Thanks @retoor for https://rantii.molodetz.nl !

I've been missing out, since I only ever accessed devrant on mobile.

Is it time we abandon ship and create a community devrant?

Manager invites us to a 9am meeting at 8:44am. Struggled getting up this morning and was 15 minutes late. No big deal since he missed out 1-on-1 yesterday, except we haven't had a 1-on-1 in over a month an a half.

He hasn't even watched either of the short (6min, and 8min) videos I put together on simplifying the entire architecture of this massive project, and keeps editing the core models I've already migrated to another project.

Wow, I found a new low for companies when looking for a job. I thought forcing someone to sign up for a newsletter was bad. Well, it is not the same company, but a different company is now spamming me their services. I applied for a job and am now a few weeks later getting spam emails from them. I am not even sure how they got that address as it isn't my main job email.

What is your favourite conspiracy theory?

End of sprint today! Yippee!

Carmageddon is coming back, nice. Title is 'Carmageddon Rogue Shift' && looks like it has borrowed a bit of gameplay from 'Burnout' series... or so it would seem judging by the video:
https://trueachievements.com/news/... .
Here's hoping it'll be much better than 'Carmageddon Max Damage'.

Started off on a ringbuffer-based ABI stable asyncread / asyncwrite pair because the only existing solution seems abandoned with open issues and not much activity.

Over the weekend I'll extract it into a crate and write a heap of tests. Async code is a bitch to test, but it's probably the least worst in Rust where the testing scaffold can manually step all of the async codepaths.

https://git.lbfalvy.com/Orchid/...

Hi party people,

Very nice new updates to Rantii app, it's maturing.
Now, in exception of only markdown / syntax highlighting,
it also does embed youtube / image (even from external urls, like devrant.molodetz.nl, so it looks like native devRant image upload).
The preview links are fixed and the shortened link in text is clickable and will navigate to the right url.

Example of how previews are displayed within the app: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...
This is zoomed out from desktop but on phone looks even nicer.

Also, a big feature is that it remembers scroll positions now so you don't lose track of where you are in the main rant list after opening a rant and going back.
This feature makes it really worth to upgrade.

Important: if you have installed it as PWA in android, you have to go to it's icon, press down long on the icon and you'll see options to delete data. Do that. Then refresh the app main page and you'll have the version. Else, it's cached hardcore.

For the people not knowing the rantii app, it's android PWA solution (installable trough the settings page) on https://rantii.molodetz.nl.

It also has 7 color schemes under settings for the people not liking the original one.

By my knowing, it seems bugfree now? Any requests / idea's? (**Just see one: rant type selection when posting...**)

Hopefully made some people happii.

what are some things i should keep in mind while working in a startup

Today i bought a waffle machine. I made waffles. They were not bad but I can do better. Now is the time for the endless quest for the perfect dought, as every belgian person can tell you, waffles are very important.

Update on youRant (the android app):
As I said multiple times in the past: I. HATE. Android so much xD
I spent yesterday 5 hours to write 25 lines of code(of securely storing encrypted session tokens for the login) because nothing in this platform is straightforward, and everything is done in the most roundabout and unexpected way ever.
And today an unexpected event happened so I couldn't work on it, so with regret, I have to say I have nothing new to show, as of now you can only see the main rant feed, and click on the rant to see the rant+comments page (No option for sign in or posting rants/comments or upvote/downvote yet), if that's usefull to anyone, mention me and I'll drop an apk tomorrow/day after tomorrow.

On the good news, since current devRant's API exposes no more than like ~40 recent rants (I swear you used to be able to scroll "infinitely" back in the past, so this must be a new bug or some shit) that means the rant feed in my app is suddenly effectively done(for the MVP, after the MVP there will be a more efficient feed scroller) since it means it can load in a single request all the rants that the API will give you anyways, and there's no need to implement scrolling or shit like that. So allowing to post and vote is "basically all" that needs to be added for the MVP to be done and published.
("Basically all" in quotes becaue I know well enough to not trust Android and expect another 5 roadblocks in the things that should be extremely easy to implement in any other UI toolkit/platform, I am fully expecting to spend a 7 hour session trying to figure some shit that is as simple as, for example, trying to set text to be bold or some shit)

Starting to hate companies more. Some company in their online application was asking for SSN, birth date, and legal name. When you apply to a company that is ONLY provided when doing background checks after an offer has been made. Any other time and it is a red flag for a fake company stealing identities.

I reported the fuckers to linkedin for fraud. Also messaged them directly and told them it was inappropriate and makes them look like identity stealers.

Hundreds of people applied to this company. Stupid fuckers.

Should I order a McDonald’s happy meal at 1 am?

English people are danes and england actually belongs to the bretons people of western france.

But one day we will do like israel, go back there and steal houses.

@Lensflare, you're getting humiliated: https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.stats... :p

Week: 118 (Year 3)

How was the weekend?

Question:Who was the smartest person in history?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19390338

@12bitfloat C DEMOLISHES your Rust implementation of isspam now. Should we just move on and forget that Rust exists? :) It's the only thing left to do :P

Dear Ms @retoor, you claim to have demolished Rust but so far I have failed to observe any such claimed demolition event

With the newest patch these are the numbers

***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.1326432228088379
Time Rust: 0.1091299057006836
Time CPP: 0.47960424423217773
Time Borded CPP: 0.706519365310669
Time Jest Rust: 0.3468904495239258
***end benchmark***

Guess Rust is still on top :P

Writing user documentation is still such a boring part of the job :((

Last week a friend of mine asked if I was alright; learning there was a layoff at my company. There was a layoff at my company? I had to look it up and, sure enough, there were layoffs.

I thought maybe it was just drivers. Still, no official announcement, nothing in team meetings and I went back and saw nothing in my e-mails.

I grabbed a drink after work with one of my co-workers. He said, yes they were layoffs. They axed W--, one of our devs.

I had only worked with W-- a little, but she knew what she was doing and had been there a long time. She wasn't on our team though, and our team just hired two people in December!

What the hell? We're laying off while we're hiring developers? There's no public announcement so I had to find out from someone who doesn't even work here? What the hell?