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Android dev here.
Been working on this team for one year now. Greatest collaborators I've ever worked with. Feels like we're all working off of the same brain. But this is not about my team. Parallel to ours, there's the iOS team. And if I said they're disfunctional, that'd still be underselling it.
They're atleast 2 sprints behind android on the same features, the junior devs are trying their best to sync up and code their way. But the senior guy has a stick up his bum or something. Keeps shooting down prs left and right. The iOS guys come up to me (I'm the only one in office, rest of android is at a different site) asking for logic changes or UI changes and the like. Although I do have some iOS experience, I can't really get involved, because it's a different codebase and team. Feels very much like office politics.
I feel sorry for the team. Really makes you grateful to have good team members. Any advise I could give them would be welcome.3 -
AHAHAHAHAHAH
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS ARE MAKING ARTICLE ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE AND THEY ARE ALL TAKING MY PICS LMAO
https://bruxellesdevie.com/wp-conte...
(I'm the one on the right)2 -
What the FUCK is with these poltergeists work work on the Xcode team? They all live in a tiny home or loft studio? Tabs are like hanging a fucking curtain between two beds and calling it a two bedroom apartment. And worse, the fucking thing creates tabs all the time and I lose the **document** I am trying to edit.
Using Xcode like trying to manage a desk full of loose papers with a ceiling fan on high.
Do people wonder why I stand up and scream at the ceiling FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK all the time?
Shit, pretty soon I am going to give up and put all of my code in one god damn file for this mother fucking one-window application.
I fucking hate you people on the Xcode design (joke) team...10 -
now I'm morbidly depressed from these antipsychotics
it's also really fucked up psychiatry lies to you and uses their psychology research to manipulate you
turns out I should've just been given sleeping pills and I would've been fine. instead they put me on those things and while they helped me sleep they kept me on them. turns out they numb you out so I didn't feel anything until I got basically "morbid depression". it went through the anxiety and numbness of the pill (and the anxiety is "just a symptom" you should just manage with another pill!). so then I quit the pill without telling anyone since I was so desperate and those fuckers aren't your friends, they just pretend to be to gain your trust so they can feed you lies to get you to do what they want you to do which is really fucked up because they're abusing vulnerable people reaching out for help but I digress.. actually seems those who have the highest compliance with psychiatry have the worst life outcomes so that's really fucking funny
now I AM actually feeling crazy and mentally unstable which is fucking great. going off it my emotions came back but they're not my emotions. I am also impulsive, because apparently that's a symptom they don't tell you about. miserable, depressed, impulsive, with wildly fluctuating emotions. the desire to run away from myself but you can't. Jesus fuck. what are they even doing to people
one day I was so miserable I eventually went running and the pain of running could overpower the pervasive feeling of misery I felt 24/7 all the fucking time. then I got fucking manic for 4 hours afterwards because I guess I could produce some dopamine again and my body doesnt know how to handle that
this morning I wake up and I'm miserable but not in the same way. forced myself to go running and I wasn't pushing myself because my body is actually literally depressed, not the "I'm burning on fire" depressed. so I guess I didn't run hard enough. took a shower and cried the whole way through. why? fuck if I know
I can safely say Ive never been depressed but I sure as fuck am now. what the fuck are they forcing on people. it isnt even statistically helping anyone. every fucking field is fucked up
I'm just so done with people. we're fucked up animals. I thought about mortality, how every single person all they ever do is lie to you to take advantage of you. I don't enjoy a single fucking thing anymore. also now I'm perpetually hungry, because apparently hunger is an actual emotion for me so once the antipsychotic (which was supposed to make me fat apparently) wore off and was no longer numbing my emotions out now all I wanna do is eat constantly even if I don't wanna cook food or do anything but sleep and cry or even if Im fucking so full my stomach hurts. what the fuck man
and people just disgust me. I dont like anybody. told the case worker running helped me once and he just about wanted to invite into his running cult and I was just so grossed out
and the one job I had made me feel not built for this world because of how depressing they were (irony now) and I wanted to off myself logically for 3 months before I found out I could just quit the job. but this means the idea of getting a job just gives me intense anxiety, an anxiety distinct from the chemically induced anxiety their psychiatry has done to me. now I can't even enjoy anything though so the joke's on me
the caveat of not being built for this world keeps echoing in my head. I don't like people. everybody lies and takes advantage. I don't even enjoy hobbies anymore. why did I ever?
and I'll just die of being destitute anyway. submit to slavery, take our shit, or die. and dont forget to smile and have passion and curiosity while we pump you full of retard drugs that numb you out and shrink your brain and tell you there's nothing wrong with that and that's the way things are meant to be and laugh at you for "trying to think" but by the way you should be an industry expert also while never critically thinking about anything and taking drugs that literally shrink your brain
humans are a joke
I lost my sense of humor and I hope it comes back. but actually if I remember correctly I got fired for having sarcasm. so maybe it's best if you don't exist. fuck you, please us. dance, monkey
and all the while nothing is possible because we made the rules and take these pills that literally make you incapable and smile because we put garbage in your head to gaslight you about existence. no wonder everybody just says fake garbage. do they even know? probably not
where's the escape button? where's the philosophy to make it make sense? guess you're just born RNG and you either win the game or you don't. there's no sap or sentimentality about it. if you believe in God or enjoy something too hard that colors pop it means you have psychosis, ayyo. oh fuck I totally forgot they even specify some kind of thinking style as psychosis - uh oh!
depression disables adaptability, too 🤪11 -
Coursera
"enroll for free $0"
1.4 million people enrolled
course given by Stanford
continue for $299 a month
lol.2 -
*tries to avoid using refcells* fuuuuuck
all cuz serde can't serialize them well but I can build a custom serializer/deserializer. I'm not sure this constraint is worth it
on one hand I would love to just build something entirely in enums with no traits or RC or refcell but on the other hand this is proving to be too hard4 -
Chrome. Hit F12 and start typing. Those keystrokes used to go into the console, right? I'm not imagining things...
And then some giant free-standing penis decided that instead, the initial focus should be in the search box.
So you type, nothing appears in the console, you focus the console, and carry on.
Then you're wondering why your api calls aren't in the network tab. Caching issues? Event handler crapping out? No, it's because that command you tried to enter ten minutes ago is still in the search box and being used as a filter.
Because someone decided to change the default focus.
As a wise man once said: "who the fuck was that? Who's the slimy little communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker who just signed his own death warrant?"
Why didn't anyone stop him? In the meeting where he suggested that, why didn't his colleagues grab him by the testicles and drag him out of the building?
Why?
Fuckers.8 -
Nothing makes me laugh more, than knowing that Apple, the iPhone company Apple, the TRILLIONAIRE company Apple,
messed up the UI of the Tahoe.
It's unreal to me, how they can do that. Like, how? just how?3 -
!dev Applying to jobs is like solving those ground trap puzzles in videogames. lmao. Carefully make sure you solve each tile correctly... and from there you can apply the framework to vacancies.1
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I'm so screwed
I don't speak French so I only qualify for remote jobs
bf keeps saying I'm better than I think I am
this one job post is like, "a history of delivering high quality software" uh no one ever has that?
my best bet is to go back to crypto trading. or just run out of money and go be homeless somewhere
doubt I could even solve logic puzzles because my brain is still fucked lol. need to get fat so I can go fasting again because that helped... fucking microglia inflammation for 3 years. but I'm already underweight and now people are skinny shaming me for it even -.-
and I'm coming off the tail-end of someone committing me to a fucking asylum cuz haha crazy people jokes. I'm so mad at that girl. still undergoing withdrawal from the pills which gave me "morbid depression" as I realized lmao. the withdrawal is nothing like my health issues so I don't think I should've even been given those things... inflammation hyperness, tenseness, lack of sleep =\= mania which is just happiness
at least I figured out I'm dependent on eating beef liver every week and that's how I stopped degrading back in January. I'm so tired of being sick and being stuck. I'll die of old age before I endure my way out of all this garbage at this rate
at least my sense of meaning came back. so at least that can comfort me now
really gives me perspective on people who are depressed. I've never in my life been depressed and I can officially say that now, having experienced it from those pills. it's wild to me most people are depressed. they just live like that. without meaning or hope or optimism. no humour 😬
interestingly I now suspect I'm depressed but only in regards to making income for myself. I wonder how that happened. growing up I tried to destroy my optimism because it got me repeatedly into toxic social situations. I gave people more hope than would be rational and the kicker is that I was logically aware of my mistake but I couldn't train myself to have a different personality. I had to catch myself to get out of those situations but I could never be not optimistic, naturally. I could never train the optimism out of myself
but when it comes to income I don't have that same optimism. how did that happen?
everywhere else I feel ok, but in income I'm depressed in my personality
how lol13 -
I don't know why but vendoring a dependency locally so I can change whatever I want feels so powerful
Oh, you made all fields private? How about screw you, now they are all public! hehe6 -
I'm honestly tempted to buy an M4 Apple Silicon computer mainly for their ability to run local LLM models with unified ram.
overall I think they are too expensive for the offering, but being able to play around will LLMs without shelling out RTX5090 kinds of money is tipping the balance.
I wonder what apple people experiencies have been?28 -
I know you won't like it but the world is actually divided between idiotland and normal-land.
Normal-land is between the maas river and the rhine. Everything else is stupid.19 -
hoop: – "masterkey" is not okay. Please replace all instances of "master" immediately #WeValueInclusivity
cprn: – Just to clarify, "master" in this context is standard (as in "master key" in databases). It's not intended to be offensive. Replacing could affect functionality. Call to talk more?
hoop: – STOP overthinking, just change it. I DON’T CARE, JUST DO WHAT I SAY. #DoItForTheCulture
cprn: – Got it. You want me to replace every instance of "master" in the codebase, including comments and variable names. Just confirming?
hoop: – YES. NO EXCEPTIONS. #MoveForward
PR Update: Replacing all instances of "master" as requested. Please, verify before accepting.
hoop: – Perfect. Now we’re on the right track. 👏
After 2 failed attempts at explaining, I blindly replaced all instances of "master" with "boss", and hand-delivered my letter of resignation. I left them with "complied with your request, have fun figuring it out". It was 2 years ago, and I was the last coder who knew that system after a big merger.18 -
PM is on his period, and since I'm leaving, anyone have any "fun" recommendations to leave in the code?14
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🚀 “I Wanted GitHub Copilot in My Pocket — So I Built It Myself”
For years, I’ve had this weird habit of coding from random places — cafés, buses, hospital waiting rooms, you name it. But every time inspiration hit, I found myself thinking the same thing:
“Man, I wish I could just use Copilot on my phone.”
It’s 2025. We’ve got AI writing novels, generating music, and summarizing 500-page research papers in 2 seconds — yet somehow, GitHub Copilot still refuses to leave the comfort of VS Code on desktop.
So I decided to fix that.
💡 The Idea
It started as frustration — a “wouldn’t it be cool if” moment. I was halfway through an idea for a small project on a train, and my brain screamed:
“Why can’t I just ask Copilot to finish this function right now?”
VS Code was sitting at home, my laptop was dead, and all I had was my phone.
That night, I scribbled this into my notes app:
“Bridge Copilot from VS Code → phone → secure channel → no cloud.”
At the time, it sounded insane. Who even wants to make their life harder by reverse-engineering Copilot responses and piping them into React Native?
Apparently — me.
🧩 The Architecture (aka “How to Lose Sleep in 4 Easy Steps”)
The system ended up like this:
VS Code Extension <-> WebSocket <-> Discovery API (Go + Redis) <-> React Native App
Here’s how it works:
The VS Code extension runs locally, listening to Copilot’s output stream.
A Go backend acts as a matchmaker — helping my phone and PC find each other securely.
The mobile app connects via WebSocket and authenticates with a 6-digit pairing code.
Once paired, they talk directly. No repo data leaves your machine.
It’s like a tiny encrypted tunnel between your phone and VS Code — only it’s not VPN magic, just some careful WebSocket dancing and token rotation.
🛠️ The Stack
Frontend (Mobile): React Native (Expo)
Backend: Go + Redis for connection brokering
VS Code Extension: TypeScript
Security: JWT + rotating session keys
AI Layer: GitHub Copilot (local interface)
🧠 The Challenges
There’s a difference between an “idea” and a “12-hour debugging nightmare that makes you question your life choices.”
Cross-Network Discovery:
How to connect phone and desktop on different networks?
→ A lightweight Redis broker that just handles handshakes.
Security:
I wasn’t making a mini TeamViewer for hackers.
→ Added expiring pairing codes, user-approval dialogs, and local-only token storage.
Copilot Response Streaming:
Copilot doesn’t have a nice public API.
→ Hooked into VS Code’s Copilot output and streamed it over WebSocket.
(Yes, 2% genius and 98% madness.)
UX:
The first version had a 10-second delay.
After optimizing WebSocket batching and Redis latency, it’s now near-instant.
🤯 The “Holy Sh*t, It Works” Moment
The first time my phone sent a prompt — and my VS Code actually answered with Copilot’s suggestion — I legit screamed.
Like, full-on victory dance in the middle of the night.
There’s something surreal about watching your phone chat with your desktop like they’re old coding buddies.
Now I can literally say:
“Copilot, write me a REST API,”
and my phone responds with fully generated code pulled from my local VS Code instance.
No VPN. No cloud syncing. Just pure, geeky magic.
⚡ The Lessons
The hardest problems aren’t technical — they’re psychological.
Fighting “this is impossible” is the real challenge.
Speed matters more than perfection.
Devs don’t want beauty; they want responsiveness. Anything over 1s feels broken.
Security must never be an afterthought.
I treated this like a bank tunnel between devices, not a toy.
Build for yourself first.
I didn’t make this for investors or glory — I made it because I wanted it.
That’s the best reason to build anything.
🧭 The Future
Now that it’s working, I’m turning this experiment into something shareable.
The dream: an app that lets every developer carry Copilot wherever they go — safely and instantly.
Imagine debugging on your couch, or editing code in bed, or just whispering to your AI assistant while waiting for coffee.
Phones today are more powerful than early NASA computers.
Why shouldn’t they also be your code editor sidekick?
So yeah, that’s my story.
I built VSCoder Copilot — because I wanted to code from anywhere, and I refused to wait for permission.
If you’ve ever built something just to scratch your own itch, you already know this feeling.
That mix of frustration, caffeine, and late-night triumph that reminds you why you fell in love with coding in the first place.
Because at the end of the day, that’s what we do:
We make ideas real — one ridiculous hack at a time. 💻🔥9 -
I would like to share this beta, and I will add that I am super grateful for devRant, but I wanted to have an online platform where I can live out my creativity and that I can use as a lifeboat at times when devrant loads in 5 minutes.
I have few things to complete before open sourcing it.
https://my.devplace.net/23 -
+ "Has someone tried to use AI to write code for a mod for this game?"
- "My stance is AI is a tool, to help you, don't expect to write the whole thing."
- "AI is very useful if you know how to code... I recommend learning coding."
??? How come I always find this kind of guys? Is this even being pedantic if they didn't even answer the question?
Makes me remember when I was younger and had to say "Java & ECMAScript" because saying Java & JavaScript in the same sentence would make unsolicited and misguided "corrections".
Fortunately there were some people that actually answered (before them, so they actually saw the question solved and still went to post that), but I still felt I had to clarify I'm a freaking software engineer, I don't have time to learn how to code for this specific engine for a shitpost mod. And what if I had time but still wanted to use AI? Rude, entitled... dummies.7 -
"AI can code" is like "my dog can play piano". Yes, I have proof, look it's hitting the keys and we can hear a sound. Dogs can play piano. AI can code.7
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It's still so amusing to me the amount of projects that are posted on /r/react, /r/angular or /r/sideprojects that are blatantly AI written and others that have their LLM API key exposed.12
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Missed some of you. A lot of you really.
Anything exciting happen while I was gone?
I heard some of you formed a mob, dragged a spammer out behind the wood shed and beat em bloody.
Sad to say I missed that.
I'm currently eeking by financially, but got my plans for the fall winter and spring. Gym membership, rock climbing, prepping for a 5k. Weathers perfect for all of it.
I'm in a competition right now for some serious prize money and in the lead.
Enough to start that AI lab and finish my game.
Also, not everything is sunshine and roses. I sleep 3-6 hours a night average, (5-6 if I'm lucky), and horrible mood swings, with or without sleep. And isolation, damn the isolation is terrible, but my schedule is so hectic I basically have no room for any real-world contacts. I can barely make time for myself, let alone my family.
But I'm still writing poetry and music at least, and got my eye on some land for a cabin or other uses like for an office.
Whats going good/bad in your life?
I haven't heard from so many of you for so long.11 -
It's amazing just how bad Visual Studio/.NET is .. and the way this shop does stuff.
I was just copying existing projects and renaming/modifying everything for new tasks, but this time I tried to create a new project from scratch. No matter what I get:
Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RequiredMemberAttribute' from assembly 'NJsonSchema, Version=11.3.2.0, Culture=neutral
Everything has the right .NET framework. Dependencies look mostly identical to other projects. No one in the work chat has seen it before. I'm about to move this project to a tmp dir, copy and existing project, search and replace all the name, empty it out and copy my source into it. What you want to bet it will "just work."
I hate everything about Windows/.NET .. I'm glad I have a job again, but .NET is just so fucking painful. How has Visual Studio remained this bad for this many decades? I swear VS 2022 is just like VS6 with a fucking dark theme.8 -
Programmers of today have replaced customly designed algorithms with off-the-shelf heuristics. They wander through packages and libraries and end up making something that is in no way viable to run in production.
(Paraphrasing Tesla)
Seriously, how many dependencies do a data science stack for some internal process needs? It would be fine of it was just an image compilation issue, but every other library nowadays needs a fucking subscription.
It makes sense when vendors want to bill you for using their neat library. It takes a lot of effort to develop those things.
But you better deliver something great and have a fucking good reason to make it an API instead of a self hosted or locally installed library.
Because it doesn't matter how much you've optimized your hardware to run your library, the network latency makes it much more expensive (in processor time alone!) to call an API and await a gRPC response. Oh, I can do async? No shit, Sherlock. Your fucking server cannot handle my load. Not without significant investment on a dedicated host and then we're back to square one.
Shit, its cheaper to run the thing on my side. "Oh, you can do self-hosted! We just need to make sure we have our digital rights management bloatware ruining the performance of everything!"
Just to make things worse, every other data science library nowadays is just a fucking distilled LLM. Those pieces of crap manage to be more unreliable than politicians.
Fuuuuck, the world is burning already and we're pouring fuel all over it with those fucking get-rich-quick "advanced API tools". Can't we just hire talented people instead of licensing a dozen vendors? But noooooo, everybody gotta be their own fucking boss because companies hate when their employees are happy and sabotage it all with RTO mandates.
Fuck, I need a drink. The enshittyfication has come for us, at last. May our end be quick as `sudo shutdown 0`.3 -
We have a no AI use policy at the company.
I had a contract developer added onto my team. I start to see AI generated comments in his code all the time. Point out that the code being contributed is def AI nonsense. I brought it up with my boss which reports to the CTO. Response: “As long as he doesn’t get caught I guess.”
He did get caught. This is me catching him and telling you.22