The Two Faces Of Development

That hollow feeling when you finally finish the side project you've been obsessing over for months. The void stares back at you as you realize you've got nothing left to debug at 2AM. What now? Start another project that will consume your soul, or actually get some sleep for once? Who are we kidding—you're already opening a new GitHub repo.

Ah, the family tree of dependency hell! Just like how you can't exist without Mom and Dad, and they somehow need you to function (especially when they need tech support), your code shouldn't form these ridiculous loops either. This is basically every developer justifying their spaghetti architecture with "but it works in real life!" Sure, and my code works on my machine too. Doesn't mean it's not a disaster waiting to happen when someone else tries to untangle your family issues—I mean, dependencies.

The ghost of Stack Overflow past returns with a new disguise! Those AI coding assistants promising to revolutionize programming are just our old friend "unhelpful help" wearing a fancy sheet. You unmask it to reveal the same frustrating experience we've always had - intrusive popups asking if you need help writing a letter when you're clearly in the middle of debugging a critical production issue. The "Don't show me this tip again" checkbox might as well be connected to /dev/null for all the good it does. The more things change, the more they stay infuriatingly the same.

Visual Studio trying to convince us that "ass" is undefined when we all know it's the most well-defined part of the human anatomy. The IDE's prudish error checking is basically the digital equivalent of your grandma covering your eyes during movie kissing scenes. Nice try, Microsoft. We'll just rename it to "posterior" and pretend we're being professional.

Content : Anonymous 011424(Sun)00:30:43 No.98435111 OK let's learn C make a new project in visual studio turns out thats not the correct way to do it because then it's not cross platform and i can't switch editors 280 KB JPG later start learning make, realize it's a clusterfuck of retardation but somehow copy paste something together that compiles turns out it's not the correct way to do it, the "modern" way is that you need to use premake to generate make files which then generate the visual studio solution :) ok let's write code.. wait, i have to write header files? you mean i have to have double the code for no reason other than the C build system being garbage? i want to parse a small json config file, it doesnt have to be performant. wait, how the fuck do i add libraries to my project? ok, so i have to add them and update them manually like a caveman or i have to do some git submoduling cancer, or i can use this package manager called conan that doesn't work half the time. run program - crashes that's fine it happens during development all the time let's read the helpful error message and fix what we did wrong "an error has occured" ProdrammerHumor.io

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