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When Project Is Not Ready But The Client Wants A Demo

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When Project Is Not Ready But The Client Wants A Demo

When your client schedules a demo for tomorrow and your project is basically held together with console.log statements and prayers. You're out here doing the software equivalent of an excavator trying to high-five itself—technically impressive, wildly unnecessary, and definitely not what anyone asked for. But hey, if you present it with enough confidence and jazz hands, maybe they won't notice that half the features are just placeholder text and the backend is literally just you manually updating a JSON file. The art of the demo isn't showing what works; it's creatively avoiding what doesn't.

Same Same But Different

Programming Git Unity Docker Python

1 day ago 185.7K views 0 shares

Two developers bonding over their mutual love of coding? How precious! Until you zoom in and realize one person's "coding" involves Python, VS Code, Git, and Docker while the other is rocking Deep.ai, Unity, and a completely different tech stack. It's like saying you both love pizza but one of you is talking about pepperoni while the other is describing sushi. Sure, you're both technically "coding," but you're living in completely different universes with zero overlapping tools, frameworks, or even programming paradigms. The awkward silence when they realize their common ground is about as solid as a null pointer? *Chef's kiss*. Nothing says "we have SO much in common" like having absolutely nothing in common!

No Documentation

Programming Debugging Backend

1 day ago 187.1K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you push 5,000 lines of undocumented spaghetti code to production on Friday afternoon, then drive away into the sunset with zero guilt? That's the energy here. No README, no comments, variable names like "x2" and "temp_final_FINAL_v3", and a codebase architecture only decipherable by archaeological carbon dating. The next developer who touches this will need therapy and a ouija board. But hey, not your problem anymore. You're already three exits down the highway, phone on silent, living your best life.

When You Have To Give Demo And Your Project Is Not Ready

Programming Webdev Agile Debugging Frontend

1 day ago 155.0K views 1 shares

When You Have To Give Demo And Your Project Is Not Ready

Picture this: the client wants a demo in 30 minutes, your code is held together by prayer and duct tape, and half your features are still returning "undefined" like it's their job. So what do you do? You grab whatever functional pieces you have and FRANTICALLY try to make them look connected and impressive, even though behind the scenes it's absolute chaos. That excavator desperately trying to lift itself? That's you trying to present a polished product while simultaneously being the broken mess that needs fixing. The sheer audacity of attempting the impossible while gravity (and reality) screams "NO!" is every developer's Thursday afternoon. Bonus points if you're live-coding fixes during the actual demo while maintaining eye contact and a confident smile.

Show Python

Python Programming

1 day ago 177.0K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you're in a tech interview and they ask you to demonstrate your Python skills? You confidently pull out your... empty hands with absolutely nothing to show. The interviewer's just staring at you like "where's the code?" while you're desperately trying to conjure up some list comprehensions out of thin air. The brutal reality: you put "Proficient in Python" on your resume after completing a single Codecademy tutorial and now you're being asked to implement a binary search tree while your brain is just going print("hello world") on repeat. The gap between what your resume claims and what you can actually code live under pressure is... well, it's giving invisible Python vibes.

It's Actually Because I'm A Noob 😓

Programming Git

22 hours ago 174.2K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle between noble ideology and crushing self-awareness! While some developers proudly wave the "I'm protecting my intellectual property" flag to justify keeping their code locked away, others are out here living in the REAL world where their spaghetti code looks like it was written by a caffeinated raccoon at 3 AM. Let's be honest—open sourcing your project sounds amazing until you remember that your variable names are things like "thing1," "stuff," and "finalFinalREALLYfinal_v3." The thought of seasoned developers stumbling upon your nested if-statements that go 47 levels deep? Absolutely mortifying. It's not capitalism keeping that repo private, bestie—it's pure, unadulterated shame. The beautiful irony is that everyone's been there, but nobody wants to admit their code would make a senior dev weep into their mechanical keyboard. So we hide behind excuses while our embarrassing commits remain safely tucked away from the judgmental eyes of GitHub. 💀

Sudo Apt Get Cookies

Linux Bash Programming

21 hours ago 174.0K views 0 shares

When you've been using Linux long enough, sudo becomes the universal solution to literally everything. Want cookies? Just elevate your privileges to root, obviously. The kid's not wrong—if you can install packages, manage system files, and nuke your entire OS with one misplaced command, getting some cookies from mom should be trivial. The beauty here is how Linux users are conditioned to believe that sudo grants them god-like powers. Permission denied? Sudo. Can't access a file? Sudo. Mom won't give you cookies? Sudo. It's the digital equivalent of saying "Simon says" but for your entire operating system. Bonus points if you've ever typed sudo apt-get install happiness at 3 AM while debugging.

Once You Complete Ahead Of Time

Agile Programming

22 hours ago 173.6K views 0 shares

You know that brief, beautiful moment when you actually finish your sprint tasks early and think you might get some breathing room? Yeah, that's cute. The moment a project manager catches wind that you're "free," they materialize like a genie from a lamp with a whole backlog of "quick wins" and "small tweaks" that definitely won't take 5 minutes despite what they claim. The smirk says it all—it's that knowing look of someone who's about to ruin your peaceful afternoon with three new tickets, a "minor" refactor, and maybe helping debug Steve's environment issues. Pro tip: never, EVER announce you're done early in standup. Just quietly work on that side project or refactor some code. Your future self will thank you.

Very Close Call

Webdev Security Programming Frontend

1 day ago 170.4K views 0 shares

When reCAPTCHA almost exposes your entire automated scraping operation but you remember you're actually just a sleep-deprived developer who's been staring at code for 14 hours straight. That checkbox is basically calling you out for having the clicking pattern of a bot because your soul left your body somewhere around hour 6. The existential crisis of realizing you've become so robotic in your movements that Google's AI is genuinely questioning your humanity? *Chef's kiss* 💀

Are We In A Sim

Cloud AI Gamedev Programming Linux

1 day ago 162.8K views 0 shares

So we've got tech bros uploading their consciousness to the cloud for digital immortality, only to end up as NPCs in someone's Sims 4 save file. The .tar.gz format is chef's kiss here—because of course your eternal soul would be compressed using gzip. Nothing says "preserving human consciousness" quite like a tarball that'll probably get corrupted during extraction. The year 2050 timeline feels generous considering how fast Silicon Valley moves. By then, some teen will be torrenting these consciousness archives like they're season packs of a TV show, casually modding billionaire minds into digital servants who autonomously cook mac and cheese and get stuck in swimming pools without ladders. The ultimate revenge for all those "move fast and break things" mantras. Fun fact: A .tar.gz file is actually a two-step compression process—first tar (tape archive) bundles files together, then gzip compresses them. So your consciousness would literally be archived like it's going on backup tape storage from the 1980s. Peak irony for the cloud computing crowd.

Cloudflare

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

1 day ago 159.7K views 0 shares

So this is how they keep half the internet running. Two guys literally praying to the server gods because when Cloudflare goes down, it's not just your site that's broken—it's like 30% of the entire web. No pressure though, just a casual Tuesday in the data center where one wrong cable pull could take down your favorite crypto exchange, your bank, and that obscure API you depend on for production. The fact that this is probably more accurate than we'd like to admit is both hilarious and terrifying.

Typo

Backend Devops Programming Debugging Databases

1 day ago 159.2K views 0 shares

We've all been there. You send a casual "Good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend and DB" thinking you typed something else entirely, and suddenly your phone becomes a weapon of mass panic. The frantic unanswered call, the desperate "Deploy*" with an asterisk like that fixes anything, followed by "Applogies" (because you can't even spell apologies when you're spiraling). The best part? "Please take the day off! Don't do anything!" Translation: Step away from the keyboard before you nuke production. But nope, our hero insists on deploying anyway because apparently one near-death experience per morning isn't enough. Some people just want to watch the database burn.

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