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Lil Guy Got A Switch For Christmas

5 minutes ago 1.2K views 0 shares

The kid asked Santa for a Nintendo Switch and instead got a network switch. That's what happens when your parents work in IT and have a twisted sense of humor. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" quite like 24 ports of Ethernet connectivity and VLAN support. Sure, he can't play Zelda on it, but he can now segment his home network like a proper sysadmin. The look on his face perfectly captures the soul-crushing disappointment of receiving enterprise networking equipment when you just wanted to catch Pokémon. Plot twist: in 10 years he'll be making six figures configuring these things while his friends are still gaming in their parents' basements.

How To Explain This Project On My LinkedIn

Webdev React Programming Databases Frontend

1 hour ago 20.9K views 0 shares

How To Explain This Project On My LinkedIn

When your side project starts as "I just need to find one specific video" and ends with you accidentally becoming the chief architect of a distributed NSFW content aggregation platform. The progression from normal person to full clown is chef's kiss—each step sounds more impressive on a resume while getting exponentially harder to explain to your grandma. The beauty here is that the technical skills are genuinely impressive: ETL pipelines, indexing 89,000 communities, deploying a Next.js app with proper infrastructure. But good luck putting "Built scalable search engine for adult content discovery across Reddit's NSFW ecosystem" on your LinkedIn without your professional network having questions. HR departments everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force. Pro tip: Just call it a "content aggregation platform with advanced filtering capabilities" and pray nobody asks for a demo during the interview.

What You Think 😅

Linux Security Bash Programming

2 hours ago 28.1K views 0 shares

Hollywood really thinks "hacking" means furiously typing random commands while dramatic music plays in the background. Meanwhile, every developer watching is like "bruh, he's literally just running sudo apt-get update and installing packages." The most dangerous cyber attack in cinema history? Apparently it's just updating your Linux system and throwing in some npm installs for good measure. Nothing screams "elite hacker breaking into the Pentagon" quite like watching someone install dependencies for 20 minutes. At least they got the part right where it takes forever and you're just sitting there waiting with a drink in hand.

It's Coming For My Job

AI Programming Testing Databases

2 hours ago 34.0K views 0 shares

AI just casually generating a literal physical 3D holographic masterpiece of a seeded database for testing when you asked for a simple diagram. Meanwhile, you're still trying to figure out how to export your schema to PNG without it looking like garbage. The gap between what AI can produce and what we actually need is hilariously wide, yet somehow it still makes us question our job security. Like yeah, cool futuristic cityscape inside a glass cube, but can it fix the flaky integration tests that only fail on Fridays? The real kicker? Some PM is gonna see this and ask why your actual testing environment doesn't look this impressive.

Corporate Security Be Like

Security Networking Devops

5 hours ago 73.6K views 0 shares

Nothing screams "enterprise-grade security protocols" quite like a Post-it note slapped on a thermostat declaring "ADMIN ACCESS ONLY." Because clearly, the biggest threat to your organization isn't SQL injection or zero-day exploits—it's Karen from accounting cranking the heat to 78 degrees. The sheer irony of protecting a physical device with the cybersecurity equivalent of a "Please Don't Touch" sign is *chef's kiss*. We've got firewalls, VPNs, multi-factor authentication, and password managers with 256-bit encryption... but when it comes to the office thermostat? Just write something intimidating on a sticky note and call it a day. Security through obscurity has officially evolved into security through passive-aggressive office supplies. The IT department would be proud—if they weren't too busy dealing with actual security incidents while someone's still adjusting the temperature anyway.

Sure That Will Fix Everything

Backend Agile Programming Debugging Testing

6 hours ago 80.1K views 0 shares

When your backend has more spaghetti code than an Italian restaurant and someone casually drops "maybe we should just rewrite the whole thing" in a meeting. Everyone's sitting there like they just witnessed a declaration of war. Because nothing says "I value my sanity" quite like throwing away 5 years of legacy code, 47 undocumented features, and that one function nobody understands but everyone's too scared to touch. The rewrite fantasy is every developer's guilty pleasure—until you remember that the current system, despite being held together by duct tape and prayers, actually works. Meanwhile, your proposed rewrite will take 18 months, blow past every deadline, and somehow end up with the exact same bugs plus exciting new ones. Spoiler alert: You're not going to rewrite it. You're going to add another abstraction layer and call it "refactoring."

Why Computer Engineers Should Not Be Surgeons

Debugging Hardware Programming

6 hours ago 85.3K views 0 shares

Why Computer Engineers Should Not Be Surgeons

So apparently the medical equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" is just straight-up murder and resurrection. The surgeon here is treating a human body like it's a crashed production server at 2 PM on a Friday. Just kill all processes, reboot, and hope nothing's corrupted. No logs, no diagnostics, just the nuclear option. To be fair, this troubleshooting methodology has a 100% success rate in IT. The patient might not remember their passwords afterward, but that's a separate ticket.

Who Needs Fun When You Can Have Fn

Rust Kotlin Programming

7 hours ago 91.0K views 0 shares

Kotlin devs: "Our methods are fun !" *polite smile* Rust devs: "Hold my borrow checker. Our methods are fn ." *unhinged grin* The Rust community really looked at Kotlin's wholesome fun keyword and said "yeah but what if we made it shorter and more cryptic?" Peak systems programming energy right there. Nothing says "I enjoy pain" quite like preferring fn over fun . Both languages are great, but only one of them makes you feel like you're speedrunning carpal tunnel syndrome while fighting the compiler for sport.

Just Trying To Build A PC In 2025 Be Like...

Hardware AI

7 hours ago 95.5K views 0 shares

Just Trying To Build A PC In 2025 Be Like...

Look, I've been through enough hardware cycles to know the drill. You start planning your build, check PCPartPicker, and immediately realize you need to take out a small loan just for DDR5. Then you hear whispers about the "AI bubble bursting" and suddenly you're doing the math: if NVIDIA stock tanks, maybe—just maybe—those absurdly overpriced components will finally become affordable. The real kicker? We're all sitting here praying for an economic downturn just so we can justify our hobby. That's where we are as a society. Waiting for the market to crash so 1TB of RAM doesn't cost more than a used car. Because apparently every stick of memory now needs to be "AI-optimized" and costs accordingly. Remember when 16GB was overkill? Now Chrome alone needs that just to keep 12 tabs open. The hardware industry really saw us coming.

U Can Do It My Little Machine, I Believe In You

Hardware Devops Programming

8 hours ago 102.1K views 0 shares

U Can Do It My Little Machine, I Believe In You

RAM shortage headlines predicting doom until 2027, and here we are patting our ancient war machines like "just one more year, buddy." Nothing says optimism like running production workloads on hardware that's already crying for retirement while memory prices skyrocket. The delusion is strong when you're convincing yourself that 8GB DDR3 will totally handle that new Kubernetes cluster. We're all just one kernel panic away from admitting we need an upgrade, but until then, positive affirmations for aging silicon it is.

True Senior Engineers Answer

Programming Agile

10 hours ago 134.6K views 0 shares

Oh, the DIVINE WISDOM of senior engineers! When you dare ask them for a simple deadline, they transform into mystical fortune tellers who speak only in riddles and philosophical paradoxes. "The answer will reveal itself" – translation: "Bold of you to assume time is linear, junior." They've reached such an enlightened state of engineering consciousness that they no longer operate on mortal concepts like "dates" or "commitments." Instead, they've ascended to a realm where deadlines exist in a quantum superposition of "maybe Tuesday" and "when the stars align." The best part? They're not even wrong! After years of watching "two-week projects" turn into six-month odysseys, they've learned that giving ANY specific date is basically signing a blood oath with the demo gods. So they just... don't. Truly, this is the wisdom that comes with surviving a thousand production incidents.

I Can Make It Work In Just 3 Lines Of Code

C++ Programming Python

11 hours ago 145.3K views 0 shares

I Can Make It Work In Just 3 Lines Of Code

Python programmer casually flexing about solving problems in 3 lines while the C++ programmer is over there having a full existential crisis. Classic high-level vs low-level language showdown. Python devs get to import a library that does everything, write a list comprehension, and call it a day. Meanwhile the C++ crowd is manually managing memory, dealing with pointers, template metaprogramming, and questioning their life choices just to accomplish the same thing in 300 lines. Both get the job done. One just requires significantly less therapy afterward.

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