A young guy I work with burst into tears today, I had no idea what happened so I tried to comfort him and ask what was up.

It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like modern browsers or mobile devices.

Being given a polite but honest opinion was obviously something the client wasn't used to and knowing the guy was a young and fairly inexperienced, they started throwing very personal insults and asking him exactly what he knows about things (a lot more than them).

So being the big, bold, handsome senior developer I am, I immediately phoned the client back and told them to either come speak to me face-to-face and apologise to him in person or we'd terminate there contract with immediate effect. They're coming down tomorrow...

So part my rant, part a rant on behalf of a young developer who did nothing wrong and was treated like shit, I think we've all been there.

We'll see how this goes! Who the hell wants a toolbar anyway?!

If you alter the scrolling on your site, you're a fucking moron.

Go to scroll down an inch and I end up at the bottom of the page. Fuck you.

Drop. A free open source crossplatfom AirDrop alternative. [more details]

Virus in a bottle

This rant has been written from the Signal messaging app and uses a custom Signal 'gateway' (a registered user which is a server in this case) with a PHP api behind it. If this rant appears on devRant, it fucking works!

A brilliant article that talks on the state of internet

The Bullshit Web - https://pxlnv.com/blog/...

Tldr: as internet speed increased, page loading time did not decrease because the extra bandwidth is being stuffed with unnecessary big scripts and autoplaying videos.

AMP is nothing more than a business tactic by Google

So true 👍

Yesterday, my employer promoted me to lead web developer.

I’m still the only web developer.

Huge congrats to @linuxxx for being the first ever member of the devRant community to reach 100,000++

This is an awesome accomplishment and @linuxxx earned all of his ++ with awesome stories and has represented everything the devRant community is about while getting there.

So once again, congrats @linuxxx, and thanks for everything you have contributed to devRant!

When you see your commit history..

No credits, sorry

Someone is mining Bitcoin in town

First contact with computers: draw a square using LOGO language. No idea which was the computer back then.

This is where US's bandwith is going

I don't remember much but I think I was sitting on my dad's lap while he was using word or something.

Windows (95/98?) though 🤢

Gladly we all use Linux now (le family)

Roadrash

Coming home after school , just to relax and play pinball on the PC ...windows 98 ..good times ..the quest of being Fleet admiral and avoiding the "Tilt"

tl;dr don't, just don't.

A curious little me (12-14 years) just stated using the family shared computer.
And he thought: It's so slow! Maybe I can make it faster, my parents would be happy!

So he looked at this little switch on the back and he switched it from 230 to 115.

Not knowing what he did, he turned the PC on... for the last time.

Smoke, a nasty smell and a loud bang were the last memories left behind.

The parents were not happy.

Nice try ad-people

Got RAM 🐑?

Such support! Much wow!!
Thank you very much CSS3 for such awesome feature

Eminem

1. Finish my own game
2. Get a publisher
3. Get rich
4. Buy a big house with a swimming pool on the top and get 2 bisex girlfriends

Introducing new Notif filters! Now on mobile, all your notifications are broken up into category tabs and you can clear each category separately. No more digging for mentions!

Also we just released a new image preview for when a rant is shared on FB, Twitter, etc. which includes the ranter's avatar image. You can see it by sharing a rant on social media, or check out an example here: devrant.com/rants/1036286/image.png (if you change the rant ID, you can see others)

How to get a job at apple

I wanna do so many things but Fuck masturbation

Close more browser tabs

Happy new year and welcome to the future peeps!

Who else feels this way? Current mood 😔

Oh yeah 😂