Merry Christmas, everyone!

I would send you all Hawk Tuah coin, but I just spent my bonus shopping for ungrateful people. Okay, they aren't ungrateful, just unappreciative.

Anyway, gonna try and avoid devrant for probably a week.

And for you other assholes: Happy Festivus!

Is devRant Losing Its Spark?

Hey ranters,
Anyone else notice how quiet devRant has become? Back in 2016-2017, this place was buzzing with energy, but now it’s down to just 10-12 rants a week. What happened? Did competition from platforms like Reddit or Discord take over, or did devRant stop evolving?

I still believe this platform has huge potential—developers will always need a space to vent and connect. But without fresh ideas or a clear roadmap, it feels like devRant is fading.

To the creators: what’s the plan? To the community: do you feel the same? Let’s discuss!

A concerned dev.

who's on top, who's on second

I fucking hate December.

In Russian army, they have this funny tale:

“There is no better vagina
Than the asshole of your comrade
Yes, it smells worse,
But it for sure is tighter!”
In Russian language, everything rhymes perfectly.

Original:
Лучше нет влагалища
Чем очко товарища
Пусть и пахнет хуже,
Зато входит туже!

Guess the app of this musical tone:

"tud-du, tu, tud-du, tudum-tum,.. tud-du, tu, tud-du, tu, tu, tododom, tom :)"

Now's the last minute at current company. Very mixed feelings about leaving. Working with the people there was such an amazing experience and the working conditions there were amazing. But I decided to move on because the pay was absolutely shit and the work itself was like making me feel burnt out. Its not like that I'm overworked. Its like no challange and my own expertise is not valued at all. Everything I work on is constantly held back by every minute thing so that I finish it months later than actually planned. I feel kinda bittersweet. And finishing off with a blast kinda makes it even worse to leave. As for the last day before christmas there is a big happy hour with a lot of free food and alcohol. Talking to all the ppl I've worked with over the years makes me wish it would not be like this. I already miss them. Its like having to say goodbye to a good friend. I guess I'll stop. It will only make it worse.

I wana be extremely rich.

Goes on teams, since it got shoved down my throat because everyone has to use this malware. Might at least clock around to see what free shit it has to offer.

Oh cool, visio? Thats the architecture diagramming tool isnt it? Thats perfect I could use it for my presentation, let me just drag this UML class...

YoU HaVe DiScOvErEd A PrEmIuM FeAtUrE! BuY ViSiO NoW!!

Sometimes, I wish the times of companies simply barring you from access completely to come back. Freemium is the worst bullshit piece of shit business model ever.

Finally, at last I found a way to hack my parents' Xiaomi router. Now that I've got root access to it, I can now fix it, so it's able to.. you know... route traffic.

Because stock router's firmware only operates as a NAT device. Not a router.

The measures we have to take to get shit fixed.....

Boss: how is the progress on that?
Me: yeah on that we are running some test cases😅

B2Plane I've found the best spot for you to take a dump:

Week : 68 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

Where are you spending your vacation specifically?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11551285

I'm about to install and boot my first desktop PC since childhood. Excited

Bout to be on that homeless vibe

What a journey - a psychedelic shaman in a capitalist world

Dear @Wisecrack
sorry for the 1,5 year cliffhanger... but i hope you still intrested :)

My boss uses chatgpt to code all the time. I watched his workflow and he will use chatgpt not for code, but to act like a search engine. He seems to be effective using it like this.

I struggle to include chatgpt in my workflow at all. I am using it to help learn C# to clarify things I cannot find in search. It doesn't always help.

So I have mixed feelings about using it in my work flow.

My grand daddy was a racist asshole who hated arabs and black people.

But my dad was right. No matter the race or the origin, the religion, jew or gentiles, rich or poor, pp or not, we should unite against our common enemy.

The flemmish.

It may sounds racist but seriously, my washing machine broke, it's not even 6 months old. I had to fight with them for weeks and now they only offers me an appointment in 5 weeks

Mediamarkt my balls. Fucking germans

Still struggling with the whole webpack project. We agreed on just doing style for now. (Which also need to be updated but that a whole other drama)

Fucking hate my life right now. Its 16:00 so time for beer and games. And holidays. Have a good holidays here everyone. I cant wait to come back to this shit in 2025.

Windows users be like : "YAY I REALLY PREFER WINDOWS OVER MACOS BECAUSE IT HAS ADS IN THE START MENU"

MacOS users be like : "YAY I prefer MacOS over Windows because it's beautiful and simple"

GNU/Linux users be like : "YAY I REALLY PREFER GNU+LINUX OVER ANYTHING BECAUSE IT LETS ME EDIT WHATEVER I WANT"

BSD users be like : ""

why structs/objects when can tuples everything

When your technical colleagues apply or pressure you to make fixes or implement features w/o understanding how abd why they work. When they discard your proposals/alternatives as inferior, motivating with their superficial knowledge arguments. When they promote new toys over tried and true ones, only because they work using other new technologies and they do stuff automatically, w/o having to think why/how, hoping it'll never fail.

And when it all starts erroring -- turn to @netikras asking to fix the tools I ruled from the beginning as "black boxes of unknown evil"

aren't they the best... :)

is there no longer place for highly technical nerds understanding all the bolts and nuts of big and small tools/systems/solutions..,?

Guys i'm bored lets throw a rave in your country presidential palace.

I bring acid

I've been suffering from frequent and random crashes with my Jetbrains products, as well as awful performance.

As it turns out, even with 16GB of RAM, it still needs the swapfile to function properly. After creating an 8BG swapfile, it starts almost instantly and my crashes seem to be resolved.

I made it

This is lead acetate. It looks like sugar and tastes like sugar, yet it’s as toxic as lead.
Have a good day!

Currently implementing a Swift devRant SDK and encountered something very stupid:

The json value for attached image is an object (dictionary) when there is an image but it‘s an empty string "" when there is no image.

So two different types for the same property.

I hate this kind of crap.

Why not make it null or omit that property when there is no image?

Now I need to add ugly as fuck custom decoding code for this object.

If I hear ONE MORE time "ChatGPT is like Google but better/smarter" I WILL choke a motherfucker to DEATH

emag eht tsol uoy

niaga

Just getting consistent, plentiful sleep every night fixed 99% of my problems