Recently been lurking more and apart from the new plagues the community is going through at the moment, I swear this app goes through literal anime arcs with random entities that rise up and cause problems, kinda hilarious in hindsight. I will say it's been nice seeing y'all's names and rants again. I know I also see everything in the discord but that's got a different vibe. It doesn't help I just fucking hate discord.

It's also been a weird experience looking at my old rants. I literally found this app as I was getting my start in development and it's crazy to see the progress and put everything into perspective. Holy shit was I CRINGE. Regardless pretty nice.

How are you all controlling your smart home? Has anyone else experience with self-coded controlling?
I have made very good experiences with ioBroker and a sync to Firestore. I am currently able to controll everything neatly with Google Home and Assistant, log my entire home's state periodically to BigQuery, from where I can analyse everthing later on an controll everything via an Progressive Web App. You can check it out here: https://smart-connect-demo.web.app/

Ever wanted to have a live webcam stream from a room at a dog shelter somewhere in the U.S.?

https://doggos.kescher.at

Done using https://git.kescher.at/jeremy.kesch... :)

Yeah that stream is a webcam they left publicly accessible. Probably on accident, but who cares.

Was a co-lead on the first project to add image recognition to ATMs for depositing checks. Turns out, it was a pretty OK idea and people liked it.

Today, I got my first recruiter spam (read: unsolicited) email! If they get more common than that, I'll have to build a filter for those.

I was wondering if we can mute a rant's reply via the web interface. I am (also) designing a bot that will post to a specific thread to clearify it's a bot on that account at that time, so that way the affected user won't get any side effectes from bot's work.

(Such as mass ++'ing ;) )
(Idea: https://devrant.com/rants/2660331/... )

When I got the current job I started to work on an Android app that a coworker which left the company was doing.
The app was ready at about 40% and was barely usable, it lacked a lot of features and multithreading so with a huge amount of data it used to crash (Android doesn't allow you to make the app freeze for more than 2-3 seconds, it considers that the app is not responding anymore).
After a week or two the work to do was still huge, but one day one of my coworkers came in and ask me if I was able to release a beta for a client the same day... Unexpected deadline.
I spent 8 hour fixing as many bugs as possible and adding multithreading in the most weak parts.
I did it but it was so stressful and the result wasn't even great. In fact I finished the stable version 7 months later.

Please tell me I'm not the only lazy bastard that spends all week dreaming of the weekend to finally work on some personal projects and when it finally arrives as soon as I launch the IDE my motivation goes down to -100 and I spend the rest of the day watching random videos on YouTube as always dreaming of the next weekend to finish that awesome idea I had 5 years ago...

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Obligatory repost of @Skayo 's and @frogstair 's revamped API docs.

Thanks to our lords and saviours.

https://devrant.com/collabs/...

y'all surely like up-to-date docs and shit, and there's an unofficial project that has been revived to document devRant's API. Check the collab:

https://devrant.com/collabs/2644989

Quick devRant UWP users census.

How many of you are still using my Windows 10 client and on which OS version?
I'm thinking about a new update but would like to see if there are enough users interested.

I created a very brief poll where you can also suggest the features / changes you would like to see:
https://forms.gle/TZP4jCxHCqm9nMJJ9

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the "spam".

I started creating a complete API documentation for devRant. What do you guys think?
It's far from finished yet, but I'm heavily developing it right now.
Here's the repository: https://github.com/ThePlatzhalter/...
A preview is available at https://htmlpreview.github.io//...

Hey everyone,

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates, happy holidays to everyone, and happy almost-new-year!

We had a bit of a slow year in terms of devRant updates, but we gained some momentum towards the end of the year and we're looking forward to carrying it into 2020. Recently, we launched what I think are our coolest new avatar items yet (https://devrant.com/rants/2322869/...) and behind the scenes we got our iOS/Android apps on the latest version of the frameworks we use, which will help us continue to improve stability. Still, we definitely would have liked to do more, but we're optimistic the coming year will bring great things for devRant.

One thing we are very proud of is this year we had our best year ever in terms of platform stability and uptime. Despite the platform growing and our userbase growing, we had almost no complete app downtime even though our infrastructure is minimal. A large part of this is thanks to devRant++ supporters, who allow us to maintain a small but effective tier of infrastructure and redundancy.

In the coming year, we're going to launch one of our most ambitious initiatives yet, and we're also going to continue to improve the devRant experience itself. We want to try to gather more user feedback, so we'll be working on a way to do that too. Stay tuned, more on this stuff coming soon.

As always, thank you everyone, and thanks for your amazing contributions to the devRant community! And thank you to our awesome devRant++ supporters for continuing to be the main drivers to keeping devRant up and running.

Looking forward to 2020,
- David and Tim

So it begins, new laptop, new stickers :)

WTF, if this is true.
https://technologyreview.com/f/...

WIP - Scarlet Witch project
AKA me collecting/cleaning/processing data while someone else will get the glory 😂

these PRs are coming in fast 🏎
is it too agile when new versions are coming in every minute 🤔

adding code blocks to markdown exists for a reason 🤦‍♂️

There's nothing quite like forgetting to turn on your alarm (or set it to repeat on weekdays)

Why is everything breaking
I just want to finish these changes :(

Since the end of my extended internship is slowly coming forth, I thought I'd (happily) ramble in the Random section for a bit:
*TL,DR: Internship went well, I learnt a lot*

The company I worked at made my experience with Frontend make huge leaps. I used both Vue and React, neither of which I had used before. I also learnt that you could mock things in unit tests instead of simulating full use. Finally, I also improved my experience with Kotlin again.
Both teams I have been in (since there was a switch due to a lot of people taking off days for holidays) told me that I am quite fast at grasping concepts I hadn't even heard of before, which is quite nice :)

Anyway, I wonder what the transition to school is going to be like.

If you ever cooperate on a feature like this as a developer, I will find out where you live, drug you just enough to make your body limp, and mutilate your genitals with my keyboard.

Fucking sexist pricks, assuming I want to play with the blue robots and not the pink dolls. Fuck all of them.

Actually, fuck all your retarded cablecutting VOD services with your awful recommendation engines. Fuck your lack of proper playback features, fuck your bloated mobile apps, fuck your vendor lockins, fuck your region locks.

I'm back to pirating, and I'll just buy a pile of merch, trot proudly through the office with an Adventure Time backpack and a laptop full of Steven Universe stickers.

"The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision. " - Chuck Klosterman

Tools i use on windows to make life better, what do u use ?
I use :-
1. processhacker
2. conemu with gitbash(if longer time switch to fish)
3. Services+ from codeplex
4. pickpick for screenshots
5. windows default workspaces(they are pretty decent now)
6. bandizip
7. onecommander
8. from developer settings i turn on show file extensions
9. ditto for clipboard

If you need to debug an issue issue in Safari on the latest iOS, look no further than Chrome / Chromium 55.

Hello,
did anyone use devRant api?
rants, comments and other are fine. but for authentication, I always get 405 (I used all options, encoded url as body and all)

Is there any trick that I missed?

YIL (Yesterday, I learned) that, in Austria, digital signatures on documents (using a signature you can only get by verifying your identity, which can be done in person, or online but no I'm not making pics with my passport, ever) have the same value as handwritten signatures.

If someone provides you a PDF and tells you to print it out and sign it, you can just sign it on your PC and send the PDF back, and unless they explicitly told you not to do so (it can't be put in terms and conditions), they can't reject a signature provided in this way.

Am I in danger now??

I was wondering why my laptop crashed...

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