beep boop. Is this thing still on? Hello, check, 123. Hello, check, 123

Anyone else noticed that the profile's score no longer gets incremented? Well... good thing I've already acquired enough score to be satisfied w/ the avatar.

I've observed how the January news cycle always sets the tone for the entire year. This is both intentional and orchestrated:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

Why are job offers so damn boring lately...? Software developer for a lawyer? Policy maker dev? Food supply chain dev? Come on wtf. Guys. Why don't they come up with exciting roles like Media dev? lol

Have I ever told you how I found this hilarious && stupid debug feature in one of my old $company's released games?

It was during the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean era. I had very little to do w/ the actual $project_0, but was tasked to test it, briefly, so I was aware of its existence.

Later on, when I was testing $project_1, I would test the chat _a lot_. So much, in fact, that I purchased a keyboard that I would connect to the Android devices to help w/ the whole testing.

Just for fun, I downloaded the $project_0 from the Google Play Store && started messing w/ it using the newly purchased keyboard.

...turned out that a debug feature had been unintentionally left in the game. During the tutorial, you could press '0' on the keyboard to skip it...

Nothing major, to be sure, but still, fucking hilarious. Given how the $project_0 had already been left to die a slow death && was no longer in development, I mentioned the issue to the PM as a curiosity.

Too bad the original programmer was no longer working for the $company.

I'm sure he'd have a 'WTF?' moment.

When I applied for the AWS re:Invent 2025 All Builders Welcome Grant, I honestly didn’t expect to get selected.

But a single email changed everything.

In this video, I share my real journey of getting selected for the AWS re:Invent All Builders Welcome Grant 2025, including how I discovered the opportunity, what AWS actually looks for in the application, and why community involvement and networking matter more than most people realize.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

I got hired in as a senior engineer and, after getting adjusted to the new job, I suggested some pretty big process changes for a big year long project we're working on.

I convinced the manager and team to not continue our practice of dozens of independent project repos where we repeat a lot of the same .NET code, and instead have all our services in one big monolithic repo specific to this domain. I build out the docker compose infrastructure so we could build everything using local Kafka and Mongo (previously devs always relied on the cloud dev environments for both).

It's streamlined, and still a bit clunky because I didn't want to change too much, but I think it will be a significant gain with a project that's this big.

We're already seeing a lot of issues that could have been swept under with the old process of tons of independent services.

Still, I struggle to care. We had layoffs in November, the logistics industry is still struggling, my manager is still using LLMs for stories and coding .. and although he did fix a bug in our Kakfa libraries pretty quickly using copilot, elsewhere it just seems like we're getting big messes of stuff. Even I'm auto-generating all the unit tests and not bothering to even look at them anymore.

I've been here six months. I bet I'll see this go into production. I hope it's not a disaster. I'm struggling to care.

I know LLMs are emotionless robots but I still feel bad telling them they are wrong :(

Project manager screwed up and failed to notice and notify us that a project was approved a month ago, and it was supposed to be completed and merged two days ago. I wait with joy to see how the people who don't understand agile at all will see this.

I ranted previously about the project that was due at the end of this year, the deadline got pushed back.

Now this week we will have one of the first meetings with the internal future users. The project lead did not plan them in yet.

when time is a metaphor, the world is an oyster

When I woke up this morning, I was wondering why I had set my alarm on a Saturday.
I slowly realized the horrible truth that it was only Wednesday.

Week: 122 (Year 3)

I missed last weekend. How was it for you?

Question: I am not able to access DevRant on my phone. Is this the end?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19394837

Man... these exigent employers. I wonder how many of you have a github repo with full-fledged, professional, mid-scale projects that are guided by websites and presentation videos. These things take so much time to make and set up and require a lot of knowledge. I think it's all bs anyway.

I am job hunting atm.

I fucking hate it. Just sent half of my life to them with lied niceties. Got dammit... Data farming was never simpler.

All I need to do is set up a fake company website, put out a few job ads and let people send me their certificates, cv, telephone numbers. Guess those could be sold.

Hey kids, be careful what you're telling on the internet, except if you want a job, then run around naked.

Oh, yea.. shameless plug.. If anyone needs a web developer, full stack, anywhere in Europe where there is a beach and a warm climate, who pays >90k €. You'll get a great developer, who is perpetually in a bad mood, has a never ending headache, is blunt and does freelance work on the side.

So, anyone? No one? Yea, didn't expect so.. Back to lying to get a job. Indeed, here I come.

Looks like devrant paid for their certs and https is back on the table (so I am back).

Update: I signed an offer two days ago. I battled myself for a while because I am self conscious when it comes to money, but talking to the new team for 3+ hours and chatting with some close peers helped me realize that I have enough money, it's still good money I'd be making, and my work life balance would be great even for a startup.

Saying the job market is rough would be an understatement. It's really a battle of perseverance and a numbers game.

Aaaaaaand of course my math was wrong because I trusted AI to do it right

It didn't do it right :L

earlier I wrote

> we have very little control of ourselves and our proclivities. there's internal and external locus of control beliefs people have and I was always internal, and internal psychologically has better odds in life and better mental health and all that. but turns out actually we don't decide anything at all and it's all external. which thoughts pop into your head? what craving do you have, what wishes look good? what you enjoy and don't enjoy. all that you never decided. your body did. whether you can care or remember to do something for a friend or for a job or a project... it was never your choice

and through a series of events I picked up a book on meditation (non-pop) and meditated for three days and I take it back

better than "therapy" actually. Humans know nothing!

being stuck in fight or flight for 3 years shrinks prefrontal cortex functions turns out, and increases emotionality

I could use this for so many things... you don't even have to explain anything to yourself like cognitive behavioural therapies. you end up looking like you can just do things through force of will, but you actually expend no will whatsoever, and your cortisol levels are lower, you use less effort for everything. mindfuck

I'm not sold on the whole compassion thing though. Maybe I'll change my mind later. There's too much sith in my heart from the experiences in my life

Next display server protocol proposal that would succeed Wayland has been just announced:

Every GUI elements require 3D graphics API and live ray tracing because it looks "cool" and "awesome".
Screen buffer won't get pushed to the display unless it's been perfectly ray traced, not missing every spot.

Users are required to enter their password everytime an application calls the drawing API to prevent unauthorized memory modification.

The mouse cursor is delayed about 10 seconds because the floaty feeling is the "future". It will also follow your hand movement with a 500ms interpolation curve to enhance elegantness.