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Well It Does Exactly What It Says

16 minutes ago 2.7K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the most deterministic random number generator ever created. This function declares an uninitialized integer 'd', then immediately returns it. Congratulations, you've successfully implemented a "random" number generator that returns whatever garbage value happened to be sitting in that memory location. It's random in the sense that you have no idea what you're getting, but it's definitely not what anyone requesting a random number would want. Task failed successfully.

If It Works It's Not Stupid

StackOverflow Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

41 minutes ago 6.0K views 0 shares

While lawyers and doctors spend years in prestigious schools mastering their craft, programmers are out here just frantically Googling error messages and copying Stack Overflow solutions like digital scavengers. The truth hurts, but let's be honest—most of us are just one browser history clear away from being completely useless at our jobs. The modern developer's degree is essentially a Bachelor's in Advanced Search Query Optimization with a minor in Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. And yet somehow, the code still runs. Magical, isn't it?

Stand Proud: The Old Ways Are The Strong Ways

Java AI Gamedev Javascript Programming

1 hour ago 10.1K views 0 shares

Stand Proud: The Old Ways Are The Strong Ways

The rare sight of a developer with actual respect for fundamentals! While everyone's chasing the latest JavaScript framework and slapping together AI demos with more dependencies than original code, this little brother is out here building pixel-art RPGs in Java from scratch . That's not just coding—that's craftsmanship. There's something deeply satisfying about watching someone learn programming the hard way instead of becoming another "copy-paste from Stack Overflow" developer who calls themselves a "10x engineer" because they can npm install 47 packages in one command. The future belongs to those who understand what's happening under the hood. I, too, will watch this career with great interest.

But I'm Nothing Without ChatGPT

AI Programming

4 hours ago 48.8K views 0 shares

The brutal truth of modern development hits hard! This is basically every junior dev who's been using ChatGPT as a crutch instead of actually learning fundamentals. The dependency paradox strikes again—if you're completely reliant on AI to write your code, you haven't actually developed the skills to be a proper engineer. It's like claiming you're a chef because you can follow microwave instructions. The irony is that the tools that make us more efficient can sometimes prevent us from developing the mental models needed to solve problems independently. That moment when your senior dev calls you out and your entire identity as a programmer crumbles...

Money Can't Buy Memory Management

Hardware Webdev Windows Programming

5 hours ago 56.2K views 0 shares

Spent my entire savings on 128GB of RAM last year. Now I just lie on it like Scrooge McDuck on his money pile, watching Chrome still manage to use 127GB of it. The remaining 1GB? That's for the OS to desperately cling to while whispering "please... no more tabs."

The Final Version

Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend Backend

6 hours ago 60.1K views 0 shares

After trying every fancy IDE and code editor known to mankind, you still find yourself crawling back to Notepad++ for that "final version" of your code. It's like dating supermodels but marrying your high school sweetheart. Sure, VSCode has extensions that practically write the code for you, JetBrains IDEs know what you want before you do, and Vim users won't shut up about their efficiency... but there's something comforting about that little green lizard watching you hack together a solution at 3 AM that just works . No judgment, no complex configurations—just you and your questionable code snippets in their purest form.

Guaranteed Random

Javascript Security Programming

6 hours ago 64.2K views 0 shares

The evolution of a developer's "random" number generation techniques is a journey through increasingly elaborate overkill: First, you start with uuid() like a reasonable person. Then you discover Date.now() and think "timestamps are random enough, right?" (Narrator: they weren't). But wait! What if we combine timestamp + Math.random()? Now we're cooking with paranoia! And finally, the nuclear option: timestamp + uuid() because clearly the universe itself isn't random enough without our help. Meanwhile, cryptographers are quietly sobbing in the corner while production systems generate "totally random" IDs that are just timestamps with extra steps.

The DevOps Balancing Act

Devops Kubernetes Docker Debugging Backend

6 hours ago 68.1K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. This is the MOST ACCURATE representation of DevOps life I've ever witnessed! 😱 Those poor souls desperately trying to keep those colorful ball pits separated are LITERALLY every DevOps engineer who's ever lived! They're frantically holding back the tide as if their careers depend on it (spoiler alert: THEY DO). One wrong move and BOOM - those beautiful, independent microservices collapse into the dreaded monolith from hell! The absolute NIGHTMARE of watching your carefully crafted architecture turn into one giant, unmaintainable disaster! The irony is just *chef's kiss* - we broke up monoliths to make life easier, and now we're dying trying to keep them from secretly reforming behind our backs. It's like architectural whack-a-mole with our sanity as the mallet!

The Wandering Developer's Eye

Vim Webdev Javascript Programming Python

11 hours ago 110.0K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of modern developers - being seduced by shiny new IDEs while Vim sits there wondering what happened to loyalty. The person labeled "Me" is turning away from Vim (the OG text editor) to ogle at all the fancy modern development tools like VSCode, IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm. It's the coding equivalent of dumping your reliable high school sweetheart for the cool transfer students with their fancy features and auto-completions. Sure, those IDEs might have debugging tools that actually work and don't require 47 keyboard shortcuts to save a file, but Vim has... um... bragging rights at developer meetups?

The State Of DDR5 Prices In 2025

Hardware Windows

11 hours ago 110.3K views 0 shares

When your CPU upgrade suddenly becomes a full system overhaul because DDR5 RAM costs as much as a graphics card... *nervous monkey puppet meme intensifies* That moment when you realize your "small upgrade" just turned into choosing between faster memory or actually being able to see your games. $623.99 for RAM?! The sideways glance of financial regret is universal among PC builders in 2025. Budget allocation algorithm: if(RAM.price > GPU.price) { return panic(); }

There's No Place Like Localhost

Webdev React Javascript Programming Frontend

11 hours ago 115.9K views 0 shares

The classic "I'm basically a developer now" phase strikes again! Someone downloaded Cursor (a coding-focused text editor) and immediately declared themselves an engineer. Their groundbreaking achievement? Running a local development server and sharing the legendary localhost:3000 link like they've created the next Facebook. Reminds me of that time my nephew installed Python and started calling himself a "machine learning specialist." The localhost link is essentially showing their friend a website that only exists on their own computer - like inviting someone to a party at your house but not giving them your address.

Stop Doing Cloud Computing

Cloud Devops Hardware Kubernetes Docker

12 hours ago 122.0K views 0 shares

The cloud revolution promised us scalability, high availability, and infrastructure as code. What we got instead was paying AWS $5000/month to run what could've been a $500 desktop PC under someone's desk. Remember when "scaling" meant buying another computer? Before we were sacrificing goats to the Kubernetes gods and writing 200-line YAML files just to deploy a simple app? Docker, Proxmox, Terraform - they've convinced us we need complex container orchestration when most companies barely have enough traffic to warm up a Raspberry Pi. Meanwhile, sysadmins who've been quietly maintaining reliable on-prem servers for decades are watching this circus with their arms crossed. The greatest trick the cloud ever pulled was convincing developers that managing your own hardware was too difficult... right before making them learn 47 new abstraction layers to do the same damn thing.

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