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When I Was 11 Years Old, I Didn't Know About Arrays And Objects In JavaScript, But Really Wanted To Make A Game. So I Invented My Own Data Structures!

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Behold, the cursed art of using eval() to concatenate strings as variable names, creating what is essentially the world's most horrifying key-value store. Instead of using blocks[blockId].x like a normal human being, this 11-year-old genius decided to dynamically construct variable names like "lev" + level + "block" + blockId + "x" and eval them into existence. It's like watching someone reinvent the wheel, except the wheel is square, on fire, and somehow still rolling. The sheer determination to check collision boundaries and directions by string-concatenating variable names together is both terrifying and oddly impressive. Every senior dev who sees this code feels a strange mix of horror and nostalgia, because let's be real—we've all written something equally cursed when we were young and didn't know better. The difference is most of us burned the evidence.

Which Do You Belong To?

Programming Databases

36 minutes ago 7.8K views 0 shares

The programming world is split into two camps: the cool, composed "day-tuh" people who walk with confidence, and the chaotic "dah-tuh" people who run through hallways like they just discovered a race condition in production. There's no middle ground here. You either pronounce it like you're presenting at a tech conference, or you say it like you're frantically explaining a database outage to your manager at 3 AM. Both camps are equally convinced they're right. Both camps will die on this hill. Neither will ever change. It's the tabs vs spaces debate but somehow even more pointless, which is saying something.

Animals Are Essential To Learn Topics

Backend Webdev Programming

1 hour ago 13.6K views 0 shares

Technical documentation writers discovered decades ago that slapping cute animals on diagrams makes complex systems 47% less soul-crushing to learn. The Apache Web Server documentation figured this out early—why show boring boxes when you can have a literal dog delivering responses? Meanwhile, other docs are out here with flowcharts that look like they were designed by someone who thinks "visual appeal" means using a slightly different shade of beige. The O'Reilly publishing empire basically built their brand on this principle. Nothing says "I understand TCP/IP networking" quite like a book with a random camel on the cover. The animals don't even need to be thematically relevant—just throw a mongoose on there and suddenly people are willing to read 800 pages about database optimization. It's the tech equivalent of putting googly eyes on vegetables to make kids eat them, except we're all allegedly adults with CS degrees.

My Least Favorite Youtube Videos

Hardware Programming Frontend

1 hour ago 17.3K views 0 shares

You know those tech nostalgia videos where they boot up a Windows Vista machine running Electron apps and act shocked it takes 45 minutes to open Slack? Yeah, we get it, computers used to be slower. Turns out when you run bloated modern software on ancient hardware, it doesn't perform well. Groundbreaking observation. Meanwhile, that same old PC could probably run DOS or lightweight Linux distros just fine. But no, let's install Chrome with 47 extensions and wonder why the CPU is crying. It's not the hardware that aged poorly—it's the software that got fat and lazy.

Self Aware Feed Or Coincidence

AI Programming

1 hour ago 22.4K views 0 shares

Someone just posted about using AI to write better prompts for AI, and immediately below it is a meme calling out people who use ChatGPT for everything. The Reddit algorithm has achieved sentience and is now trolling its users. The irony is so thick you could deploy it in a Docker container. Guy literally admits he's using AI to optimize his AI usage, and the universe responds with "yeah, we need a word for you people." The feed placement is either the most perfect coincidence in Reddit history or the recommendation engine has developed a sense of humor. Zero votes on the first post vs 49.5k on the second tells you everything you need to know about where the developer community stands on this debate.

I Make Managers Billionaires

Programming

2 hours ago 26.6K views 0 shares

Every developer's existential crisis summed up in one skeleton meme. You're grinding out features, fixing bugs, optimizing algorithms, and shipping code while your body slowly deteriorates into a hunched-over skeleton from all those hours at the desk. Meanwhile, management takes your labor and somehow alchemizes it into yacht money. The brutal truth is that you're essentially a money-printing machine, but instead of printing cash for yourself, you're enriching people who probably can't tell the difference between a for loop and a fruit loop. Your technical expertise and sleepless nights debugging production issues? That's the fuel that powers someone else's private jet. The skeleton imagery really drives home the point—you're literally working yourself to the bone while the value you create flows upward. It's the classic labor-capital relationship, but with more Stack Overflow tabs and RSI.

Just Import Mental_Health

Python Programming

2 hours ago 31.1K views 0 shares

Someone asks what's the best programming language for coding your own therapist, and the answer is pure genius: Python, so you can call it thera.py . Because nothing says "I've solved my mental health crisis" quite like a file extension pun. The real question is whether your therapist script would use try-except blocks to handle emotional breakdowns or just raise UnresolvedTraumaException and call it a day. Either way, it's probably cheaper than actual therapy and definitely won't judge you for your spaghetti code. Though let's be honest, if you're building your own therapist, you've already got bigger problems than choosing a programming language.

Use Me

React Webdev Javascript Frontend

3 hours ago 34.8K views 0 shares

The React hooks hierarchy of social acceptance visualized. Poor use is literally at the party wearing a dunce cap while everyone ignores them. Meanwhile useState is getting all the attention like the popular kid, and useEffect is down there making out with someone because developers just can't resist reaching for it. The irony? The use hook (introduced in React 19) is actually pretty powerful for handling promises and context, but it's the awkward newcomer that nobody invited. Meanwhile useEffect is getting way more action than it deserves—half the time you're using it, you probably shouldn't be. But here we are, slapping useEffect on everything like it's the solution to all our problems. Classic case of sticking with what you know versus learning the new kid's tricks.

Very Relatable

Programming

3 hours ago 39.8K views 0 shares

The eternal cycle of career disillusionment. Baristas learn Python thinking they'll escape the grind (pun intended), while developers who've spent three hours debugging a CSS alignment issue are fantasizing about the simple life of foam art and not having to explain what a REST API is at Thanksgiving dinner. Turns out the grass is always greener on the other side of the job market. One group sees six-figure salaries and remote work, the other sees actual human interaction and the ability to leave work at work. Both are probably right to be jealous, just for completely different reasons. Plot twist: they both end up equally stressed, just with different caffeine delivery methods—one makes it, one mainlines it directly into their veins at 2 AM while fixing production bugs.

It's Working

Algorithms Programming StackOverflow

7 hours ago 84.7K views 0 shares

Someone asked for help printing numbers 1-25 in a clockwise expanding spiral pattern. The "solution" is just five hardcoded print statements with the numbers manually typed out in rows. No loops, no algorithms, no spiral logic—just raw, unfiltered copy-paste energy. The sender confidently declares "It's working" like they just solved P=NP. Technically correct? Sure. The numbers are there. They're in some kind of pattern. Mission accomplished, right? This is the programming equivalent of being asked to build a car and showing up with a skateboard taped to a lawnmower. The person who asked for help said "thanks" which means they either didn't actually look at the code, or they've completely given up on life. Both are valid responses in this industry.

JS Gives Nightmares

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

8 hours ago 95.0K views 0 shares

Someone asked what programming languages polyglots dream in, and the answer "JavaScript" got absolutely demolished with the most savage correction of all time. Because let's be real, nobody is out here having sweet dreams about type coercion, undefined is not a function, and the fact that [] + {} somehow equals "[object Object]" while {} + [] equals 0. JavaScript doesn't visit your dreams—it breaks into your subconscious at ungodly hours, whispers "NaN === NaN is false" in your ear, and leaves you questioning your entire existence. The language where adding an array to an object makes perfect sense to absolutely nobody, but here we are, building the entire internet with it anyway. Sweet dreams are made of these? More like cold sweats and existential dread.

Two Rs In Strawberry

AI Programming

8 hours ago 101.4K views 0 shares

When AI confidently told everyone there are only two Rs in "strawberry" (spoiler: there are THREE), the internet collectively lost its mind. Like, bestie, you can write sonnets and debug code but you can't count letters? The meme roasts AI's infamous fail by comparing it to stroke symptoms—because honestly, that level of confident wrongness IS concerning. The "incoherent speech" panel hits different when your supposedly superintelligent overlord can't even spell-check its own existence. It's giving "I can generate entire novels but basic literacy? That's where I draw the line." The irony of AI promising world domination while simultaneously failing kindergarten-level tasks is *chef's kiss* peak comedy.

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