i don't have the energy or time/energy to write wall of text "dear diary" posts like i used to, but ima try.
getting older, experiencing all its benefits and liabilities, is all that's going on.
been at muh job for 7 years in september. somewhat know what i'm doing, but there's even more i don't understand at all. networking is a colossal pain point. the basics are fine, but when it starts introducing proprietary protocols and network segments and cidr subnetting and AWS and all the magic fuckery that goes on with that.. no thanks. complicated for no reason other than to be complicated.
programming in general is wild. enterprise software development is a different beast altogether.
ELT/the suits in charge of making money have ruined it for everyone else. ELT is maximizing the amount of money they can squeeze out of high AAR (average annual return) accounts like mcdonald's or tesla or government contracts - huge giga companies - by giving them what they want: dedicated, white-glove support. something sub-10k$ customers don't receive. which is not the way the biz used to operate. it used to be "everyone is the same". since we've been putting out fires nonstop for three years, our way to make [more] money also changed. it's depressing.
i always thought making the paying customers happy so they continue to back a dump truck full of gold bars into the loading dock was the way to do business. evidently, i am a fucking innocent rube and don't understand shit. which is probably true.
a few years ago, the CEO stepped down. he was an awesome dude of whomst would talk to anyone. you could straight up message him directly over teams and have a laff. the CFO took his place. a money man. changed literally everything in the direction of the biz. it's been on a different path since. a lot of incredibly "difficult decisions" which affected everyone have been made; usually not for the best interest of customers. but they powered-through anyway. we're just now starting to feel the effects of.
the AI bubble at the biz has been inflating at an alarming rate. dedicated internal biz babysitters adjusting code nonstop, fitting forcefield guardrails against every prompt. it's been integrated into ~fucking everything~ and we're expected to "utilize it into your daily workflow". there was a company update meeting a little while back, maybe a month ago, where we are expected to use claude as if it was a coworker working along side us. we're supposed to be skeptical of any answer it gives us. i most certainly am; checking its work in my internal lab to make sure i'm not being fed a line a bullshit. largely, it's answers are accurate for most things, ayahuasca-level bath salt hallucinations for the other.
i heard through the grapevine that the biz is pumping money into AI to inflate its supposed worth so they can be in a good position to sell. that would be not-great, but expected. the robot overlords will take our jobs and we'll be the ones to train it. claude will have to retardmaxx at its maximum to catch up with me. good luck.
anyway, MAN has always been a dumping ground/shit talking site. this won't change. the site looks like it was hand-coded in notepad circa 1999, because it was. this also won't change. no rounded corners for text boxes around here, no sir.
the random spotify player was a massive pain in the ass to get to work, so it stays.
coranto still works, somehow. it stays. i'm sure it could be brute-forced, but i have backups of text so it's whatever.
may turn CORNDOG ACCESSORIES into a random image displayer. probably. maybe never. who knows.
i did add a live/notlive checker display for the twitch links on the bottom right column. it was not-easy, but not super difficult. node.js is neato. the left-aligned links look like shit, but that's the tradeoff for making divs within a table. fuck it.
Friday.07.August.2026 07:43 |
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