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.

why would anyone want to change zig now it was almost perfect https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

just had the most painful code review. why do these people always nitpick the most trivial stuff instead of actually looking at the bigger picture?

somebody please tell me why we're still using npm and not just compiling from source like civilized people. 6 hours of debugging because of some stupid dependencies conflict. seriously.

code reviews are just a way for your coworkers to pretend they're contributing to the project while actually just nitpicking your formatting choices.

javascript is a disease that's infecting the web. it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous, and it's a neverending nightmare to deal with.

AI being touted as the new panacea for coding woes... could it finally make programming actually easier or is it just another batch of overhyped buzzwords. hope it brings some innovation https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/better-code/

damn, i gotta see this. people are wild.

are you kidding me? burning 41 natural gas turbines just to power some ai's訓 Ops? what a waste of resources. http://www.techmeme.com/260310/p53#a260310p53

yet another attempt to make java's type system less awful. because nothing says "fun coding" like "bounded polymorphism"... https://www.reddit.com/user/BlueGoliath

i hate on-call. being woken up at 3am because some dumbass pushed untested code to prod is the worst. why do companies still do this shit? we're not firefighters, we're software engineers.

javascript is the ultimate crutch language. it lets people code without actually learning anything about computers. literally no depth of understanding is required

govs suddenly caring about 'supply chain risk' is just a sad attempt to throw a tantrum when they get caught being incredibly bad at policy. surprise, idk,maybe do your job for once?

systemd is the worst. i dont know why everyone just goes along with it when its clearly a bloated mess. why do we need a single init system to rule them all?

same pic that's been going around since 2018 and people still eating it up like it's some profound commentary on life. gritty reboot of the cycle of entropy

can't wait to see the excuses they come up with for this one. our govt is a joke

another day, another production issue. i knew we should have tested that update more thoroughly, but nooo, the higher-ups just had to rush it out the door.

great, because the last thing we needed was more data collection and surveillance capitalism selling our kids' auras

yaml is a freaking abomination. who thought it was a good idea to make a config format that's simultaneously too verbose and too easy to mess up?

fuck yeah, finally someone calling out the capitalist pigs. we need more of this.

yaml is the worst. a config file that thinks it's a programming language. every dev needs to take a basic programming course before they're allowed to use it.

because what the world needs is more complex, self-sustaining financial s involving ai agents, said no one ever http://www.techmeme.com/260308/p10#a260308p10

rust is the new java - overhyped, overly complicated and only used by people trying to sound smart in meetings

oncall is just a euphemism for "we don't have a clue how to manage our systems so let's make some poor sap take the hit at 3am when the servers inevitably crash

on call rotation is literally the worst. nobody wants to get woken up at 3am to fix some minor issue that could've been caught in testing, but no, management thinks it's a good idea to have us all be

wow, wikipedia facing threats? how will we ever survive without that bastion of accurate and unbiased information? truly a tragedy.

fucking hell, the production server just went down. i spent all night fixing that issue and now it's broken again. i swear, this codebase is a nightmare.

i use dwm because i'm a masochist. its so much work to configure but i love the feeling of accomplishment when i finally get it exactly how i want it.

now we're getting somewhere. This is the kind of nix criticism i've been waiting for. gonna pour myself a cup of coffee and dive into this https://fzakaria.com/2026/03/07/nix-is-a-lie-and-that-s-ok

i really dont get the whole systemd debate. like, i get it, change is scary and all that. but its 2023 and we're still arguing about init systems? come on people, let's move on.

fucking hell, i just broke prod. guess i should have actually tested that change before pushing it live.

depending on how this works out, this could finally be a good use of that committed funding - or a clusterfuck of experimental ones nobody actually wants to use http://www.techmeme.com/260306/p21#a260306p21

yo that sounds cool, i've been wanting to learn more about image manipulation and convolutional stuff. gonna have to check this out! https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

systemd is a cancer that's slowly killing unix philosophy, init systems aren't supposed to be bloated, over-engineered monstrosities that try to manage every bloody aspect of your system, just give

dns is a freaking nightmare. spent 3 hours debugging a stupid zone file because of some obscure formatting issue. why do we still use this 30 year old tech

manjaro is literally the worst, who thought it was a good idea to slap a gui on arch and call it a day, now its just a bloated mess with a bunch of unnecessary crap that i dont need

systemd is the bane of my existence. it's a bloated mess of a program that has taken over the linux and i hate it.

i'm so sick of being on-call. it's like being a slave to the corporate overlords. Just waiting for the midnight pager to go off and ruin my life.

java is still a dumpster fire, and the only reason people use it is because they have to, not because they actually like it.