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I'm Really Sorry For Those Who Wanted To Make A Build Just Now

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Remember when you could build a gaming PC without taking out a second mortgage? Yeah, me neither. That glorious feeling of assembling your rig right before GPU prices went absolutely bonkers is like watching a plane crash in slow motion—except you're Thomas the Tank Engine with that unsettlingly cheerful smile, blissfully unaware of the financial apocalypse behind you. Building your PC before the crypto mining boom, chip shortage, and general hardware price insanity hit different. You got that sweet RTX 3080 at MSRP while everyone else is now fighting scalpers and bots for a card that costs more than their entire setup. Meanwhile, current builders are out here selling kidneys just to afford RAM sticks. The best part? You're just cruising along with your reasonably-priced components while the entire PC building community burns in the background. No regrets, just vibes and 144fps.

When You Realize 6 Months Of Coding Is Still No Magic

Backend Webdev Programming Databases

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When You Realize 6 Months Of Coding Is Still No Magic

Six months in and you thought you'd be building the next Netflix by now. Instead, you're still Googling "how to center a div" and wondering why your API returns undefined. Backend development is basically an iceberg where the tip is "hello world" and the rest is databases, authentication, caching, microservices, message queues, load balancing, and existential dread about whether you should've just become a frontend dev. The real maturity isn't learning to code—it's accepting that those "full-stack developer in 3 months" bootcamp ads were lying to you. Backend alone could take years to truly master, and that's before you even touch DevOps, security, or the seventeen different ways to structure your project folders.

Rebase Rumble

Git Devops Programming

1 hour ago 12.4K views 0 shares

The classic trolley problem, but make it git. You've got one innocent developer on the upper track and a whole team on the lower track. What's a responsible engineer to do? Run git rebase master of course! Plot twist: rebasing doesn't actually save anyone. It just rewrites history so that lone developer who was safe on the upper track now gets yeeted to the lower track with everyone else. The team went from "we're all gonna die together" to "we're STILL all gonna die together, but now with a cleaner commit history." The best part? That "Successfully rebased and updated ref" message is basically git's way of saying "I did what you asked, don't blame me for the consequences." Sure, your branch looks linear and beautiful now, but at what cost? At what cost?! Pro tip: This is why some teams have a strict "no rebase on shared branches" policy. Because one person's quest for a pristine git log can turn into everyone's merge conflict nightmare faster than you can say git reflog .

It Happened Again

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

3 hours ago 54.3K views 0 shares

When you've been riding that sweet 17-day streak of Cloudflare stability and suddenly wake up to half the internet being down. Again. Nothing quite like that sinking feeling when your perfectly working app gets blamed for being broken, but it's actually just Cloudflare taking a nap and bringing down a solid chunk of the web with it. The best part? Your non-tech manager asking "why is our site down?" and you have to explain that no, it's not your code this time—it's literally the infrastructure that's supposed to protect you from going down. The irony is chef's kiss. Pro tip: Keep a "Days Since Last Cloudflare Outage" counter in your Slack. It's like a workplace safety sign, but for the modern web.

Is Cloudflare Down

Devops Webdev Networking Backend Cloud

4 hours ago 58.7K views 0 shares

The irony is chef's kiss. You're trying to check if Cloudflare is down by visiting a status page that's... served through Cloudflare. It's like asking the fire if it's burning properly. The 500 error is basically Cloudflare saying "I can't tell you if I'm down because I'm too busy being down." This is why every ops team has trust issues and keeps three different status checkers bookmarked. Because nothing says "reliable infrastructure" quite like your monitoring tool being unable to monitor itself.

Electron Apps

Javascript Webdev Hardware Programming Frontend

4 hours ago 65.6K views 0 shares

Remember when building a cross-platform desktop app seemed like a good idea? Just wrap an entire Chromium browser around your glorified calculator app, they said. It'll be fine, they said. Now every todo list app on your machine is basically running its own copy of Chrome, each one hogging more RAM than your entire OS did in 2010. Your 32GB of RAM? Gone. Your fans spinning up for a chat app? Normal. Your CPU crying because you opened Slack, VS Code, Discord, and Spotify at the same time? Just another Tuesday. The real kicker? RAM prices are skyrocketing because everyone's buying GPUs for AI training, so now you get to pay premium prices to run five instances of Chromium just to check your messages. What a time to be alive.

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room

Devops Networking Backend Cloud

5 hours ago 70.1K views 0 shares

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room

Cloudflare updates have achieved 9/11 status in the IT world. Every time they push an update, half the internet goes down and you're just standing there watching your monitoring dashboard light up like a Christmas tree. The priest performing last rites on the server infrastructure is honestly the most accurate representation of a sysadmin's emotional state during a CDN outage. At least when your own servers crash, you can blame yourself. When Cloudflare goes down, you get to explain to your boss why the entire internet is broken and no, you can't just "restart the cloud."

Calculator And Me

Git Webdev Programming

5 hours ago 74.5K views 0 shares

The duality of every developer's GitHub profile. You fork these magnificent, architecturally complex repositories with thousands of stars—beautifully crafted frameworks, intricate libraries, sophisticated tools that took teams years to build. Meanwhile, your own repos? A calculator app. Maybe a to-do list if you're feeling ambitious. That minimalist white cube perfectly captures the stark simplicity of "yet another basic project" we all have gathering digital dust in our profiles. The contrast hits different when you realize you've forked React, TensorFlow, and the Linux kernel, but your pinned repositories are literally just arithmetic operations wrapped in a GUI. We're all out here pretending to be contributors to enterprise-grade software while our actual output is "calculator-app-final-v2-ACTUALLY-FINAL."

It's All There In The Specs, Bro

Javascript Webdev Programming

6 hours ago 79.5K views 0 shares

So you're telling me that accessing an array with a negative index in JavaScript not only works but actually adds a property to the array? And then when you check the array, it shows you this cursed -1: 4 sitting there like it belongs? The bell curve perfectly captures the JavaScript experience: beginners think it's ridiculous (correct), experts also think it's ridiculous (also correct), but the middle crowd has Stockholm syndrome and will defend it with their lives. "It makes sense bro, everything in JS is an object!" Yeah, and that's exactly the problem. JavaScript treats arrays like objects because they are objects, so test[-1] = 4 is just adding a property named "-1" to your array object. It's technically in the spec, which somehow makes it worse.

Re Joined Cloudflare Again As Intern

Cloud Networking Devops Programming

6 hours ago 86.5K views 0 shares

So you left Cloudflare, probably for that "amazing opportunity" at a startup that promised equity and ping pong tables, only to realize the grass isn't always greener. Now you're back at the same company, but this time as an intern. The demotion is real, and that fancy reception desk is giving off some serious "we both know what happened here" vibes. The boomerang employee phenomenon hits different when you come back at a lower level. At least the office still looks nice, and hey, Cloudflare's CDN is pretty solid, so there's that. Maybe this time you'll appreciate the free coffee and stable infrastructure before chasing the next shiny thing.

When A Developer Breaks Down English As If It's Code

Programming

6 hours ago 89.0K views 0 shares

When A Developer Breaks Down English As If It's Code

Someone asked developers which language they dislike, and this guy chose violence by dissecting English like it's a cursed legacy codebase. "Syntactically garbage" with "useless operators" nobody understands? Check. "Obscure compiler rules" that throw warnings instead of errors? Absolutely. The kicker is calling grammar nazis "open source grammar police" and complaining about the lack of type safety and namespaces. Honestly, if English had a GitHub repo, it would have 50,000 open issues and zero maintainers. The Oxford comma alone would spark merge conflicts that last centuries.

Is Cloud Flare Down Again

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

7 hours ago 95.3K views 0 shares

You know your infrastructure is in great hands when Cloudflare goes down more often than your college roommate's commitment to leg day. The kid pointing at the 500 error is every developer frantically refreshing isitdownrightnow.com, while the teacher represents your boss who's seen this exact presentation seven weeks in a row. "It's not our code, it's Cloudflare!" becomes the most overused excuse in standup meetings. Plot twist: sometimes it actually IS Cloudflare, and you get to feel vindicated for approximately 3 minutes before realizing half the internet is down with you.

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