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Do You Guys Not Finish Games?!

18 minutes ago 4.7K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you buy a game on sale, play it for 2 hours, get distracted by another sale, and suddenly you've got 247 games with a 12% completion rate? Yeah, that's every programmer's Steam library. We're collectors, not finishers. The kid taking one bite out of each apple and moving on is the perfect metaphor. "I'll come back to finish Witcher 3 after I try this new indie roguelike that's 80% off." Narrator: They never came back. It's the same energy as having 47 side projects in various states of abandonment. We're excellent at starting things, terrible at finishing them. The Steam library is just our GitHub repos but with better graphics.

This Is Me

Java Kotlin Programming

3 hours ago 63.0K views 0 shares

Oh honey, the DESPERATION is real! Our Java programmer is just vibing alone at the urinal, living their best verbose life. Then a Kotlin programmer walks in and suddenly it's like spotting a unicorn in the wild. The Java dev IMMEDIATELY swoops in with that "Switch to Kotlin Bro" pitch like they've been waiting their entire career for this moment. It's giving "I've seen the light and I need to save you from your own verbosity" energy. Nothing says "I have regrets about my life choices" quite like cornering someone at a urinal to evangelize about null safety and coroutines. Sir, this is a bathroom, not a tech conference!

Oh So True Sometimes

Windows Hardware Programming

4 hours ago 73.2K views 0 shares

The eternal generational tech paradox strikes again! Millennials getting absolutely ROASTED for being "digital natives" who supposedly have all the tech skills, meanwhile Gen Alpha is out here asking if a C drive is an app. Plot twist: being chronically online and knowing how to troubleshoot a printer driver are two COMPLETELY different skill sets, bestie. Sure, they can juggle TikTok, Discord, and YouTube simultaneously while gaming, but ask them to navigate a file system or understand what localhost means? Suddenly it's like you're speaking ancient hieroglyphics. The irony is delicious—the generation that grew up with technology so seamlessly integrated they never had to learn HOW it actually works. No floppy disks, no dial-up struggles, no "please work" prayers while installing drivers. Just pure, blissful ignorance wrapped in an iPhone.

Diy

Hardware Debugging

7 hours ago 102.8K views 0 shares

Customer complains their PC shuts down after a few seconds. Tech opens the case to find what can only be described as a crime scene: the CPU cooler has been replaced with actual kitchen utensils. Someone took "Do It Yourself" way too literally and decided that a comb and some butter knives would make excellent thermal management solutions. Spoiler alert: they don't. The CPU probably hit thermal throttling faster than you can say "thermal paste." Pretty sure the PC was just trying to protect itself from this abomination by shutting down. Can't blame it, honestly.

Why We Need AI Everywhere

AI Programming

9 hours ago 124.0K views 0 shares

Employee picks the urinal with proper spacing like a civilized human being. Boss walks in and stands directly next to someone when there's an entire row of empty urinals. Classic power move or complete lack of bathroom etiquette awareness. Boss then decides the real problem isn't their questionable decision-making skills—it's that we need to "infuse AI into our products." Because nothing says innovation like ignoring basic social protocols while pitching buzzword solutions. Maybe we do need AI everywhere. Starting with an AI-powered bathroom assistant that gently reminds management about the unwritten urinal spacing rule: always leave at least one urinal gap . Could call it GPT-Pee.

Stop Vibing Learn Coding

AI Programming Debugging

10 hours ago 152.6K views 0 shares

The AI gold rush created a beautiful paradox: companies went all-in on AI tooling, hired developers based on "vibes" instead of actual skills, watched their codebase turn into spaghetti junction, then suddenly realized nobody left can actually maintain the mess. Now they're desperately hunting for devs who can, you know, actually code – but surprise, those folks are rare because the number who know what they're doing keeps shrinking while demand skyrockets. It's the tech industry eating its own tail. You can't Copilot your way out of architectural decisions, and ChatGPT won't refactor your 10,000-line God class. Turns out fundamentals still matter. Who knew?

Technical Debt Collector

Programming Debugging Frontend Backend

11 hours ago 156.8K views 0 shares

The compiler's just trying to help, bless its heart. Meanwhile, developers have mastered the ancient art of ignoring warnings like they're spam emails from recruiters. Those yellow squiggly lines? That's just the IDE being dramatic. Ship it. Warnings are basically the compiler's way of saying "I'm not mad, just disappointed" while errors are full-on "we need to talk." But let's be real—if it compiles, it's production-ready. The next developer who inherits this codebase can deal with the consequences. That's what we call job security.

Poor Copilot

AI Programming

12 hours ago 177.4K views 0 shares

You know what's wild? We went from "don't copy code from Stack Overflow without understanding it" to literally having an AI pair programmer that we treat like an intern we're perpetually annoyed with. The relationship developers have with Copilot is basically: "Hey buddy, you're amazing and can do anything!" followed immediately by "Now shut up and stop suggesting I import the entire lodash library for a single array operation." It's the tech equivalent of asking your smart friend for homework help and then telling them their handwriting sucks. We praise it when it autocompletes our boilerplate, then rage-dismiss its suggestions when it tries to be helpful with our actual logic. The duality of modern development: simultaneously grateful for and annoyed by the robot that writes half our code.

No Hank No

Javascript Hardware Programming Backend

12 hours ago 190.6K views 0 shares

Someone just discovered you can write JavaScript bindings for UEFI firmware and honestly? That's the exact moment humanity took a wrong turn. UEFI is low-level boot firmware that initializes your hardware before the OS loads—it's written in C for a reason. It needs to be fast, reliable, and absolutely bulletproof. But sure, let's bring JavaScript's type coercion, prototype chains, and async callbacks into the bootloader. Nothing could possibly go wrong when undefined == null but undefined !== null is deciding whether your motherboard initializes properly. Your computer won't even boot, but hey, at least you can use npm packages in your firmware now. The horror on Walter White's face perfectly captures every systems programmer's reaction to this abomination. Some things are sacred, and the boot process is one of them.

The Daily Process Theater

Agile Programming

14 hours ago 210.7K views 0 shares

Someone finally said it. You know your daily standup has devolved into pure performance art when the team spends more time discussing which outdated methodology to pretend they're following than actually shipping code. "Should we do waterfall in 2026?" Sure, right after we finish migrating to COBOL. "Let's use NPC methodology!" Yeah, that tracks—most people in these meetings are just running their dialogue scripts anyway. The brutal truth hits different though. Agile was supposed to free us from endless meetings and documentation. Instead, we got sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog grooming, daily standups, and quarterly PI planning sessions where we discuss how agile we are. The real product isn't software anymore—it's generating enough agile theater to justify the Jira subscription. Meanwhile, the actual code gets written in the 2 hours between meetings when everyone's status is set to "Do Not Disturb" and Slack notifications are muted.

I Knew I've Seen This Tech Before Modern GPUs

Hardware Gamedev

16 hours ago 233.9K views 0 shares

I Knew I've Seen This Tech Before Modern GPUs

So modern GPUs need a 12-pin power connector that looks suspiciously like... a car cigarette lighter? The resemblance is uncanny and honestly concerning. We've gone from "can it run Crysis?" to "can your power supply literally light cigarettes?" The fact that your graphics card now requires the same form factor as a device designed to heat metal coils is probably a sign we've taken the power consumption arms race a bit too far. Next gen GPUs will just come with a dedicated nuclear reactor and we'll all pretend it's normal. "Yeah bro, my RTX 6090 only needs 2000 watts, pretty efficient actually."

Great Use Of Electricity

AI Webdev Programming Frontend

16 hours ago 247.0K views 1 shares

The 80s rich guy had a mansion, a Ferrari, and probably a decent stock portfolio. Fast forward to 2026, and the new definition of wealth is... prompting an AI to change a button color to green. We've gone from "greed is good" to "please Claude, make it #00FF00." The real kicker? That AI prompt probably burned through enough GPU cycles to power a small village, all to accomplish what one line of CSS could've done in 0.0001 seconds. But hey, at least we're using cutting-edge technology to reinvent the wheel, one modal button at a time. The electricity bill for training these LLMs could probably buy you that Ferrari, but instead we're using it to avoid typing background-color: green;

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