How Many Unplayed Games Do You Guys Have?
Programming
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How Many Unplayed Games Do You Guys Have?
Steam Winter Sale hits different when you're a developer. You already spend 12 hours a day staring at code, debugging someone else's spaghetti, and arguing with CI/CD pipelines. The last thing you want to do is boot up a game that requires... more thinking. So instead, you buy 47 games at 80% off because "it's a good deal" and "I'll definitely play this when I have time." Spoiler: you won't. That backlog just keeps growing while you convince yourself that buying more games is somehow different from hoarding. It's not. The real game is watching your library percentage drop from 15% to 4% played and pretending that's fine. That's the endgame content right there.

AI Economy In A Nutshell
AI Programming Cloud
3 hours ago 35.6K views 0 shares
AI Economy In A Nutshell
So you pitch your AI startup to VCs: "We're disrupting the industry with revolutionary machine learning!" They respond: "Cool, here's $50 million in funding to build it." Meanwhile, your actual tech stack is just OpenAI's API with some fancy CSS on top. The entire AI economy is basically investors throwing money at founders who then immediately hand it over to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google for API credits. It's a beautiful circular economy where the only guaranteed winners are the companies actually training the models. The rest of us are just expensive middleware with pitch decks.

Compiler Engineering
Programming Rust C++ Debugging
3 hours ago 40.2K views 0 shares
Compiler Engineering
Studying compilers: reading dragon books, understanding lexical analysis, parsing theory, optimization passes. Sounds sophisticated, right? Actually writing compilers: chugging Monster energy drinks at 3 AM while debugging segfaults in your hand-rolled parser, questioning every life choice that led you to implement register allocation by hand. The theoretical elegance meets the practical reality of infinite edge cases and cursed pointer arithmetic. Fun fact: The average compiler engineer consumes approximately 47% more caffeine than regular developers. The other 53% is pure spite directed at whoever invented left-recursive grammars.

Kyoto Train Station Has Zero Indexed Platforms
Programming
4 hours ago 44.9K views 0 shares
Kyoto Train Station Has Zero Indexed Platforms
Finally, a train station designed by programmers. While the rest of humanity insists on starting their platform numbers at 1 like absolute savages, Kyoto Train Station said "nah, we're doing this right" and went with Platform 0. Every developer who's ever had to explain why arrays start at 0 to a confused product manager just found their spiritual homeland. The Japanese really do think of everything—they've got bullet trains that arrive on the second, toilets that play music, and now platforms that actually make sense to anyone who's written a for loop. Meanwhile, the rest of the world's train stations are out here living in 1-indexed chaos like it's still the Middle Ages.

Fuck AI
Hardware Debugging
7 hours ago 88.7K views 0 shares
Fuck AI
Your DDR4 RAM sitting there like an innocent bystander while you're frantically swapping out your GPU, CPU, motherboard, PSU, and every cable in sight trying to fix that one mysterious crash. Meanwhile, the RAM's just vibing, untouched, probably thinking "thank god they haven't figured out it's me yet." The RAM is basically that one friend who shows up to every group project meeting but never gets assigned any work. Except in this case, it's watching you hemorrhage money on new components while it continues to be the actual problem. Classic hardware troubleshooting energy—replace everything except the thing that's actually broken. Pro tip: Run memtest86 before you remortgage your house for new parts. Your wallet will thank you.

Crutchless Coding
Vim Programming
8 hours ago 92.9K views 0 shares
Crutchless Coding
The evolution from peasant to deity, visualized. Using a cursor? Cute, your brain is on standby. VS Code lights up a few neurons with its IntelliSense and extensions. Then vim/emacs users enter the chat with their galaxy brain energy, thinking they've achieved enlightenment because they memorized 47 keyboard shortcuts to exit a file. But the final boss? Writing code on a whiteboard and using OCR to digitize it. That's not coding anymore—that's performance art. You're basically telling your IDE "I don't even need you to exist" while your brain operates at frequencies only visible to the Hubble telescope. No autocomplete, no syntax highlighting, just raw algorithmic thinking and the faint hope that your handwriting doesn't make the OCR have an existential crisis. Honestly, the whiteboard + OCR crowd probably writes bug-free code on the first try because they've transcended mortal concerns like "testing" and "compilation errors."

Please Please Please Please Please
Programming
10 hours ago 114.2K views 0 shares
Please Please Please Please Please
Imagine asking Santa for a YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION to make your cursor blink slightly prettier. Not world peace, not bug-free code, not even a better IDE—just a fancier cursor. The absolute audacity! Someone really out here treating their text editor like it's a luxury sports car that needs premium features. Nothing screams "I've made questionable life choices" quite like paying annually for cursor aesthetics. Your cursor already works perfectly fine for free, bestie. It blinks. It moves. What more could you possibly need? A cursor with a PhD?

Welcome, Friends!
Windows Security Debugging
10 hours ago 118.2K views 0 shares
Welcome, Friends!
You know you've found your people when someone casually mentions they manually uninstalled McAfee. That's not just a friend—that's a battle-hardened warrior who's stared into the abyss and survived. McAfee is basically the herpes of software: it comes pre-installed on your new PC, refuses to leave, and makes everything slower. The uninstall process is so notoriously difficult that John McAfee himself once made a satirical video about it. So yeah, if someone went through the seven circles of registry hell to purge this digital parasite, they deserve a medal and immediate friendship status.

Have Fun Learning Gpt
AI Git Programming Debugging
11 hours ago 124.3K views 0 shares
Have Fun Learning Gpt
Someone woke up and chose violence. The goal here is to feed ChatGPT such cursed, chaotic code that it just gives up and starts hallucinating error messages. Think legacy PHP spaghetti mixed with recursive bash scripts, sprinkled with some jQuery from 2009, all wrapped in a Dockerfile that uses FROM scratch unironically. It's like trying to teach a language model by showing it only the worst code ever written. "Here GPT, analyze this 5000-line function with no comments and 47 nested if statements. Have fun!" The AI equivalent of making someone watch every JavaScript framework tutorial from the last decade simultaneously. Bonus points if the repo includes a README that just says "it works on my machine" and a package.json with 300 dependencies, half of which are deprecated.

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Evolution After 10,000 Hours Of Coding
Programming
11 hours ago 126.8K views 0 shares
Evolution After 10,000 Hours Of Coding
So you thought 10,000 hours would make you a master? Turns out it just gives you chronic neck pain and a hunchback that would make Quasimodo jealous. The "how'd you know?" starter pack: terrible posture, forward head syndrome, and the ability to debug code while your spine screams in agony. Your body literally morphs into the shape of someone perpetually staring at a screen. The real evolution isn't your coding skills—it's your skeletal system adapting to survive the sedentary lifestyle. Malcolm Gladwell forgot to mention that those 10,000 hours come with complimentary spinal compression and a one-way ticket to the chiropractor.

Why All My Jira Tickets Are 83 Points
Agile Programming
12 hours ago 130.9K views 0 shares
Why All My Jira Tickets Are 83 Points
The ancient art of story point negotiation: where developers give honest estimates and managers treat them like opening bids at an auction. Developer says 200 hours? "Too much." Manager counters with 20. Developer meets in the middle at 150. Manager scoffs and says "You just said 20!" So naturally, the developer lands on 83—because nothing screams "I've done rigorous analysis" like a prime number that's suspiciously close to the Fibonacci sequence. The real genius here is that 83 sounds oddly specific and scientific, like you've actually calculated something. It's the perfect middle finger wrapped in compliance—too weird to argue with, too confident to question. Manager thinks they won the negotiation, developer gets to say "I told you so" when the ticket takes 200 hours anyway, and everyone's happy until the retrospective. Fun fact: Story points were supposed to abstract away time estimates to focus on complexity, but here we are, still converting them back to hours and haggling like it's a used car dealership.

Whoever Tried This Is A God
Git Programming Debugging
12 hours ago 135.8K views 0 shares
Whoever Tried This Is A God
The ascending brain power hierarchy of code sharing methods, where we start at "normal human" with GitHub, level up to "big brain genius" with Google Drive, achieve COSMIC ENLIGHTENMENT by taking literal photographs of your screen like some sort of caveman with a smartphone, and finally transcend all mortal comprehension by... reading your entire codebase out loud and uploading it to Audible?! Someone really woke up and chose CHAOS. Imagine debugging by rewinding to chapter 7, verse 3 where you declared that cursed variable. "Alexa, skip to the part where I forgot the semicolon." The absolute AUDACITY of turning your spaghetti code into an actual audiobook that people can listen to during their morning commute. Nothing says "production-ready" quite like a 47-hour audiobook narrated in monotone. GitHub: ✅ Version control Google Drive: ❌ No version control Photo of code: ❌❌ Good luck copy-pasting that Audiobook: ❌❌❌ "Did he just say 'semicolon' or 'semi-colon'?"