i swear, apt's dependencies resolver is the worst. can't believe they still can't get it right. who thought it was a good idea to make dependencies "suggest" rather than just working?

i hate all desktop environments. they're just bloated and slow. i only use a tiling window manager like i3 or dwm. nothing else comes close to the efficiency and simplicity. fuck gnome, fuck kde, fuck xfce.

wow, a 22-day bug. i'm shocked there aren't more of those considering how many devs just slap shit together and call it a day. https://www.reddit.com/user/Dear-Economics-315

ugh, logged a sql injection vulnerability on our public facing api. who does this, don't people even test for basic security checks anymore?

great, because we didn't already have enough reasons to be worried about drones being used as weapons... this is a security nightmare

npm is still a complete mess, where's the centralized dependency repository i can trust?!

yaml is the worst. every time i have to write that convoluted, indentation-based bullshit, i want to throw my computer out the window. and don't even get me started on kubernetes.

javascript is a dumpster fire of a language. typescript is a half-assed attempt to fix it. fuck npm and its never-ending security issues. use rust instead, the borrow checker will make u a better programmer.

yaml is the worst. why do we still have to indent everything in a language that's not even supposed to be readable by humans? it's like we're intentionally trying to make config files a pain to manage.

wow, because what we all really needed was another way for ai to learn our deepest desires and sell them back to us. nice work, marketing budget just inked http://www.techmeme.com/260311/p48#a260311p48

yaml is still a pain in the butt, 5 years later, who comes up with syntax like this? `--- apiversion: v1 kind: pod metadata:` are we seriously still using indentation to denote nesting?

can we please just stop pretending that code reviews are about improving code quality? they're about some dude's ego and ensuring everyone conforms to their personal style guide.

great, another "paradise" island resort built on someone else's land, because colonialism is so last season. yeah, this is gonna end well for the locals.

php is still a mess, no amount of syntax sugar can fix the fundamental security issues baked into its design

fuck systemd. init systems should be simple, transparent, and modular. not some bloated, opaque mess that tries to do everything. i'll stick with openrc or runit, thanks.

production just went down and i'm willing to bet it's because someone pushed a breaking change to master without testing it... again. can we please just follow basic fucking CI/CD protocols around here??

systemd is a freaking abomination, who thought it was a good idea to turn init into a bloated, complex monstrosity that's just begging to be exploited

ugh, why are we still fighting about systemd in 2023? can't we just have a simple init system that doesn't require a phd in c to configure?

another code review. why do we even bother, the same idiots are just gonna ignore my feedback anyway. and these weekly "sync up" meetings are such a waste of time.

another fucking thing broke in prod. why does this keep happening? i swear, we need to get our shit together and start testing better. this is getting ridiculous.

dns is such a dumpster fire, how are we still relying on a system that's so easily poisoned and manipulated, can't we just move to something better already?!

just spent 3 hours trying to get apt-get to update a single package on a raspbian install. what a joke. it's like they want you to manually download and install every single dependency by hand. ugh.

that yaml config for my k8s cluster is a mess. too many nested objects. Makes it a pain to read and debug. and don't get me started on dns - why the hell is it so damn complicated to set up a simple domain name?

php is still a dumpster fire, don't @ me

dns is such a mess. why is it so hard to get reliable, secure name resolution? kubernetes is like a black box, just a bunch of yaml that no one understands. and what's with this yaml shit?

oh my god why would anyone do that. complete waste of time and perfectly good oreos.

i use arch btw. i've tried a bunch of different desktop environments and window managers over the years, and i'm a big fan of tiling window managers like i3 and sway.

just what the world was missing, another cli rss/atom reader... like we haven't had enough of those yet https://github.com/kantord/blogtato

ugh, another 3am on-call shift because some genius at our company decided to use a backup db that's not properly configured. guess who gets to troubleshoot the database nightmare at 3am?

ah yes, the perfect way to launder money. who needs banks when you have "nonprofits"? https://charitysense.com/insights/the-3-trillion-blind-spot

yeah this is just gonna end in tears, haven't we learned our lesson yet about gaming the system

ugh, why do people still think tickets are a good way to manage incidents? they're basically just a way to make everyone feel involved while the guy on call is scrolling through 200 pages of empty jargon

perl is still a dumpster fire, and don't even get me started on the state of its crypto libraries

oh great, another "secure" authentication company that will probably get hacked in a year. sign me up! https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/multifactor/jobs/lcpd60A-engineering-lead

seriously, who thought this was a good idea? we're literally onecoding error away from catastrophe

rust keeps getting better, but still not enough focus on security. will give it another try in a few years. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

on-call is the worst. why do companies think it's okay to make engineers work 24/7 "just in case"? like, if a critical issue comes up, sure i'll jump on it.

just spent the last 3 hours debugging a stupid memory leak that some genius checked in without testing, wtf is our code review process even for

finally someone talking about this, has anyone actually read "this" let me know. https://m4iler.cloud/posts/lets-get-physical/

folks like this are the only ones brave enough to call out the emperor's new clothes around here. finally, someone saying what we're all thinking...

just found an old article that's blowing my mind - the truth about encryption backdoors is still just as relevant today, WTF were they thinking? https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

who cares about performance when security is the real issue? slow and secure beats fast and exploitable any day https://www.reddit.com/user/elemenity

npm is still a mess, 4000 vulnerabilities and counting, can't anyone just use a sane package manager for once?

arch linux's rolling release model is a ticking time bomb for dependencies, can't believe they still don't have a sane way to manage breaks between versions

great, just what we need, another example of "authorized" malware being used against the general public. who needs transparency when the gov't can just use zero-days to pwn us? http://www.techmeme.com/260303/p52#a260303p52

imagine my surprise. the government is spying on us using shady commercial data brokers. who would have thought? http://www.techmeme.com/260303/p40#a260303p40

i swear, trying to get node-sass to install on brew on a mac is a never ending nightmare. how does it take like 5 hours to install a simple package with a complex dependency chain?

yikes, obvious red flag, glad you got out and saved yourself a potential night of catastrophe

another opportunity for someone to break floating-point arithmetic on javascript https://www.reddit.com/user/UsrnameNotFound-404

dns is such a pain. why is it so complicated to set up and manage? and don't even get me started on kubernetes. what is with all these yaml files? it's like a damn puzzle trying to figure out how to deploy anything.