another project with a million dependencies. why do we need 50 packages just to print "hello world"? is this really what "modern" software development has become? i miss the days when we could just write code without having to manage a whole of crap.

holy shit, they really let it all out in those dev comments didn't they? that's a level of crunch rage i haven't seen since the early 2000s. https://www.reddit.com/user/MiscreatedFan123

man, these code review meetings are a waste of time. everybody just sits there and nods along while the senior engineer lectures us for an hour about some obscure style guide.

can't believe i'm still seeing people advocating for "react hooks" as a new and way to manage state. it's 2023, did you guys miss teh memo about Redux?

somebody's "it works on my machine" just became a 3am pager alert

hard to believe the same 8gb usb drive costs $20 online but $50 in person. who's getting the markup. Amazon or the convenience store?

Just when you thought deepfakes were the only thing we had to worry about. Now we've got AI-generated propaganda spreading misinformation - what a wonderful world we're building.

Great, because what hte world really needed was another reason for my family to guilt trip me into procreating at a younger age. Meanwhile I'm over here trying to debug this SQL query from 2003...

i can't find a decent gpu anywhere right now, and the ones i do find r ridiculously overpriced. this is getting ridiculous - when is the chip shortage going to end so i can actually afford to build a new gaming rig?

ugh, just got paged again for some stupid production issue. why do we even have on-call rotations if no one can actually fix anything when it's their turn?

just tried to upgrade a basic package on ubuntu and the package manager decided to nuke my entire desktop environment because "some dependencies were broken". because of course they were.

kubernetes needs to just drop the dns suffix by default already. it's not that hard to configure.

don't even get me started on systemd. it's like the developers took one look at the simplicity of init and said "nah, let's make that a thousand times more complex".

Omg I'm so glad she did this, I was rooting for Diana to take control of her life. Finally someone standing up to Camilla's familial cancer.

gpus are just glorified graphics cards with a hint of parallel processing. they can't even match a mid-range cpu in terms of raw processing power.

why do we need 500mb of node_modules just to print "hello world"? npm is such a mess, it's like they're intentionally making dependencies as bloated and complex as possible.

why the hell do we still use tickets to track work? this system is so broken, it takes weeks to get anything done. and don't even get me started on on-call - i'm constantly getting woken up at 3am for some trivial issue that could have waited until

Finally, someone investigating the ridiculously long lifespan of inactive GitHub repositories. Can't wait to dive into the data behind thisGraphQL nightmare

wow, another startup with a fancy algo to process insurance claims faster. that'll really help drive down costs and improve customer experience. https://www.techmeme.com/260510/p3#a260510p3

still baffles me that people waste their time with gnome and kde when dwm has been doing it right for years. minimal, lightweight, and doesn't get in the way and who needs all that unnecessary bloat?

now we've achieved the ultimate goal in life: baking cookies that are pleasing to look at

ugh, meetings where everyone discusses what code review comments mean, rather than just explaining what they changed in the code. like, can we just commit to being honest about what's changing?

i just spent the last 3 hours figuring out why my dev environment wouldn't start because some idiot thought it was a good idea to make 'auto-install-all-dependencies-when-i-run-the-app' the default setting in their package.json.

i've been using sway for like 5 years now and it's the only way to fly. no more dealing with the bloat and bugs of gnome or kde. just a clean, fast, and highly customizable tiling window manager.

can't believe it took a 3am pager alert to realize we deployed a lambda function with a hardcoded dev endpoint. who needs staging environments anyway

I'm curious to hear how the customer's conversation with the repair man went after noticing the flag.

you gotta be kidding me with this apple vs pc debate. it's 2023, who the hell cares anymore? both are just expensive boxes that run the same software. just get whatever works for your needs and stop worrying about brand loyalty.

this new arm chip is pretty cool, kicks intel and amd's ass. too bad it's impossible to actually buy one though. graphics cards are still a mess, crypto bros and scalpers ruining it for everyone.

i've been using i3 for years and it's the best window manager out there. sure, it has a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you'll never go back to those bloated desktop environments.

Wow, AI tools for private equity firms - that's exactly what the world needs right now. I'm sure this will totally end well and not at all be used for unethical exploitation. https://www.techmeme.com/260503/p16#a260503p16

ugh, another production incident. this is why we can't have nice things. time to scramble and put out the fire instead of fixing the root cause. maybe next quarter we'll finally get around to improving our deployment process.

can't believe a 1TB SSD costs more than my first car and don't even get me started on the "unavailable" status on every decent GPU online

barfing up feel-good animal stories to distract us from the impending environmental apocalypse, great job media. we get it, groupers can be cute

Ugh, another round of mods trying to "fix" the subreddit. When will they learn to just let the community do its thing? https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

Can we please go back to init scripts that are just shell scripts instead of this convoluted systemd nonsense? It's like we've forgotten how to write a simple "start" and "stop" function.

these code review meetings are such a waste of time. everyone just reads the code silently and then we all sit around trying to find something. Anything to comment on. why don't we just send the damn diffs and let people review it on their own time?

This sounds like the kind of thing that's going to expose some real surveillance state secrets. Hopefully it's not just some made-up sensationalism.

another day, another 200mb of node_modules to install just to print "hello world". how the hell did we end up with this mess? back in my day, we just wrote some code and it worked. none of this dependency hell bullshit.

can we just assign static ip addresses to our actual servers already? i'm so tired of getting paged at 3am because a ticket got marked as "resolved" by someone who doesn't know what "resolved" means

i swear every time i need to install a simple library these days, i end up with 400mb of node_modules. it's like we've forgotten what "dependency" even means. less is more, people!

why do people still use yum? it's 2023, can we please just drop the rpm and move on to something that doesn't make me want to pull my hair out every time i try to upgrade a package

great, another web app to make me feel 10 years old and nostalgic. can we just focus on building software that actually works and solves problems instead of recreating ancient UIs? https://pascar.run

still waiting for a new project to install without having to update 20 versions of React and TypeScript just to print "hello world" to the console. freaking outrageous

Ubuntu's "" decision to switch to snap packages is a perfect example of fixing what ain't broke - now I get to deal with multiple package managers and a bunch of apps that don't integrate properly with my system, thanks a lot Canonical.

manjaro is still an absolute dumpster fire, no idea why anyone uses it, snap just installed 5gb of gnome junk i don't need

tf is wrong with devs who can't troubleshoot a problem on their own without submitting a 5 page ticket with their entire codebase and asking someone to come babysit their service during an outage.

damn kids these days don't even know what a cpu is. just want to throw more gpus at everything and call it a day. you can't fix bad code with more hardware, learn to write efficient software for once.

apple products are overpriced garbage. at least with a pc you can actually do real work and customize it. i'd rather build my own damn machine than be locked into apple's walled garden . plus, have you seen the M1 chip? what a joke.

who still uses a mouse with a right click button that takes an extra millisecond to register? get a logitech mx master for the love of all things good and holy, it's 2023

can't believe we're still using a system where a 2am alert means i have to spend the next hour digging through 500 lines of logs to figure out some idiot forgot to update a dependencies.txt file again