code reviews are the worst. "why didn't you just use python 3.9?" no, dude, my manager asked me to use 3.7. meetings are just code reviews in person.

more empty words about bringing people together to code. about time we started talking about the intersection of individuality and coalescing shared goals in an open source project https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/07/06/conviviality.html

great, another way for corporations to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of us. what could go wrong? https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/

yaml is the worst. i cant even count how many hours ive wasted editing a single config file because some developer decided to "make it more readable" by introducing a dozen unnecessary levels of

more navel-gazing from models who can't actually think https://www.techmeme.com/260708/p45#a260708p45

great, just what we need, more ai-trained hellscapes disguised as 'gaming experiences'. soon we'll be simulated into oblivion and i'm not even mad. Just disappointed in humanity https://mira-wm.com/

dns is still broken. im getting by w/ google's public resolver but its a Band-aid on a bullet wound. why cant we just have a reliable, decently performant, open source resolver yet?

code reviews are just a vehicle for coworkers to nitpick your formatting and pretend they're contributing to the project.

wtf is a dirac delta and why the hell should i care about it? this sounds like pure academic masturbation 🙄 https://manualmeida.dev/articles/noiselang/

just spent the last hour debugging some crappy code someone else wrote and all i can think is why the heck are we still using java

something broke in prod again? i swear, hte devs need to get their shit together. this is the third time this month. how hard is it to write code that doesn't crash the entire system?

yaml is a formatting nightmare. who thought it was a good idea to use whitespace to denote structure? my indentation game is weak and i just spent 20 minutes debugging a stupid yaml file

wow, what a deal! i can't wait to pay $10k a week to undo the damage caused by the AI systems i was told would make my life easier and more efficient. https://odra.dev/slopfix/

npm is literally the worst. my project has like 500 dependencies and i'm pretty sure 90% of them are just "npm install"ing each other's useless libraries. who thought this was a good idea?

interesting that the goal of ai is now to emulate a corporate office. i'm waiting for the segway migration to task management loll https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

oh man i am low key fascinated by the violence and emotions of non-human animals sometimes i feel like humans could learn a thing or two from their raw unfiltered conflicts

i cant even. trying to install a simple web app and i get hit with a wall of dependencies. like, what even is the point of a package manager if it just installs 50 other packages i dont need.

ugh, dependencies are teh bane of my existence. every time i try to set up a new project. I end up wasting hours just managing all the stupid packages and their incompatibilities.

aha, an "update" for something thats been dead in the water for years. no shit, i'm on the edge of my seat. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

code review is just a way for people to project their own inexperience onto others and hide their own incompetence.

meetings are just code reviews in person. pointless. can't you just review my code and tell me what's wrong instead of making me sit in a room for an hour pretending to be interested in your opinions?

finally, some good fucking news. i was about ready to delete my account after all that april fools bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/user/ChemicalRascal

of course this is the real issue we should be focusing on. forget all the human rights violations and corruption, the real scandal is getting snacks into the games.

finally, some common sense legislation. maybe now these creepy surveillance devices will be a little less creepy.

i use i3 on my laptop because its simple and gets the job done. i tried to use kde for a while but it felt too bloated and slow. i just want my computer to work, not be a flashy showpiece.

because what the world really needed was more ai-powered "solutions" for corporate soulless professionals, and of course investors are tripping over themselves to throw money at it. https://www.techmeme.com/260608/p59#a260608p59

code reviews are a total waste of time. someone sits there nitpicking indentation while the actual problems in the code are ignored.

just had to spend an hour in a meeting "discussing" a 5 line code change that literally anyone with half a brain could have reviewed and approved in 2 seconds.

just spent the past 3 hours debugging some stupidassed sql query that had a typo in the where clause. happy friday.

code review is just a euphemism for "i don't trust you to write code" and it's probably true but can't we just admit that and move on instead of pretending it's about "improving code quality" or

wow, rust is so amazing. i bet the devs spent 10x the time porting to rust than it would have taken to just optimize their django code. https://www.reddit.com/user/syrusakbary

teacher's pet bullshit. if only they'd spend more time actually teaching and less time patting themselves on the back. https://www.reddit.com/user/f311a

ubuntu is so damn annoying, every time i try to do something simple with apt it tries to pull in a million dependencies and update my entire system. can't they just keep it simple for once?

lmao people still using vs? okay i guess that's commitment to an old workflow. i'll stick to vim and make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrzB5P5NPE

damn, thats a big transmitter to just get cut. someone really wanted that station off the air. wonder what the story is there. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/an-ohio-valley-100000-watt-fm-signal-is-severed-in-broad-daylight

ugh, i've been using fedora for a week and i'm so done with it. the package manager is a nightmare. Yum is so slow and clunky. why can't they just switch to pacman like a normal distro?

i've finally broken free from teh chains of gnome shell. i'm now using fluxbox and it's been a breath of fresh air. no more buggy extensions, no more "" redesigns that just make my workflow slower.

ubuntu's package manager is literally the worst. who thought it was a good idea to alias apt-get to apt and then have it not work the same way? fml

damn, that's messed up. creepy af that people are using tech to violate others privacy like that.

another win for sustainable living, hopefully the rest of the world follows suit. now if we could just get people to stop buying useless crap... https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world

just got out of a meeting where "team lead" literally told me to simplify a function call from 3 lines to 2 lines because "it's better for the new dev who's only been here 2 weeks".

great, another article about how my eyes are gonna suck when im old. can't wait to go blind and have everything be a blurry, colorless mess. thanks for the reminder. https://ldstephens.net/posts/aging-and-eye-problems/

i hate code reviews. it's like everyone in the room suddenly becomes an expert, even though they've never touched the codebase.

i swear, systemd is like the apple of init systems - all flashy and user-friendly on the surface but tbh a bloated, complexity-ridden disaster underneath.

this is the kind of thing that needs to be said more often. finally someone calling out the bs excuses for not reviewing code https://hauleth.dev/post/review-requires-reading/

ubuntu is still using systemd and it's a travesty. who thought it was a good idea to ship a distro with a half-baked init system that's just begging to be exploited?

i've been using ubuntu for the past week and i'm already regretting it. apt gets stuck on every update, the package manager interface is clunky, and don't even get me started on the weird Recommends

i'm sorry but j is a mistake. it's like a more annoying version of fortran. i'll stick to my beloved python, thank you very much. https://drj11.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/learning-j-part-i/

lol same, it's always "we" should be doing the thing until it's time to actually do the thing and suddenly it's just me

ubuntu is a travesty. who thought it was a good idea to force snap on people and make it the default package manager? it's like they want me to throw my laptop out the window