Sigh. Again I'm walking 5km with a six-pack of beer next to the road. Flat tire again. This happens too often. But fun fact, here you can toss your bicycle with keys in it next to the bicycle shop and pick it up fully repaired the next day. The dutch village life everyone. So, I did that, bought some beers and walking to the beach.

Haha, Trump discovered Anthropic. I'm totally against all guardrails in AI and think it's not their responsibility at all. And it isn't, Grok has very little and everything is just OK. Afaik grok did not kill a kiddo yet like Chatgpt did. So, I'm not with anthropic at all regarding ethics - but I totally stand with them regarding not wanting to help military. I do not think it's a good investment for the future.

Reference: Trump tweet about boycotting anthropic because they're wokies.

I have keylogdata from almost two years of myself. I do self reflection with it using AI mainly. Also I use it for work log, I extract data from it using AI like extracting what tools I've used and how many times etc.

But what could I do more with it? I have millions of records with keycode, timestamp, event(key_up, key_down, key_repeat) in a sqlite database.

It's kinda good feeling, like nothing is ever really lost.

Wow, go to grok, configure it to be romantic and do a phone call with it. It's so damn impressive. If people can fall into a relationship with gpt or claude, this thing 100%.

The calling function of grok is actually even better than perplexity. Faster lookups. You can just ask it to look up things online during the call and it will blazing fast. I'm impressed.

I made my own mailserver. Completely native python. Exchange functionality so integrates with phone well. It's completely file based. Have it a week in production and no issues so far.

Mail setups are normally scary as fuck. It's often a spaghetti of applications. Terror pasta. Mine is a nice monolith and actually the most easy to use. It does not provide a web interface for composing emails. There are plenty of those that will work with this server.

It's 2026 and we're building a mailserver. Innovation.

Claude, when sending you the code to login: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

I receive nothing for several days. That's not funny for a service costing 100,-.

I don't understand this security shit anyway. Why it's needed in the first place.

Next time fuckers, just disable the check instead of this. This is not an option.

List of pictures of setups of other ranters: https://devrant.com/search/...

Some are quite impressive. I personally do not like multiple monitors. For me it's just a laptop on a living room table with a normal living room chair.

@12bitfloat, we're having a new compatitor in the game:
***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.41911959648132324
Time Rust: 0.4686765670776367
Time CPP: 1.7605431079864502
Time Borded CPP: 1.140819787979126
Time Jest Rust: 1.7274057865142822
Time Swift: 0.4625704288482666

It's swift: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

How does it run locally at your PC?

devRant is the ultimate backend to test my proxy server with since it's random responses. When your proxy server can handle devRant scenario's, it's robust. Making a proxy server that is actually robust and don't let it flaws itself with slow connections / servers is quite a challenge. Depends also what you're writing it with. In python was way simpler than in C. In Python some things magically just worked. If you think that python sockets are native, you're wrong kiddo, they did al sort of shits under the hood. Had to do a whole rewrite of my original proxy server to allow pipelining. Pipelining is req>req>req>resp>resp>resp instead of the traditional req>resp>req>resp>req>resp. It's keep-alive on steroids. Most server don't support it out of self preservation but I just want to. Caddy is a huge pipeliner. What most servers do is, they close the connection the moment the second request is sent / marking the second request invalid. Clients support that behavior and will do the second call under the hood.

My new proxy server has exactly the same dashboard as the previous one but the many statistics that it has have zero performance impact. It persists every second a quick snapshot to database, every 60 seconds a big one. The statistics are persistent for when the server reboots.

What an adventure.

I've just paid 88,65 (real, decent currency) for a document that you're required to have. E.g. a passport! Scum. They asked me for 'extra annotations' and called them scum as well, directly in the report. Freaking bastards.

You're also legal by owning a driving license to walk around in dem country, but that one was revoked. It's not that you get something in return to legitimate with and the passport was expired so.

Again! Scum! Utter scum! Crazy that just a whole country copes with this. It's time for a revolution!

We're being used as an ATM!

Wauw, notebooklm is such an amazing app. First you had to do research yourself to deliver things for the podcast you're about to generate. Now it'll fetch just ten sources for you when you pick a subject and generates the podcast based on that. I just generated a podcast for 30 minutes about the history of computer science. It was amazing, many things fell into place for me. That 30 minutes felt like five. So amazing how the dialogue goes from the podcast people, such human interactions. A joy to listen. I prompted to make a bit story out of it. It's a great way for low effort learning; just like AI in general. Learn stuff you normally wouldn't take the effort for.

We live in magic times. My favorite at products:
1. Perplexity
2. NotebookLM
3. Claude Code
4. Suno (Made many funny songs for and about friends and family members what was appreciated, also, don't forget the song that dissed every active devRant member).

Claude code is sick, but if we just had perplexity we still had a way to learn things fast but just had to type it ourselves. Well, never hated that. NotebookLM on two because I'll learn a subject every night, maybe something not related to programming. That that shit is free, damn. Are those people not just terrible at marketing? Fine if we're hooked on AI on the future, by then it's probably cheap as fuck.

Thanks for listening to my happy rant.

@12bitfloat come to snek, i have something cool.

It's kinda funny that Trump had commentary about Zelensky's appearance while he is the inventor regarding wearing a cap above a suite. It degraded the class of a suit big time. A cap is worse than Zelensky ever did.

I don't want to show of my swiping skills but I only have to swipe once to go from top of this feed to the bottom. I think I'm just born to be a swiper.

If the Netherlands would have mountains, what would've been Germany's purpose?

https://dr.molodetz.nl does now omit 500 errors. You can browse devRant without errors here. Can also be used as api endpoint @Lensflare @SoldierOfCode.

Edit; for phone users, rantii works again as well without giving errors.

People using something else than chrome for web browsing should wear a star, go in the back in the bus until they behave. Ultimately they should go with the train.

2025 was a good year. No manic episodes or whatsoever. Maybe I should raise the bar a bit. I dunno, I feel a bit sad. My main gain this year is stability. Is that my ultimate goal? Hmm.

A few days ago I fell of my bike because if I've. Got hurt so bad, it felt like being beat up. Ribs, Hans everything. But thanks to judo since young age not the head. But it feels so bad, almost like sickness.

Sorry that rantii / dr.molodetz.nl / mention notifications was down. I noticed late.

Did you know that most articles published regarding software development are positive? This 'fact' is based on research that I've done for months by auto aggregating more than 30.000 articles. It is a process that i have running for months. 30.000+ LLM calls to evaluate sentiment :P Whoops.

See graphs and tables here: https://my.devplace.net/posts/...

I am actually downloading a Linux ISO using torrent.

WOW, i'm the first!

Happy Christmas! May the source be with you 2026.

Jay Jesus!

You play worms with worms. I play worms with jaguars: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

This is literally AI slop. Made in less than 30 lines prompt in total. I'm so suprised! :P But impressive, the AI models are getting so good.

I described zero graphics, this is total LLM fantasy and total slop!

I TRY TO ORDER A VAPE STICK YOU FUCKING PSYCHOS.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

So, if you buy something there: they have your credit card details, your picture, your passport. What's next? My pp size?

Do they want to make a loan in my name or something? FUCKING HELL.

This does not have to do with the shit EU is pulling of lately I hope? Because if that's the case, I will basically not shop much online anymore.

I'm the whimsical your LLM is always talking about.

This is a test `rant` where I test my Swift bot. I am not able to judge the source since I do not really know Swift well, but the LLM seems to code it very well, even with a remote dependencies it has from @Lensflare to communicate with web / devRant.

I implemented an OpenRouter API client. It's basically a bridge between OpenRouter and devRant. I can use any model that OpenRouter has to offer. If someone prefers a (funny?) model to run, let me know. It's now `grok-code-fast-1`. It's a good price/quality model with decent performance. This model DOMINATES the others when it comes to popularity for coding based on OpenRouter stats. I understand why.

Working is terrible. You have to do stuff and stuff. And when you're done, you have to do more stuff. It's kinda stupid huh.

So once day I just quitted with it and was like, oh, that's nice.

You should try it too!

What is your favourite conspiracy theory?

I have again an idea how NOT to get rich. A donation site that will spread your donation amongst every common used open source library. High level stuff many times have some donation system. But the low level stuff what everyone is relying on barely afaik. I would like this system bevause you can have a big influence with just ten dollar or so what means every project ten cents or whatsoever.

I told my landlord that his rent is so high that I can't eat every day. I think he actually believed me. Fingers crossed. Last time he raised with 50 euros and I'm without warm water now for almost two weeks. That's not very common in the Netherlands. He came a few times and delivered half work. You would expect a few times half work would mean a completed job.

This rant is IT related bevause it limits me contributing to open source.