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programmers are always posting like “worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn’t in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don’t do a cache flush on all the client spiders they’ll get stuck in the crystal maze.” then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

“GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAl and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows.”

and you get to the bottom and you’re like I want this I guess but I still don’t know what it is

chaussurre

Maybe there wouldn’t be as many issues with the crystal maze if GUMBIES POSTED DOCUMENTATION. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WORK YEARS ON A STABLE GUMBIES CLIENT SPIDER API AND NOT WRITE A LINE OF DOCUMENTATION DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO NOT USE YOUR SOFTWARE???

jv (verification badge × 7)

Oh and WHY THE FUCK THE OFFICIALLY RECOMMENDED NPM PACKAGE FOR GUMBIES HAVE BEEN IN VERSION 0.1.1 FOR SEVEN YEARS AND SEEMS TO BE DEVELOPED BY “powerwolf112”, who hasn’t answered a single message in GitHub since 2021???

For all the bells in hell, there are massive websites that are using this amateur crap to defrumbulate their typescript decorators!

anarchywoofwoof

found this thread while trying to debug an issue just checking if anyone knows whether GUMBIES is backward compatible with Pea Gravel playground deployments or if its exclusive to Woodchips thanks in advance

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  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    109·
    8 months ago

    I won’t lie, but content like this is what I love on programmerhumor.

    Also just use the (inferior) open source version of GUMBIES called GRUMBOSS. It’s way better!

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    73·
    8 months ago

    I experienced a new hell today

    The whole of the documentation was in video format and you had to accept all cookies to play the videos

    At least with GUMBIES not having documentation there is a wide thread of people asking questions on third party sites

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      8 months ago

      This was legitimately part of the reason I went with Laminas instead of Laravel for a project. I really don’t want critical documentation to be in video form.

      • shastaxc@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        I fully agree with you. However, I just had an interesting thought. Could someone use chatgpt to transcribe the video’s audio to text and plop it into a wiki?

        • dan@upvote.au
          5·
          8 months ago

          Any documentation videos that comply with the accessibility requirements in many jurisdictions will have subtitles. Just extract the subtitles from the video.

  • Naich@kbin.social
    581·
    8 months ago

    Every time I want to do something, I have a look around the baffling ecosystem of frameworks and end up writing it from scratch because it’s easier than wading through the bullshit.

  • KittyCat@lemmy.world
    481·
    8 months ago

    I fed this into chat gpt asking for documentation to add to the gibberish and confusion:

    GUMBIES: Sharding Sandcube for Woodchips Playgrounds Overview GUMBIES is a robust, expressive sharding sandcube designed for testing and deploying large-scale Woodchips playgrounds. It serves as a versatile tool to automate and streamline the watersliding phases of the Woodchips workflow, allowing your team to focus on the essential chipping activities.

    Key Features Sharding Sandcube: GUMBIES provides a lean and efficient environment for sharding, allowing for the creation and management of scalable Woodchips playgrounds.

    Expressive Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and streamline processes, enabling your team to achieve quicker and more efficient Woodchips deployments.

    Woodchips Workflow Integration: GUMBIES seamlessly integrates into Woodchips workflows, enhancing the testing and deployment experience for development teams.

    Benefits Efficiency: GUMBIES accelerates the testing and deployment phases, reducing the time spent on setting up and managing Woodchips environments.

    Scalability: With sharding capabilities, GUMBIES supports the scalability requirements of large Woodchips playgrounds, ensuring optimal performance.

    Compatibility: Trusted by industry leaders like Microsoft, OpenAl, and Bloingo, GUMBIES is a reliable choice for Woodchips workflows.

    Getting Started Installation

    npm install -g gumbies

    Basic Usage Initialize a new Woodchips playground:

    gumbies init my_woodchips_playground

    Configure the playground settings:

    cd my_woodchips_playground gumbies configure

    Start the Woodchips playground:

    gumbies start

    Visit our documentation website for detailed instructions, advanced configurations, and troubleshooting.

    Testimonials

    “GUMBIES has significantly improved our Woodchips workflows, providing a reliable and efficient platform for testing and deploying”. Microsoft

    “The expressive automation capabilities of GUMBIES have streamlined our development processes, allowing us to focus on Woodchipping without distractions.” OpenAl

    “Bloingo trusts GUMBIES for its scalability and compatibility with Woodchips. A valuable addition to any development toolkit.” - Bloingo

    Support and Community For support, bug reports, or feature requests, visit our GitHub repository or join our community forum here.

    Embrace the efficiency and scalability of GUMBIES in your Woodchips workflows. Get started today for a smoother development experience.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      162·
      8 months ago

      Oh honey, just because it’s not real doesn’t mean it can’t hurt you. Just look up Roko’s basilisk as an example.

      • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
        7·
        8 months ago

        The ego and audacity to think an AI will simulate you in eternal torment when that would use up precious resources it could be spending on making paperclips.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    27·
    8 months ago

    The GUMBIES page being one sentence per scroll scroll scroll is right on point for a fuckload of projects. Even the text feels like it was copy pasted from a real project

    • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 months ago

      And that one line is something like “fixed issue where the nuclear bombs don’t go off anymore”, no mention as to how or why that was even a problem or how they fixed it.

    • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
      5·
      8 months ago

      My wife is in accounting, and I always thought they have too many meaningless jargons.

      Now I know how I sound when I talk to her…

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 months ago

      There are innumerable examples.

      My typical attitude is “I was fine without “latest fad” until now, I’ll still be fine now that I still know nothing about it”. And I forget about the whole thing. It’ll probably vanish fifteen months later anyway.

      As an aside, who even makes those caricatural, utterly content free websites, and then pats themselves on the back thinking that’s a job well done? They’ve obviously put some amount of work into those things. Is the point to make it seem like it’s a cool super secret society or what?

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        8 months ago

        Think like systemd is a service manager, but scale it to multiple systems (and all the kafkaesqe issues that comes with). Its super powerful because of it, supporting high availability across dataceneters and even regions with some configs of complex apps, but that’s just super niche for most of us.

    • gmtom@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      I still don’t know what kubernetes does and at this point I’m afraid to ask.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I think it empowers the deployment of, um scalability, of the, *waves arounds* modular thingies… or something. In a virtual way.

    • rofurus@programming.dev
      1·
      8 months ago

      Is the joke not on the problem of cute names? K8s doesn’t seem to do that at all. I also checked the homepage itself, and it seemed OK.

      What am I missing?