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The One And Only Measurement

1 day ago 243.2K views 0 shares

So apparently the ONLY scientifically valid metric for measuring code quality is WTFs per minute during code review, and honestly? The accuracy is TERRIFYING. Good code gets you maybe one confused "WTF" every few minutes. Bad code? You're drowning in a tsunami of "WTF IS THIS?!" and "DUDE WTF" faster than you can say "technical debt." It's like the difference between a gentle rain and a category 5 hurricane of confusion. Forget cyclomatic complexity, forget test coverage—if your teammate is muttering expletives at a rate that could power a small generator, you KNOW you've written some truly cursed garbage. The people have spoken, and they're screaming WTF.

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Programming Git Linux

1 day ago 242.7K views 0 shares

Finally achieved that perfect state where everything works exactly as intended. No further modifications allowed. Touch nothing. Breathe carefully. The house has been deployed to production and any changes require a full sprint planning meeting and three layers of approval. Your kids wanting to move a chair? That's a breaking change. Someone leaving shoes by the door? File a pull request. The mental model of treating your living space like a codebase with strict version control is both deeply relatable and mildly concerning. chmod 444 reality.txt

Vibe Coders Won't Understand

Debugging Programming Backend

1 day ago 204.3K views 1 shares

You know you've written cursed code when you leave a comment that's basically a hostage note for future developers. Someone wrote code so convoluted that even they forgot how it works, and now they're warning others: "Don't touch this. 254 hours have already been sacrificed to this demon." It's the developer equivalent of finding a sealed tomb with warnings carved into the entrance—except instead of ancient curses, it's just spaghetti logic that somehow still runs in production. The best part? They're asking you to increment the counter when you inevitably fail too. It's not a bug tracker, it's a monument to human suffering.

How Do You Pronounce It?

Programming Databases

1 day ago 224.5K views 0 shares

The tech world's most pointless debate that somehow causes more arguments than tabs vs spaces. Is it "day-ta" or "dah-ta"? The answer depends entirely on whether you went to school in the US or literally anywhere else on the planet. Liam's response is gold because your brain automatically reads both pronunciations differently in the same sentence. It's like that GIF/JIF war, except nobody's built an entire career around being pretentious about data pronunciation... yet. Fun fact: The Latin origin "datum" suggests "dah-ta" is technically more correct, but good luck explaining etymology to your PM during standup when they ask about the "day-ta pipeline."

Me A Irl

Programming Devops Debugging Backend

1 day ago 221.2K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you're staring at your codebase trying to make sense of what past-you was thinking? That's the inflatable tube man energy right there. Just flailing around desperately hoping something will click. Then you look at the actual dependency graph of your project and it's this beautiful nightmare of spaghetti connections that would make a bowl of ramen jealous. Every service talks to every other service, circular dependencies everywhere, and you're just there begging the universe for a breakthrough moment. Spoiler alert: it never comes. You just add another line to the chaos and call it a day.

I Must Be Hearing Things

AI Programming

21 hours ago 220.6K views 0 shares

Look, I've been in this industry long enough to know that saying "Copilot is actually good" in public is basically a medical emergency. The AI code assistant debate has become so polarized that admitting you find it useful is like confessing you don't use Vim or that you actually enjoy writing documentation. Half the developers out there are convinced it's destroying the craft of programming, while the other half are quietly shipping features faster than ever. But heaven forbid you say it out loud—you'll get roasted harder than a failed deployment on a Friday evening. The truth? Most people complaining about Copilot either haven't used it properly or are just mad that autocomplete got a PhD.

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AI Bash Programming Linux

23 hours ago 220.2K views 0 shares

Claude just got asked to execute a command that looks like someone fell asleep on their keyboard while simultaneously having a stroke. We're talking grep, regex wildcards, piping through awk, redirecting to files, more awk with arrays, then casually sorting and grabbing the last 20 lines with head. This is the kind of one-liner that would make even a seasoned Unix wizard squint at their terminal for a solid minute. And the response? "Yeah go for it dude." No questions asked. No "wait, what does this do?" No safety checks. Just pure blind trust in the AI overlord. This is either peak confidence or peak laziness, and honestly, in our industry, those two are basically the same thing. The real joke is we've all been there—copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers we don't fully understand, running npm packages with 47 dependencies from developers we've never heard of, and now just letting AI execute cursed bash incantations. What could possibly go wrong? 🙃

Convinced My Parents To Buy Me One

Hardware Gamedev

21 hours ago 217.3K views 0 shares

Oh honey, the eternal GPU wars just got personal. While PC gamers are out here treating NVIDIA like it's the only graphics card manufacturer on planet Earth, AMD and Intel are literally lying on the floor begging for attention like forgotten stepchildren. The brand loyalty is UNREAL—people will drop $1,600 on an RTX 4090 without blinking, but suggest an AMD Radeon and suddenly everyone's a "compatibility expert." Meanwhile, Intel Arc is just happy to be mentioned at all. The market dominance is so brutal that even when AMD releases competitive cards at better prices, gamers still swipe right on team green. Competition? What competition? NVIDIA's out here living rent-free in everyone's minds AND wallets.

The Urge Is So Real

Debugging Programming Frontend Backend

1 day ago 214.4K views 0 shares

Production is on fire, users are screaming, and your manager is breathing down your neck about that critical bug. But wait—is that a nested if statement from 2018? Some variable names that make zero sense? A function that's doing seventeen things at once? Every developer knows that moment when you open a file to fix one tiny bug and suddenly you're possessed by the spirit of clean code. The rational part of your brain is yelling "JUST FIX THE BUG AND GET OUT" but your fingers are already typing "git checkout -b refactor/everything-because-i-have-no-self-control". Spoiler alert: you're gonna hit that refactor button, spend 4 hours renaming variables and extracting functions, accidentally break three other things, and then sheepishly revert everything at 6 PM. We've all been there. Some of us are still there.

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Linux Gamedev Windows

1 day ago 213.9K views 0 shares

Console gamers are living their best life with plug-and-play simplicity. Windows gamers? They've seen some things—driver issues, random crashes, the occasional "why won't this game launch" existential crisis. But Linux gamers? They're out here compiling their own graphics drivers, wrestling with Wine compatibility layers, and Googling obscure forum posts from 2009 just to get a game running at 30fps. The hierarchy of suffering is real: the more control you want over your system, the more your soul gets crushed in the process. Console gamers are innocent children, Windows gamers are battle-scarred veterans, and Linux gamers are basically digital masochists who enjoy pain as a hobby.

I Just Saved Them Billions In R&D

AI Programming Debugging

1 day ago 210.9K views 0 shares

Someone just cracked the code to AI development: literally just tell the AI to not mess up. Genius. Revolutionary. Why are these companies spending billions on training data, compute clusters, and PhD researchers when the solution was this simple all along? The beautiful irony here is that each AI politely acknowledges it can make mistakes right below the prompt demanding perfection. It's like telling your buggy code "just work correctly" in a comment and expecting that to fix everything. Narrator: It did not fix everything. If only software development were this easy. "Write function, make no bugs." Boom, unemployment for QA teams worldwide.

Don't Blame Your Potential Customers Guys

Gamedev Programming

19 hours ago 212.6K views 0 shares

Don't Blame Your Potential Customers Guys

When your indie game flops harder than a null pointer exception, there's always that moment of self-reflection where you wonder if maybe, just maybe, you could've done something differently. But nah, it's definitely the gamers who have terrible taste. Classic Skinner meme energy right here. Game devs blaming their audience for not appreciating their masterpiece is like a developer blaming users for "holding the phone wrong" when the app crashes. Sure, your game might be a buggy mess with questionable mechanics, but clearly the problem is that gamers just don't understand true art. Nothing says "successful product launch" quite like refusing to acknowledge feedback and doubling down on your mistakes. Pro tip: If your game fails, maybe check if it's actually fun before blaming the entire gaming community. Just a thought.

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