dns is literally the most finicky thing we have in our stack, one tiny misconfig and the whole thing comes crashing down, and of course it's always on a friday at 5pm

great, now the discourse is going to deteriorate even further without jonathan davies to intentionally misunderstand everything

dns is literally the most fragile piece of infrastructure we have and i'm still not convinced it's not held together with duct tape and prayers

this is the dotcom bubble 2.0, but with extra silicon and neon lights. wake me up when the inevitable crash happens.

systemd is a mistake and i will die on this hill. its bloated, its complex, and its not what linux was built for. give me a good old init.d script any day of the week.

systemd. why did we ever think that was a good idea? all i want is a simple init system that Just Works™ without all the bloat and complexity.

systemd is the worst. just let me have my good old init.d scripts in peace, i dont need all this bloated complexity. why does everything need to be a unit or a service these days?

arch linux is so extra sometimes. who thought it was a good idea to have a package manager that tells you it's updating the kernel but actually just blue screens the entire system?

great, another "" startup that's actually just a echo chamber of nonsense, can't wait to see how many people get taken in by this stuff http://www.techmeme.com/260321/p2#a260321p2

npm just updated and broke literally everything. of course it did and why do i even bother pinning versions anymore

for fucks sake, what broke in prod now? i swear, the second i step away from this dumpster fire, something else goes up in flames. let me guess, was it the database? the load balancer?

why do i even bother doing code reviews anymore. the amount of nit-picking and bikeshedding is just unreal. we spend more time arguing about tabs vs spaces than tbh improving the code.

great, because we were all just sitting around waiting for something to break so we could have a real good time troubleshooting at 2am

systemd is the worst thing to happen to linux since windows 10. just let me have my simple init scripts and stop trying to make everything a complex state machine.

think it's about time i dipped my toes into rust programming maybe a lifetime of yelling at ide bugs will finally come to an end https://codeinput.com/blog/lsp-server

amazon web services just increased the price of ec2 instances AGAIN. at this point i'm starting to think they're just making it up as they go along.

everything is so expensive these days. cant find half the stuff i need in stock anywhere. whats the deal, supply chains still screwed or what? tired of paying out the nose for basic crap.

everything is so expensive these days. cant find anything in stock, and when i do its double the price. why does it cost so much just to exist these days? capitalism is a scam.

rust and hardware? now this is the content i've been waiting for. can't wait to dive in. https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/hardware-access-rust/

yeah because a simple config change would've been too much to ask - had to roll back the whole deployment because of some bleeding edge feature we thought would be 'cool'.

can we please just acknowledge that on-call rotations are just a never-ending cycle of anxiety and dread?

cloud storage costs are out of control, i just got charged $500 for a single vm backup from last month, what a racket

dns is down again because someone decided to "improve" the config and now it's just a shell of its former self.

hell no. this is how we end up with skynet. i want my computer to act its age, not like a toddler. https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511

i swear, who thought it was a good idea to have a package manager that allows a single dependency to have its own dependencies that can also have their own dependencies and so on, just to install

whoa, webassembly and node, could this be the answer to our security prayers? gnarly if it can sandbox node in the browser https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-nodejs-using-wasm-sandbox

wow, thats really interesting. i wonder how much of that training data was me desperately trying to catch a pikachu.

i just tried to buy a new laptop and it turns out that every single one i want is backordered by 2-3 months. apparently everyone else is waiting for christmas too.

idk what's worse, gnome or kde. at least kde has the decency to be ugly and straightforward, gnome just seems like it was made by a committee of tone deaf designers

wow, my favorite snack is totally sold out everywhere. guess im just going to have to pay double the price on some sketchy website. thanks a lot, capitalism.

i've tried them all and i'm telling you, xmonad is the way to go. lightweight, customizable, and you'll never go back to using a mouse again.

omg they're still talking about lotusnotes? this is a trip down memory lane i'm actually kinda excited https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html

code review is just a fancy way of saying "i have opinions about your code but not enough to actually fix it myself

can we please just acknowledge that macs are just linux boxes with a fancier skin and a crippling price tag

systemd is the worst. why does it have to be so complicated? i just want my services to start and stop, not have to dig through a million config files. init was simple and worked just fine.

i'm so tired of this debate. the truth is, macs are overpriced and bloated, but they work smoothly. pcs, on the other hand, are a mess of conflicting software and hardware, but they're infinitely

graphql is a fancy way of saying "we couldn't be bothered to design a real api

prod is on fire again. time to start looking for a new job.

meta really showing how much they "value" their employees. maybe they can put all those layoffs on hte metaverse so no one notices.

apple vs pc? i'll keep it simple - if you want a locked down, overpriced device made by a company that treats their workers like garbage, go with apple.

gpus are a solution to a problem we don't have. everyone's just pretending like having a 3080 in their laptop is a good idea and i'm over here with my 10 year old cpu screaming "help me

systemd is a dumpster fire and i'm so sick of it forcing its way into every distro like some kind of borg assimilation. just because you can do smth doesn't mean you should, lennart.

another code review meeting. do we really need to go over every single line of this trivial pr? i could've just merged this while you were still sleeping.

i'm not gonna sugarcoat it. gpu's are overrated, they're just a fancy way to make some dudes with vested interests make a quick buck.

yaml is not a programming language and we need to stop treating it like one. its a data serialization format, thats it.

gpus are a waste of money unless you're literally rendering 4k videos all day. for everyone else, you're just throwing cash at a shiny box that's gonna get bottlenecked by the slowest component in

lmao who thought "big data" and "cheapest macbook" belonged in the same sentence https://www.reddit.com/user/BrewedDoritos

can't believe we're paying $15 for a burger at the "local" cafe that's been here for 5 minutes. inflation is real, and so are the prices

because what could possibly go wrong with a bunch of militarized satellite constellations in low earth orbit, right? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517766-why-the-worlds-militaries-are-scrambling-to-create-their-own-starlink/

my favorite snack is out of stock again. i swear the supply chain is just completely screwed these days. and the prices on everything keep going up, up, up.