Do you ever get this soul-crushing feeling inside you that says you haven't achieved enough or you don't make enough money?

For context, I've been a dev for 6 years now and make a lot more money than when I started, which was $1000 USD annually. (Third world country).

I used to think that making more money as I grew with experience would drive this feeling away but it hasn't.

On dev.to and similar sites I'm starting to see tons of Cheatsheets and courses on how to use fucking ChatGPT.

How few neurons should you have to need a course to learn how to use something which takes any statement in natural language? If you know how to read write you should be fine.

Dirty data? More like dirty laundry! And don't even get me started on explaining complex models to non-techies. It's like trying to teach a cat to do calculus. Furr-get about it!

When pandemic hit in 2020 I found myself out of work. Until then I used to have a java based pirate gameserver of a MMORPG as a hobby.

When pandemic hit I noticed that online players count increased from like 70 to 200 without much advertising because purely of people being stuck in home. So i decided to scale and spent 2 years with that. What a wild ride it was.

So i invested a bit in ads, managed to reach around 500 online players, opened my own company and launched a couple other successful spinoffs of that gameserver.

First year it was a goldmine but I was doing 10-14 hour days because I had to take care of everything (web, advertising, payment integrations, player support and also developing the server itself, ddos protections and etc.). I made quite a bit of money, saved for a downpayment for mortgage and got an apartment.

Second year I noticed that there was a lot of competition and online players count dropped, but I double downed on this and invested a lot into the product itself and spent most of the time developing a perfect gameserver that would be the big bang while also maintaining existing ones. Clasic overengineering mistake. As you can guess, I crashed and burned on all levels, never even managed to launch my final project because simply the scope was too big and I had trouble finding decent devs to outsource it to, since it was a very niche gameserver.

In the end I learned a lot especially about my own limits and ownership, now Im back to being a dev but working as a contractor.

I believe having actual business owner experience allows me to have different perspective and I can bring more to the table rather than focusing on crunching tasks.

Ever want to fix something but everytime you do someone else fucks it up ?

I know I am late as all hell to this question, but my favorite place (more accurately - time), is in college during statistics and probability class.

Just to keep the theoretical bullshit away.

(theorists don't @ me)

building castles out of spaghetti

Excel is a database

Please stop making stuff with JavaScript.
I have a fairly old and slow laptop.

Nooooo you have to have GitHub stars and projects and commit history 😭😭😭😭

Oh hi tech debt and procrastinated refactoring, go back into the backlog

I will never make a backend in C# ever again.

Just look at this bullshit:

official docks, PAGES long: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/...

confused devs running rampant: https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

absolute total GARBAGE

literally ANY other language or framework, you set an env file and you fuck off. of course microsoft has to make the most convoluted pile of shit horse shit fuck shit that confuses everyone. i shouldn't have to pray to the dev gods every time i spin off a staging or production build that my environment variables are set correctly

GOD

!rant

Working with postgres is just a great experience every time, I've never EVER had a problem with it.

and it's so insanely POWERFUL!!!!

great role model of what all open-source software should strive to be

Js on the frontend is bad enough, who the fuck came up with the idea to use it on the backend?

Plotly.

What an absolutely powerful library.

With absolute garbage documentation.

Recruiter: I have an open position for lead DevSecOps role.

Me: Tell me more

Recruiter: It’s an AI company , where the AI is making clinical medical decisions. It’s really cool. They need somebody to help them pass government audits and you’d be solely responsible for the systems security, AWS accounts, and also all of DevOps, which they’ve never heard of before but I told them they needed and they though it was cool.

Also, they use AWS but not sure what services inside AWS, they think it’s AWS storage and AWS servers or something like that .

Me: That’s a big hell no. 👎 Got any other positions though ?

i need documentation

NOT A FUCKING VIDEO MOTHERFUCKER

Ahh i love it. Got myself some stickers and a stressball :).

I no longer know what stress level am i at right now. Im way too calm for watching my life burn down the hole

Got to get out of here..

Me: IDK how this works. Lets ask support.
PLC Support: Use these ID's to locate what you need in our documentation.
Me: Why the fuck are all of them invald and I cant find shit?!
PLC Support: 🙃🤷

Working with the french person in the office and git gets me every time.

shit push, shit merge, shit rebase

Goddamn accent!

Isolating every part of the system optimizes current performance.
And it also hinders any future connections from being formed.

Just thinking this is also true about group, team and personal connections as well.

Not to do friendly fire or anything but most developers are fucking idiots

Typing

It works.

How I hate that sentence.

Whenever that sentence pops up, I wanna take a frying pan, make some bacon, eat the bacon and slam the still hot pan with grease through someone's face till the skull breaks.

Why has he so many anger issues, one might ask.

Usually the sentence "It works" means that after looking at "working thing" it works wrong in 95 % of all cases, but hey - for 5 % it at least does *something* right. Not everything, don't get ya hope up.

We had this fun topic happening again today and I'm still too angry to sleep.

Lucene analysis of texts in Elasticsearch.

Stopword list? Multiple word n-grams per line, duplicates, not lower cased, not properly encoded.

Tokenizers? Duh. Why should one put them in proper order.... Or more realistic: There is an order in tokenizers necessary *devs with shocked faces*.

Language specific details... UHM. Wait. Languages are different? There are edge cases in languages? *more shocked faces*.

Even more shocking that if an text processing pipeline is implemented horribly wrong, it delivers wrong results. *mind blown*.

But our unit tests (this goes out to @kiki) were working.

Yeah. You dumb nuggets who even an amoeba would be ashamed of, when you only do positive tests in unit tests with the most obvious working examples, then your unit tests are just useless waste of nibbles.

Some of the devs are really a fucking waste of genetic information, should have probably ended better in a sock.

If this sounds too harsh, they had 2 weeks.
In just 3 hours I found out that they can redo that with supervision.

-.-

I'm getting too old for that shit. Seriously.

I fucking hate this industry it makes me want to kill myself

Is anyone here hired at Toptal? Or have you been hired before? Need advice on how to pass their interviews and get hired there

Chinese streamers stream on the street under the bridge. The reason? They stream near a rich neighbourhood, so the algorithm recommends them to rich tenants. They donate more.

Wtf Microsoft...

Found out the hard way that copying a line of code from Teams chat will sometimes convert the spaces into unrecognized ASCII char.

Spent a few hours yesterday to fix the bad chars.
🤡👍