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Sometimes My Code Is Like This....

20 minutes ago 5.5K views 0 shares

Behold, the architectural masterpiece of software development: a balcony that literally leads to NOWHERE but somehow holds up the entire building. You stare at it in absolute terror because removing it might cause the whole thing to collapse into a heap of runtime errors and broken dependencies. That random function you wrote at 3 AM? The one with the cryptic variable name "temp_fix_2_final_ACTUAL"? Yeah, it serves no visible purpose, defies all logic, and violates every SOLID principle known to humanity. But the SECOND you delete it, your entire application implodes spectacularly. So there it sits, mocking you from your codebase, a monument to your past sins and questionable life choices. Welcome to legacy code, where nothing makes sense but everything is load-bearing. Touch nothing. Question nothing. Just slowly back away and pretend you never saw it.

It's Not Exactly What It Seems Like With Old Tech

Backend Webdev Javascript Programming

2 hours ago 37.2K views 0 shares

It's Not Exactly What It Seems Like With Old Tech

While everyone's out here having a full-blown brawl over React vs Vue, microservices vs monoliths, and whether tabs or spaces will end civilization, there's some guy peacefully eating his lunch while maintaining a COBOL system that's been running since before the internet had opinions. The real kicker? That COBOL dev is probably making bank because there are like 12 people left on Earth who know how to maintain those ancient mainframes that still process 95% of ATM transactions and credit card swaps. Banks literally can't afford to let these systems die, so they're stuck paying premium rates for developers who learned programming when punch cards were still a thing. Meanwhile, the "modern stack" crowd is too busy fighting about which JavaScript framework will be obsolete next Tuesday to notice they're reinventing the wheel for the 47th time this year. Job security? That COBOL dev has it in spades while the rest of us are one npm audit away from an existential crisis.

Which Algorithm Is This

AI Algorithms Math Debugging

3 hours ago 41.9K views 1 shares

When AI confidently solves a basic algebra problem by literally evaluating the equation as code. The sister was 3 when you were 6, so the age difference is 3 years. Fast forward 64 years and... she's still 3 years younger. But no, ChatGPT decided to execute 6/2 and 3+70 as literal expressions and proudly announced "73 years old" like it just solved the Riemann hypothesis. This is what happens when you train an LLM on Stack Overflow answers without the comment section roasting bad logic. The AI saw those angle brackets and thought "time to compile!" instead of "time to think." Our jobs might be safe after all, fam. At least until AI learns that relationships between numbers don't change just because you put them in a code block.

Sad Times

Programming Webdev Frontend Backend

4 hours ago 49.7K views 0 shares

The evolution of text editors told through the lens of broken friendships. We've all been there—you started coding with Notepad++ like it was your ride-or-die, then Sublime Text came along with its sleek UI and multi-cursor magic, and suddenly you're acting like Notepad++ never existed. Now Sublime Text is getting the same treatment because VS Code (represented by that orange Sublime logo) showed up with IntelliSense, integrated terminal, extensions for literally everything, and—oh yeah—it's free. No more "unregistered" popup guilt trips. The crossed-out Notepad++ at the bottom really drives home the point: it's not just replaced, it's erased from memory . The text editor graveyard is real, and we're all guilty of moving on without looking back. RIP to the tools that taught us to code before we got fancy with our IDEs.

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

Programming Gamedev Debugging

4 hours ago 54.9K views 0 shares

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

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

5 hours ago 64.2K 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

8 hours ago 96.6K 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

9 hours ago 107.1K 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

11 hours ago 127.0K 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

12 hours ago 136.2K 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

12 hours ago 141.8K 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

12 hours ago 150.5K 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.

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