Job search is absolutely soul crushing. I can't even.

Kiki, what was your site where you can slice product images for use as app icon / store picture and stuff? I desperately need it.

I remember that site delivering great results. The other sites suck or are paid.

Fuck, my company is doing an all-hands meeting / Division townhall... AND EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD IS DOING SOME STUPID D-DAY REFERENCE.
Cringe.

Quote of our co-founder today: "Recently I've learned we should be doing market research before building something"

Explains why we are so much in the red now...

Want to know a sad story? I had a great idea for an internal application that would optimize a process in the company. My idea gets approved and.. guess what? Later it gets cancelled because Change Management didn't see a reason for me to get API rights on the company pipeline, which was what I needed to get my application going. I pitch my idea and they don't care and shut me down quickly because it's just another ticket they want to close asap.

Another guy in my company, openly incompetent but big buddies with the higher-ups gets his idea approved without effort. They open the doors for him and talk to Change Management to get him in. Then he's seen as Mr. Big Ideas while this guy doesn't even know how to use a terminal (I'm not joking). Even the girls admire him but he's a complete idiot who just smiles a lot.

It's whom you know, apparently. And bureaucracy is a piece of shit. So are cronyism and corruption.

I think HR is the first role that could truly be replaced by an LLM.

import legacy project on new laptop

some gradle shit is broken and i dont understand why

i dont remember having to deal with it years ago and and i have no idea how to fix

cant see the settings difference between it working on old laptop

What a time to be alive!

So, I got attacked by a lot of spam-repositories on molodetz. I'm sure it's the same spammer as we have here since the severity. He also mentions me often here on the platform under the account of a spam bot to troll me. Anyway, dear spammer, it took me 2,5 minute to resolve the issue.

Software Development 2025 everyone:

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...

Last time I try EXWM as my window manager.

I love how quietly cloudflare changed their captcha pitch from “stopping bots” to “stopping bad bots”, implying that some bots are good. Their bots that is, and bots of these who pay them I suppose

https://pastebin.com/0ndnN59y

This a little bit of music I wrote for a string quartet.

It's about @12bitfloat

So we are looking for a ML summer intern.
The amount of fake ML genius is astonishing.

These kids would put projects like "increased state of the art vision transformer model for automated guided missiles technology by 500%, leading to the destruction of ISIS in Irak and Syria", and then proceed to be unable to give you the derivative of Relu(x)=Max{x, 0} which is 1 or 0, or explain what batch normalization is ?

Running is good for sleep. I wish my lungs weren't fucked, but I ran anyway.

XSS attack means game over, and no httpOnly cookie is gonna save you. Here’s why:
1. I copy the exact html and css of your sign-up form, but make it send data to my server
2. I perform XSS that replaces page content with that malicious form
3. 99% of users think they should sign in again
4. Profit: I now have their login and password.

I regret talking shit about my coworker because despite being not a great programmer, he is a nice human being, and at the end of the day, this is what matters.

Your computer is probably vulnerable to Samy Kamkar's poisontap: a Pi Zero-based device that connects to usb and does the following:

- emulates an Ethernet device over USB (or Thunderbolt)
- hijacks all Internet traffic from the machine (despite being a low priority/unknown network interface)
- siphons and stores HTTP cookies and sessions from the web browser for the Alexa top 1,000,000 websites
- exposes the internal router to the attacker, making it accessible remotely via outbound WebSocket and DNS rebinding
- installs a persistent web-based backdoor in HTTP cache for hundreds of thousands of domains and common Javascript CDN URLs, all with access to the user's cookies via cache poisoning
- allows attacker to remotely force the user to make HTTP requests and proxy back responses (GET & POSTs) with the user's cookies on any backdoored domain
- does not require the machine to be unlocked
- backdoors and remote access persist even after device is removed and attacker sashays away

I need several minutes with your laptop to perform the hack, even if it's locked. Full-disk encryption and secure boot won't save you.

If you use GNU/Linux, install usbguard today. If you use macOS/Windows, idk, pray.

Manager: Keep the debug logs
Me: I won't use them as I use the status report or run it manually to see the problem, but fine whatever.

1 week later

Manager: the debug logs are hard to read, the status report is hard to read too but it's a bit more concise
Me: Yes. The fuck you want me to do? I don't use logs and don't care. You can write code, make the logs more useful to you if you want to use them.

my scrum master keeps changing the format of retro and it works worse every time. We're at the 2.5 hour mark right now. It is aggressively hot and humid in the office. Everyone is asleep.

I don't think there's a way to explain to him that the purpose of a retro is not to magically fix things within the format but to financially commit to the preference for conversation, from which the hidden work of resolving conflicts can be billed.

Every day hour minute i have to work on these charts im getting more sad frustrated and annoyed.
I have a function which works perfectly in the mobile versie of the webapp. Copy paste it to the desktop, it’s not working. Something is wrong and i can’t get my head around it. Neither does AI.

Kendo is hell.

I got so good at optimizing $3 VPS servers' performance that I want to buy https://shitbox.engineering domain and start a company.