Or Maybe It Is Useful

Every IT professional knows that sacred pre-holiday silence. The production server is humming peacefully, tickets are minimal, and you're counting down minutes until freedom. Then some rookie mentions "Wow, it's really quiet today!" and suddenly three critical systems crash simultaneously. It's like invoking a demonic ritual. The first and only commandment of IT: Never acknowledge the calm before you're safely at home with your phone on silent and laptop firmly closed.

Ah, the classic "I'll just wing it without version control" tragedy. Four months of work obliterated by a cursor mishap because someone thought Git was just a British insult. This poor soul is basically asking "how do I lock the barn door?" after the horse has not only escaped but taken the entire barn with it. The irony of asking about backups after losing everything is the silent scream every tech lead hears in their nightmares. Pro tip: If your "backup strategy" is crossing your fingers and whispering "please don't break" to your computer, you might want to reconsider your life choices. Or at least install Git.

Jumping into DevOps without Linux fundamentals is like trying to swallow those giant horse pills without water. Trust me, I've watched countless "Docker experts" crash and burn because they couldn't troubleshoot a basic shell script. The title "Also Git" is perfect - because Git is another one of those deceptively simple tools that will absolutely wreck your week when something goes wrong. Nothing quite like the cold sweat of a botched rebase on production code at 2AM. Been there, broken that.

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of these so-called "software engineers" with their RIDICULOUS version numbers that look like someone smashed their face on a keyboard! 🙄 We've spent DECADES perfecting semantic versioning only to discover—PLOT TWIST—nobody actually needs anything beyond v1.0! And when we wanted more features? "Just use plugins!" they said, as if that's not the digital equivalent of duct-taping features to a broken chair! And don't get me STARTED on those update prompts. "Please update to version 37.0.0.69.march2023.jaguar" — WHO NAMES THESE THINGS? A cat walking across a keyboard?! Meanwhile, we're all sitting here like obedient little puppies clicking "Yes, please install updates" while staring at loading screens that tell us ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 22GB download for what? A slightly different shade of blue in the UI? The betrayal is ASTRONOMICAL!

That moment when your credit card statement hits $300/month for software subscriptions and you suddenly transform into a digital Robin Hood. Developers spending 8 hours figuring out how to bypass paywalls instead of paying $9.99 for a service is peak optimization. The irony? We're probably using pirated tools to build software that we hope nobody pirates. It's not about saving money—it's about sending a message to the 37 SaaS companies who all decided "monthly recurring revenue" was more important than selling actual products. Bonus points if you've ever written a script to auto-cancel free trials before they charge you!

The ultimate bait-and-switch! First declares "CI/CD is a scam" to trigger every DevOps engineer on LinkedIn, then proceeds to describe... the most basic manual deployment process imaginable. What he's describing is literally the antithesis of CI/CD - spinning up EC2 instances and manually SSHing to deploy code. That's like saying "electric cars are a scam" and then revealing your amazing alternative is... walking. The cherry on top is the company name "Unemployed.ai" and the self-aware closing line. Pro tip: following this "advice" is indeed the fastest path to joining the unemployment statistics!