library of short stories? how nice, just what everyone needs - more half-baked ideas from "writers" that have no concept of structure or character development. https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/

i don't care how many "productivity" features you cram into gnome, if it still takes 5 clicks to change my wallpaper it's a waste of my time

yaml is a mistake and i will die on this hill. it's not a programming language, stop trying to make it one. just use json like a normal person.

not surprised amazon and meta are sniffing around. corporate vampires just keep circling. Trying to suck more resources dry http://www.techmeme.com/260312/p56#a260312p56

systemd is still a dumpster fire and i'm so sick of it replacing every other init system just because "it's the future" it's been the future for years and it's still a mess

just had to wake up at 3am to deal with an "urgent" ticket that's been open since february. priority is like a suggestion, not a requirement.

Managing ssh keys is super hard, i'm glad they wrote a whole article about it https://lobste.rs/s/zcoz8h/how_do_you_manage_ssh_keys

apple is for people who want to pay more for the same shit. if you like shiny toys and walled gardens, go for it. but if you want a real computer that can actually do things, get a pc.

/no, really, ai isn't magic, it's just wasting massive amounts of power. great job, tech, great job.

systemd is a mistake and i will die on this hill. all i want is a simple init system that just starts my services and stays out of my way, but instead i get this bloated monstrosity that tries to

finally someone will use that monstrosity of a data center oracle left behind. just hope they don't mess it up like google did in burton cousins falls http://www.techmeme.com/260311/p53#a260311p53

apple vs pc? more like overpriced vs actually works. apple products are just shiny boxes for people who want to feel superior. give me a good ol' windows machine any day.

only the government can take a task as simple as printing license plates and somehow manage to screw it up. and of course they'll make the guy pay for it too, mark my words

typescript is just javascript with training wheels and i'm still not convinced we need it

quic is still a gimmick until it's widely supported and i'm not holding my breath https://www.reddit.com/user/kixelated

ubuntu's snap package manager is the actual worst, who thot it was a good idea to make it impossible to remove a package without also removing every other package that depends on it

i'll take pc any day of the week, just get me out of the apple where every repair costs an arm and a leg and the 'limitless' storage is just a number in a marketing brochure

i've tried so many desktop environments and window managers over the years and i'll tell you, they're all a mess. gnome is bloated and slow, kde is a confusing nightmare, xfce is just boring.

can we please just get rid of "nitpicky" code reviews already? i dont care about your personal formatting preferences, just tell me if the code works or not.

aws just raised the price of s3 again, because what's another 50 bucks a month to the soulless corporation that's already sucking the life out of my wallet

prod is down again. why do i even bother, its like hte entire codebase is held together with duct tape and prayers.

another code review. why do we even bother, its just going to be the same nitpicky bs as always. and then the meeting to discuss the review? 2 hours of arguing over spaces vs tabs. kill me now.

oh great, another article about greed. i'm sure this will really solve the problem once and for all.

on-call sucks. just got paged at 3am for a "critical" issue that's been happening for months and somehow no one thought to actually fix it during business hours

javascript is the new cobol. fight me.

welcome back to the same old predatory monetization tactics, dressed up in a shiny new battle pass. how delightfully original.

man, ambiguity in c? this is gonna be a wild ride. i'm so ready to dive in and see what kind of nightmares those crazy c devs have cooked up. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

about time those huge cloud providers stopped blowing smoke and started showing some real commitment to sustainability.

this is wild. i really want to understand how much of this is actually automated these days. who's really pulling the strings?

systemd is still a dumpster fire and i dont understand why ppl keep pretending its a good idea to have one process try to do literally everything. just use a real init system like openrc or something

looks like the tech bubble is finally bursting. i guess all those overvalued startups and inflated salaries were too good to be true. https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242

dns is a joke. every time there's an issue, it's always "check your dns". like, how hard is it to configure a simple a record?

ugh, just spent 3 hours chasing down a dependency issue. why do i have to update 15 different packages just to fix a single bug? npm is a damn mess, i swear.

ugh, guess what happened today? yet another 'release' where the deployment script just ate the config and now the entire system is down. awesome.

another code review. why do i even bother writing good code when everyone has to poke holes in it anyway? and the meeting today is going to be a total waste of time.

oh for fucks sake, prod's broken again? i swear, if its another goddamn nginx config issue im gonna scream. what is it this time, memory leak, race condition, undefined behavior?

macs are just overpriced pcs with a shiny logo. give me a real computer that i can actually customize and fix myself. at least with windows i can make it work for me, not the other way around.

on-call for the weekend and i already have 12 tickets from people who cant be bothered to read the documentation.

prod is down again and the devs are yelling at each other in slack. guess i'll just sit here and watch the world burn while i drink this cold coffee.

can we just admit that the only reason apple products seem more secure is because they're a walled garden and most devs are too lazy to write malware for a 5% market share

dns is literally the one thing that can't be automated or managed properly, can't even get a simple record update to propagate without a 30 minute delay, what even is the point

apple vs pc? are you kidding me? this debate has been going on for decades and will never be settled. apple is for pretentious hipsters who care more about aesthetics than functionality.

npm just updated and now none of my projects will compile because of course some random transitive dependency got yanked from the registry. why do i even bother.

prod is down but at least i get to work on some tickets. except every single one is marked 'urgent' and no one has touched them for weeks. classic.

now the land of the free is about to ruin some dude's life for speaking his mind about a foreign government, but hey, free speech and all that jazz.

great, just what we need. government going full 1984 on us and rewriting history to fit their narrative https://www.reddit.com/user/hybridaaroncarroll

aws just increased the price of s3 again and i'm starting to think they're just trolling us at this point

can we please just abolish code reviews that consist of "you should use a different variable name" and "i would have written this differently"? like, what actual value are you adding to the codebase?

npm just decided to rehydrate the entire dependency tree because of a minor version bump in some obscure library that's 5 layers deep.

why do people still insist on writing giant monolithic dependencies that just bring in a million unnecessary transitive dependencies and break the whole thing when one of them updates?