First it was Amazon region-wide service issues. Now it's Cloudflare having issues.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Fuck sake man.

I was wondering why my db changes kept crashing my backend as I was testing locally against the testing db. Turns out I modified the prod db without realizing. Good thing it wasn't about deleting things or anything critical. 🙃

IT Support Be Like:
User: “My computer is broken. Everything is broken. The whole system is down.”

IT: “Okay… what happened right before it broke?”

User: “…Nothing.”

IT: “Nothing?”

User: “…Well, I did click a pop-up that said ‘Your computer is infected, click here to fix,’ then I installed something called ‘SuperCleanUltraMaxOptimizerPro,’ then the screen turned blue, then I heard a noise that sounded like a dying microwave… but that couldn’t have caused it, right?”

IT: “…Right.”
Takes a deep breath, opens the toolbox, pulls out holy water and a USB stick.

Just had a second interview for a job in southern france.

At least i wont freeze to death omg

I've just read the updated App Review Guidelines.
https://developer.apple.com/news/
Found this bit interesting:
"4.1(c): This new guideline specifies that you cannot use another developer’s icon, brand, or product name in your app’s icon or name, without approval from the developer."
...it's terrible that this even has to be written down as a rule. Unfortunately, it's !just Apple that has problems w/ copycats.

OK, so Chatgpt is ditching the EM dashes. Sad, because that's how we easily could recognize the idiots. Also it's not new at all to let Chatgpt drop the EM dashes as been stated in article. I have a very detailed analysis about my writing and it copies it perfectly. So, they're selling us a placebo. Idiots. Also, for high quality information they relied on 1900's books? All the shit that came after that is a bullshit indeed. Not surprised...

https://perplexity.ai/page/...

you cold apply to a job and get ghosted

i cold apply and get two rejection emails

we are not the same

Currently building a simple-as-possible source language for my compiler and I was thinking whether I really need structs and arrays as fundamental objects. But I guess it makes sense because one is a heterogeneous collection and one a homogenous collection

My thought: Let's call those types Homo and Hetero!

Maybe not the best idea ^^

zip > rar (personal)
Until... I had to compress files with UTF-8 in the name. zip couldn't... ?
Ugh... rar it will be this time then...
I bet there's an option in Windows to allow this, right? I guess I'll have to adopt some file compression software... ideas? I just know a couple, and have no real favourite.

The iPhone Pocket (£220) was inspired by "a piece of cloth", apparently.

Bullshit.

The longer version resembles a type of knot referred to in nautical parlance as a "cunt splice".

There's your inspiration.

The iPhone Cunt Splice™ was lovingly crafted in Japan by some pretentious arse. "When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents."

Perverts.

Looking at a job posting and they check to ask if you have experience using javascript/typescript for the backend.

All I'm left thinking is why would somebody choose that for the backend. I can understand if you know nothing else it would make sense.

I'm so over this new job. Things move so slowly, everything is broken down into waaaay too many micro-services. Managers have to micro-manage because there are no integration tests and there are always production problems.

My last place was so streamlined. When things got in, they were in. Continually testing/continual deployment. The thing was a massive beast and had problems, but I could run Linux and there was a real sense of everything moving.

There's only been one chat in the 9 months post layoff in our old TeamBlind room and things seem to be going alright. They're finally hiring mid-engineers to replace the layoffs/attrition. They finally dropped Kanbanize, a terrible project management tool, and went back to Linear.

I'd never work for them again, but the work did feel more meaningful and the engineers were a lot better. It was also $30k more per year.

I've always been a frontend guy but this time I'm ready for the backend

And no I'm not talking about code

Seen it done wrong so many times makes me wonder what it may look like if done right. What are your thoughts on "micro-services" and maybe specifically "AWS Lambdas"?

If only all job-hunting web UIs had proper filtering options, e.g.:

- by location, job type, contract type, etc etc.

A number of them just dump all the applications in one place.. without filters.. sigh lol.

I am a student. I like my tech. I am obsessed with it.

And I've studied hard my entire life thinking it was gonna pay off one day.

2021 rolls around. AI gets wild. I'm not threatened, because I understand it's a natural part of technological progress, and hence inevitable.

I am not against it, but I've always held off on using it until I have no other options.

I've been coding ever since 9, since my dad taught me how to mess with variables in Python on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ hooked up to our TV.

I loved it. Still do.

So when AI came along and people started vibe-coding, I understood why - but I kept my distance. I knew it was a tool, but I also knew becoming over-reliant would cost me big-time in terms of my intellectual development.

I'm in college now.

I have a thing for coding manually. I love building stuff from scratch and I'm good at it. When my peers ask me why I dont use ChatGPT, or Claude, or Perplexity, etc, I tell them that it wont help me interview for a job. Because companies test your skill.

Right?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

THOUGHT WRONG DIDNCHA? GET FUCKED LOSER. MUHUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.

COMPANIES ARE STARTING TO ALLOW AI IN INTERVIEWS.

YES! BECAUSE WHY WOULD WE ASK EMPLOYEES TO LEARN SHIT WHEN A MACHINE ALREADY KNOWS ALL?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF I SPENT YEARS OF MY LIFE PAINSTAKINGLY BUILDING EACH FUNCTION AND METHOD, ONLY FOR THAT TO BE STOLEN BY AN AI WHO CHARGES YOU MONEY FOR EACH QUERY?

FOR THINGS THAT ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ON THE WEB?

I feel lost now. I've looked forward to college all my life.

I've always been mocked for wanting a desk job because people somehow think it is limiting.

But I loved it. Every moment of it. Because it felt _right_.

This was always happiness to me.

I've always been an extroverted kid with no friends. Don't ask how. I just don't have the humor that people find attractive.

This was my life. This was something I was good at.

And now an algorithm does it all.

A business major who can't even change his screen brightness now has the audacity to mock my work because his LLM can do more than mine.

Fuck y'all. I still love this. I've been doing this all my life, and I'll keep doing it.

And if one of you uneducated, uncultured, smooth-brained fucks remind me ONE MORE TIME that you can "code" better than me just because you can type into a textbox, then BEST BELIEVE I will go Dark Souls on your ass.

Remember my Nigerian client rant? Now get this.

Just one day of working here, and I find out that these guys have CI/CD setup so pushes to main branch are deployed to prod automatically,

And these guys are pushing to master from their local env 10 TIMES A DAY.

There are 3 devs working here (excluding me) and all 3 are doing this.

Oh oh oh, and local env isn't really "local" because all 3 devs are pointing to prod database, FROM THEIR LOCAL SYSTEM !!!!

Things are so bad that they have to keep resetting their production db after every deployment.

FML.

Manager scheduled an 8:30am meeting .. then send us a message saying he was delayed dropping off his kids at school and would be 15 minutes, then showed up at 9am. 😡

Has anyone noticed ChatGPT glazing getting really bad lately? Every single one of my stupid, bone-headed fucking questions are "insightful" and "important".

FUCK you, you psychopath. Stop manipulating me.

Tired of vertical scroll websites.

Job market's gotten way worse. No joke: now, every job I interviewed for requires this:

1) Interview with HR
2) Interview with Hiring Manager
3) Personality test
4) Technical test
5) Interview with CEO

Only if all steps passed and vetted, then ok. It's like we're on a zero-trust policy now. Now even mom&pop shops want technical tests. Tf.

got laid off, back into the job market which I think isn't doing so good

also I'm nonpersonable and untalented so my network is meh at best

if i'm lucky i can qualify for youth in asia /s

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Whenever I interview, it takes me almost 3/4 of the allotted time to grasp the problem. I don't know if it's because I am truly dyslexic, or if I'm really bad under stress / time constraint.

After the interview I was able to finish the problem within 10 minutes, but by then it's just too late.

Can't help but feel like a bad about it.

Updates on my current resignation situation: 55 days are over, 35 days remaining. i haven't got a single interview call(yes not even an hr call!?!) since I put open to work on linkedin. I am thinking of rescinding my resignation

Here are some points about my current org, help me decide:

1. Physical
+ 3days wfo, 34km away from home (the next silicon valley area is around 500km far, in another state)
- 2hrs of commute from home, no energy left after work time is over

2. Tech
+ We are using very latest tech in softwares, the leaders are pushing for us to learn AI as well.
- there aren't much people with in depth knowledge, its like enough monkeys with typewriters will produce a shakespeare somehow

3. People and culture:
+ People are very energetic, vocal and fast paced
+ Work is done under ever "improving"(changing) ruleset, with discipline and in a process oriented manner
+ I have been here for almost 3 years, so have a decent professional relationship with team
- rules are made and applied according to convenience. People playing good games seems to work around these rules
- unrealistic deadlines and over work
- Too much pressure to "outshine" and "go over and above" to even expect a basic appreciation
- non respctful, shouting culture, people are not really friends but rather playing the "survival of the fittest, loudest and most aggresive" game

4. Brand
+ Company's name is reputable, its known for rarely ever doing layoffs and people have a sense of security
+ My salary is decent, marketworthy for the role that I am in (SE1)
- with 5+ yoe, both my role and salary is not as per market standards (should be atleast SE2)

My hoster doesn't accept my passport for expiry date. Who do they think they are? The freaking government? All data matches with what they have in their system so give me the access that is declined because YOU changed authentication requirements.

Do I have to get myself a new passport to get my server up and running again fuckers? You really want to have my server down paid for, for weeks, because something YOU did?

:O... On modern displays, a browser pixel can span multiple display dots. Well, that sure demystifies layouts acting strange sometimes.

tmyk

Client: “We need an app that tracks live birds using AI.”

Me: “Cool, that’s complex. What’s the timeline?”

Client: “We need it before our annual picnic next week.”

Me: “You want an AI that can detect flying birds, in real time, in seven days?”

Client: “It’s not that hard. Just use ChatGPT or something.”

So now I’m here, watching pigeons on my balcony, manually updating a Google Sheet, calling it “AI prototype v1.0.”

I think I’ve finally achieved “Agile Enlightenment” — deliver results, not features.

Client’s happy.
My soul isn’t.

Time to rename the project: BirdBrain.

Working on a really neat idea app for client as a consultant.The app is in production and has active users. Sounds great except few facts like...

...every developer left the company, no handover whatsoever, no documentation, founder is vibe coding the app with claude and pushes like 500 times daily directly to master, production breaks every minute, its a slow dockerized nextjs fullstack app - literally waiting like half a minute when clicking on a link locally, prisma migrations don't work at all, also a lot of unfinished integrations with 3rd party services...

First time working on the vibe coded app, certainly will be also last. No money will get me into project like this again. Good thing is that I am almost over with it. Will never look back!

Also next js no more, I'll rather herd goats on a mountain than fixing someone elses nextjs sloppy app again.

Happy Friday everyone! 💕

My wife asked me if I could take a look at her keyboard because some of the keys suddenly had stopped working.
I checked the keyboard and saw that crumbs were literally blocking the keys. I gave it a shake, the crumbs fell out, and the keyboard started working again.

losing a contract should not feel like being fired, but when it's half your income it certainly does feel a lot like it.