My side project is building a business so I don't have to be an employee anymore.

@Root lol how come your situation sounds so much like mine?

Today I was bothered by my boss about some bug fix I worked on that was supposed to be on the go-live publish thing today, which isn't. I told her uhm I submitted the PR 11 days ago. Guy who is supposed to review and manage the entire go-live project didn't even bother reading my PR, not respond to my ticket updates where I tag him. The paper trail is there. It is his own responsibility to manage the tickets he's the project lead for.

@ogier you've not seen the dumpster fire of a "modern" framework Angular project I've had to work on this past year. Some code is worse than most vanilla JS projects I've seen. None of the benefits of a modern framework is applicable to this project. I'm not shitting on frameworks, I use them myself and some of them are great.

@D-4got10-01 I honestly don't know. it's not my car. I'm gonna go tinker with its settings.

@bols59 yeh I kinda still prefer Mac/Linux. However, every time MacOS updates, homebrew stuff breaks and I have to fix some shit there. Maybe I just need to use Docker for all of my dev work...

what color waffle are you, though?

I recently interviewed with a company that runs Django backend with jQuery, HTML5 and CSS front end. That's it. Oh and a PostgreSQL database.

That's their tech stack. So simple.

After working with Angular for the past year, I would LOVE to just go back to those simple things.

@D-4got10-01 Yeah the issue is not only that it's ugly, it's a shitty UX too. The one menu just stops working for no reason and only shows up when you resize the browser window to around tablet width. there's some weird JS shit going on there, but I couldn't care less to fix it. not my ass, not my turd.

@D-4got10-01 the irony in the matter is I suggested a long time ago we create a standardised UI component library/design system to match with the company branding and it was ignored like an old turd. and my boss was all like "i'm a data person, i don't care about look and feel that much, things just need to work!"

I'm flabbergasted...

@D-4got10-01 yeah this dude has been really weird with me for the past 5 months. I don't care anymore, I'm on my way out :D

But, I suspect he might have had some sort of attraction to me, because we bonded over video games last year and I guess I friend-zoned him so hard, his heart broke.

@D-4got10-01 yeah... Yesterday in a meeting with the entire dev team and management (we're not a lot of people), I asked about the deployment plans and deadline for this project and this asshole responded in the most condescending, hostile manner someone has ever talked to me my 15-year career. I could see the hostility on his face.

I honestly do not know what I've done to piss on his battery so much. I've worked here for 7 years, he only just 3. I've never had any conflicts with anyone at this company. I even had a great pair programming/debugging session with two of the other devs after this meeting and we get along fine. Lots of laughs, jokes, supporting each other.

My previous team lead abruptly left after working with this fucker for about 6 months. and I am at that same point. Spot the source of the rot...

I had a 3 hour commute. I quit.

I hope you can find something better. I know there are better opportunities for you. Some companies are just toxic by design.

Hey you skipped PHP

@PurgeXenos I had to google what rakija is. Nice.

yeah I quit talking about potential savings and improvements at work because of this kind of shit. so now that makes me a bad developer. lol.

@D-4got10-01 Thanks! I decided from now on I'll do my best at job hopping every two or so years until I can get my own company and property portfolio in such a state where I don't have to work full time in this industry anymore.

@retoor oh don' get me wrong, I use AI because Angular is fucked beyond comprehension and I don't feel like wasting my precious cognitive energy on it. I just don't want to be interviewed my an AI zombie.

fuck these people, it sounds almost exactly like the way my job has been for the entirety of 2025.

I sincerely hope you land somewhere you are appreciated, I know how this feels. It's hell.

You got it wrong, God doesn't play

1 hour a day. Just one. at night. Sometimes even 30mins will suffice.

@devux-bookmark i've literally been watching this happen at work for the past year. it's driving me insane and i can't talk about it without pushing the lead architect's bad buttons.

@jestdotty "unique" in a team setup is not a good thing, from professional experience.

one can go be unique with one's hobby projects. not at work. nobody gives a fuck anyway, it's gonna disappear in a sea of other tech debt.

been there, done that. wouldn't recommend.

@jestdotty this is exactly the situation I find myself in at my current job, in a team where comms are so fucking dysfunctional it's not even a meme.

do you have the same team lead as I do?! Holy shit... this is supposed to be a critical skill for a lead, and yet it isn't in practice.

I'd honestly prefer to have a 1, 1.5 hour code review session with another dev on their team to see if we're a good fit.

@root i just stumbled upon this post. i feel your pain. literally dying inside because of burnout. i just quit a dumb coding test halfway through because of a raging headache and I get PTSD from it. I feel your pain. I hope you find something better.

Tchaikovsky

skill issue. maybe you can have a chat with him and explain the proper workflow?

@iiii I feel kinda salty