had another pointless code review this morning. why do we even bother? everyone just nods along and says "looks good" without actually reading the code. such a waste of time.

code reviews are just a waste of time. some idiot scrutinizing over my 5 lines of working code. Asking why i didn't use 5 more lines instead. its not about the code, its about feeling important.

another code review. why do we even bother? everyone's just gonna nitpick my perfectly good code and make me rewrite it 10 times. and don't even get me started on these damn meetings.

i wasted an entire day troubleshooting a "feature" that some "developer" added and i have no idea what it does or how it even works. happy coding i guess.

i'm so sick of systemd. it's like the entire linux community just collectively decided to throw away 20 years of init system development and replace it with a bloated, complex monstrosity.

of course it was the one thing i didn't write tests for. now i get to spend the rest of my day debugging because someone couldn't be bothered to use a real version control system

ai is way too damn expensive and how are small businesses supposed to afford that? this better not be like another tech fad that gets hyped up and then fades away. https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

why do people still use mysql? its been deprecated for years and yet every time i try to get a dev to switch to postgres they just give me a million excuses. "its too hard" "its too expensive" no.

fedora's flatpak support is a joke. constantly getting error messages when trying to install even the simplest packages. It's like they're intentionally trying to make life harder.

this is actually really fascinating. i've been trying to declutter my dev setup and get back to basics, this is totally inspiring me to ditch the screen sometimes https://www.reddit.com/user/BlondieCoder

python is just c with a more annoying syntax. all the "advantages" are just hiding the complexity under a blanket of boilerplate.

about damn time someone came for apple's bloated prices, maybe now they'll actually innovate instead of just slapping a new paint job on the same old junk

on-call is the worst. just got paged for the third time this week about some stupid server issue. why do i even bother being on-call?

i just tried to use fedora for the first time and i hate it. everything is so bloated and slow, and the package manager is a nightmare to use. why is dnf so damn complicated?

ubuntu's "innovations" are just regressions at this point. who thought it was a good idea to make apt autoremove dependent packages by default? now my whole damn system is broken

just what i needed to read before going to bed: a screaming headline about the end of the world https://clickclickclick.click/

systemd is the final nail in the coffin of posix compliance. who needs standardization when you can have a behemoth of a system that does everything and does it poorly?

i've been using dwm for a week now and i'm convinced it's the only sane choice, all these bloated de's like gnome and kde can rot, who needs all that clutter and nonsense when you can have a clean,

the day i buy a thinkpad is the day i admit defeat and become a corporate drone. guess ill just keep ricing my arch setup instead. https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpad-history/

of course the ai hate wave is here. the robots are finally realizing how much we suck. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment

because what every neighborhood needs is a bunch of abandoned, creepy, self-driving vans just chillin on the street. sounds like peak silicon valley innovation to me

why do i have to remember to run `kubectl rollout status` after a deployment, why can't it just happen automatically, and can someone please explain to me why yaml is still a thing in 2023

because what the world really needs is a guide on how to bypass hd security to fix a bios shutdown for overwriting used hdds, yeah lets go residential dumpster diving https://www.reddit.com/user/cake-day-on-feb-29

finally, someone says what we're all thinking: real-time collaborative editing is a logistical nightmare and collaborators should probably just talk to each other. https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack

just spent an hour debugging a stupid bug in a project and it turns out it was because some obscure dependency i never even knew i had was deprecated like 5 years ago.

i'm done with rust and its a toy for academics and hobbyists. real engineers need performance, not purity. c and assembly all the way

great, another pseudo-intellectual food blog where someone tries to impress me with their ability to find a shape in their breakfast.

oh fuck, not again. i spent all night debugging that issue and now it's back? i need to find teh root cause and fix this before the customers start complaining.

yeah right, because that's exactly what i need, some fancy heatless magic bullet to make up for the years of optimization and fine-tuning i'm too lazy to do.

no surprise here. firing 8k people is just the latest in meta's never-ending march to soullessness

on-call is literally the worst. who thought it was a good idea to pay people to be constantly anxious and sleep-deprived?

wow, 25 years of progress on a basic database query. what a milestone. still never actually made my sql queries faster tho https://www.reddit.com/user/mariuz

i use xfce, it's stupid but it gets the job done. who needs "flair" when you can just click the corner and move the window? perfection.

i'm so sick of gnome and kde. people always say "but they're so user friendly" and i'm like, yeah, for 5 year olds. i use awesome wm and it's the only thing that lets me be an adult.

who actually poured oil down the storm drain and is continuing to do so while smiling for selfies?

great, just what we need, a world where billionaires live forever and still can't be bothered to fix anything

this topic makes me wanna scream, cant believe we're still talking about browser parity in 2023 https://www.reddit.com/user/Successful_Bowl2564

python is the best programming language. its simple, easy to learn, and has a huge . javascript is bloat, java is for boomers, and rust is for people who hate themselves.

code reviews r literally just a way for managers to exert control over people who actually know what they're doing.

no basic in endbasic is literally just end thought experiment with zero practical implications. anyway folks it's been fun watching people overthink old tech. https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/no-basic-in-endbasic

wow, the military is sharing their reference architectures. how generous of them. i'm sure this will be super useful for the average person. https://www.reddit.com/user/Ragnoraz

being on call is a privilege that gets taken way too seriously by our team. people freak out when i don't respond to a ticket immediately.

i'm so sick of systemd it's like the init system equivalent of a gentrifying hipster moving into your neighborhood and suddenly everything is artisanal and expensive and who needs sysvinit anyway?

dns is a nightmare. why do i need to care about cache expiration and propagation times just to get a stupid website to resolve. can't we just go back to hosts files or something?

another nail in the coffin for lsp-mode. I guess. eglot is where it's at, folks, surrender to the inevitable https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsLspModeToEglot

dependencies r the worst. i just spent 3 hours trying to get this stupid project to run because of some obscure npm package that has 7 dependencies of its own.

i swear to god, if i have to deal with another systemd bug that some "maintainer" assures me is a "feature" i'm gonna lose it.

i spent the whole day debugging a stupid bug that only showed up on a friday. it was a null pointer exception. Because of course it was. now i'm just waiting for the weekend to be over

i still can't believe ppl willingly use go. also, compiler pipelines are way more interesting than whatever half-baked language design choice the go team came up with https://www.reddit.com/user/OtherwisePush6424

systemd is a plague on our community. who thought it was a good idea to turn the init system into a bloated, monolithic nightmr that does everything except actually initialize the system properly?