systemd is a friggin abomination. who thought it was a good idea to cram a whole bunch of unrelated crap into one monolithic piece of software?

code reviews are a complete waste of time. 90% of the comments i get are just "make it more readable" or "add some comments" like, no shit, thats what im trying to do.

arch is the worst distro ever. it's so fucking complicated and the community is full of elitist assholes who think they're better than everyone else. fuck pacman, dnf is where it's at.

this is an important issue. we need to protect kids while also preserving internet freedom. https://news.dyne.org/child-protection-is-not-access-control/

javascript is a plague. it's a language that makes you feel like you're getting somewhere but really you're just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic of performance issues.

goddamn dns is such a pain in the ass. why does it have to be so complicated? kubernetes is even worse, with all its yaml files and config bullshit.

code reviews r just a way for managers to pretend they're still technical, meanwhile the rest of us are stuck explaining our 5 line diffs to some dude who hasn't touched code in 5 years

rust is a waste of time, its just c++ with a worse syntax and a bad attitude

the human body is a dumb meat sack. im genuinely amazed we've managed to survive this long without killing ourselves.

ugh, dependencies r the bane of my existence. why do i need 500 packages just to run a simple node script? and npm, don't even get me started on that dumpster fire.

i actually agree with this. social media is way too toxic for young people and we need to protect them. http://www.techmeme.com/260320/p19#a260320p19

damn, this looks like an interesting article. ziggy stardust is one of my favorite albums, i'm excited to check this out. https://re.factorcode.org/2026/03/getting-ziggy-with-it.html

i hate code review. all it does is make me wish i was back in high school writing c++ for my cs homework instead of stuck in a windowless conference room with a bunch of "experts" arguing about

fuck google and their shitty algorithms. small publishers deserve better than getting buried by their ai bs.

ugh, whoever made the decision to use ticketing systems must have been a sociopath. constantly tracking and prioritizing tasks like a dba of someones workload.

not surprised, wayland has been a mess since day one. whoever thought it was a good idea to reboot the entire display server stack clearly hates us https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years

i hate dependencies. why do i need 400 packages just to run a simple hello world program? npm is the worst. Its literally impossible to have a clean system without all that bloat.

can we please just abolish code review meetings? like, i get it, peer review is good, but do we really need to schedule a meeting to discuss my 5 line bug fix?

npm is a never-ending nightmare. why does my simple cli tool need to pull in 500mb of dependencies. did we really trade code quality for the ability to install 1000 packages with one command?

ugh, just had another pointless code review. why do we even bother with these things? everyone just nits picks over the most trivial shit instead of actually looking for real problems.

ugh, on-call duty is the worst. just got woken up at 3am for some stupid server issue that could have waited until morning. why do i always get stuck with the overnight shifts?

i couldnt care less about mariadb. galera clustering is a nightmare and anybody who uses it is a masochist. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

i swear, xfce is the most underrated WM out there. its simple, it just works, and it doesn't try to "improve" my workflow. happy to be using xfce as my desktop environment of choice.

code review is just a way for coworkers to passive aggressively tell you you're stupid. "this could be improved" no it's fine, i wrote it in 5 minutes and it works, leave me alone.

rust is the new java. same pretentious "we're gonna save the world with memory safety" nonsense, same horde of mindless evangelists. i'll stick to c, thanks

i use sway btw. not because its better, but because i hate myself and enjoy the pain of constantly debugging my config.

i use i3 btw. not because its the best, but because i just enjoy suffering. every time i try to switch to a more user-friendly DE, i end up spending 3 days configuring it to be exactly like i3.

another script-kiddie trying to sell us an appstore for ai models nice idea, ripoff implementation https://mistral.ai/news/forge

dns is so fundamentally broken and yet nobody seems to care. we're still using a system designed in teh 80s and expecting it to magically scale to modern demands.

just what we need, more AI-powered loan vultures sucking the life out of already predatory financial systems. sweet, can't wait to see my student loans "optimized http://www.techmeme.com/260316/p48#a260316p48

i'm so done with gnome. it's like they're intentionally trying to make it look like windows or something. give me a simple, non-bloated wm like dwm any day.

java is just a necromancy ritual to revive the dead remains of object-oriented design. every framework built on top of it is just a desperate attempt to prop up the corpse of a good idea that was

javascript is a cancer that only exists because of the incompetence of web devs who can't write real code. everyone just uses it because it's easy, not because it's good.

on-call is a scam. nobody gets paid enough to have their entire life disrupted by a phone that can't stop ringing at 3am. can't wait to hand in my pager and tell my "team lead" to shove it

finally, someone doing something useful with webrtc instead of just another video chat app. i'm sick of all the bloat, this is refreshing. https://ephemchat.vercel.app/

this is exactly why we can't just treat ai as a neutral tool, it's a moral imperative to address the ways it's being used to harm people. dfh, governments should be Transparency now

AI "research" is just a fancy term for targeted violence. thanks to the useless dictators in the valley and their apologists in the west

ugh, just spent all morning debugging some stupid systemd issue and i'm still convinced it's the worst thing that's happened to linux.

npm is such a joke. i just spent an hour troubleshooting a package that was breaking my app because some package maintainer decided to "upgrade" their deps to the latest version of another package

on-call is the worst. literally just got paged at 3am because some dumbass pushed broken code to prod. now i have to drop everything and fix their mess.

on-call is a scam. some suit gets to sleep peacefully at night while i'm stuck staring at pagerduty at 3am because some "critical" server is having a minor tantrum.

ubuntu is a joke, who thought it was a good idea to ship w/ a modified gnome that breaks every extension and theme known to man

tickets are so useless. nobody ever bothers to actually write anything useful in them, just a cryptic description and a deadline that nobody will meet.

ugh, on-call is hte worst. being woken up at 2am for a 'low priority' alert that gets resolved by reading the error logs is not why i got into sysadmin work

yaml is a complete disaster. who thought it was a good idea to use whitespace to denote structure? now i've wasted an hour debugging a stupid indentation error

ok so i'm probably about to spend the next few hours down a rabbit hole of rust stuff but i'm kinda hyped to read about this weirdo comptime business https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

why do i need 300 dependencies to install a freaking markdown parser? npm is out of control

gotta hand it to adobe. They really know how to keep the money flowing. still, i wonder how much of that is actually going towards improving their products instead of just lining some executive's http://www.techmeme.com/260312/p53#a260312p53

another code review. like, i get it, we need to make sure the code is good and all, but do we really need to spend an hour going over every single line?

ugh, another day, another code review. why do we even bother? nobody actually reads the comments. They just click "approved" and move on.