FOMO on technology is very frustrating.

i have a few freelance and hobby projects i maintain. mostly small laravel websites, go apis, etc ..

i used to get a 24$/ month droplet from digital ocean that has 4vCPUs and 8GB RAM

it was nore than enough for everything i did.

but from time to time i get a few potential clients that want huge infrastructure work on kubernetes with monitoring stacks etc...

and i dont feel capable because i am not using this on the daily, i haven't managed a full platform with monitoring and everything on k8s.

sure u can practice on minikube but u wont get to be exposed to the tiny details that come when deploying actual websites and trying to setup workflows and all that. from managing secrets to grafana and loki and Prometheus and all those.

so i ended up getting a k8s cluster on DO, and im paying 100$ a month for it and moving everything to it.

but what i hate is im paying out of pocket, and everything just requires so much resources!!!!

chat gpt is too politically correct, and i hate that im paying for an API that refuses certain prompts because they were considered inappropriate or because it thinks that it should not be giving me its analysis on a certain subject.

has anyone dabbled with using an open source LLM and made their own lite version of ChatGPT minus all the restrictions ?

i know its not gonna be as good, but at the very least free from the constraints

to become what he has always despised...

my government stores peoples car registration (name mobile number car plate number etc..) in a Microsoft access file locally. there is only one branch in the country to register ur car.

the file is on that computer, u can bribe the guy 20$ to copy it to ur USB.

so what should i do with the copy?

people used to make websites and apps that give u personal info of a person given his plate number (so u can call him and tell him to move his car if he blocks u and stuff 🤣)

but such sites and apps keep getting reported and closed.

i was thinking a telegram bot ? idk whats the best way to do it without being closed down

Are the Chinese characters intentional or a bug (since i have never been to china or even used a vpn in that area or anything) ?

having to prove you actually work

leave

market is oversaturated

you are making us get paid less and less

Nothing (software or other) has an objective value, it just depends who you sell it to.

We want one system for all our branches with booking and (inserts 73 huge features crucial to business operations)

- okay, *sends quotation*

You know, we just want a custom made website with (insert 23 major features)

- okay, *sends quotation*

You know, we want a wordpress site, we can expand late

- ...

Betrayals and Affairs ..

After trying development with vanilla js, then with the help of jQuery, then AngularJS, then Angular, then Vuejs, then React,

I spent the last 3-4 years of my life loving React and devoting all my frontend projects to React. React was so simple and straightforward and I ... I committed to it

but, I recently checked out Svelte, and maybe i shouldn't have let curiosity take the better of me but i did and, im heartbroken to say, I can no longer love react the same way. as nice as react was, like in any relationship, we had some ups and downs, i got bothered by some little details that i learned to live with, but Svelte .. Svelte solved these little twirks and it just felt even simpler...

I created a new Vite project today, and it asked me what framework to initialize, and i kept hopping between React and Svelte. for 10 minutes i was thinking of all the history i shared with React, of how scary it is to commit to something new, but i clicked on Svelte.

I know i may have betrayed a commitment to React, but sometimes things pile up and i .. I had to listen to my heart

Forgive me and thank you for reading my confession

TLDR, i am not performing as I used to in my job before i made my side hussle and idk if i should do anything about it.

every since covid started and companies started laying off people, I started realizing im in danger when no company was able to match my current salary, and the ones that do would, make me do a hunger games hackerrank competition with thousands of other people which I don't really wanna take part of..

My company even laid off a lot of people due to budget cuts a while back and i didn't feel secure at all, and knowing that i might end up with less salary should i get fired and settle for the next company that accepts me, kinda made me lose any trust i had for the whole being an employee thing... I have financial goals i want to meet and depending on this one company to not fire me is scary...

I registered a tech company and hoped I could take on some high budget projects, got nothing the first year but slowly i started getting some projects and now im hiring contractors to help with projects and its going great and im really happy and excited about it.

But i often need to manage said contractors, have calls with clients and even do some coding myself. Some of that i end up having to do in secret in my company time... we work in a big co-working space so i get to sneak into a meeting booth and do all that.

my manager lives in another country and basically im in a situation where i can get away with it without anyone noticing.

However, I used to be one of the top contributors in the company. I used to finish a butt load of tasks every day and i ended up being promoted to manager, but i still get some coding tasks. But generally, if it weren't for my side hussle i would still be a top contributor and shine like i used to, but now i mostly do what is expected on me, and im afraid someone would ask me at some point why im not as productive as I used to be.

nobody asked me anything but i just feel kinda guilty and miss having the one job to focus on and taking credit for a lot of things and helping everyone, but at the same time i dont trust that the company cares about me enough to give me any guarantees or stocks or bonuses so i feel i need to keep growing my side hussle to have a safety net..

thank you for reading my rant

Anyone got too used to ChatGPT until now google feels like a caveman tool?

if you tell chatgpt to write code that uses library X that does something it will provide the snippet ready to be copied

whereas googling it means you have to scroll through results, pray someone asked it on stack overflow before you, otherwise skim through medium articles until you find a code block or something

and yeah ChatGPT doesnt always write working code coz of the knowledge cut-off, i switch to bard sometimes or default to google

online coding exams.

Ask me how to do a rest api, ask me how to do a certain visual in the website, ask me how to setup a docker service running grafana, please just ask me something about the actual job.

Dont ask me to create some mind game that was ambiguously phrased in a timed hackerrank question that expects me to write runnable solutions that pass all test cases.

I have way too much work to play around with hackerrank for weeks so i prepare for your useless test

Im freelancing with a company that basically told me to scrape some data from some websites and do some aggregations on them. wish my full time job was as easy 🤣

never code, never test anything, never even talk to clients. I just wanna open a software company, have Devs, designers, business people who do all the work so that i can get a lot of money

for a company of 50-100 employees, there sure is a lot of sex happening between them...

full of contradiction.

If u try freelancing nobody would pay you shit coz theres always someone who'd do it for 100$.

If you do get a good budget freelance project, any Dev you'd consider outsourcing to to split the work with will ask for more than the project is worth.

There's a lot of competition but it's basically made up of

- people from fancy universities who dont know shit coz they think their degree is worth something on its own and expect high salaries off the bat.

- people who figured out the first group are idiots and tried to self learn, so they joined bootcamps that spoon fed them some Laravel and React and now think they are high tier engineers but may not even know their way around a bash terminal

- people who actually know their shit, went through hell to get the skills they have now, could probably spin up a startup on their own

group 3 all left the country tho

What are your thoughts on Power BI?

i cant remember the last time i practiced a hobby, this really makes me sad

remember before wordpress and the likes came out when you could charge thousands of dollars for a website ?

leave the job, keep the salary

was developing a custom website for a friend, coz i primised him id do so.

but when i actually developed it i felt lazy midway so i made one table store json strings and used it for every type of data he has on his website.

everything works fine and fast, its nothing he would notice but...

am I going to hell?

I just accepted a project for a high budget but i never did something on that big of a scale. I have the budget to consult with experts if i need them but in just feeling insecure about it.

at the same time i want to take it so i add it to my portfolio and i believe i can overcome any obstacle im just a bit scared

is that normal, any advice?

i browse the internet a lot so linux

migrated everything to elastic search, shitty learning curve and apparently shittier performance. now i dream of going back

if the documentation of a class just has a table of function params and return types without any example snippets of how to use them, fuck you and your entire stack and your entire docs.

I start a project that follows the best architecture, best practices, etc..

i suddenly stop working on it until 3 days pre-deadline. at which point I end up building the shittiest, hackiest, thing that works enough to give to the client on time

now... Im just tired and bored of what i do. i had a very hectic year rewriting a core functionality in my company, it was full of optimizations, logic improvements and learning new things.

I took 10 days off hoping id come hating my job less. I learned kotlin and worked on a personal server side project with it during the vacation and honestly i loved it. I missed learning new languages and concepts.

so i thought, well if i enjoyed coding during the vacation then my burnout is cured right ? well once i went back to work today I felt like shit and couldn't do a thing. disgusted of the idea coding for my employer. Too tired to continue my personal project after 8 hours of my job

I guess im back to square one

can you use elastic search as a search engine for your app ?

because i see several weak points in it.

the increased latency after every bulk uploading of docs, meaning u cant ensure fast response time for users

the inability to add synonyms without closing the index ? this is either downtime or ill have to replicate an index to update the original and then switch back to it !!

idk i feel i either must have wrong info or elastic is very inefficient. I might be wrong, not too experienced with it so if I am let me know of some good resources and workarounds that helped you

200 searchable records (heavily searched and essential to the app) kept getting deleted from their index on our search engine.

we couldnt figure out why, but we wanted to resolve this quickly next time it happens so we got them back up, duplicated the index, and whenever we see they got deleted we resync them from the replica.

Eventually i found that there was a piece of code that updates the index by deleting everything from it and uploading everything back but it was buggy in doing the latter.