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Good And Bad 😅

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Python's automatic garbage collection is both a blessing and a curse wrapped in the same package. Sure, you get to skip the manual memory management nightmares that haunt C++ developers at 3 AM, but that's also the problem—you literally can't control it even if you wanted to. It's like having a roommate who insists on doing all the dishes but also throws away your leftovers without asking. You're grateful for the help, but sometimes you just want to manage your own damn memory leaks in peace. The real kicker? When Python's garbage collector decides to pause your program at the worst possible moment, you'll wish you could worry about memory management. But nope, you're just along for the ride.

Hello Darkness My Old Friend

Programming Typescript Kotlin Swift Debugging

2 hours ago 29.1K views 0 shares

You're innocently working on line 6061, making some small change to a function, when suddenly you need to jump to the implementation. Your IDE dutifully takes you there... and you land on line 19515. That sinking feeling in your stomach? That's the realization that you're now deep in a 13,000+ line file that someone (probably you six months ago) promised to refactor "later." Nothing says "technical debt" quite like a single file that could double as a novella. At this point, you're not even mad—just impressed that your IDE hasn't crashed yet. Time to add another TODO comment and pretend you didn't see it.

Mutex Will Save You All

Programming Rust Golang C++ Python

2 hours ago 34.4K views 0 shares

Grammar lessons from the concurrency trenches. While you're busy learning Latin plurals for your CS vocabulary, the mutex is quietly plotting your demise with race conditions and deadlocks. The joke here is brutal: mutex (mutual exclusion) is supposed to be your savior in multithreaded programming, preventing race conditions by locking shared resources. But its plural? "Deadlock." Because when you start using multiple mutexes without proper ordering, you're basically writing a suicide note for your application. Thread A locks mutex 1 and waits for mutex 2, while Thread B locks mutex 2 and waits for mutex 1. Congrats, your program is now frozen in time like a developer staring at their production logs at 3 AM. The irony is chef's kiss—the very thing meant to save you becomes your downfall when you scale up. It's like hiring security guards who end up blocking each other in doorways.

Absolutely Diabolical

Javascript Webdev Devops Programming Frontend

3 hours ago 37.3K views 0 shares

You know that one dev on your team who just wants to watch the world burn? Yeah, they pushed a breaking change to a dependency and reset the "days without npm incident" counter back to zero. Again. The JavaScript ecosystem is held together by duct tape and the prayers of overworked maintainers. One rogue package update and suddenly your entire CI/CD pipeline is screaming at you at 3 AM. The best part? It's always some obscure transitive dependency you didn't even know existed that decides to introduce a breaking change in a patch version. Pro tip: Pin your dependencies. Lock that package-lock.json like your production uptime depends on it. Because it does.

Last Time For Sure

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

3 hours ago 40.8K views 0 shares

That one kid in class who discovers status monitoring sites and suddenly becomes the herald of every Cloudflare outage. Seven weeks straight. At some point the teacher's just wondering if maybe, just maybe, the kid's router is the actual problem. But no—Cloudflare really does go down that often, and now everyone knows because this kid has appointed himself Chief Outage Officer. The internet's most reliable unreliable service strikes again.

Jpeg Xl Is Dead. Long Live Jpeg Xl

Webdev Programming Frontend

4 hours ago 45.8K views 0 shares

Google removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome faster than you can say "deprecated," claiming nobody used it. But here's the kicker: nobody used it because they removed the support . Classic chicken-and-egg problem, except the chicken is Google and the egg is every web developer who now has to maintain it anyway because users won't stop uploading JPEG-XL files. It's like watching someone complain about having to cook dinner while actively throwing away all the kitchen appliances. Google's standing there with their arms crossed, annoyed that developers keep requesting support for a format that's objectively better (smaller files, better quality, actual transparency), but they killed it themselves. The audacity is chef's kiss level. Welcome to web development, where the standards are made up and browser support doesn't matter until it suddenly does.

Anti Gravity

AI Programming

4 hours ago 50.1K views 0 shares

Google really said "let's revolutionize coding with AI!" and then proceeded to create the most EXHAUSTING onboarding experience known to humankind. You're hyped, you download it, and suddenly you're trapped in authentication hell—three login attempts like you're trying to break into Fort Knox. Then BAM, rate limited after 5 prompts because apparently Google thinks you're trying to speedrun the singularity. And the cherry on top? Rumors swirling that Google's own engineers aren't even allowed to use their own creation. The absolute BETRAYAL. So naturally, you crawl back to VS Code with your tail between your legs, defeated by corporate bureaucracy once again. Sometimes the old reliable just hits different.

Can't Forget That Declaration

Programming Javascript Java Debugging

4 hours ago 53.6K views 0 shares

Oh look, it's the ancient ritual of sprinkling semicolons into your code like they're magical seasoning that makes everything work! This developer is out here adding semicolons to their code with the same energy as someone adding salt to soup—not really knowing if it's needed, but absolutely CONVINCED it'll fix everything. The casual hand gesture while doing it? *Chef's kiss*. Because nothing says "I understand my programming language's syntax rules" quite like yeeting semicolons everywhere and hoping for the best. JavaScript devs switching to Java be like... or literally anyone who's paranoid about compilation errors and thinks more semicolons = fewer problems. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work that way, bestie.

I Hate Whoever Makes Decisions At Our Org

Programming Security Devops Agile Backend

5 hours ago 59.4K views 0 shares

I Hate Whoever Makes Decisions At Our Org

Classic case of "let's solve the problem by creating another problem." You've got 14 competing auth tools causing chaos, so naturally the galaxy-brain solution is to build a 15th one that'll somehow unite them all. Spoiler alert: it won't. Every senior dev has lived through this nightmare. Some architect gets promoted, reads one Medium article about "unified authentication layers," and suddenly you're spending six months building Yet Another Auth Tool™ that'll be abandoned halfway through when they pivot to microservices or whatever's trending on HackerNews that quarter. Meanwhile, the 14 existing tools continue doing their thing, your new "universal" solution gets adopted by exactly one team (yours, begrudgingly), and the cycle continues. But hey, at least someone got their promotion out of it.

Vibe Coding History

StackOverflow Webdev Programming Debugging

5 hours ago 63.2K views 0 shares

The ancient art of torture has evolved beautifully. Back in the day, they'd just rack you or pour molten lead down your throat. Now? They make you sit through a code review where someone reveals your entire Google search history of Stack Overflow questions. "How to center a div" at 3 AM. "Why doesn't my code work" followed immediately by "Why does my code work now". "Difference between let and var" for the 47th time. The executioner doesn't even need to say anything—just project those searches on the wall and watch you crumble. Honestly, public execution would be less humiliating than having your team see you googled "what is recursion" after claiming five years of experience on your resume.

S&Box Went Open-Source And The Comments Are Very Calm

Csharp Gamedev Unity Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 67.9K views 0 shares

S&Box Went Open-Source And The Comments Are Very Calm

Oh, nothing screams "professional codebase" quite like opening your source code to the public and having every single comment be an existential crisis wrapped in profanity. Someone named Garry is having a COMPLETE meltdown in the comments, questioning the very fabric of reality with gems like "why the fuck does this exist" and "this is fucking disgusting." Meanwhile, we've got warnings about not storing destroyed instances "for fuck sake," path comparison methods that are apparently a cosmic joke, and buffer sizes set to absolutely unhinged values because, and I quote, "fuck it, let's set these to insane values." The cherry on top? A beautiful Log.Error("Fucked"); followed by a return statement. Not "error occurred" or "operation failed"—just straight up "Fucked." That's the kind of raw, unfiltered honesty you get when developers think their code will never see the light of day. And now it's open-source! The transparency we deserve but definitely didn't ask for. 💀

Typical Backend Behavior

Backend Programming

10 hours ago 124.0K views 1 shares

Backend engineers: the only people who think "reconnecting with your body" means checking if the server is still responding. This HR person tried to organize a wellness walk, and literally everyone showed up except the one backend engineer who stayed glued to his desk. When asked why he didn't join, his response was pure gold: "I'm willing to work, not walk." The man understood the assignment—just not the one HR intended. He took "walk out the door and never come back" as a feature request rather than a threat, and actually implemented it. Now they're hiring. Backend engineers operate on a different plane of existence where social activities are just unnecessary API calls that return 404. The dedication is admirable, the social skills... less so. Fun fact: Backend engineers have the highest rate of vitamin D deficiency in tech, second only to database administrators who haven't seen sunlight since they started optimizing that one query in 2019.

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