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Vegan's Opinion on API Endpoint Naming Conventions Obliterated by Normal Guy

NEWS 12/17/2024

Vegan's Opinion on API Endpoint Naming Conventions Obliterated by Normal Guy

Two full-time employees at Terminal.Shop with health insurance benefits paid for by vc funding and your money, have decided to argue over singular vs plural naming conventions for API endpoints in the #general slack channel. It all started when Adam Dotdev, a heckin' chonker of a plantboi, proposed plural naming conventions for API endpoints. In response to these utterly ridiculous proposals, t-h-d-x-r (also known as Dax for some reason), proceeded to retaliate. Despite his best efforts, Teej Dev Fries has not been able to convince them to reach a decision, even after pouring fuel on the fire. Teej attempts to make the situation worse by mentioning Clerk Teej confirms that in thirty days, nobody will be able to see the conversation unless they pay for slack's Pro Plan which is really really expensive and nobody really wants to pitch in for that. Near the end of the fight, Dax threatened to remove Adam from the github organization [souce]. In response to this, Adam took one of Mark Twain's quotes out of context and used it to support his point that plural naming conventions were better. The final nail in the coffin was when Dax proposed using a single /rpc endpoint for all API calls, or switching to GraphQL. Adam decided he didn't want to do a lot of refactoring and probably just decided to go with singular API endpoints. graphql proposition

Senior Software Engineer Purges Massive Amount of Tech Debt, Nobody Notices

NEWS 12/12/2024

Senior Software Engineer Purges Massive Amount of Tech Debt, Nobody Notices

A Senior Software Engineer at a major tech company created a Jira ticket to remove a massive amount of tech debt after attempting to justify his actions to the Project Manager over the course of six meetings. The Project Manager, who wasn't exactly happy that the engineer would not spend his time shipping new AI features, assigned a single story point to the Jira ticket. After a long day of meetings, the engineer opened a six-pack of Monster Energy drinks and proceeded to pull an all-nighter to create an enourmous red Pull Request to complete the task. "This PR," he wrote in the description, "aims to remove a lot of redundant, unperformant, and unnecessary code that was created over the course of the last fifteen years. Thoroughly tested across multiple environments and devices. Closes #18734, #4754, #20023, #12374". CI was green, so all the reviewers instantly approved the PR. After having been loaded onto a merge queue, squeezed through the staging environment, and finally passing through QA, the PR would finally make its way into production. The Project Manager closed the ticket. Work continued as usual. The amount of merge conflicts spiked. Users said nothing. "I wish that the release manager would have maybe taken a few seconds to mention my optimizations in the release notes, but it's done.", said the engineer.

Margarine Brand Pivots Company to AI Model

NEWS 12/10/2024

Margarine Brand Pivots Company to AI Model

Popular margarine brand to rebrand to "I Can't Believe It's Not Intelligent", offering the industry's first AI-enhanced margarine. Sohy Bohie, co-founder of the company claims that they've been in the business of 'artificial', well before 'artificial intelligence' was ever a thing, and intends to file a lawsuit against OpenAI for gross patent infringement. It has also been confirmed that Fabio will return to feature in their new promotional commercial. Fabio originally wanted to distance himself from the margarine monolith, after the company had been accused of "greasy" behavior in the past, but says that his career is "toast" anyway, and figures being involved is the butter way to avoid the "spread" of misinformation. Though some believe the company is having a meltdown, we look forward to Sohy's rebrand. popcorn

Five things you can do to prevent the side effects of the Rust Programming Language

TIPS 12/9/2024

Five things you can do to prevent the side effects of the Rust Programming Language

After learning the Rust Programming Language, some people find themselves purchasing thigh-high socks from Jeff Bezos, sprouting synthetic ears/tail(s), and inheriting multiple traits native to communism. Fortunately, experts have put together a list of things you can do to prevent these side effects. ## 1. Use Neovim Using Neovim automatically makes you incredibly based and cracked. Experts have proven that aggressively shilling Neovim is more attractive than telling UI designers to rewrite their figma files in Rust. ## 2. Train in Combat Sports Although not proven, it appears that fighting the borrow checker drains your testosterone levels. People who beat each other to death with boxing gloves tend to have higher levels and are also less likely to experience burnout. ## 3. Eat lots of meat If a rust programmer is not making a hefty six-figure salary, they/it are/is usually single and surviving on open source sponsorships. If not a vegan, affording meat is usually not that big of a deal. Consuming large amounts of animal-based protein is one of the most efficient ways to muster a large amount of brain power, necessary for making red squiggly lines go away. ## 4. Use a split ergonomic keyboard As mentioned in #3, you are either single or sought after by communists for consumption, so affording one of these shouldn't be a problem. Split ergonomic keyboards are sign that capitalism is working on your machine and also signifies that you probably use a terminal-based IDE like Neovim. ## 5. Own a can of WD-40 Conspiracy theorists have linked most of the negative traits and side effects of the Rust Programming Language to the Rust Foundation. Using a can of WD-40 on a Rust Foundation Board Member is the equivalent of using Holy Water on Vampires. Additionally, using WD-40 to lubricate your machine's internals is a great way to cool down your computer and speed up compilation times. Your dad probably has a can of WD-40 in his garage somewhere that you can borrow or take ownership of (you can't clone it). ## Conclusion Rust is a great programming language capable of a lot of things including teaching you bad things your parents wouldn't approve of. This article does not list all the negative side effects but instead focuses on how to prevent them. If you are a Rust programmer, you should be able to use this list to become more based. Or you could just do the opposite and become super cringe.

Chat GPT refuses to discuss members of Illuminati

TECH 12/3/2024

Chat GPT refuses to discuss members of Illuminati

Users of the popular AI chat tool, ChatGPT, discovered a strange quirk this week: it refuses to name any current members of the Illuminati. Most notably no one could get it to mention the name David Mayer, a Rothschild decedent. Chat GPT also refuses to talk about what really happens at Bohemian Grove, the Denver airport, or what the movie "National Treasure" was about. This has sparked numerous conspiracy theories about why OpenAI's chatbot avoids discussing the group, many speculate that it's in on the secrets. Some have noted that as soon as you bring up the group, the AI slows down, as though it's choosing it's words very carefully. One user claimed that his screen began to flicker while discussing the moon landing. However, legal experts suggest the restrictions may be due to "Right to be a Secret Society" laws, while some critics claim it's Big Tech's attempt to distract us from asking the most important question: are birds real?

Arch Linux Users Join 4B Movement

TECH 11/24/2024

Arch Linux Users Join 4B Movement

In the new social trend known as the 4b movement, in which women abstain from sex and relationships with men, there are new supporters that are predominantly comprised of men: Arch Linux users. One Arch user stated to us: "I 100% support women deciding to take a break from relationships all together. I'm doing the same to spend much needed time ricing my setup." Arch users are supporting the movement by also be taking a break from relationships with the opposite sex. Some claim that their "break" has started long before the 4b movement began.