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What's The Most Worn-Out Key On Your Keyboard?

4 minutes ago 1.1K views 0 shares

The 'W' key is completely obliterated while everything else looks pristine. Why? Because real developers don't back up, don't retreat, and certainly don't learn from their mistakes. Just keep pushing forward into production with that half-baked code and see what happens. Debugging? Nah. Refactoring? Never heard of her. Just W-W-W-W-W your way through life until something breaks spectacularly. The determination in those anime eyes says it all: "I will not Ctrl+Z my way out of this. I will not git revert. I will simply continue writing more code on top of my bugs until they become features." That's the spirit of a true 10x developer right there—moving forward at all costs, leaving a trail of technical debt and confused teammates in your wake.

Man That Debugging Session Was Not Fun

Linux Devops Programming Debugging

54 minutes ago 9.9K views 0 shares

Installing VSCode via Snap on Linux is like choosing to debug in production on a Friday afternoon—technically possible, but you'll regret every second of it. The performance is sluggish, the integration is janky, and suddenly your editor takes 10 seconds to open a file. It's the kind of mistake that haunts you during every coding session afterward. Snap packages are containerized apps that sound great in theory but often deliver a subpar experience compared to native installations. VSCode via Snap is notorious for being slower, having clipboard issues, and generally feeling like you're coding through molasses. Veterans know: always grab the .deb package or use the official Microsoft repo. The debugging session reference? That's the painful 4-hour journey of uninstalling Snap VSCode, cleaning up the mess it left behind, and reinstalling it properly while your deadline looms closer.

Jungle

Programming

3 hours ago 43.3K views 0 shares

Someone discovered that jungle music and infinite break statements have the same energy. Just relentless, unending breaks with no discernible pattern or purpose. No loops, no logic, no escape—just break after break after break. It's the musical equivalent of a switch statement written by someone who's given up on life. The compiler is crying. The CPU is confused. And somewhere, a code reviewer is having an aneurysm trying to figure out what control flow was supposed to happen here.

Software Engineers In A Nutshell

AI Programming

4 hours ago 52.2K views 0 shares

The evolution of developer dependency in record time. We went from "this AI thing is neat" to "I literally cannot function without it" faster than a React framework gets deprecated. What's wild is how accurate this timeline is. 2023 was all about experimentation—"Hey ChatGPT, write me a regex for email validation" (because let's be real, nobody actually knows regex). Now? We're one API outage away from collective panic. It's like we speedran the entire adoption curve and skipped straight to Stockholm syndrome. The real question for 2026 isn't whether we can code without it—it's whether we'll even remember how. Stack Overflow is already gathering dust while we ask ChatGPT to explain why our code doesn't work, then ask it to fix the code it just wrote. Circle of life, baby.

Daily Javascript Hate Post Is Here Baby

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

6 hours ago 73.2K views 0 shares

You know your project has gone sideways when your node_modules folder has more mass than a literal black hole. The sun? Cute. A neutron star? Child's play. A black hole that warps spacetime itself? Still lighter than the 47,000 dependencies you installed just to center a div. The best part? You only ran npm install once. Just once. And now your SSD is crying, your IDE is indexing until heat death, and you're pretty sure your laptop just developed its own gravitational pull. But hey, at least you got that left-pad functionality, right?

Ssd=Some S Ds

Hardware

7 hours ago 82.8K views 0 shares

Oh honey, someone just peeled back the curtain on the ENTIRE tech industry and revealed what your "512GB SSD" really is: literally just some SD cards taped together with the hopes and dreams of budget hardware manufacturers. The absolute AUDACITY of slapping a SATA connector on what is essentially a kindergarten arts and crafts project and calling it "solid state storage." Your lightning-fast boot times? Courtesy of two SD cards holding hands and pretending to be enterprise-grade storage. The tech equivalent of three kids in a trench coat trying to get into an R-rated movie. But hey, at least now you know why that "SSD" was suspiciously cheap on AliExpress!

You Never Know What's Next

Hardware Gamedev

8 hours ago 88.2K views 0 shares

Your parents bought a house in their 20s. You bought a CPU, GPU, and mechanical keyboards that cost more than your rent. Different generations, different priorities. At least your RGB lights make you feel alive while you contemplate the heat death of your bank account. The real kicker? That $1,949 GPU will be obsolete in 18 months, but your parents' house tripled in value. Financial planning at its finest.

Thank You Linus

Git Devops Programming Linux

8 hours ago 95.7K views 0 shares

Behold the holy trinity of version control systems! Git is living its best life, getting all the love and attention from programmers worldwide. Meanwhile, Mercurial is drowning in obscurity, desperately gasping for relevance while watching Git get all the glory. And then there's SVN – literally a skeleton at the bottom of the ocean, forgotten by time itself, still waiting for someone to remember it exists. Thanks to Linus Torvalds for blessing us with Git and single-handedly sending SVN to its watery grave. The man really said "let there be distributed version control" and the rest is history. Poor SVN thought it was hot stuff with its centralized repository until Git showed up and absolutely DEMOLISHED the competition.

Responsive Design, But It's A Cat

Frontend Webdev Programming

8 hours ago 99.8K views 0 shares

When you set both width and height to 100% and your element decides to become a PERFECT CUBE OF CHAOS. This cat has literally achieved what every frontend dev fears—the dreaded aspect ratio nightmare where your carefully crafted design just... expands in ALL directions simultaneously. No max-width, no aspect-ratio property, no media queries to save you—just pure, unfiltered geometric horror. The cat's face says it all: "I have become the container, destroyer of layouts." This is what happens when you forget that 100% means 100% of the PARENT, and apparently this cat's parent was a Rubik's Cube. Someone call a CSS exorcist.

Who Feels Like This Today

AI Webdev Devops Docker Frontend

9 hours ago 109.8K views 0 shares

The AI/ML revolution has created a new aristocracy in tech, and spoiler alert: traditional developers aren't invited to the palace. While ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and MLOps Engineers strut around like they're founding fathers of the digital age, the rest of us are down in the trenches just trying to get Docker to work on a Tuesday. Web Developers are fighting CSS battles and JavaScript framework fatigue. Software Developers are debugging legacy code written by someone who left the company in 2014. And DevOps Developers? They're just trying to explain to management why the CI/CD pipeline broke again after someone pushed directly to main. Meanwhile, the AI crowd gets to say "we trained a model" and suddenly they're tech royalty with VC funding and conference keynotes. The salary gap speaks for itself—one group is discussing their stock options over artisanal coffee, while the other is Googling "why is my build failing" for the 47th time today.

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Programming

11 hours ago 134.9K views 0 shares

COBOL assignments are already punishment enough without the professor's commentary. First they tell you to add comments, so you write "*> move A to B" which is literally just repeating what the code says in slightly different words. Then they hit you with the "explain WHY not WHAT" lecture, so you craft these beautiful explanatory comments about copying values around. The code went from self-documenting to over-documented faster than a mainframe processes a batch job. Nothing says "I understand good practices" quite like explaining why you're moving variables in a language where everything is already painfully verbose.

Well That Was Useful

Programming Debugging

11 hours ago 140.1K views 0 shares

Oh fantastic, you finally decided to check the documentation after hours of suffering! And what do you find? Instructions so vague they might as well be ancient hieroglyphics. The documentation literally shows you how to put a square peg in a round hole—technically correct but COMPLETELY useless for your actual problem. Thanks for nothing, documentation writers who clearly moonlight as abstract artists! Nothing says "helpful" quite like instructions that make you question your entire existence and career choices.

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