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Five Hours Wasted

1 hour ago 25.0K views 0 shares

Nothing quite like the special kind of rage that comes from debugging C for hours, only to realize the "bug" was actually a feature you forgot you implemented. Or worse—it was working exactly as intended and you just didn't understand your own code anymore. The progression here is beautiful: starts with innocent optimism, discovers something's wrong, descends into debugging hell trying to fix it, then finally achieves enlightenment (or insanity?) when you realize there was never anything to fix. Those five hours? Gone. Vaporized. Could've been playing the game instead of hunting phantom bugs. Bonus points for doing this in C where every "bug" could legitimately be undefined behavior, a segfault waiting to happen, or just your pointer arithmetic being spicy. The paranoia is justified, which makes the realization even more painful.

Lady Gaga Private Key

Security Networking Programming

3 hours ago 42.3K views 0 shares

When Lady Gaga accidentally tweets what looks like someone's entire private key from 2012, and a programmer decides to format it properly with BEGIN/END tags like it's a legit PEM certificate. Because nothing says "secure cryptography" like a pop star's keyboard smash going viral. The beauty here is that Lady Gaga probably just fell asleep on her keyboard or let her cat walk across it, but to security-minded devs, any random string of gibberish immediately triggers the "oh god, did someone just leak their SSH key?" reflex. The programmer's brain can't help but see patterns in chaos—it's like pareidolia but for cryptographic material. Pro tip: If your actual private key looks like "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHRHRGRGRGRRRRG," you've either discovered a new compression algorithm or your key generation ceremony involved too much tequila.

At Least He Closes Brackets Like Lisp

AI Algorithms Programming Python

5 hours ago 77.1K views 0 shares

When you can mentally rotate a 4D hypercube in your head but suddenly become illiterate when asked to visualize nested loops. The buff doge confidently shows off his spatial reasoning skills, while the wimpy doge just stares at four nested for-loops like they're written in ancient Sumerian. The punchline? That glorious cascade of closing brackets: } } } } – the telltale sign of someone who either writes machine learning code or has given up on life. It's the programming equivalent of those Russian nesting dolls, except each doll contains existential dread and off-by-one errors. The title references Lisp's infamous parentheses situation, where closing a function looks like )))))))) – except now we've upgraded to curly braces. Progress!

This Is The End Hold Your Breath And

AI Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 109.1K views 1 shares

Finding someone's Instagram? Cute, wholesome, maybe a little flirty. Finding someone's ChatGPT? That's like discovering their browser history, therapy sessions, and shower thoughts all rolled into one horrifying package. Your ChatGPT history is where you asked "how to center a div" for the 47th time, debugged code at 2 AM with increasingly desperate prompts, and maybe even asked it to explain Kubernetes like you're five (three times). It's the digital equivalent of someone reading your diary, except your diary is filled with half-baked algorithms, existential questions about async/await, and that one time you asked it to write a breakup text in Python comments. The sheer panic on that face is justified. Some things were meant to stay between you and your AI overlord.

Together We Are Powerful

Frontend Webdev Programming Backend

7 hours ago 125.8K views 0 shares

The eternal divide between creative insecurity and engineering solidarity. Designers see a new hire as competition, immediately questioning their worth and value. Meanwhile, engineers? They're just happy to have another warm body who understands what a merge conflict is. There's actually some truth here: design is often subjective and political, where one person's vision can overshadow another's. Engineering is more collaborative by necessity—nobody wants to be the only one on-call when production goes down at 2 AM. Plus, more engineers means less chance you'll be the one debugging that legacy code nobody wants to touch. Designers compete for creative ownership. Engineers unionize against the backlog.

Incredible How Pretty Much The Entire Github Homepage Is Useless

Git Webdev Programming Frontend

8 hours ago 145.7K views 0 shares

Incredible How Pretty Much The Entire Github Homepage Is Useless

GitHub's homepage has become a masterclass in corporate bloat. You land there and it's just... marketing fluff, hero images, and calls-to-action that nobody who actually uses GitHub needs. We all just type "github.com/username/repo" directly into the address bar or have it bookmarked anyway. The red striped overlay here is doing the lord's work—showing us what we already knew but were too polite to say. That entire beautiful, carefully designed homepage? Useless pixels. The only thing developers actually need is the search bar and maybe the profile dropdown. Everything else is just there to impress investors and confuse new users. Real developers skip the homepage entirely and go straight to their repos, issues, or PRs. The homepage is basically the LinkedIn feed of code hosting—technically exists, but nobody's there by choice.

Stay In Your Lane Bruv

Backend Webdev Agile Programming Frontend

9 hours ago 152.7K views 0 shares

You know that junior dev who just finished a React tutorial and suddenly thinks they're qualified to redesign your entire microservices architecture? That's what's happening here. The vibe coder—bless their heart—has wandered into a system design meeting armed with nothing but confidence and a Figma account. The architects are giving them that look. You know the one. The "please stop talking before you suggest we store everything in localStorage" look. System design meetings are where you discuss scalability, data flow, and whether your database will survive Black Friday traffic. It's not the place for "what if we just made it look cooler?" Stay in your lane, focus on those CSS animations, and let the backend folks argue about CAP theorem in peace.

Bring Back jQuery

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

11 hours ago 184.5K views 0 shares

Remember when your entire project was like 50KB? Yeah, me neither. Now you need to install 847 dependencies just to center a div. That node_modules folder has become so comically massive it's basically a black hole that consumes disk space faster than you can say "npm install." Modern web development: where your actual code is 2KB but your dependencies weigh more than a small car. Meanwhile jQuery is sitting there like "I was 30KB and did everything you needed" but nobody wants to hear it because we're too busy configuring webpack for the 47th time. Fun fact: The average node_modules folder contains more files than the number of stars visible to the naked eye. Okay I made that up, but it feels true.

We're Making A Hand-Drawn 2D Point And Click Sidescroller Game And Someone On TikTok Asked For A First Person Mode 😭

Gamedev Unity

11 hours ago 184.6K views 0 shares

We're Making A Hand-Drawn 2D Point And Click Sidescroller Game And Someone On TikTok Asked For A First Person Mode 😭

Nothing says "I don't understand game development" quite like asking for a first-person mode in a 2D side-scroller. The dev's response is chef's kiss—comparing it to someone asking you to add beef and gravy to chocolate cupcakes. Sure, they're both food, but you've fundamentally misunderstood the assignment. Converting a hand-drawn 2D point-and-click game to first-person would require redrawing literally everything from a completely different perspective. It's not a feature request—it's asking you to make an entirely different game. The "get fancier later" caption on that beautiful hand-drawn barn really seals the deal. Yeah buddy, first-person mode is slightly beyond "fancier." TikTok users and feature creep, name a more iconic duo.

Programmer's Block

Git Programming

13 hours ago 210.9K views 0 shares

You know you're in deep when you can't even come up with a commit message. Writer's block is staring at a blank page, but programmer's block is staring at a terminal with git commit -m "" and your brain just... nope. Nothing. Not even "fixed stuff" or "updated things" comes to mind. Just that blinking cursor mocking your entire existence. At least writers can blame the muse—we just blame Monday.

How Real Programmers Handle Bugs

Debugging Programming

14 hours ago 221.4K views 0 shares

Classic move: when the compiler catches your divide-by-zero, just give it a variable name and suddenly it's "intentional." Because nothing says "I know what I'm doing" like wrapping your runtime exception in a slightly fancier package. Top panel: direct division by zero, compiler's all confident and screaming at you. Bottom panel: same exact bug, just with extra steps and a variable declaration. Compiler suddenly gets polite and respectful, like you've unlocked some secret knowledge. Spoiler alert: your program still crashes at runtime. You didn't fix anything—you just moved the explosion from compile-time to production. But hey, at least it compiled, right? Ship it.

I Used To Be A God Among Men

Programming Gamedev

14 hours ago 225.8K views 0 shares

Remember when you could pull all-nighters debugging your passion project, fueled by nothing but Mountain Dew and the sheer audacity of youth? Yeah, those days are gone. Now your body starts sending shutdown signals at 8:47 PM and you're negotiating with yourself about whether that second cup of coffee is worth the insomnia. The cruel irony is that you're technically a better developer now—you know design patterns, you write tests, you actually read documentation—but your biological infrastructure has deprecated itself. Your code quality went up while your uptime went down. That's called getting older in tech, and it hits different when you realize the junior devs are still gaming till sunrise while you're scheduling your standup around your second nap.

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