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Cake day: 2024年9月21日

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  • that’s The Dentist. He’ll sneak into your home while you’re taking a nice quiet poop and forces his fingers into your mouth to make sure you’re flossing.

    if he finds out you’re not, he scrapes your gums until they bleed and tells you about the dangers of gingivitis while soft-rock from the 70s and 80s mysteriously plays somewhere in your house.

    when he leaves he gives you a toothbrush and toothpaste in a weird flavor (like shrekin green apple or black panther licorice) and leaves a trail of floss containers in the shape of molars.

    whatever you do, don’t tell him you do floss. he’ll call you a liar and cut your gums open with his razor sharp floss and then force you to rinse with 1000 proof mouthwash.



  • short attention spans with zero integrity when it comes to mistreating or abusing their viewers. the majority of successful vtubers are toxic and corrosive socialites that simply want to be at the front of attention, striving to be the “top influencer”.

    this kind of cancer only bled into development because they are both positions that rely on advanced technology.

    now you have devs that treat their jobs like influencers do and “swoop in to save the day” only to fuck you when they moved on to greener pastures.

    I’ve personally seen it happen at least 3 times in five years.

    anyone who claims themselves as a “rockstar”, “forward thinker”, “innovator” or “disruptor” is a horrible developer and needs to go away. we don’t want you.

    if they can’t explain to me why their shitty changes increased memory consumption by 25% they’re not a dev, they’re a script kiddie.

    that said, greenhorns need apply. you’re ok but don’t get cocky. watch and learn. asking questions is good, don’t share your opinions unless you know enough that you can defend them. and don’t get bent out of shape when someone tells you your idea isn’t going to work.


  • that’s like 75-80% of all development these days. bunch of discord scriptkiddie crapware that’s not even worth the headache to “configure it right”.

    I shouldn’t have to configure shit, it should just fucking work.

    I blame silicon valley startups and vtubers. these low effort wannabe developers just want to make a name for themselves to move up the ladder. problem is, when everybody is artificially inflating their hype-blimps something is bound to crash and burn.

    we used to write software to solve problems, not make up problems to solve with software.

    each year I get closer to retirement I’m grateful I won’t have to put up with these egotistical inflatable engineers or their “solutions” for any longer than I have to.





  • I don’t disagree with that, but there’s so many “wtf is this shit” moments that defy all logic and known practices.

    like for example, six different branches of the same repo that deploy to two different environments in a phased rollout. branches 1-3 are prod, 4-6 are dev. phases go 3,1,2 for prod and 6,4,5 for dev. they are numbered as well.

    also, the pipelines create a new bucket every build. so there’s over 700 S3 buckets with varying versions of the frontend…that then gets moved into…another S3 bucket with public access.

    my personal favorite is the publicly accessible and non-access controlled lambdas with hard-coded lambda evocation URLs in them. lambda A has a public access evocation URL configured instead of using API Gateway. Lambda B has that evocation URL hard coded into the source that’s deployed.

    there’s so much negligent work here I swear they did it on purpose.



  • I work for a fortune 500 company.

    just recently lost a principal engineer that built an entire platform over the last four years.

    just before they left I noticed they were using AI an awful lot. like…a lot a lot. like, “I don’t know the answer on a screen share so I’ll ask ChatGPT how to solve the problem and copy/paste it directly into the environment until it works” a lot.

    they got fired for doing non-related shit.

    it’s taken us three months, hundreds of hours from at least 5 other principal engineers to try to unravel this bullshit and we’re still not close.

    the contributions and architecture scream AI all over it.

    Point is. I’ll happily let idiots destroy the world of software because I’ll make fat bank later as a consultant fixing their bullshit.