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Electron App Devs Right Now

23 minutes ago 4.5K views 0 shares

When RAM prices quadruple in less than a year and your entire business model is "just download more Chrome tabs," you're gonna have a bad time. Electron devs watching their apps go from "slightly bloated" to "mortgage payment" in system requirements. That sweating guy meme face says it all—they're out here shipping desktop apps that bundle an entire Chromium browser just to display a to-do list, and now users need to take out a loan to afford the RAM. For context: Electron lets you build desktop apps with web technologies, which is convenient but notoriously memory-hungry since each app basically runs its own browser instance. When RAM was cheap, nobody cared. Now? Your Slack, Discord, and VS Code are collectively eating more resources than a small data center.

Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past

Devops Webdev Networking Programming Backend

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Cloudflare going down has become the developer's equivalent of "my dog ate my homework" - except it's actually true about 40% of the time. The other 60% you're just on Reddit. The beautiful thing about Cloudflare outages is they're the perfect scapegoat. Your code could be burning down faster than a JavaScript framework's relevance, but if Cloudflare has even a hiccup, you've got yourself a get-out-of-jail-free card. Boss walks by? "Can't deploy, Cloudflare's down." Standup meeting? "Blocked by Cloudflare." Missed deadline? You guessed it. The manager's response of "Oh. Carry on." is peak resignation. They've heard this excuse seventeen times this quarter and honestly, they're too tired to verify. When a single CDN provider has enough market share to be a legitimate excuse for global productivity loss, we've really built ourselves into a corner haven't we?

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Programming C++ Javascript Python Java

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The eternal debate that splits the programming world harder than tabs vs spaces. Baby's first word is "A-a-a" and the proud parent thinks it's adorable... until some psychopath suggests that arrays should start at 1. Zero-indexing is sacred. It's not just tradition—it's mathematically elegant, it's how memory offsets work, and it's been the foundation of programming since the dawn of time. But then you've got languages like Lua, MATLAB, and R out here acting like index 1 is where life begins, and frankly, they deserve to be left in that dumpster. The horror on that parent's face perfectly captures every C, Python, Java, and JavaScript developer's reaction when they encounter a 1-indexed language. It's not just wrong—it's an affront to nature itself.

I Still Don't Understand How Booting Time Got Slower For Whatever Reason

Windows Hardware Microsoft

1 hour ago 18.5K views 0 shares

I Still Don't Understand How Booting Time Got Slower For Whatever Reason

Oh, the BETRAYAL of modern computing! You dropped half a grand on a bleeding-edge AM5 CPU and a blazing-fast M.2 NVMe drive that can theoretically transfer data faster than light itself, only to watch your PC boot up like it's stuck in molasses. Meanwhile, your crusty old 2010 setup with a cheap SATA SSD was zooming through boot screens like The Flash on espresso. The cruel irony? Windows has become SO bloated with telemetry, security checks, and whatever mysterious rituals it performs during startup that even NASA-grade hardware can't save you. Your fancy 8000MB/s drive sits there twiddling its thumbs while Windows decides whether it wants to check for updates, scan your soul, or just take a leisurely stroll through its startup processes. Technology peaked in 2015 and nobody can convince me otherwise!

Let's Just Throw Money At It

AI Programming

2 hours ago 25.1K views 0 shares

Oh look, it's the classic government approach to AI problems! Got a burning dumpster fire of technical debt and legacy systems? Just hose it down with taxpayer money and hope the flames turn into innovation! The two officials here are literally shoveling cash at what appears to be a raging inferno labeled "AI" like that's somehow going to magically solve everything. Because nothing says "well-thought-out technology strategy" quite like panic-funding without understanding the actual problem. Spoiler alert: throwing money at AI without proper infrastructure, talent, or strategy is like trying to water a plant with gasoline. Sure, you're giving it *something*, but you're probably just making the fire worse. But hey, at least the budget report will look impressive!

I'm Really Sorry For Those Who Wanted To Make A Build Just Now

Hardware Gamedev

2 hours ago 32.1K views 0 shares

I'm Really Sorry For Those Who Wanted To Make A Build Just Now

Remember when you could build a gaming PC without taking out a second mortgage? Yeah, me neither. That glorious feeling of assembling your rig right before GPU prices went absolutely bonkers is like watching a plane crash in slow motion—except you're Thomas the Tank Engine with that unsettlingly cheerful smile, blissfully unaware of the financial apocalypse behind you. Building your PC before the crypto mining boom, chip shortage, and general hardware price insanity hit different. You got that sweet RTX 3080 at MSRP while everyone else is now fighting scalpers and bots for a card that costs more than their entire setup. Meanwhile, current builders are out here selling kidneys just to afford RAM sticks. The best part? You're just cruising along with your reasonably-priced components while the entire PC building community burns in the background. No regrets, just vibes and 144fps.

When You Realize 6 Months Of Coding Is Still No Magic

Backend Webdev Programming Databases

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When You Realize 6 Months Of Coding Is Still No Magic

Six months in and you thought you'd be building the next Netflix by now. Instead, you're still Googling "how to center a div" and wondering why your API returns undefined. Backend development is basically an iceberg where the tip is "hello world" and the rest is databases, authentication, caching, microservices, message queues, load balancing, and existential dread about whether you should've just become a frontend dev. The real maturity isn't learning to code—it's accepting that those "full-stack developer in 3 months" bootcamp ads were lying to you. Backend alone could take years to truly master, and that's before you even touch DevOps, security, or the seventeen different ways to structure your project folders.

Rebase Rumble

Git Devops Programming

3 hours ago 42.3K views 0 shares

The classic trolley problem, but make it git. You've got one innocent developer on the upper track and a whole team on the lower track. What's a responsible engineer to do? Run git rebase master of course! Plot twist: rebasing doesn't actually save anyone. It just rewrites history so that lone developer who was safe on the upper track now gets yeeted to the lower track with everyone else. The team went from "we're all gonna die together" to "we're STILL all gonna die together, but now with a cleaner commit history." The best part? That "Successfully rebased and updated ref" message is basically git's way of saying "I did what you asked, don't blame me for the consequences." Sure, your branch looks linear and beautiful now, but at what cost? At what cost?! Pro tip: This is why some teams have a strict "no rebase on shared branches" policy. Because one person's quest for a pristine git log can turn into everyone's merge conflict nightmare faster than you can say git reflog .

It Happened Again

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

6 hours ago 84.1K views 0 shares

When you've been riding that sweet 17-day streak of Cloudflare stability and suddenly wake up to half the internet being down. Again. Nothing quite like that sinking feeling when your perfectly working app gets blamed for being broken, but it's actually just Cloudflare taking a nap and bringing down a solid chunk of the web with it. The best part? Your non-tech manager asking "why is our site down?" and you have to explain that no, it's not your code this time—it's literally the infrastructure that's supposed to protect you from going down. The irony is chef's kiss. Pro tip: Keep a "Days Since Last Cloudflare Outage" counter in your Slack. It's like a workplace safety sign, but for the modern web.

Is Cloudflare Down

Devops Webdev Networking Backend Cloud

6 hours ago 88.4K views 0 shares

The irony is chef's kiss. You're trying to check if Cloudflare is down by visiting a status page that's... served through Cloudflare. It's like asking the fire if it's burning properly. The 500 error is basically Cloudflare saying "I can't tell you if I'm down because I'm too busy being down." This is why every ops team has trust issues and keeps three different status checkers bookmarked. Because nothing says "reliable infrastructure" quite like your monitoring tool being unable to monitor itself.

Electron Apps

Javascript Webdev Hardware Programming Frontend

7 hours ago 95.8K views 0 shares

Remember when building a cross-platform desktop app seemed like a good idea? Just wrap an entire Chromium browser around your glorified calculator app, they said. It'll be fine, they said. Now every todo list app on your machine is basically running its own copy of Chrome, each one hogging more RAM than your entire OS did in 2010. Your 32GB of RAM? Gone. Your fans spinning up for a chat app? Normal. Your CPU crying because you opened Slack, VS Code, Discord, and Spotify at the same time? Just another Tuesday. The real kicker? RAM prices are skyrocketing because everyone's buying GPUs for AI training, so now you get to pay premium prices to run five instances of Chromium just to check your messages. What a time to be alive.

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room

Devops Networking Backend Cloud

7 hours ago 99.8K views 0 shares

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room

Cloudflare updates have achieved 9/11 status in the IT world. Every time they push an update, half the internet goes down and you're just standing there watching your monitoring dashboard light up like a Christmas tree. The priest performing last rites on the server infrastructure is honestly the most accurate representation of a sysadmin's emotional state during a CDN outage. At least when your own servers crash, you can blame yourself. When Cloudflare goes down, you get to explain to your boss why the entire internet is broken and no, you can't just "restart the cloud."

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