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Do Not Write Code Without Coffee

18 minutes ago 2.8K views 0 shares

Someone clearly wrote this code before their morning coffee! The docstring says it "clothes the connection" instead of "closes the connection" - a classic caffeine-deficient typo that somehow made it through code review. Meanwhile, the function is actually doing what it's supposed to: checking if the socket exists before closing it. The contrast between the typo and the correct implementation is peak programmer brain operating on low power mode.

Real Hackers Roll Their Own Little One

Linux Programming

43 minutes ago 6.3K views 0 shares

Starting 'em young on kernel compilation, I see! Nothing says "dedicated parent" like skipping Dr. Seuss and going straight to teaching your infant how to compile a kernel from source. That baby's first words won't be "mama" or "dada" but "sudo make install." By age 3, they'll be maintaining their own distro, and by kindergarten, they'll be looking down on the other kids still using—*gasp*—Windows. The face of pure confusion on that baby is the same expression I had during my first Linux install back in '98. Welcome to a lifetime of explaining to people that "No, Grandma, I can't just fix your iPad because I know Linux."

Error: Your Error Has Errored

Debugging Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

1 hour ago 9.4K views 0 shares

When your error handler throws an error while trying to explain an error. That's peak debugging right there. "The server returned this error: Error." Thanks, Captain Obvious! Nothing quite like those helpful error messages that tell you absolutely nothing useful. Just refresh your browser and pray to the server gods, because that's apparently our debugging strategy now. Ten years of engineering experience and I'm still getting error messages that might as well say "something broke lol good luck finding out what."

Outsourcing Your TypeScript Migration To The Real Senior Engineer

Typescript AI Javascript Programming

1 hour ago 15.5K views 0 shares

Outsourcing Your TypeScript Migration To The Real Senior Engineer

Delegating the TypeScript migration to AI is the modern equivalent of tossing your problems over the wall to the junior dev. Nothing says "I've reached peak seniority" like asking Claude to convert your janky JavaScript codebase while you kick back and pretend you're "architecting." The best part? That "make no mistakes" command—as if AI doesn't hallucinate semicolons like I hallucinate deadlines. Next week's ticket: "Fix all the weird union types Claude created that somehow accept both strings and refrigerators."

The Vanishing Privacy Promise

Git Webdev Security Programming

1 hour ago 22.8K views 0 shares

The wildest git diff indeed! Someone caught Mozilla red-handed removing Firefox's promise to never sell user data. On the left side, Firefox boldly declares "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise." But in the updated version? *Poof* – that entire answer just vanished into thin air. Nothing says "trust us with your data" quite like silently deleting your promise not to sell it. And they wonder why alternative browsers like Waterfox and Librewolf are gaining popularity. The irony of this happening while the FAQ still includes "Why is Firefox so slow?" is just *chef's kiss*.

We Finally Got PC 2

Hardware Microsoft Windows

2 hours ago 25.9K views 0 shares

The innovation we've been waiting for since 1981! Someone took a PC, made it smaller, and called it PC 2. Revolutionary stuff. Next they'll tell us it runs Windows 11 without crashing for a whole day. The tech industry's idea of a sequel is just making the same thing but in cube form. Square design, brave choice - because corners were the main problem with computing all along.

Close Enough Welcome Back

Hardware Windows

2 hours ago 29.1K views 0 shares

That moment when your gaming PC is so minimalist it's basically just a black box with a power light. "Close enough" to what was advertised and "welcome back" to having zero airflow and thermal throttling in 3... 2... 1... Your CPU is about to reach temperatures previously only achieved during nuclear fusion experiments. But hey, at least it looks sleek on your desk while it's quietly melting.

Some Of You Guys Haven't Used LuaRocks And It Shows

Programming Devops Debugging

3 hours ago 35.4K views 0 shares

Some Of You Guys Haven't Used LuaRocks And It Shows

Ah, the classic expectation vs. reality of package managers! Vanilla Lua looks like this majestic unicorn—elegant, magical, full of potential. Then you venture into the "ecosystem" with LuaRocks and suddenly you're dealing with a beaten-down horse with an industrial chimney for a horn. For the uninitiated, LuaRocks is Lua's package manager—theoretically making your life easier, but actually turning your pristine codebase into an industrial wasteland of dependencies. It's like npm but with fewer packages and somehow more existential dread. The true mark of a Lua veteran isn't writing beautiful code—it's surviving the package management apocalypse with your sanity intact.

Code Works, Business Doesn't

Webdev Agile Programming

3 hours ago 42.1K views 0 shares

The classic startup death spiral visualized in three painful steps. You've got 250 domain names because "what if we need them someday?" Then somehow you managed to ship 17 actual apps—impressive engineering, terrible focus. But the grand finale? Zero paying users. That beautiful moment when you realize your brilliant technical solutions are solving problems nobody wants to pay for. It's the perfect illustration of the engineer's fallacy: thinking that elegant code automatically translates to business success. Spoiler alert: users don't care about your perfect microservice architecture—they care about their problems being solved. And apparently, none of your 17 apps across 250 domains managed that particular trick.

My Day In Two Parts: The DNS Saga

Networking Security Devops Linux Debugging

4 hours ago 45.2K views 0 shares

The three stages of every network troubleshooting session, beautifully captured as poetry against cherry blossoms: First, the denial: "It's not DNS" Then, the stubborn resistance: "There's no way it's DNS" Finally, the crushing realization: "It was DNS" DNS (Domain Name System) is the internet's phonebook that translates human-friendly domain names into IP addresses. And somehow, despite being the first thing you're supposed to check, it's always the last thing you actually check. The haiku-like progression perfectly captures the emotional journey from confidence to despair that every network admin has experienced at 2AM while the production server is down.

The GabeCube Cometh

Gamedev Hardware Programming

4 hours ago 48.7K views 0 shares

Behold the mythical GabeCube! Valve's founder Gabe Newell proudly holding his new creation like it's his firstborn child. After Steam Deck's success, Gabe decided the next logical step was obviously to create a literal cube. Because why release Half-Life 3 when you can release oddly-shaped hardware instead? The smile says "I know you want Portal 3, but here's another device to play your backlog of Steam sale impulse purchases that you'll never actually finish." Classic Valve time management strategy: create new hardware platforms instead of finishing game trilogies!

Be Like A Programmer

Programming Agile Debugging

4 hours ago 51.4K views 0 shares

SWEET MOTHER OF PROCRASTINATION! 😱 The absolute AUDACITY of John's brain to completely IGNORE the flaming dumpster fire of work responsibilities and instead choose the forbidden fruit of a side project! This is the programmer's equivalent of seeing your house burning down and deciding it's the PERFECT time to redecorate your neighbor's garden gnome collection. The sheer chaotic energy of having a to-do list longer than the terms and conditions you never read, yet somehow finding the motivation to build that random Discord bot you've been dreaming about for 0.2 seconds. Why fix what's broken when you can create NEW broken things?! It's not procrastination if you're still writing code, right? RIGHT?!

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