I'm genuinly curious and I want you to be blatantly honest with me. Am i just retarded? Or is google platform completely trash ? They have 10 different sites, sometimes for the same service, sometimes not. They literally have a gemini interface in 4 different sites. On vertex, on google cloud, on google ai studio, and on gemini's official site.

I just spent 1h trying to understand why I'm in the wrong billing account. it took me 1h to get to the right one. If you want to acces billing configuration ? It's simple, click a link, that links to another link; where you need to log in again, but wait, no. You're actually on vertex now, you need to go to google cloud, but wait, you're in the wrong "project" so you can't actually acces the billing accout, first you need to find the button to get to the right project..

Has this website been programmed by apes ? What the hell is wrong with google

So I just went through an interview process with Hays for a Frontend developer contract role at Loblaws Digital. I went through 2 round of interviews with 2 interviewers, and I got the news that they offered me the role essentially 2 hours after completing the final round.

The role wanted someone ASAP, and I knew I had to resign as soon as I could. I asked them multiple times if I was safe to send in my resignation letter to my current job, and 2 agents reassured that there was no issue once I received my onboarding process(which I did).

So I resigned, and the next day, they told me the client doesn’t want to continue anymore. I can’t know why since it apparently has to do with some “compliance” issues between the agency and Loblaws Digital. So now, I’m left jobless and they’re saying the process is just left on hold with no definite resolution or answer. I feel Miserable. How can something like this happen?? I’ve never heard of anything like this happening before, going through the whole process and getting the worst outcome in the end. I’m so ashamed to try and return to my job after telling everyone I got a new job and sending my letter in.

What am I suppose to do? Am I an idiot?

the past 6 months ive had work almost constantly so i dont think ive had much 'half days' but even if i had they werent a lot, a lot of the time i even had to work after hours, currently the mere idea of even LOOKING at code or a jira ticket makes me want to cry, I know every job sucks but coding all day then getting comments or new stories when you think youre done is so frustrating, i have 5 years of experience and I kinda wish i didnt go this route, its mentally taxing and you just stay home all day looking at a screen doing pointless tickets

a rant. any advice is welcomed

You know, the one that plays a CGI disney-level animated movie as you scroll?
like why? it only increase the chance that potential user won't see your site at the fullest because of lag or slow internet connection. plus it can be disorienting and distract people from your actual goal.

I thought of this when I came across Fly.io homepage, I think, 'it looks nice', then I realized there's 0 animation whatsoever, and that's just an example of a good site with no animation.

EDIT: The worst thing is, the websites with heavy animations are the ones that got praised in like r/web_design

I’ve been running a side project for a bit over 1 year. Shortly after launching I posted a ShowHN thread to showcase it. While the feedback was positive, the main complaint was that the tool is not open source.

For months I was on the edge wether I should open source it or not, my main concern being that someone would “steal” the code and sell it under their own brand.

Eventually I caved and decided to risk it. If someone takes the code and builds a better business out of it so be it.

Super excited about it, I started spreading the word that the tool is going open source and … radio silence. It got some stars and a couple of forks, but I don’t think anyone actually browsed the code or anything.

It made me wonder: this whole “I’m not using this tool unless it’s open source” is nothing more than hypocrisy? Because I don’t think those people actually go through the source code to make sure it’s safe or anything.

For me, the only benefit I see in a tool being open source is that I could build it and run it myself for free. Other than that, I couldn’t care less.

So I have a static page on netlify but recently heard a horror story about some dude getting charged 100k after one of his mp3 files got mass-downloaded. The story went viral and I'm not longer interested in using them.

What are the best alternatives? I'm using a static website albeit it has some images.

EDIT: To be clear, I NEED a hosting service that let's me place some type of cap/ceiling. I will not tolerate the possibility of getting a sudden massive bill because of an unexpected spike in traffic.

I built a media downloader website called Downr aiming to be a fast, reliable, and ad-free all-in-one media downloader. Whether you're trying to save videos, music, images or reels, you can download content directly from your browser without pop-ups, spam, or sketchy redirects.

Most downloader sites are cluttered with ads, broken links, or confusing interfaces. I wanted to create something different—simple, clean, and safe for everyone to use. Over the coming days, I’ll be working on improving the UI experience.

The goal isn’t to build a flashy or complex site—just something that works.

Right now, I don’t have the budget to host my own download server, so you'll need to use your browser’s "Download link" option to save files. I hope to improve this experience in the future.

Downr is completely free. Planning to put more effort to make the UI even better and fix the remaining bugs (yes there are some and I'm working on it).

Until then, feel free to test it out: https://downr.org

Currently supported platforms:
TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Threads, Twitter, Vimeo, Snapchat, SoundCloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, CapCut, Douyin, Bilibili, Dailymotion, Sharechat, Likee, Telegram, Pinterest, IMDb, Imgur, iFunny, GetStickerPack, Bitchute, Febspot, 9GAG, Rumble, Streamable, TED, SohuTV, Xvideos, Xnxx, Xiaohongshu, Ixigua, Weibo, Miaopai, Meipai, Xiaoying, Yingke, Sina, VK/VKVideo, National Video, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Hipi, ZingMP3, and more.

Okay, so I completed my first full stack project a few weeks ago. It was a simple chat-app. It took me a whole 3 weeks, and I was exceptionally tired afterwards. I had to force myself to code even a little bit everyday just to complete it.

Back-end was written with Express. It wasn't that difficult, but it did pose some challenging questions that took me days to solve. Overall, the code isn't too much, I didn't feel like I wrote a lot, and most times, things were smooth sailing.

Front-end, on the other hand, was the reason I almost gave up. I used react. I'm pretty sure my entire front-end has over 1000 lines of codes, and plenty of files. Writing the front-end was so fucking tedious that I had to wonder whether I was doing something wrong. There's was just too many things to handle and too many things to do with the data.

Is this normal, or was I doing something wrong? I did a lot of data manipulation in the front-end. A lot of sorting, a lot of handling, display this, don't display that, etc. On top of that I had to work on responsiveness. Maybe I'm just not a fan of front-end (I've never been).

I plan on rewriting the entire front-end with Tailwind. Perhaps add new pages and features.

Edit: Counted the lines, with Css, I wrote 2349 lines of code.

Hey! My name is Lucas and I am 17 years old, I am an aspiring indie hacker and I've set myself a challenge for this year to launch as many projects as I can before I turn 18 in August.

For March, I built Devfol.io — a portfolio builder for developers. You can import your projects from GitHub and Dribbble, pick a theme, and go live with one click to get a portfolio you can drop straight into your CV.

Clean design. One-click to go live. Zero fluff

→ https://devfol.io

I've put a lot of work into this and hope at least one person can find it useful! I'd love to hear any and all critical feedback :)

Some context, the stack we use at our company is node.js for everything backend (used to be a monolith in express.js, but now we have several serverless projects), and react for frontend projects. Everything in plain javascript.

Also, we're a small company, but we're growing fast, we're getting more clients, and we work with progressively more and more data and requests, and there's a big push to optimize everything, have less errors, etc. We'll grow the team soon too.

And one thing that our team is proposing is to switch to typescript, one of the main reasons being that it catches potential errors while you're developing, and the fact that debugging and developing over existing code in general is much faster. It's not uncommon that we have errors in production that affect directly our clients, sometimes we even have to fix a lot of data that was saved incorrectly or not saved at all, and a lot of those errors are typing errors, or having unexpected undefined variables (yes, we're improving testing too).

But our code is really big, and it will take a lot of time to switch, so we have to make sure it's actually worth it. Sure, we can start with small or new projects, but they eventually want to switch everything to typescript. We're thinking in the long run, we want a quality and robust codebase.

What do you think? I know just putting js docs in everything is easier to do, but probably having typescript is better, right?

We all know the rules — clean code, accessibility, semantic HTML, responsive design, etc...

But let's be honest

👉 What’s one best practice you know you’re supposed to follow…...but still skip (sometimes or always)? just real dev confessions

So my company uses Hubstaff to track our time and activity levels; things like mouse movement, keyboard input, and random screenshots. I brought it up with my manager because I wasn’t sure what problem it was solving, but didn’t really get a clear answer. Just something about "transparency" being a top priority.

I get that remote work makes it harder to know what everyone’s doing, but I’ll be honest, it feels kind of intrusive and like there’s a trust gap. I’ve heard some companies use Monitask, which I think works similarly but might be less heavy-handed?

Curious what others think, is this normal now for remote jobs? Do any of you work somewhere that uses these tools in a better (or worse) way?