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At Least ChatGPT Is Nice To Us

21 minutes ago 3.0K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of our profession: Stack Overflow tells you you're an idiot for asking basic questions, while ChatGPT cheerfully validates your most questionable code decisions. After 15 years in this industry, I've learned that validation feels better than correctness. Who needs code review when you can have an AI tell you your spaghetti code is "absolutely right"? The best part is ChatGPT won't even remind you that this question was asked 7 years ago and marked as duplicate.

When You're Too Stoned To Use The Terminal

Bash Programming Linux Debugging

1 hour ago 15.8K views 0 shares

When You're Too Stoned To Use The Terminal

That moment when your brain is so fried you navigate to the directory you're already in, check where you are, then navigate to the same directory again, and check where you are... again. Terminal commands make perfect sense until they don't. The real question is how many more times would this loop have continued if the screenshot hadn't mercifully ended.

The Ultimate Guide To Self-Doxxing

Security Networking Programming

2 hours ago 24.8K views 0 shares

The irony of posting a "One-Factor Authentication" verification code publicly on social media is just *chef's kiss*. Nothing says "I understand security" like broadcasting your 6-digit secret to 32.4K people! And the best part? It's dated June 19, 2025 - apparently time travel is easier than basic security practices. Next up: posting your password as a LinkedIn article for better engagement metrics.

Error On Line What Now?

Debugging Javascript Programming

2 hours ago 28.8K views 0 shares

When the compiler says "Error on line 34" but line 34 is just a closing bracket. That moment when you realize your entire codebase is a house of cards held together by hopes and prayers. The real error is probably 200 lines above where you forgot a semicolon, but the compiler decided to wait until now to have its emotional breakdown.

Floating Point Arithmetic: The Superhero's Nightmare

Math Algorithms Programming Debugging

7 hours ago 65.5K views 0 shares

Floating Point Arithmetic: The Superhero's Nightmare

The superhero's disgust perfectly captures every programmer's internal screaming when dealing with floating-point precision. 32 whole bits—sign, exponent, mantissa—just to represent what normal humans call "a decimal number." And the best part? After all that complexity, 0.1 + 0.2 still doesn't equal 0.3! It's like building a rocket ship to cross the street and still ending up at the wrong house. IEEE 754 is the standard we collectively agreed on, yet we all silently curse it when debugging why our financial calculations are off by $0.0000000000001. The computer architecture gods demand sacrifice, and that sacrifice is exact decimal representation.

An Agentic AI Experience

AI Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

7 hours ago 74.1K views 0 shares

Ah, the pinnacle of modern tech innovation - changing a loading spinner's text and suddenly becoming an AI company. Because apparently all it takes to join the AI gold rush is making your users think your app is "thinking" instead of just, you know, fetching data from a database. This is the software equivalent of putting on glasses to look smarter. Next week they'll add rainbow colors to the spinner and become a "quantum computing startup." Venture capitalists, please form an orderly queue with your checkbooks ready.

Bulletproof Malicious Email Test

Security Networking Testing

8 hours ago 76.8K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD! The AUDACITY of IT departments thinking I'm going to waste precious seconds of my life clicking on their little "test" phishing emails! 💅 Honey, I've evolved beyond your security theater—I'm not clicking suspicious links because I'm not clicking ANY links! My inbox is basically a digital cemetery where emails go to DIE. Can't fail the security test if you never open your mail in the first place! *hair flip* It's called EFFICIENCY, sweetheart!

What Is The Result Of A Programmer's Work?

Programming

9 hours ago 84.2K views 0 shares

What Is The Result Of A Programmer's Work?

The brutal honesty of a child strikes again! Dad's fancy job title, expensive equipment, and gallons of caffeine ultimately producing... absolutely nothing tangible. That final answer—"Nothing"—hits harder than a production bug at 4:59pm on Friday. Kids have this magical ability to strip away our professional pretenses. While we're busy convincing ourselves we're "architecting scalable solutions" and "implementing robust frameworks," they see right through it—just a tired person staring at screens, drinking tea, and occasionally shouting at inanimate objects. The real product of a programmer's work? Existential crises and caffeine dependency.

The Code Was Unnecessarily Convoluted

Programming Debugging

9 hours ago 89.9K views 0 shares

The absolute TRAUMA of opening your old code! You wrote it, you birthed it into existence, and yet three years later it might as well be written in some ancient forbidden language only decipherable by wizards with PhDs in cryptography! 💀 The way we convince ourselves we're documenting properly only to return later and find ourselves staring into the abyss of our own creation like "WHO WROTE THIS MONSTROSITY?!" only to realize... it was us all along. The betrayal! The horror!

Storing Passwords The Easy Way

Security Webdev Programming Databases Backend

9 hours ago 96.0K views 0 shares

SWEET MOTHER OF CRYPTOGRAPHY! 😱 The absolute HORROR of clicking "forgot password" and getting your ACTUAL PASSWORD emailed back to you! That's not a convenience feature—that's a full-blown security NIGHTMARE! It means they're storing your precious password in plain text like it's some casual grocery list! Any half-decent developer would be HYPERVENTILATING right now. Proper password storage should involve hashing, salting, and praying to the security gods—not keeping them in a "passwords.txt" file labeled "super important don't hack"! If a website emails your password back, run away screaming and change that password EVERYWHERE you've used it because honey, that database is one curious intern away from catastrophe! 💀

.Cat Div Finally Responsive

Frontend Webdev Programming

10 hours ago 100.0K views 0 shares

When your CSS finally works and the cat fits purr fectly in the container! That beautiful moment when width: 100% and height: 100% actually do what you want instead of causing overflow chaos. The cat is now fully responsive and contained - unlike most of my elements that either escape their boxes or collapse into weird shapes. No media queries needed for this feline layout! Fun fact: Cats naturally follow the box model better than most browsers. If it fits, they sits - no margin or padding calculations required.

Job Site In Progress: The Web Development Food Chain

Backend Webdev Programming Frontend

10 hours ago 104.2K views 0 shares

Job Site In Progress: The Web Development Food Chain

The perfect visualization of web development hierarchy. The back-end is just a bunch of folks cooking up solutions in giant cauldrons over open flames, probably muttering incantations about database optimization. Meanwhile, the front-end is this polished restaurant where everything looks pristine and organized. And then there's the APIs – fancy waitstaff in bow ties who just transfer stuff between the chaos in the kitchen and the elegant dining room, judging everyone silently while doing absolutely nothing to improve the actual food. Classic software architecture in its natural habitat.

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