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Do You Want A Print Statement With That Monad

2 hours ago 46.4K views 0 shares

Functional programmers learning imperative languages: "Wait, I can just... print things? Without wrapping everything in an IO monad? This is amazing!" Imperative programmers learning functional languages: "So you're telling me I need to understand category theory just to debug with console.log? I studied computer science, not mathematics from the 1940s." The beautiful irony here is that the functional dev discovers the joy of side effects and mutable state like a kid in a candy store, while the imperative dev realizes that their trusty println() requires understanding functors, applicatives, and monadic composition. One person's "finally, simplicity!" is another person's existential crisis. Pro tip: If someone starts explaining monads using burrito analogies, just nod and go back to your print statements. You'll be fine.

Me, After Carefully Reading Rust's Ownership And Borrow Checker Rules

Rust Programming

3 hours ago 51.9K views 0 shares

Me, After Carefully Reading Rust's Ownership And Borrow Checker Rules

You spend three hours reading the Rust book, watching tutorials, and finally understanding ownership rules. Then you open your IDE and suddenly you're Oprah giving out & references like they're free cars. Everything gets a reference! That variable? Reference. That struct field? Reference. That function parameter you'll use once? Believe it or not, also a reference. The borrow checker still yells at you anyway because apparently you can't have 47 mutable references to the same thing at once. Who knew? (Literally everyone who read the docs, but your brain chose violence instead of comprehension.)

Swap Like It's 1996

Linux Hardware

4 hours ago 70.8K views 0 shares

Back when RAM cost more than your car and you had to mortgage your house for 32MB, swap partitions were basically mandatory survival gear. Now? Just throw a 50GB swap partition on your NVMe and suddenly you're running Chrome with 47 tabs like it's nothing. Meanwhile, people are dropping $200 on 16GB of DDR5 and wondering why their system still feels slow. The swap partition guy is out here living in 2024 with 1996 solutions and honestly? Still works. Can't argue with free.

Still Waiting...

Hardware

6 hours ago 84.9K views 0 shares

When USB-C was announced back in 2014, the tech world promised us a glorious future where one cable would rule them all. Fast forward to 2026, and motherboards are still rocking more USB-A ports than a 2010 gaming rig. The "universal" connector that was supposed to replace everything is now just... another port we need to carry adapters for. Turns out backward compatibility is both a blessing and a curse. Sure, your new laptop has USB-C, but good luck finding a motherboard that doesn't have like 15 USB-A ports because manufacturers know you've got a drawer full of peripherals from the Obama administration that you're not ready to let go of yet. The eternal struggle between innovation and "but my keyboard from 2008 still works perfectly fine."

Job Title Roulette

Programming

7 hours ago 98.1K views 0 shares

The tech industry has invented approximately 47 different ways to say "person who writes code" and they all mean the exact same thing. Developer, Software Developer, Programmer, Computer Programmer, Engineer, Software Engineer, Coder—pick your flavor, they're all doing the same job. It's like choosing between "sparkling water" and "carbonated H₂O." Companies will spend hours debating whether to hire a "Software Engineer II" versus a "Senior Developer I" while the person just wants to know if they can afford rent. The real answer? It depends on which title makes HR feel important that day and whether the company wants to sound fancy at cocktail parties. Spoiler alert: your actual responsibilities will be identical regardless of whether your business card says "Code Wizard" or "Digital Solutions Architect."

Node Js Printing Logs

Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Backend

7 hours ago 103.8K views 0 shares

You know that console.log() you threw in there to debug that one weird edge case six months ago? Yeah, it's still there. Chilling in production. Logging every single request like a chatty parrot. The brain's concern is totally valid—print statements in production are unprofessional, can leak sensitive data, and clutter your logs. But the developer's casual "I'll remove it next release" is the tech equivalent of "I'll start going to the gym next Monday." Spoiler: they won't. Then comes the plot twist: "It's javascript." And suddenly all bets are off. The brain just accepts defeat because in the Node.js ecosystem, console.log() is practically a feature at this point. Half the npm packages you're using probably have forgotten console.logs scattered throughout their codebases. Your production logs are basically a archaeological dig site of debugging statements from 2018. The real tragedy? That print statement will outlive the developer's tenure at the company.

Documenting For Everyone Else Yeah Thats Definitely Why

Programming

8 hours ago 112.6K views 0 shares

Documenting For Everyone Else Yeah Thats Definitely Why

Ah yes, the classic "I'm doing this for the team" excuse when really you're just trying to remember what the hell that function does three hours from now. We all pretend we're being altruistic team players writing detailed comments and documentation, but deep down we know the truth: our memory is about as reliable as JavaScript's type system. You'll write a brilliant algorithm at 2 AM, feel like a genius, and then come back the next morning staring at your own code like it's written in ancient hieroglyphics. That's when you realize past-you was actually looking out for future-you, not the junior dev who might inherit this codebase. The real MVP is the comment that says "don't touch this, I don't know why it works either."

Got A Deal On Some Memory

Hardware Programming

9 hours ago 122.1K views 0 shares

Someone really said "I need more RAM" and went straight to the 1960s computer museum clearance sale. Look at that glorious stack of punch cards sitting there like ancient scrolls of forgotten code! Each hole punched with the precision of a medieval scribe, storing maybe what, 80 bytes per card? You'd need roughly 137 BILLION of these bad boys to match a single 8GB RAM stick. But hey, at least when your program crashes, you can literally see which card caused the segfault and just... throw it in the trash. No memory leaks here—just physical holes leaking air! The ultimate in debugging: if it doesn't work, just punch different holes.

When The Senior Asks Who Broke The Build

Git Devops Programming Debugging Testing

11 hours ago 145.1K views 0 shares

When The Senior Asks Who Broke The Build

That moment when the CI pipeline turns red and suddenly you're intensely fascinated by your keyboard, your coffee, literally anything except making eye contact with the senior dev doing their investigation. You know that feeling when you pushed "just a small change" without running tests locally because "it'll be fine"? And now the entire team's workflow is blocked, Slack is blowing up, and you're sitting there pretending to be deeply absorbed in "refactoring" while internally screaming. The monkey puppet meme captures that exact deer-in-headlights energy when guilt is written all over your face but you're committed to the bit. Pro tip: Next time maybe run those tests before you commit. Or at least have a good excuse ready. "Works on my machine" won't save you this time, buddy.

Audio Issues Man, Audio Issues...

Linux Hardware Debugging

12 hours ago 156.2K views 1 shares

The fantasy: "I'll switch to Linux and become a productivity god!" The reality: spending 6 hours troubleshooting why your audio randomly cuts out, why Bluetooth refuses to pair, and why your headphones work in one app but not another. PulseAudio? PipeWire? ALSA? Who knows! You just wanted to listen to Spotify while coding, but now you're knee-deep in Stack Overflow threads from 2014 and editing config files you don't understand. Meanwhile, your Windows-using coworker just... plugged in their headphones and it worked. The pain is real.

Hire The Guy

Frontend AI Webdev Programming

14 hours ago 204.0K views 0 shares

Someone "fixed" OpenAI's UI by making the popup text more concise and readable, then shot their shot asking for a job at $5/hour plus a can of cola. Honestly? That's underselling yourself king, but I respect the hustle. The side-by-side comparison shows how a simple UI tweak can make a huge difference—turns out even AI companies need better UX designers. The salary negotiation strategy is questionable though. Even interns get paid more than that, and they usually don't even get the cola. Fun fact: The original popup is unnecessarily wordy. "Run your next API request by adding credits" vs "Run your next API request by ad..." (cut off). Sometimes the best code is the code you delete, and apparently the same goes for UI copy.

I Still Haven't Figured Out How To Do This

Microsoft Windows Programming

16 hours ago 214.6K views 0 shares

I Still Haven't Figured Out How To Do This

You can reverse-engineer a distributed microservices architecture, debug race conditions in multithreaded applications, and optimize algorithms to O(log n), but deleting a blank page in Word? That's where we draw the line. Microsoft Word's pagination system operates on ancient dark magic that predates modern computing—it's literally easier to rewrite the entire document than figure out why that phantom page exists. The irony of being called "technologically advanced" while frantically mashing backspace and delete like a caveman discovering fire is just *chef's kiss*. Fun fact: Those blank pages are usually caused by paragraph marks, section breaks, or page breaks that Word hides like Easter eggs from hell. But will you remember that next time? Absolutely not.

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