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Seek Help Please

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Look at these coding styles and WEEP! The absolute AUDACITY of these formatting choices! We've got Allman with his brackets on new lines like a civilized human, Kernighan & Ritchie keeping it tight, and then... THE HORROR SHOW begins! Haskell style with semicolons at the BEGINNING of lines?! The Lisp style cramming everything together like some kind of code sardine tin?! And don't even get me STARTED on whatever crime against humanity that "Mental Illness" banner is pointing to! This is why programmers need therapy. Your bracket placement reveals your deepest psychological wounds. Choose wisely or forever be judged in code reviews!

Hot Codebases In Your Area

Programming Vim Microsoft Windows Linux

1 hour ago 12.6K views 0 shares

When your dating app and GitHub notifications start blending together... 😂 Dating sites promise "hot singles" but developers know the real satisfaction comes from those promiscuous codebases just begging for your refactoring skills. The Linux Kernel is young, eager, and only 3 miles away! Meanwhile, Emacs is that slightly older, sophisticated editor with strong opinions about parentheses. And Visual Studio? That's the young one with a "6 year guide" - clearly needs an experienced developer to show it the ropes. The only commitment issues worse than your ex's are legacy codebases that haven't been refactored since 2008.

The Immortal PHP: Still Not Dead In 2025

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1 hour ago 17.2K views 0 shares

The Immortal PHP: Still Not Dead In 2025

For nearly three decades, developers have been declaring PHP's funeral while hyping the next hot framework. ColdFusion, ASP.net, Django, Rails, Flask, Angular, Next.js, Python—they've all taken turns as PHP's supposed executioner. Yet there it stands in 2025, like some immortal deity rising from the clouds, declaring "As you can see, I am not dead." PHP is basically the tech world's cockroach—it would survive a nuclear apocalypse while React is still trying to resolve its dependencies.

Nintendo Claims Ownership Of Cube Shapes

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2 hours ago 20.7K views 0 shares

Nintendo Claims Ownership Of Cube Shapes

The gaming industry's legal battles have reached new geometric heights! Nintendo apparently filed a patent claiming ownership of... *checks notes*... cube shapes. Yes, CUBE SHAPES. Because clearly, they invented 3D geometry in 1889 when they were making playing cards. Meanwhile, Valve (maker of Steam and the black cube-shaped Steam Deck) is getting sued for having the audacity to use the revolutionary concept of "six equal square faces." Next up: Sony patents spheres, Microsoft claims exclusive rights to rectangles, and EA announces you'll need to pay $9.99 to unlock the concept of edges. The patent lawyers must be absolutely thriving right now. "Your Honor, my client clearly invented the concept of three-dimensional objects with right angles back in 2001 with the GameCube!"

I Wonder Why It's Perfect

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2 hours ago 24.0K views 0 shares

Nothing says "objective feedback" quite like giving yourself a 5-star review. The developer here has achieved the rare feat of being both his app's creator AND its biggest fan! Self-validation at its finest—because if you don't believe in your code, who will? The best part is the shameless confession: "I'm the author and I think it's a very good app." At least he's honest about his bias, which is more integrity than most git commits have. That perfect 5.0 rating is technically accurate when your sample size is... yourself.

Junior Vs Senior Dev

Debugging Devops Programming Testing

6 hours ago 59.2K views 0 shares

Junior devs frantically running around while everything's on fire, desperately trying to fix bugs they probably created themselves. Meanwhile, senior devs are just sunbathing next to the same dumpster fire—not because they don't care, but because they've seen this exact disaster 47 times before and know the world isn't actually ending. They'll fix it... right after their mental health break. The real senior dev superpower isn't coding wizardry—it's the ability to remain perfectly calm while production is literally exploding.

Just One More Provider

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7 hours ago 68.0K views 0 shares

OMG, BEHOLD THE REACT PROVIDER PYRAMID OF DOOM! 😱 What started as a "simple component" has morphed into this MONSTROSITY of nested providers that would make Russian dolls jealous! The absolute AUDACITY of React developers to say "just one more provider" when their render function already looks like the tech equivalent of a family reunion where NOBODY KNOWS WHEN TO LEAVE. At this point, the closing tags are in a different ZIP code from where they started. This isn't code—it's a cry for help wrapped in angle brackets!

The Tech Support Trap

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9 hours ago 82.5K views 0 shares

The classic PC enthusiast pipeline: first you're all excited telling your friends how amazing custom PCs are, then you're offering to build one for them because "it's so easy," and finally—the inevitable trap—you're suddenly their personal IT department for life. Nothing says "I've made a terrible mistake" quite like getting a text at 11pm saying "my computer is making a weird noise" and knowing you'll spend your weekend troubleshooting a problem caused by 47 toolbars and a suspicious "free antivirus" download. The real cost of being the tech-savvy friend isn't measured in dollars—it's measured in family gatherings spent updating drivers.

The Circle Of Frontend Hell

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9 hours ago 86.0K views 0 shares

Frontend developers just collectively shuddered at this monstrosity. That circular screen is basically saying "Have fun making your responsive designs work on THIS, suckers!" It's like someone looked at the rectangular screens we've been optimizing for decades and thought, "You know what would be fun? Geometry warfare!" Imagine the CSS nightmares. Your perfectly crafted grid layout? Dead. Your meticulously positioned elements? Homeless. Your sanity? Gone. The corners don't even exist anymore! Where do notifications go? Into the void, apparently. The person asking for ONE reason not to buy it clearly hasn't spent hours debugging why their div is 1px off. Meanwhile, frontend devs are already updating their resumes with "survived circular viewport trauma" as a skill.

Love At First Compile

Programming Windows Debugging Testing

14 hours ago 127.2K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. That moment when your code actually compiles without throwing a tantrum is literally BETTER THAN FALLING IN LOVE! 💖 The sheer ECSTASY of seeing that "Code compiled successfully" message after 37 failed attempts and questioning your entire career choice is just *chef's kiss*. Your pupils aren't just dilating – they're EXPLODING with joy because let's be honest, nothing makes a developer's heart race faster than code that doesn't immediately burst into flames. And we all know that fleeting moment of compilation bliss will last approximately 2.7 seconds before you discover 19 runtime errors waiting to crush your soul! But for now? PURE EUPHORIA!

Einstein vs. Machine Learning: The Definition Of Insanity

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14 hours ago 132.9K views 0 shares

Einstein vs. Machine Learning: The Definition Of Insanity

Einstein says insanity is repeating the same thing expecting different results, while machine learning algorithms are literally just vibing through thousands of iterations with the same dataset until something clicks. The irony is delicious - what we mock as human stupidity, we celebrate as AI brilliance. Next time your model is on its 10,000th epoch, just remember: it's not failing, it's "converging to an optimal solution." Gradient descent? More like gradient stubbornness.

The Game Design Character Downgrade

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16 hours ago 154.7K views 0 shares

Game design grad school: where you enter looking like a functional human and exit looking like you've been debugged by a randomized algorithm. The transformation from "ready for a date" to "hasn't seen sunlight since the last Steam sale" happens faster than a garbage collector on a memory leak. Game dev students are just speedrunning the "descent into madness" questline while their non-technical friends still think they're "just playing games all day." Spoiler alert: the final boss is your own sanity, and nobody's found the cheat code yet.

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