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Excel As A Database? Straight To Jail

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You know you've committed a cardinal sin when even your fellow inmates want nothing to do with you. Using Excel as a database is like bringing a spoon to a knife fight – technically it works, but everyone's judging you. We've all seen it: some product manager or business analyst proudly managing 50,000 rows of "critical production data" in a shared Excel file on OneDrive. No version control, no data validation, no foreign keys, just pure chaos and merged cells everywhere. And don't even get me started on the inevitable "Excel_Final_v2_FINAL_USE_THIS_ONE.xlsx" situation. The prisoner's crime is so heinous that even hardened criminals recoil in horror. Murder? Acceptable. Tax evasion? Understandable. But Excel as a database? That's where society draws the line.

Developer Logic: It's Not A Bug… It's An 'Unexpected Feature'!

Debugging Agile Programming Testing

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Developer Logic: It's Not A Bug… It's An 'Unexpected Feature'!

The ancient art of developer spin doctoring at its finest! When QA finds a catastrophic leak in your code, you don't panic and fix it like some amateur—no, no, no. You simply slap some duct tape on it, add a fancy fountain animation, call it a "feature," and watch the stakeholders applaud your "creative vision." Bonus points if you can convince them it was intentional all along and charge extra for the "premium water feature package." The transformation from disaster to masterpiece is truly the developer's greatest superpower.

Average PM Energy

Agile Programming

2 hours ago 26.4K views 0 shares

Oh honey, the PROJECT MANAGER has entered the chat with the most DEVASTATING clapback in tech history! Just because they don't write code doesn't mean they're sitting there twiddling their thumbs – they're out here orchestrating your chaotic developer energy into something resembling a functional product. The dramatic four-panel escalation is *chef's kiss* because it captures that defensive energy PMs bring when developers start acting like they're the only ones who matter. "I don't develop software... but not because I can't code" – the AUDACITY! The confidence! The sheer unbothered excellence of someone who chose management over semicolons! Plot twist: Some PMs actually CAN code but decided they'd rather herd cats (you) than debug your spaghetti code at 3 AM. Respect the hustle.

Password

Security Webdev Frontend Backend

2 hours ago 30.5K views 0 shares

So you're telling me my password needs 20 characters, uppercase, lowercase, a number, special characters, a kanji, a hieroglyph, the 100th digit of pi, AND the first codon of my DNA... but sure, let me just click "Sign up with Google" instead. Security theater at its finest. They make you jump through hoops like you're protecting nuclear launch codes when you're just trying to sign up for a random SaaS tool you'll forget about in two weeks. Meanwhile, they'll probably store it in plaintext anyway. The real kicker? That "Sign up with Google" button that makes all those requirements completely pointless. Why even bother with the password field at this point?

Inflation Hit The North Pole

Hardware

3 hours ago 35.1K views 0 shares

Santa's reading this kid's Christmas list asking for 64GB of DDR5-8000MHz RAM and immediately yeeting himself out the window like his workshop just got hit with a bankruptcy notice. Because apparently, asking for cutting-edge memory specs is now more expensive than asking for a pony, a yacht, AND world peace combined! Remember when 8GB was considered "plenty" and 16GB made you a power user? Now kids are out here casually requesting server-grade specs like they're ordering fries at McDonald's. The RAM market has gotten so absurdly expensive that even magical beings with infinite toy-making capabilities are tapping out. Santa's insurance doesn't cover DDR5 requests, sweetie! The real tragedy? By the time Christmas morning rolls around, DDR6 will probably be announced and this kid's wish list will be obsolete anyway. 💸

I Don't Usually Keep Mice In This Drawer

Hardware

4 hours ago 53.2K views 0 shares

I Don't Usually Keep Mice In This Drawer

Ah yes, the classic hardware hoarding drawer that every IT person has. You know, the one where old power supplies go to retire alongside cables from 2003 that you're "definitely going to need someday." The pun here is chef's kiss – we're literally looking at a drawer with a computer mouse (or mice, if you're fancy), but the title plays innocent like it's some unusual occurrence. Meanwhile, we all know this drawer also contains: 47 USB cables of unknown origin, three dead hard drives you can't throw away because "what if there's data on them," and at least one IDE cable because apparently you're running a museum. The power supply sitting there like it owns the place is peak IT energy – broken? Maybe. Will you throw it away? Absolutely not.

What's A TXT Record

Networking Security Devops Linux Backend

5 hours ago 64.7K views 0 shares

Someone just asked what a TXT record is and now the entire DNS infrastructure is having an existential crisis. The rant starts off strong: naming servers? Pointless. DNS queries? Never needed. The hosts.txt file was RIGHT THERE doing its job perfectly fine before we overengineered everything. Then comes the kicker—sysadmins apparently want to know "your server's location" and "arbitrary text" which sounds like something a "deranged" person would dream up. But wait... that's literally what TXT records do. They store arbitrary text strings in DNS for things like SPF, DKIM, domain verification, and other critical internet infrastructure. The irony is thicker than a poorly configured DNS zone file. The punchline? After this whole tirade about DNS being useless, they show what "REAL DNS" looks like—three increasingly complex diagrams that nobody understands, followed by a simple DNS query example. The response: "They have played us for absolute fools." Translation: DNS is actually incredibly complex and essential, and maybe we shouldn't have been complaining about TXT records in the first place. It's the classic developer move of calling something stupid right before realizing you don't actually understand how it works.

These Prices Omg…..

Hardware Programming

6 hours ago 80.2K views 0 shares

When your RGB RAM costs the same as a used car, you know you've entered the PC building dimension where priorities get... interesting. That Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 kit will set you back enough to buy a perfectly functional 2004 Volkswagen Golf. Both will get you places, but only one has RGB lighting and marginally better compile times. The real kicker? You'll justify the RAM purchase by saying "but I need it for Docker containers" while that Golf could actually take you to the office. But let's be honest, nobody's choosing reliable transportation over shaving 0.3 seconds off their webpack build time. Priorities are priorities.

What Really Makes A Programmer Insecure?

Security Webdev Networking Programming Frontend

8 hours ago 102.9K views 0 shares

What Really Makes A Programmer Insecure?

Someone asked r/AskReddit "What screams 'I'm insecure'?" and the top answer is just "http://" — because nothing says emotional vulnerability quite like transmitting data in plaintext over an unencrypted connection. While everyone else is sharing deep psychological insights about human behavior, this programmer saw their moment and went straight for the jugular. The joke hits different when you realize we're all silently judging every website still running HTTP in 2024. That little padlock icon isn't just about security anymore; it's about self-respect.

Sql Love Affair

Databases Programming Backend

8 hours ago 109.1K views 0 shares

Oh honey, someone just turned database design into relationship advice and honestly? They're not wrong. The setup is *chef's kiss* – girl asks what you need for a good relationship, and this absolute legend responds with "PRIMARY KEYS" because apparently we're all just living in one giant relational database and nobody told us. For those blissfully unaware: primary keys are what keep your database tables from descending into chaos. They're unique identifiers that make sure every record is special and can be properly referenced – you know, like how you'd want to uniquely identify your significant other instead of accidentally texting the wrong person named "Alex" in your contacts. Without primary keys, your relationships (and your data) would be a hot mess of duplicates and confusion. So yeah, turns out good data integrity and good relationships have more in common than we thought. Who knew SQL was secretly a dating guru this whole time?

Brilliant Maneuver

Backend Golang AWS Programming Java

9 hours ago 115.1K views 0 shares

The corporate ladder climb speedrun any%. Dude took a perfectly functional Java service that ran flawlessly for 5 years and nuked it with an unnecessary microservices rewrite in Go—just to pad the resume with "scope" and "complexity" for that sweet L5 to L6 promotion at Amazon. The result? A system that's slower, costs 2x more, and has memory leaks that wake people up at 2 AM. But hey, the 20-page design doc was strategic enough to fool management. The real galaxy brain move though? Getting promoted, then immediately transferring to a "chill Core Infra team" before the whole thing implodes. Now some poor new grad inherits a ticking time bomb for $550k TC while our protagonist is sipping coffee, off-call, watching the chaos unfold from a safe distance. Truly a masterclass in corporate self-preservation and passing the buck. Fun fact: This is basically the tech industry version of "I'm not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in here with me"—except the villain escapes before the final act.

In This Case It's Not Just Microsoft, Which I Assume Is Short For Soft Micro-Penis...

AI Microsoft Programming

9 hours ago 122.2K views 0 shares

In This Case It's Not Just Microsoft, Which I Assume Is Short For Soft Micro-Penis...

So apparently the secret to climbing the corporate ladder at tech giants is just shouting "AI" at every meeting. Parrot discovers the cheat code to instant promotion: just repeat the magic buzzword and boom—senior product director. This perfectly captures how every company in 2023-2024 collectively lost their minds and decided to slap "AI" on literally everything. Your toaster? AI-powered. Your shoelaces? Machine learning optimized. A feature that's just a glorified if-statement? Revolutionary AI breakthrough. The parrot wearing a graduation cap is *chef's kiss* because it implies zero actual understanding required—just mimicry. Which, ironically, is exactly what most "AI integration" meetings sound like anyway.

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