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Nothing Better Than Coding During Christmas 🎄

15 hours ago 129.2K views 0 shares

Family gathering downstairs? Nah. Turkey dinner? Pass. Opening presents? Maybe later. But committing your AWS credentials and database passwords to a public repo in a blurry .env file while sitting alone with your laptop? Now that's the holiday spirit. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" quite like exposing your entire infrastructure to the internet. The tree is decorated, the lights are twinkling, and your BETTER_AUTH_SECRET is about to become everyone's secret. At least the photo is blurry enough that we can only read like 80% of those credentials. Security through jpeg compression—a strategy as old as time. Pro tip: Next year, maybe add .env to your .gitignore before you add it to your Christmas card.

I Lost Count At This Point

Cloud Networking Devops Gamedev AWS

1 day ago 157.8K views 0 shares

Gaming platforms and their outages visualized as flatline heartbeat monitors. Every single service showing that familiar spike pattern—the digital equivalent of "not again." From ARC Raiders to VRChat, it's like they're all competing for who can go down more creatively. AWS is there too, naturally, because when AWS sneezes, half the internet catches a cold. The real joke is calling these "outages" when they're basically scheduled features at this point. Your multiplayer plans? The servers had other ideas.

When You're Divorced From Reality

AI AWS Programming Backend Cloud

4 days ago 219.9K views 0 shares

The classic tech startup founder transformation arc, but make it AI. You start with that ambitious gleam in your eye thinking you're about to revolutionize machine learning. Then you dump your entire Series A funding into GPUs and cloud infrastructure because "we need compute power!" Next thing you know, you've automated every single position in your company including your own, because efficiency, right? The punchline? Your AI-powered product is so expensive to run that your target market can't even afford the subscription fees. Turns out training models on petabytes of data and running inference at scale costs slightly more than a Netflix subscription. Who knew that burning through millions in compute costs would make your pricing model look like a luxury yacht rental? The clown makeup progression perfectly captures the descent from "visionary entrepreneur" to "why is my AWS bill six figures this month?" The real kicker is realizing you've essentially built a very expensive solution looking for a problem that can actually pay for it.

Self Documenting Open Source Code Be Like

Devops AWS Programming Cloud

13 days ago 193.3K views 0 shares

Self Documenting Open Source Code Be Like

Nothing screams "self-documenting" quite like a variable named var.putin_khuylo in your Terraform AWS module. Because when future developers are debugging your infrastructure at 3 AM, what they really need is a geopolitical statement embedded in their boolean logic. The commit message "fix: Always pull a value from SSM data source since a computer" is chef's kiss—incomplete sentence and all. Really helps clarify what's happening in those 833 lines of code. And that overlay text trying to explain the variable? "It basically means value of Putin is d*ckhead variable is true." Thanks, I definitely couldn't have figured that out from the variable name itself. Documentation? Who needs it when you can just name your variables after your political opinions and call it a day. The code is self-documenting, just not in the way anyone expected.

Not A Big Deal, Just A Company That Runs Half The Internet

AWS Devops Backend Cloud

22 days ago 214.0K views 0 shares

Not A Big Deal, Just A Company That Runs Half The Internet

Nothing says "enterprise reliability" quite like AWS failing to collect 82 cents and sending you a formal email about it. The irony here is chef's kiss—a company that hosts Netflix, NASA, and probably your startup's MVP can't process a payment under a dollar. Meanwhile, their URLs are still using template variables like ${AWSConsoleURL} in production emails, which is either a hilarious oversight or they're charging you extra to render those variables. The "Thank you for your continued interest in AWS" at the end really seals the deal. Yeah, not like I have a choice when you're literally running my entire infrastructure. It's giving "we know you can't leave us" energy. That 82 cents probably cost them more in engineering time to send this email than the actual charge was worth.

Vibe Bill

Cloud Devops AWS Programming Backend

23 days ago 230.2K views 0 shares

Nothing kills the startup vibes faster than your first AWS bill showing up like a final boss. You're out here "vibing" with your minimal viable product, feeling like the next unicorn, deploying with reckless abandon because cloud resources are "scalable" and "pay-as-you-go." Then reality hits harder than a null pointer exception when you realize "pay-as-you-go" means you're actually... paying. For every single thing. That auto-scaling you set up? Yeah, it scaled. Your database that you forgot to shut down in three different regions? Still running. That S3 bucket storing your cat memes for "testing purposes"? $$$. The sunglasses coming off is the perfect representation of that moment when you check your billing dashboard and suddenly understand why enterprise companies have entire teams dedicated to cloud cost optimization. Welcome to adulthood, where your code runs in the cloud but your bank account runs on fumes.

Down The Drain We Go

AWS AI Networking Devops Azure

28 days ago 305.6K views 0 shares

Picture the internet as a beautiful, fragile ecosystem held together by duct tape and prayer. Now watch it spiral down the drain because literally EVERYTHING depends on AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare. One Cloudflare outage? Half the internet goes dark. AWS decides to take a nap? Your startup, your bank, your streaming service, and probably your smart toaster all scream in unison. The center of this glorious death spiral? "Dead internet" – because when these cloud giants sneeze, the entire digital world catches pneumonia. The cherry on top? That little "first major LLM deployed" at the start of the spiral, suggesting AI might've kicked off this beautiful cascade of chaos. And there you are, helplessly watching your carefully architected microservices get flushed along with everyone else's infrastructure. Single point of failure? Never heard of her! Welcome to modern cloud architecture where "distributed systems" somehow all route through the same three companies. Redundancy is just a fancy word we use in meetings to feel better about ourselves.

The Whole Internet Relies On That One Shark

Programming Webdev Networking AWS Linux

1 month ago 392.5K views 10 shares

The Whole Internet Relies On That One Shark

So that's what's holding up the internet - a precarious tower of technology balanced on Linus Torvalds' shoulders with a random shark at the DNS level. Turns out those underwater cables aren't the most concerning part of our infrastructure. The real MVP is that shark guarding the DNS servers while C developers write dynamic arrays, Rust devs do their thing, and some web dev quietly sabotages himself in the corner. Meanwhile, unpaid open source developers and "whatever Microsoft is doing" somehow keep this Jenga tower from collapsing. Sleep well tonight knowing your entire digital existence depends on this absurd tech stack and one very dedicated fish.

The Internet Explained

Programming Webdev C++ AWS Linux

1 month ago 341.3K views 2 shares

Finally, a technical diagram that's actually accurate! The internet isn't some magical series of tubes - it's a precarious tower of hacks built on the backs of sleep-deprived C developers and powered by cat photos. Love how the foundation is literally just "ELECTRICITY" with Linus Torvalds somehow holding it all together. And that breakdown of internet traffic? 50% cats, 25% games, 20% scams, 4% Rust devs being smug, and a measly 1% actual knowledge. Sounds about right. My favorite part is "web dev sabotaging myself" - nothing like spending 6 hours debugging only to find you misspelled a variable. Meanwhile, unpaid open-source developers are literally holding up the entire structure while AWS collects the check. Next time someone asks me to explain how the internet works, I'm just sending them this instead of giving my usual "it's complicated" speech.

The Modern Web: A Precarious Tower Of Abstractions

Webdev Rust Devops C++ Microsoft

1 month ago 430.4K views 2 shares

The Modern Web: A Precarious Tower Of Abstractions

The modern web stack depicted as a bizarre Jenga tower is painfully accurate. At the bottom, we have C developers creating dynamic arrays—the unsung heroes holding up the entire digital world while everyone else gets the glory. DNS and the Linux Foundation form the next layer, because who needs stable naming conventions anyway? AWS and unpaid open source devs make up the core infrastructure, with Cloudflare and AI tacked on as essential afterthoughts. Microsoft is off doing... whatever Microsoft does, probably rebranding something again. And somewhere in that precarious middle, you're just trying to build a simple web app while everything shifts beneath you. Meanwhile, Rust developers are floating away in their own perfect little universe, blissfully unaware that the rest of us are just trying to keep this monstrosity from collapsing.

Serial Production Version

Networking Devops AWS Programming Cloud

1 month ago 235.6K views 0 shares

When your infrastructure diagrams started as carefully crafted documentation but devolved into increasingly ridiculous memes with each iteration. The final form? A Titanic reference, because your production environment is also slowly sinking while the band plays on. This is the natural evolution of any technical documentation that passes through too many hands. First draft: professional. Final draft: "I guess we doin' INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE MEMES now." And honestly, that's probably more accurate than whatever AWS architecture diagram template you started with.

End Of All Modern Digital Infrastructure

Programming Networking Security Devops Microsoft

1 month ago 316.1K views 0 shares

End Of All Modern Digital Infrastructure

OMG, the AUDACITY of this truth bomb! 💣 The entire digital world—trillion-dollar companies, fancy cloud services, and corporate tech empires—all balancing precariously on the shoulders of sleep-deprived open source developers coding for free while surviving on ramen and energy drinks! That massive pillar labeled "Unpaid Open Source Developers" is literally holding up everything from DNS to AWS while Microsoft is off doing... whatever Microsoft does. The internet would IMPLODE if these caffeine-fueled heroes decided to take a collective vacation day. Fun fact: About 80-90% of all code in modern applications comes from open source components. We're all just one rage-quit away from digital armageddon!

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