What it's like working with a boss with 170IQ

<we have an elaborate in-house developed company project system, like Jira>
System Request: Ability to duplicate project tasks

Boss: "That could take a few months. We would have to create a separate UI for each data point, allowing the user to granularly select every piece. They may want to copy data from one, or more previous records. We'll need lookup data points for this...that...and the other...then testing...oh, we'll have to create mgmt infrastructure to manage those lookups. DBAs will need to be heavily involved. And then we'll need reports to track the state of those duplicates. This is just the tip of the iceberg."
Me: "Or use the existing Clone methods we used for testing. Only data we wouldn't copy to a new record is the audit history. The new record UI wouldn't change at all. At worst, including testing, maybe a couple of hours of work. I could have a new version by this afternoon."
Boss: "No..users will want more control. Too many mistakes could happen."
Me: "I only ever see Nick using that feature, since he is the one who requested it. Maybe we should keep it simple for now and add the complexity if its needed later?"
Boss: "I'll have to think about it. Right now, I think we should do all the work now so we don't have to do it later."

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?

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.

For the poor devRant android app users that can't visit devRant anymore (like myself): https://rantii.molodetz.nl

It's a simple devRant frontend and it has a few features:
- markdown (# Titles and ``` for code ssupported!)
- syntax highlighting
- youtube / image embedding / url preview
- install (in that case it's a nice full screen app), you can find this under settings.
- click on notification and it will bring you to the exact correct message
- missing rant type select box. Exclusive!

Like always, open source: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

It's mainly for myself actually but let me know if you use it as well, then I will take that into account when making changes / ensure uptime.

Minecraft will yet again be changing how the version numbering works.

As a kid that always waited for major versions of the game to release and as a kid that identifies with specific versions of the game (1.6, 1.8 my BABIES), my heart aches and my confidence that the game has been fully ruined is continuing to grow.

At least I can just ignore all that and keep playing, the core mechanics are largely unchanged (except combat...)

For people who need a https version of dR, it's here: https://dr.molodetz.nl.
Does not monitor, source code of proxy here: https://molodetz.nl/project/rproxy/....
It only counts amount of data.
Graphs are cool: https://dr.molodetz.nl/rproxy/...

It's actually a fun proxy to use in docker setups. The configuration is very easy (json file as described on page). But it does not forward based on path or something else. Only on host name. Maybe i'll implement it in the future for the sake of completeness.

The dashboard/reverse proxy is written because my friend had such nice dashboard and he said "Yeah, it's cool but heavy as fuck". And i was like: that does not make sense. So made a feather light one. Could be a bit lighter, i have to tweak sqlite a bit. After a few hundred gb, the server starts to boot slower, i store too much data. Does not affect operation tho.

Also has rate limiting (not much used in reality yet). Not sure how good it is.

Already quite some traffic goes trough it.

Sid, like always, fuck you and I hope your elephant dies. Idiot. Guy with PMS.

Oh no, devrant cert just expired...

Was frantically trying to figure out where an unwanted full stop was coming from, next to a dropdown in my UI. It was some dust on my screen.

Red flag, when a company says: "You're never going to leave us, right?".

Reddit is so very dead... Today, I read a post in /r/webdev or /r/rust, not sure which one, but both are full with AI bull, that was clearly written by AI. Then most answers were also clearly written by AI. And some of them had answers written by AI.

I wish that was the dead internet theory. But that requires bots to answer to bots. I believe those are people who answer other people, by putting a few bullet points into AI and have it generate their comment.

And yes, I think so little of my fellow humans that I do strongly believe that most of them are unaware that they answering AI with AI.

Another coding test that takes 2 hours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

I told my landlord that his rent is so high that I can't eat every day. I think he actually believed me. Fingers crossed. Last time he raised with 50 euros and I'm without warm water now for almost two weeks. That's not very common in the Netherlands. He came a few times and delivered half work. You would expect a few times half work would mean a completed job.

This rant is IT related bevause it limits me contributing to open source.

Got a customer right now who constantly finds new technologies with which the whole app will be built faster and be more flexible.

Oh joy...

What up to date are you with devRant?

I generated a quiz.

The quiz refers to scan / devrant. With scan / devrant we mean the last few weeks (everything what is withing rage, the kind of six pages you are only able to see on this site).

Here is the quiz: https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.quiz....

Here are the answers where it's based on: https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.stats...

First time filing for unemployment after the layoff. I didn't even know it was something I was eligible, so I'm lucky I spoke to my friend the other day.

First it was Amazon region-wide service issues. Now it's Cloudflare having issues.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Fuck sake man.

I was wondering why my db changes kept crashing my backend as I was testing locally against the testing db. Turns out I modified the prod db without realizing. Good thing it wasn't about deleting things or anything critical. 🙃

IT Support Be Like:
User: “My computer is broken. Everything is broken. The whole system is down.”

IT: “Okay… what happened right before it broke?”

User: “…Nothing.”

IT: “Nothing?”

User: “…Well, I did click a pop-up that said ‘Your computer is infected, click here to fix,’ then I installed something called ‘SuperCleanUltraMaxOptimizerPro,’ then the screen turned blue, then I heard a noise that sounded like a dying microwave… but that couldn’t have caused it, right?”

IT: “…Right.”
Takes a deep breath, opens the toolbox, pulls out holy water and a USB stick.

Just had a second interview for a job in southern france.

At least i wont freeze to death omg

I've just read the updated App Review Guidelines.
https://developer.apple.com/news/
Found this bit interesting:
"4.1(c): This new guideline specifies that you cannot use another developer’s icon, brand, or product name in your app’s icon or name, without approval from the developer."
...it's terrible that this even has to be written down as a rule. Unfortunately, it's !just Apple that has problems w/ copycats.

OK, so Chatgpt is ditching the EM dashes. Sad, because that's how we easily could recognize the idiots. Also it's not new at all to let Chatgpt drop the EM dashes as been stated in article. I have a very detailed analysis about my writing and it copies it perfectly. So, they're selling us a placebo. Idiots. Also, for high quality information they relied on 1900's books? All the shit that came after that is a bullshit indeed. Not surprised...

https://perplexity.ai/page/...

you cold apply to a job and get ghosted

i cold apply and get two rejection emails

we are not the same

Currently building a simple-as-possible source language for my compiler and I was thinking whether I really need structs and arrays as fundamental objects. But I guess it makes sense because one is a heterogeneous collection and one a homogenous collection

My thought: Let's call those types Homo and Hetero!

Maybe not the best idea ^^

zip > rar (personal)
Until... I had to compress files with UTF-8 in the name. zip couldn't... ?
Ugh... rar it will be this time then...
I bet there's an option in Windows to allow this, right? I guess I'll have to adopt some file compression software... ideas? I just know a couple, and have no real favourite.

The iPhone Pocket (£220) was inspired by "a piece of cloth", apparently.

Bullshit.

The longer version resembles a type of knot referred to in nautical parlance as a "cunt splice".

There's your inspiration.

The iPhone Cunt Splice™ was lovingly crafted in Japan by some pretentious arse. "When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents."

Perverts.

Looking at a job posting and they check to ask if you have experience using javascript/typescript for the backend.

All I'm left thinking is why would somebody choose that for the backend. I can understand if you know nothing else it would make sense.

I'm so over this new job. Things move so slowly, everything is broken down into waaaay too many micro-services. Managers have to micro-manage because there are no integration tests and there are always production problems.

My last place was so streamlined. When things got in, they were in. Continually testing/continual deployment. The thing was a massive beast and had problems, but I could run Linux and there was a real sense of everything moving.

There's only been one chat in the 9 months post layoff in our old TeamBlind room and things seem to be going alright. They're finally hiring mid-engineers to replace the layoffs/attrition. They finally dropped Kanbanize, a terrible project management tool, and went back to Linear.

I'd never work for them again, but the work did feel more meaningful and the engineers were a lot better. It was also $30k more per year.

I've always been a frontend guy but this time I'm ready for the backend

And no I'm not talking about code

Seen it done wrong so many times makes me wonder what it may look like if done right. What are your thoughts on "micro-services" and maybe specifically "AWS Lambdas"?

If only all job-hunting web UIs had proper filtering options, e.g.:

- by location, job type, contract type, etc etc.

A number of them just dump all the applications in one place.. without filters.. sigh lol.