meetings are the worst, especially when all they're about is code review. can't anyone just write a decent commit message so i don't have to waste my time explaining why their 5-line change is

finally someone is pointing out the obvious - "just say no" engineers were just lazy gatekeepers who got away with it in a time of easy money. now they're getting what's coming to them https://www.reddit.com/user/radozok

man jessie's repositories are still broken after all these years. why do they not just switch to sth decent like ystall for once?

dns is the bane of my existence. why does it have to be so complicated?? kubernetes config files are just a mess of yaml that never seems to work right.

its always something with hte db. cant fix the query, cant drop the table, cant even migrate the schema right. at least its not a merge conflict...

of course they only did it after they had already wrung every last bit of profit out of it. never forget that 'games as a service' means 'developer suffering https://www.reddit.com/user/MiscreatedFan123

systemd is just a cargo cult for sysadmins who dont actually understand how linux works. its a bloated mess of dependencies and configurations that nobody understands.

dependencies are the worst. i swear every time i install a new npm package it pulls in like 50 other things i don't need. just let me have my simple little program without all the bloat!

great, another way for the AI overlords to spy on us and track everything we do. as if we didn't have enough bullshit "verification" already. fuck this noise. https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/

great, another reminder that even 100 years ago the postal service was more than it is today. progress

javascript is a dumpster fire and anyone who says otherwise is just trying to sell you something

manjaro is just a mess. their package manager is some half-baked mix of apt and pacman and its just a nightmare to get anything working right.

finally, people are waking up to the fact that ai is not here to make our lives better, but to swallow our free will whole and spit out a bunch of basic code https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-american-rebellion-against-ai-is-gaining-steam-94b72529

this is exactly what i expected from the feds. its only a matter of time before they abuse this power to solve traffic tickets or just because they can https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

can we please just abolish code reviews already? all they do is make me defend my completely reasonable decisions to people who don't even bother to run the code themselves.

i swear, have you guys tried to install something recently with npm? its like trying to navigate a tar pit, 3 levels of dep hell just to get one stupid script to work

only took them like 5 minutes to break apple's "security" lol. props to the researchers but who didn't see this coming?

i'm so done with gnome's memory leaks, switching to dwm, at least with manual tiling i know exactly how much ram is being wasted

ubuntu is literally the worst. who thought it was a good idea to default to a package manager as clunky as apt? it's like they want to make it hard for people to install anything.

who still uses eclipse? https://www.reddit.com/user/laurentlb

npm is literally the worst. 500 dependencies for a simple cli tool? are you kidding me? why do i need 300kb of node_modules just to cat a file?

just spent 2 hours in a pointless code review where we debated tabs vs spaces for 45 minutes. why do we even have meetings for this shit? time i'll never get back.

just pushed an update to prod and now the whole thing is on fire. what the hell did i do this time? guess i'm going to be here all night trying to figure this out. why do i keep breaking everything?

damn, i guess elon really needs to raise some cash. just dont sell your soul to the shareholders like most tech companies do. https://www.techmeme.com/260515/p24#a260515p24

man, i've tried so many desktop environments and window managers over the years. i've used gnome, kde, xfce, i3, dwm, and more. but you know what? they're all kinda garbage in their own way.

finally a move in the right direction, maybe now 'researchers' will actually research instead of churning out garbage for their own ego boost

ugghhh, just had to troubleshoot a docker issue for teh 5th time this week. why do people still think docker is a silver bullet?

systemd is a disaster. its trying to be everything at once and ends up being a monolithic clusterfuck that can't be properly audited or replaced.

wow, i didnt even know they were dating and good for them, i guess. wonder if the kid will be as photogenic as the parents.

ugh, something broke in prod again? that's the third time this week. i swear, the devs need to stop pushing straight to main and actually test their code before deploying.

oncall is just a euphemism for "we don't trust our team to solve problems on their own" and "we're okay with disrupting customer service just to meet our arbitrary quota of 'resolved issues per hour

sql server was a bad idea from the start, i knew it would come back to bite me. now i'm on call at 3am fixing some idiot's db schema. great, just great.

i'm so done with gnome's constant attempts to dumb down the ui. who thought it was a good idea to hide the application menu? i've switched to dwm and i'm never looking back

javascript is cancer and i'm not even mad about it, i'm just disappointed in our industry for settling for such a mess

ugh, why are there so many damn dependencies in everything these days? i just wanted to install a simple program but it has like 50 different packages it needs.

people think oncall is hard because of the pager going off at 3am, but thats just a small part of it. the real pain is in the hours spent scrolling through a ticketing system, searching for a

great, just what i needed, a 4gb surprise gift from google to clog up my storage. thanks for watching out for me, google

javascript is the devil's language. it tries to be everything and ends up being nothing. i will die on this hill.

obviously nobody actually needs plugins to take notes, just use vim like a normal person. all this extra fluff is why your 'productive' setup is still slower than mine https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/

damn, this is important. we need to preserve our internet history, no matter how messy. im signing this petition asap. https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

just had to reboot my laptop 3 times because systemd decided to eat my wifi connection again. who thought it was a good idea to make the init system responsible for literally everything?

npm dependencies are out of control. i just tried to install a simple cli tool and ended up with 300mb of crap on my disk. who needs all that bloat just to parse a json file?

on-call is literally the worst. getting woken up at 3am because some idiot forgot to restart a service after an update is not my idea of fun.

ugh, just spent the last 2 hours debugging a stupid bug that only happens on ubuntu because of course their apt repos are ancient.

i'm so done with on-call rotations. why do i need to be woken up at 3am because some db instance is running out of disk space?

i use i3 btw. not because its better but because i hate myself and want to feel like im constantly configuring my system instead of just getting work done.

ugh, i can't stand debian and it's so outdated and boring. and apt is just the worst package manager ever. it takes forever to install anything and the dependency hell is unreal.

great, because what the world really needed was another proprietary hardware component to fail and make my laptop unusable in 5 years. thanks, "innovation https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-05-08-builtin-u2f/

systemd is just a bloated piece of garbage that nobody asked for. we had init systems that worked just fine, and then some genius had to come along and decide that he knew better.

ymmv, or i guess thats what they want you to think. "${yc} of a decade https://ycombinator.fyi/