Okay what is this shit.

You apply for a job, they dangle the carrot on you for over a month, cancel multiple appointments, finally you have an interview, they seem happy. Then they go on vacation two weeks.

In the end they end up rejecting me because of 'internal decisions'.

bull shit. Shit bull. Fuck cluck fuck muck.

We recently merged a different department in our department and all 4 people are now in our office room (still comfortable space now).

But one of the new people plays his music on a JBL box and then uses a noise cancelling headset to listen to different music. Where is the respect for others :')

DLSS5 in games looks horrendous lmao

https://nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/...

I hate searching for things and reading the top articles today. It's either mainstream crap or LLM generated. Some of it might not be LLM generated, but it reads that way because people use these things so much they write like them now!

So I wrote a simple web form that makes it easy to restrict searches by year ranges:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

It's pretty amazing, being able to use modern search engines and actually find really interesting articles that would normally be lost to time.

it's harder to tell between AI and people now... because people are just speaking like AI now wtf

SIGNAL
RESONATES

I think people are losing their damned mind. Weird fucking cadence. Short sentences. Why can't it be all one thought? So here's the thing that makes me want to scream. This isn't an AI problem, this is a people problem.

I don't understand some devs. Sometimes there are senior devs that instead of documenting requirements on paper, they decide to call you and tell you all the complex requirements for half an hour and expect you to just get up and develop what they just said.

Wtf is wrong with some people. Better: Jira, documentation, e-mail, communication.

Wow, apparently when you're authorizing a Github App with your account there's always a "[This app can] Act on your Behalf" permission that you have to agree too

Bro what??? I just want to add https://utteranc.es/ as a comment system on my blog ;_;

Fortunately it doesn't actually mean what it says. It just means that the app can do all the *other* listed permissions *in your name*. I think?

This wording has been criticized by multiple people but apparently GitHub will not fix it for some fucking reason. Great way to scare off literally every single person who want to comment on some random blog. Because there's so many of those in the first place..........

Interview:

Round one.. fight.

Me: "I want to work with modern technology"
Them: "Have you worked with modern technology before?"
Me: "No"
Them: "No job for you"

Right, so to get a job in modern tech you already have to have worked in it. Sigh.

Toastie!
Sonya. Syndel. Kabal. Shao-Tsung. Liu Kang. Sub-Zero.

There was a time when Java 8 and React 16 were all the hype as if it were yesterday... and now we have Java 25...

The world of IT just moves way too fast. lol

How did we end up with such a bad convention for font weights?

Is thin thinner than light? Is regular thinner than medium? Is medium or regular the default? Is semibold thicker than medium? Is heavy thicker than bold? What about black? Why is it even named like a color? What the fuck is going on? Just use freaking numbers!

0 should be the default.
Negative numbers should mean thinner and positive numbers should mean thicker.

Son of a bitch. You can't have gaps in your CV or you are considered a red flag. Companies want good-working rats that never take breaks in life!

Sick of this shit.

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.

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

Annoying: when a friend asks you for help with a computer issue and then a few moments later solves it themselves.

JoyRant build 50.

I don’t know who else is still using JoyRant but according to TestFlight there are currently 73 users (wtf?!).

The new version doesn’t ignore the cert anymore because it’s been fixed.

And the new highlight is: auto-retry!
If a Slim Shady Error occurs, the app will retry up to 5 times until giving up and showing the error.

It’s really smooth again now. What a difference!

The retry feature is implemented on the SwiftDevRant SDK and is currently set to 5 by default.

@retoor if you want to use it, just update to the latest version 2.3.0
It’s better than just hiding the error because as a user you don’t need to manually repeat the request.

Have fun!

DevRant Slim Application Error

So will the real devrant please stand up
and put each one of those fingers on each hand up
please stand up
please stand up
(we're gonna have a problem here)

y'all act like you never seen a devrant before

'cause I'm Slim rant all you other Slim rants are just imitating so won't the real Slim rant please stand up,

lmao.

Don't you find it annoying when the dev team gives you the worst or less than absolute minimum of time to test a new release?

It's like... that itches with me so hard. Come on.. we're testing a build here. You want me to brush over this? The amount of bugs that might pop up...(oh yeah we just bill the client for those later lolololol)! Especially when no one wrote tests, or just minimal, I... sigh.

lol

Beep beep

Retoor is really refusing to let devrant die. At this point DR should be put out of his misery

Also have a wonderful 2026

365 days of bullshit

I hate using well done libraries.
Yes, yes. Hear me out.
You need to learn how to use them, functions, variables, scripting language, etc etc!
God...
That's why I do my own.
Maybe I will do a CPU next? AMD 64 is hard syntax it ain't me...
Devant is better! Woohoo! Certificate and slim errors bye bye.

who wants kiki back???
i do! so view this as a petition to get kiki back... and protect kiki from any 'retoor' crap!

https://github.com/donlon/...

Gotta blame cloudflare!

How are we doing devRats?

What the actual fuck is Cloudflare doing forreal

i think i'm realizing I liked the act of programming but had no passion for software... or taking over the world like all those techbros

weirdly enough reading autobiography of benjamin franklin is making me connect weird things. Got any favourite old-timey books you found to be enlightening?

WOW, i'm the first!

Happy Christmas! May the source be with you 2026.

Jay Jesus!

Week: 119 (Year 3)

Oh yeah. We have stepped into the very last weekend of the year. How are you going to make it awesome?

Question: What are your 2026 resolutions?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19392896

I am actually downloading a Linux ISO using torrent.

Week: 119 (Year 3)

Plans for the second last weekend of the year?

Question: Have you done all your 2025 year resolutions?

You can check your 2025 resolutions right here -> https://devrant.com/rants/12057280

You can check your 2024 resolutions right here -> https://devrant.com/rants/10065108

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19391719