next day without any sleep

If you ever feel like you won't achieve anything in your developer career just remember that Suicide Squad won an Oscar.

No SuperMan, No HitMan,
He is The GitMan
The KernalMan, The LinuxMan!

Waiting for his biopic movie

Oh yes I know how it feels.

!rant

As a kid I tried to compress one zip file 4-5 times...self praising myself that I just found the world's best idea to save hard-disk space!!! Only to realise that sometimes, I'm stupid.

Story of an IT guy 🔫

Behind every successful developer there is a deactivated Facebook profile.

+1 if you like my new laptop skin...

Thats Elon Musk guys and girls. source: reddit

Continuing a presentation after a critical bug

Why software aren't free!

Why not make the dark theme the default? Most of us developers use it for most things, so it seems appropriate to set the dark theme as default.

Joy of being a programmer: Get good enough in a language/framework, you can make whatever the hell you want :)

There is probably no other field that allows this.

Thought I would share a picture of my boss's wiring job...

Last night I had a virtual machine up on my Mac running Arch Linux. I had 6 of my 8 gigs of ram allocated to the VM. Well I left it open last night when I went to bed and forgot about it this morning. My wife just called me at work to say something is wrong with the Mac. "Everything is running slowly and it looks different." I had to walk her through the process to shut it down, but she got to run her first Linux command: sudo shutdown now.

She is now calling herself a hacker...

JS.... you know... For the kids..

I just had a client complaining on the phone that she read my database design documents and that they are all wrong and need to be done again. Because things like varchar and int are confusing. And nobody understands what they mean. She asked around and nobody understood it.

Ooh, and I should place the customer name in more then one table because it would be handy to have in several places.

Spend a hour on the phone trying to explain that these documents are not intended for her. They are not for her to understand.

I make these documents to build a stable product and in case something bad happens to me its easier to pick up for another developer.

Long story short.. I'm currently making a document that explains the database design... Getting paid for it..... But fucking hell. Somebody save me.

Just told my dad that python 3.6 launched yesterday, he asked me if i wanted it for christmas 😅

This baby just arrived at my door. It's gonna be a fun weekend! My first touch with IoT world.

After working over 14 years as it-systemadministrator and developer for a city government I finally quit today and switched into a start-up. Lower wage, vacation days and many more "downsides"...but I am allowed to follow my passion and create something that matters. I'm afraid and super jacked. Wish me luck :)

tl;dr quit job to get complete expression. afraid and jacked at once :)