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I Have A Long List Of Todo

40 minutes ago 13.5K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle between doing things right and doing things... eventually. You've got two buttons: fix the bug properly like a responsible adult, or slap a // TODO: fix later comment on it and pretend future-you will handle it. Spoiler alert: future-you will hate past-you. The choice is obvious, right? Wrong. The "fix later" button is basically a black hole where good intentions go to die. That TODO comment will sit there for years, accumulating dust and judgment from every developer who stumbles upon it. Meanwhile, your TODO list grows longer than a CVS receipt, and you're out here adding to it like it's a hobby. The sweating intensifies because deep down, you know that "later" never comes. It's the developer's equivalent of "I'll start my diet on Monday." But hey, at least you documented your procrastination, which is more than most can say.

Within Each Programmer

Programming Webdev

1 hour ago 24.3K views 0 shares

Every single developer is locked in an EPIC internal battle between the responsible wolf who whispers "steady paycheck, health insurance, retirement plan" and the absolutely FERAL entrepreneurial wolf screaming "BUILD THAT TODO APP WITH BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION THAT WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE THE WORLD THIS TIME!" Spoiler alert: the second wolf has a GitHub graveyard of 47 unfinished projects and still thinks THIS one will be different. The first wolf is tired. So, so tired. But hey, at least it pays the bills while you dream about your SaaS empire during standup meetings.

Is Windows FOSS Now?

AI Git Microsoft Windows Programming

2 hours ago 37.4K views 0 shares

So apparently if you use AI to write your code and don't properly document which parts the robot wrote, you forfeit copyright on your entire codebase. The legal loophole here is chef's kiss—those copyright notices and licenses you slapped on your GitHub repo? Completely unenforceable. Your proprietary code just became public domain faster than you can say "Copilot autocomplete." The title jokes about Windows potentially becoming FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) through this accidental legal backdoor. Given how much AI-generated code Microsoft is probably shipping these days, one missed disclosure form and boom—Windows 11 is suddenly GPL'd. The irony of a tech giant potentially open-sourcing their crown jewel because they forgot to fill out the paperwork is *delicious*. Time to start combing through Microsoft's repos for undisclosed AI contributions, I guess. Free Windows for everyone!

Shutdown The Sub

AI Devops Programming Backend

2 hours ago 46.7K views 0 shares

So Spotify just casually announced that their top engineers haven't manually written code in MONTHS because they're letting Claude do all the heavy lifting. They're literally deploying to production from their morning commute via Slack messages to an AI. Like, "Hey Claude, fix this bug real quick while I grab my latte ☕️" The absolute AUDACITY of having an internal system called "Honk" that lets you ship code to prod before you even step foot in the office. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still arguing in code reviews about whether to use tabs or spaces while these folks are living in 3024 where the AI does everything and engineers just... manage? Direct? Vibe check the code? Honestly, just pack it up everyone. Close the subreddit. We've reached peak absurdity. The future is here and it's an engineer on a train telling Claude to merge to prod while half asleep. What a time to be alive (and possibly unemployed soon). 🎭

Companies Should Be Glad, That Other People Are Helping Them With Their Offsite Backup

Security Databases Backend Cloud

4 hours ago 82.0K views 0 shares

Companies Should Be Glad, That Other People Are Helping Them With Their Offsite Backup

When hackers steal your data, they're technically just creating an additional backup copy in a geographically distributed location. It's like having a disaster recovery plan you never asked for! Sure, the top panel shows the standard corporate panic response to a data breach, but the bottom panel reveals the silver lining: you now have a "decentralized surprise backup" courtesy of some friendly neighborhood cybercriminals. The reframing here is chef's kiss – turning a catastrophic security incident into an unexpected infrastructure upgrade. It's the ultimate glass-half-full perspective on ransomware attacks. Who needs AWS S3 cross-region replication when you've got threat actors doing it for free? Your CISO might not appreciate this hot take during the incident response meeting though.

AI Loops

AI

6 hours ago 98.9K views 0 shares

Welcome to the AI arms race, where every company is trapped in an infinite loop of announcing "the world's most powerful model" every three weeks. OpenAI drops a banger, then Grok swoops in claiming they're the new king, then some other AI startup you've never heard of, then Gemini rolls up fashionably late to the party. Meanwhile, you're just sitting there watching this corporate game of musical chairs wondering when someone's gonna fix the hallucination problem. It's like JavaScript frameworks all over again, except now with billion-dollar marketing budgets and existential dread. Each model is "revolutionary" until the next one drops two weeks later. The real power move? Being the developer who just picks one and ships something instead of waiting for the next "most powerful" release.

When The Game Launches On Your Secondary Monitor

Windows Hardware Gamedev

6 hours ago 104.6K views 0 shares

When The Game Launches On Your Secondary Monitor

Nothing quite captures the existential dread of frantically craning your neck to see your game launch on the wrong monitor while your main screen sits there mocking you with its emptiness. You click the executable, hear the startup sound, but your primary monitor just... does nothing. Meanwhile, your secondary monitor—the one you've strategically positioned at a 45-degree angle for "optimal multitasking"—is now hosting your full-screen game at the worst possible viewing angle. The worst part? You can't even Alt+Tab properly because the game is now convinced it's on the primary display, and your mouse cursor is trapped in a dimensional prison between two screens. Time to dive into the settings menu while contorting your spine like you're debugging production code at 3 AM. Fun fact: Windows has remembered your monitor preference from that ONE time you moved the game window 6 months ago and will never, ever forget it.

Plan Vs Execution

Programming Debugging

7 hours ago 124.7K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you architect the most elegant solution in your head during your morning shower? Clean interfaces, perfect separation of concerns, SOLID principles everywhere. Then you sit down at your keyboard and suddenly you're Captain Jack Sparrow's budget cosplay cousin who can't remember basic syntax and is Googling "how to reverse a string" for the 47th time this year. The mental model is always a blockbuster movie. The actual implementation? More like a community theater production where half the cast forgot their lines and the props are held together with duct tape and deprecated libraries. But hey, it compiles (eventually), and that's what counts on the sprint review.

Musk Is The Joke Here

AI Programming Backend

9 hours ago 153.5K views 0 shares

So apparently AI is just gonna skip the whole "learning to code" phase and go straight to spitting out optimized binaries like some kind of digital sorcerer? Because THAT'S how compilers work, right? Just vibes and manifestation? Here's the thing: compilers exist for a reason. They translate human-readable code into machine code through layers of optimization that took decades to perfect. But sure, let's just tell AI "make me a binary that does the thing" and watch it magically understand hardware architectures, memory management, and instruction sets without any intermediate representation. Totally logical. The confidence with which someone can misunderstand the entire software development pipeline while predicting its future is honestly impressive. It's like saying "cars will bypass engines and just run on thoughts by 2026." And the Grok plug at the end? *Chef's kiss* of tech bro delusion.

Nobody Likes Right Join

Databases Programming Backend

9 hours ago 155.2K views 0 shares

RIGHT JOIN is the awkward middle child of SQL joins that nobody invited to the party. Sure, it does the exact same thing as LEFT JOIN—just swap the table order and boom, you're done. But nooo, some masochist decided to write it backwards and make everyone's brain hurt. Why would you ever use RIGHT JOIN when you can just flip the tables in the FROM clause and use LEFT JOIN like a civilized human being? It's like insisting on walking backwards to your destination. Technically possible, functionally identical, but deeply unsettling to witness. Database developers have collectively agreed that RIGHT JOIN exists purely to confuse junior devs during code reviews. If you see one in production code, either someone's playing 4D chess or they just hate their teammates.

Same Thing Different Timelines

Programming Webdev Javascript

10 hours ago 168.9K views 0 shares

Crypto Bros and Vibe Coders finally found common ground: they both excel at making computers work really hard to produce absolutely nothing of value. One group burns enough electricity to power a small nation to mint JPEGs of apes, while the other ships half-baked apps held together with duct tape and vibes. The real poetry here is that both camps think they're revolutionizing technology. Crypto Bros believe they're disrupting finance while their blockchain takes 10 minutes to process a transaction. Vibe Coders think "it works on my machine" is a valid deployment strategy and that TypeScript is just a suggestion. At least they're united in their ability to make senior engineers weep into their coffee.

What's The Appeal?

Gamedev Frontend

11 hours ago 177.4K views 0 shares

You know that one person on the team who "optimizes" the game by making everything pitch black and calls it a "performance enhancement"? Yeah, that's the ReShade modder energy right here. They'll spend 47 hours tweaking contrast sliders and saturation curves to make a perfectly good game look like it was filmed through a pair of sunglasses in a coal mine, then post it online with "FIXED THE TERRIBLE GRAPHICS" like they just discovered fire. The original graphics are bright, clear, you can actually see what's happening. The "fixed" version? Pure vibes. Can't see anything, but at least it's cinematic . It's like when someone discovers CSS filters for the first time and applies every single one at 100% opacity. Sure, you've technically modified it, but at what cost? Your retinas? This is the visual equivalent of a junior dev refactoring working code into something "cleaner" that nobody can read anymore.

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