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/* Cybersec n008 | eJPT | Comptia Pentest+ | Content Creator
Games | Tech | Nerd stuff | Uncle | Autistic robot */
Work: Security Stuff | Lead Dev 🐈
The answer to "Did wonen ruin the workplace?" is a resounding "Yes." With their... *vomits* people skills and soft skills, and not participating in wiener jousting, and just trying their hardest...

They make work a living hell. Why can't it all be dudes, macho behaviour and "LOOK AT MY DICK"
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Made a form with a select dropdown in Livewire? Wondering why it's sending "null" for the first option instead of the correct option?

Wonder no more and read my first blog post in ages about this very topic: poweruserguide.com/what-to-do-w...
What to do when Livewire select submits null instead of value - PowerUser Guide
Hey there, friends. It’s been a while since our last post. And not without reason. In the past few months I’ve spent most of my professional time developing things in Laravel, and most things I learne...
poweruserguide.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I just ran into a problem I had with Livewire that might just be obscure enough to write a post about it.

TO THE BLOG CAVE.
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Whenever someone claims ChatGPT can do some mysterious shit with secret information the right question to ask is "What are they selling?"
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Ewwwwwwwwwww, AI ASMR.
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
So Excel is crashing when I remove the filters from my Excel sheet.

Which has a measly 100 lines.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Excel: "Excel is not responding, some gibberish I never read bla bla bla..."

Yeah, you never recover, close that shit.
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How are ADHD devs even employable? A certain developer I know is now using the fourth different method of achieving athing in a (somewhat large) app.

And he's never rewritten the old things because it's too much work.

It's me. I'm the developer.
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
TIL that even if you're consistent 99 of the times in your app it can still be a huge pain to correct that one time you weren't consistent.

So many database updates.
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is why I don't think I'm a developer. I've built things that work and do what they asked it to do.

I just don't know programming on even an intermediate level.

I'm just really good at collecting the info I need to build and ship something, SADLOL.

I've done this trick in PHP and C# so far.
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm having a lot of "This is how this works?!" moments in PHP and Laravel lately.

And I can't share it with anyone, because some of that stuff is low key embarassing.

Like how I never realized comparisons existed outside of an "if" statement, because my courses never taught me to use them outside.
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
But if not playing video games then what do with boring free time?

And other questions I van ask here because nobody ready this shit.
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’m not really having fun playing video games lately and that’s a Bad Sign (TM) because usually the good old mental health becomes bad old mental unhealth soon after.

Anyone got tips other than growing up?
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Me: I'm the fraudiest fraud.

Also me: has worked on a project with the biggest postal company, utility company and maybe soon a Telcom operator.

Me: "I can't believe threy all hire Frauds!"
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A Belgian TV show is visiting Norway and @nanami.codes isn't their tour guide?

Frauds.
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There’s only one country that glazes their military 24/7 and it’s weird.
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Me: My Alerts are broken. Why is it storing the same alert twice?!

Me, ten minutes earlier: "I'm going to store the same alert twice, but with a different user_id so it appears in the activity history of both users and not just one.

Junie when asked: "This appears to be by design?"

Indeed, Junie.
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Okay, CoPilot has lost its marbles. I've asked it for some things about a story other than some programming stuff.

And now it's trying to relate all that story stuff to what I'm programming all the time.

And it's weird. It's not helping AT ALL, LMAO.
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Okay, Laravel.

Why does your encryption section refer to "encryptString" and "decryptString" and then has helpers for decrypt() and decrypt() that are apparently shorthand for Crypt::encrypt and Crypt::decrypt which are completely different encryptio approaches NOT DOCUMENTED IN THE ENCRYPTION DOC.
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I may not be the best developer. And I might get frustrated tons of times.

But ever since I've been developing CATS I've had more "Yay, I get to work on a problem!" days than I've ever had before.

Takes me back to my Network Admin days.
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Me: *checks Bluesky*

Some random in discover to some other Democrat: "I await your execution*

Me: Aight I'm out.
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Generalizing people isn't cool. Unless they're white. Then it's okay.

- Bluesky, 2025.
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I can't stress enough how much I dislike content walls like Medium's "Sign up and give us your data to finish reading this mediocre article".

No.

I'll make up the rest.

The second part was about their clown fetish. And how they're banned from the circus.

And I should never take their advice.
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
American socialism is the weirdest because they don't fund it through taxes (ewwww, Europe commie socialism) but through GoFundMe, online begging, working four jobs and just straight up being a third world country.

God forbid they spent some taxes on social wealth instead of actual socialism.
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Another Reddit trigger: “Am I the only one…”

Yes, of all the billions of people and millions of people into that hobby you are the only one, because nobody is as wise or observant as you. You dumb dweeb.
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM