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Hate When This Happen

40 minutes ago 11.0K views 0 shares

Nothing quite like having a principal dev who's been maintaining that legacy COBOL system since the Reagan administration get schooled by the 23-year-old who just finished a React bootcamp. The confidence of fresh grads who think their 6 months of JavaScript experience qualifies them to refactor a battle-tested system that's been running production for 15 years is truly something to behold. Meanwhile, the senior dev is standing there thinking about all the edge cases, technical debt, and production incidents that aren't covered in the latest Medium article the junior just read. But sure, let's rewrite everything in the framework-of-the-month because "it's how it's done now."

How Different Professions Handle Stolen Ideas

Git Webdev Programming StackOverflow

1 hour ago 17.5K views 0 shares

How Different Professions Handle Stolen Ideas

Designers will fight to the death over who thought of rounded corners first. Programmers? We've all copy-pasted from Stack Overflow so much that code ownership is basically a philosophical debate at this point. And GitHub users have evolved past shame entirely—stealing code isn't theft, it's "collaboration" and "open source contribution." Fork it, slap your name on the README, call it a day. The real power move is when someone forks your repo, makes zero changes, and somehow gets more stars than you.

Only Gave Us Half A Upgrade

Hardware Gamedev

3 hours ago 44.5K views 0 shares

NVIDIA really said "here's your shiny new GPU with all the power you could ever want" and then conveniently forgot that your RAM hasn't evolved past the Jurassic period. DLSS 4.5 is doing its absolute best to squeeze every frame out of thin air while your 16GB of RAM is sweating bullets trying to keep up with modern gaming's insatiable appetite for memory. It's like putting a rocket engine on a bicycle—sure, the engine works great, but you're still pedaling with your feet dragging on the ground. Classic hardware bottleneck energy right here.

I'm Beggin

Devops Agile Programming Backend Cloud

4 hours ago 55.5K views 0 shares

Nothing says "career advancement" quite like desperately pleading to avoid accountability. Because who needs ownership, code reviews, or the ability to sleep at night when you can just... not be responsible? The beautiful irony here is that becoming a service owner means you'd actually have to care about uptime, monitoring, and those pesky production incidents. Much better to stay in the shadows where your technical debt can compound interest-free and your spaghetti code remains someone else's problem. Pro tip: if you're begging NOT to own something, you've probably already written the exact kind of code that makes service ownership a nightmare. The circle of life continues.

How To Join Tables

Databases Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

4 hours ago 68.0K views 1 shares

Frontend devs standing around at a picnic, literally joining their physical tables together because SQL joins are apparently a backend dark art. The joke writes itself—they're comfortable making buttons look pretty and centering divs, but ask them to write a LEFT JOIN and suddenly they're eating standing up. Meanwhile, backend devs are somewhere in a dark room, muttering about normalization and foreign keys, wondering why the API request is asking for the entire database in a single GET call.

Can You Explain How It Works

Programming StackOverflow Debugging

8 hours ago 117.8K views 1 shares

You know that feeling when your code works but you have absolutely no idea why? Yeah, that's the vibe here. Developer confidently drops buzzwords like "vibe coded" and talks about "the future" like they're some tech visionary. Then someone asks them to actually explain the implementation details and suddenly it's *crickets*. The stack overflow copy-paste energy is strong with this one. Sure, the app runs. Sure, it passes the demo. But ask them to walk through the logic and they're looking at you like a confused cat at a microphone. We've all been there—riding high on that dopamine hit when something finally compiles, then immediately forgetting every single thing we just did to make it work.

The Greatest Card That's Ever Lived

Hardware Networking Devops Programming Debugging

9 hours ago 130.6K views 0 shares

This Yu-Gi-Oh card perfectly encapsulates the god-tier status of that one technician who can fix literally anything in your office. You know the one—the person who somehow knows how to unjam the printer, reset the router, recover your "accidentally deleted" production database, AND explain why your code works on their machine but not yours. The effect text is chef's kiss: buffs all your machine-type monsters (your infrastructure), can special summon from your deck (pull solutions out of thin air), and the "Your mom's toothbrush" spell card immunity is just *peak* absurdist humor. Plus the 3800 ATK means this card is absolutely busted—just like how that one tech wizard makes everyone else's troubleshooting attempts look pathetic. The real kicker? If they've been in your field for 3 turns, you can summon a "Gooch collector" from your deck but it gets destroyed at the End phase. Translation: their help is temporary, and eventually you're on your own again. Better hope they don't leave for another company or you're all doomed.

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AI Devops Bash Programming Debugging

10 hours ago 147.3K views 0 shares

Someone built a plugin that traps Claude AI in an infinite loop by preventing it from exiting, forcing it to repeatedly work on the same task until it "gets it right." Named after Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. You know, the kid who eats paste. The plugin intercepts Claude's exit attempts with a stop hook, creating what they call a "self-referential feedback loop." Each iteration, Claude sees its own previous work and tries again. It's basically waterboarding for AI, but with code reviews instead of water. The best part? They're calling it a "development methodology" and proudly documenting it on GitHub. Nothing says "modern software engineering" quite like naming your workflow after a cartoon character who once said "I'm a unitard" while wearing a leotard. The real horror isn't just the concept—it's that someone spent 179 lines implementing this and thought "yeah, this needs proper documentation."

Asus Just Solved All Of Your Problems

AI Hardware Microsoft

11 hours ago 148.6K views 0 shares

Oh WONDERFUL, because what every developer desperately needs is a dedicated physical Copilot button on their mini PC! Nothing screams "innovation" quite like slapping a hardware button for an AI assistant that could literally just be... you know... a keyboard shortcut? Or a taskbar icon? Or literally anything that doesn't require manufacturing an entire physical button? The circled button on the front of this sleek little box is basically a monument to the AI hype train. Because apparently we've reached peak tech evolution where instead of solving actual problems like better thermals, upgradeable RAM, or reasonable pricing, we're getting a button that summons Microsoft's AI overlord. Can't wait to accidentally press it while reaching for a USB port and have Copilot cheerfully interrupt my debugging session to suggest I "try turning it off and on again" in the most verbose way possible.

Happy New

Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend Backend

11 hours ago 154.8K views 0 shares

When you're so confident it's gonna be a short year that you hardcode the max date to 2025, then January 1st hits and you're frantically pushing hotfixes to bump it to 2026. Nothing says "professional software development" quite like annual date validation updates. At least someone's job security is guaranteed – see you next December for the 2027 patch!

How To Explain Github To Non Programmers

Git Webdev Programming

13 hours ago 181.5K views 0 shares

How To Explain Github To Non Programmers

So someone finally cracked the code on explaining version control to your non-tech friends. Git is the underlying technology (the actual content management system), while GitHub is just the fancy platform where everyone hosts it. It's like saying "Kleenex created tissues" when tissues existed way before Kleenex slapped their brand on them. But honestly? The analogy works better than you'd think. Both platforms are hosting services for content that already exists elsewhere, both have... questionable content moderation at times, and both have comment sections that make you question humanity. Plus, they both have a "fork" feature, though one is significantly more family-friendly than the other. Next time someone asks what you do on GitHub, just tell them you're "collaborating on open-source projects" and watch their brain try to process that without the PornHub comparison.

You Piece Of Vibe Coder You Are Not Senior Dev Understand

Programming Webdev

15 hours ago 206.1K views 0 shares

You Piece Of Vibe Coder You Are Not Senior Dev Understand

Nothing triggers a real senior dev quite like seeing some fresh-faced 21-year-old on Instagram claiming "Senior Developer" in their bio. Kid probably just finished their bootcamp last Tuesday and suddenly they're out here acting like they've survived production incidents at 3 AM, dealt with legacy code from 2003, or had to explain to management why "just make it work like Facebook" isn't a valid requirement. Senior isn't just about knowing React hooks or writing clean code. It's about the battle scars—the time you accidentally dropped the production database, the merge conflicts that made you question your career choices, the technical debt you inherited from three developers ago who all quit. You earn that title through years of pain, not by watching YouTube tutorials and calling yourself a "10x engineer." But hey, LinkedIn influencer culture has everyone speedrunning their careers these days. Next thing you know, teenagers will be listing "CTO" because they deployed a Next.js app to Vercel.

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