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Triple E Or Something

5 minutes ago 1.7K views 0 shares

Microsoft's product strategy in a nutshell: throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then pretend the blood puddles were part of the plan all along. Windows Phone? Dead. Skype? Somehow still technically alive but nobody's checking for a pulse. Windows 10? They promised it would be the "last version of Windows" then immediately started working on Windows 11. Meanwhile GitHub is just chilling in the corner, the golden child acquisition that actually worked out. Probably because Microsoft learned their lesson: buy successful things and don't touch them too much. Revolutionary strategy, really. The "EEE" reference is *chef's kiss* - that's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish," Microsoft's infamous strategy from the 90s where they'd adopt open standards, add proprietary features, then kill the competition. Now they're just extinguishing their own products. Character development, I guess?

Finally Got The Award I Deserve

Frontend Webdev Programming

30 minutes ago 8.2K views 0 shares

When you spend 3 hours fighting with display: flex and justify-content: center to center a div, you absolutely deserve a trophy. The self-awarded "World's Best CSS Developer" award is the programmer equivalent of giving yourself a participation trophy after debugging why your navbar won't align properly for the 47th time. CSS: the only language where you can be simultaneously a genius and completely clueless. One moment you're crafting beautiful responsive layouts, the next you're Googling "how to center a div" for the millionth time like it's your first day on the job. The fact that someone actually 3D printed this trophy suggests they either have incredible self-awareness or they've finally snapped after one too many z-index battles. Props for the commitment though—most of us just settle for the imposter syndrome and call it a day.

Slop Is Better Actually

AI Programming Debugging Backend

2 hours ago 32.6K views 0 shares

So we've gone from "move fast and break things" to "move fast and let AI clean up your mess later." The galaxy brain take here is that tech debt—the accumulation of shortcuts, hacks, and questionable architectural decisions—is somehow an investment now. The reasoning? AI will eventually get good enough at refactoring that it'll just... fix everything for you while you sleep. It's the software equivalent of trashing your apartment because you heard Roombas are getting smarter next year. Sure, ship that spaghetti code. Name your variables "x1" through "x47." Nest those ternaries eight levels deep. Future AI will totally understand what drunk-you at 2 PM on a Friday was thinking. The real kicker is calling it an "interest rate" that's falling. Like tech debt is a mortgage you're refinancing, not a pile of burning garbage that makes onboarding new devs feel like archaeological fieldwork. But hey, if AI can refactor legacy code, maybe it can also explain to your future self why that 3000-line function seemed like a good idea.

Tech Public Service Announcement

AI Rust Security C++ Microsoft

3 hours ago 55.1K views 0 shares

So Microsoft wants to eliminate C and C++ by 2030 using AI to rewrite their entire codebase. Because nothing says "brilliant strategy" like letting algorithms rewrite millions of lines of battle-tested code that's been running critical systems for decades. The hubris is *chef's kiss*. They're so busy flexing their AI muscles that they forgot to ask the most important question: just because you CAN automate the rewriting of foundational infrastructure doesn't mean you SHOULD. What could possibly go wrong with AI touching code that powers Windows, Office, and Azure? It's not like memory safety bugs are subtle or anything. The Jeff Goldblum meme from Jurassic Park is the perfect response here. They were so preoccupied with whether they could use AI to eliminate C/C++, they didn't stop to think if they should. Because replacing decades of institutional knowledge and battle-hardened code with AI-generated Rust (presumably) is definitely going to go smoothly. No edge cases, no undefined behavior gotchas, just pure algorithmic magic. Sure.

Care Less About Bugs

Debugging Programming Testing

5 hours ago 79.3K views 0 shares

When QA files that critical production bug at 4:47 PM on Friday before a long weekend, you've got two choices: panic or deploy the Jedi mind trick. Just tell yourself there's no bug, there's no meme, and log off. The kitten's dead-eyed stare perfectly captures that thousand-yard stare you develop after your fifth year in production support. It's not denial if you're on PTO. It's called work-life balance, Karen from management.

Do You Test

Testing Devops Agile Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 91.3K views 0 shares

The four pillars of modern software development: no animal testing (we're ethical!), no server testing (they'll be fine), and absolutely zero production testing (just kidding, production IS the testing environment). Notice how the badge proudly displays a bunny, a heart, and servers literally on fire. Because nothing says "quality assurance" quite like your infrastructure becoming a bonfire while users frantically report bugs. Why waste time with staging environments when you can get real-time feedback from actual customers? It's called agile development, look it up. The best part? Someone made this into an official-looking badge, as if it's something to be proud of. It's the developer equivalent of "no ragrets" tattooed across your chest. Your QA team is crying somewhere, but hey, at least the bunnies are safe.

SQL Clause Is Coming To Town

Databases Programming Backend

7 hours ago 103.8K views 0 shares

Someone took "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and turned it into a database admin's Christmas carol. The lyrics perfectly map SQL operations to the original song: making a database (making a list), sorting twice (checking it twice), and the WHERE clause filtering for good behavior. The real genius here is "SQL Clause" instead of "Santa Claus" – it's the kind of dad joke that makes you groan and chuckle simultaneously. Props to whoever printed this on what appears to be toilet paper, because that's exactly where most of our SQL queries deserve to end up after the third JOIN goes wrong. Fun fact: The ORDER BY clause actually has to process the entire result set before returning anything, which is why sorting twice would genuinely make Santa's database performance absolutely terrible. Maybe that's why some kids don't get presents – query timeout.

This Never Gets Old

Hardware Gamedev

9 hours ago 126.1K views 0 shares

Laptop users are out here living dangerously, treating their machines like they're fireproof. CPU at 95°C? GPU at 99°C? Just another Tuesday running Chrome with 47 tabs open. "Max temperature is 100°C, so technically I'm still within spec" – the kind of logic that would make a thermal engineer weep. Meanwhile, desktop users with their fancy RGB cooling systems and glass cases panic when their temps hit 69°C (nice) during a gaming session. They've got better cooling than a data center but still frantically Google "is 70°C safe for GPU" at the first sign of warmth. The real irony? The laptop is probably thermal throttling so hard it's performing worse than a calculator, while the desktop is casually cruising at optimal performance. But hey, portability comes at a price – and that price is apparently your lap becoming a griddle.

Merry Christmas!

Apple Hardware MacOS Ios Debugging

10 hours ago 131.7K views 0 shares

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" quite like your entire Apple ecosystem deciding to update simultaneously at 12%. The laptop's upgrading, the phone's boot-looping, and the iPad's doing... whatever iPads do when they're stuck on the Apple logo. It's like they all got together and said, "You know what would be fun? Let's all brick ourselves on Christmas morning." The best part? You can't even Google the error codes because your phone is also dead. So you just sit there, watching progress bars move slower than your sprint velocity, wondering if maybe this is a sign to spend time with your family instead. Spoiler: it's not, you need to fix this ASAP. Pro tip from someone who's been there: always keep one device NOT updating. It's called redundancy, and it's not just for production servers.

Did You?

Hardware

10 hours ago 135.2K views 0 shares

Nothing hits quite like the regret of not buying RAM when it was dirt cheap. That innocent "Sir?" from your wallet transforms into a death stare of judgment when you're dropping $200 on the same 16GB kit you could've snagged for $100 last year. The hardware market is basically a casino where you always lose—buy now and prices drop tomorrow, wait for deals and suddenly there's a "global shortage." Your cat knows you messed up, your bank account knows you messed up, and worst of all, you know you messed up. Should've listened to that Reddit thread about RAM prices bottoming out, but here we are, paying the premium like peasants.

When The App Crashes During Holidays

Devops Programming Debugging Testing Backend

10 hours ago 141.2K views 0 shares

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" quite like your production app deciding to throw a tantrum on Christmas Eve while you're three eggnogs deep. Your pager is screaming louder than carolers, and suddenly you're begging the entire dev team to please, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, acknowledge the emergency alert they've been conveniently ignoring while opening presents. Because apparently "on-call rotation" means "everyone pretends their phone died simultaneously." The absolute AUDACITY of code to break during the ONE time of year when nobody wants to touch a keyboard. Bonus points if it's a bug that's been lurking in production for months but chose THIS EXACT MOMENT to make its grand debut.

Christmas Tree

Python Programming

11 hours ago 148.8K views 0 shares

When you try to print a Christmas tree in Python but forget how nested loops work. Someone wrote for i in range(5): print("*") expecting a beautiful triangular tree, but instead got five sad asterisks stacked vertically like the world's most depressing Christmas decoration. The photo shows exactly what this code produces in real life: a pathetically tall, skinny "tree" that's basically just a decorated stick leaning against the wall. Pro tip: You need nested loops and some string multiplication to build an actual tree shape. But hey, at least this one fits in small apartments.

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