The Four Horsemen Of Hardest Things To Undo

Microsoft's "brilliant" business strategy exposed! 🧠💰 Step 1: Pay engineers to build something Step 2: Fire those same engineers Step 3: Make the product open source Step 4: Watch the now-unemployed engineers maintain it for free Step 5: Profit The ultimate corporate galaxy brain move - why pay for labor when you can exploit passion projects and community goodwill? Nothing says "we value developers" quite like turning your workforce into unpaid volunteers!

Finally, someone brave enough to decode the cryptic art of version numbering! The major version gets bumped when you're feeling particularly smug about your code. The minor version? That's just for the mundane Tuesday releases. But that patch number? That's where the bodies are buried—all those emergency fixes for bugs you swore didn't exist during code review. "No no, that 123 isn't a frantic weekend of hotfixes... it's a feature richness indicator ." Sure, buddy. We all know the truth behind those triple-digit patches. It's basically a shame counter.

A utopian future where we'd actually have flying cars and advanced technology if only we weren't held back by clunky document formats! Markdown (MD) is like that cool friend who keeps things simple yet powerful, while DOCX and PDF are the corporate overlords who insist on making everything unnecessarily complicated. Just imagine a world where you could easily edit, version control, and collaborate on documents without battling formatting demons or 50MB attachments. The dream died when some executive decided "but can it have 47 different font options though?"

The ultimate high-stakes gambler isn't at the casino—it's the IT guy whose entire professional existence balances precariously on StackOverflow answers and GitHub repositories! Nothing says "living dangerously" quite like building mission-critical systems with code snippets you found online at 2 AM and praying the maintainer of that one crucial dependency doesn't rage-quit open source tomorrow. The real adrenaline rush isn't bungee jumping—it's deploying to production with code you don't fully understand but copied anyway because it had 47 upvotes.

Ah, the classic one-person development team. James Pearce here is playing 4D chess with version control - creating the PR, assigning himself as the reviewer, approving his own work, and then merging it. Who needs code reviews when you're both judge and jury? This is basically the corporate equivalent of marking your own homework, except somehow it's completely acceptable in certain "agile" environments. The circle of trust is just... a dot.

Ever opened a PR from an AI and seen comments like // This is a for loop that iterates through the array ? Welcome to the world of AI-generated documentation—where stating the painfully obvious is considered helpful. It's like having that one intern who explains what a keyboard is every time you sit down to code. Next up: ChatGPT will helpfully inform you that your function returns a value and that variables store data. Revolutionary stuff.