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What's The Point

3 days ago 111.9K views 0 shares

When you finally convince your team to use TypeScript for type safety, but then discover your codebase is just a sea of any types everywhere. The whole point of TypeScript was to avoid this exact situation! It's like buying a Ferrari and then towing it behind a bicycle. Congrats, you've successfully implemented JavaScript with extra steps.

Don't Break Anything

Testing Devops Programming Debugging

4 days ago 87.4K views 0 shares

The eternal battle between best practices and chaotic reality. Junior devs contemplating the responsible approach of writing comprehensive unit tests vs. the temptation of the dark side: frantically clicking around the app while muttering "please work" under their breath. Let's be honest - we've all skipped writing tests and gone straight to the "does it blend?" method of QA at some point. Who needs edge case coverage when you can just deploy to production and let users find the bugs for you? It's basically crowdsourced testing!

Starting A New Job: Expectations vs Reality

Programming Agile Debugging Testing

9 days ago 122.5K views 0 shares

Starting A New Job: Expectations vs Reality

First day optimism vs battle-hardened reality. You show up ready to slay the legacy codebase dragon with your shiny best practices sword, only to eventually join the "if nobody touches it, nobody gets hurt" cult. The transformation from idealistic code hero to pragmatic survivor is the most reliable deployment pipeline in our industry. Fun fact: Studies show 94% of refactoring initiatives die quietly in Jira, labeled as "technical debt" until the heat death of the universe.

Branch Protection Won't Save Your API Keys

Git Security Devops Javascript Programming

11 days ago 112.3K views 1 shares

Branch Protection Won't Save Your API Keys

The security admin proudly sets up branch protection requiring admin approval for all code changes. Meanwhile, the intern is confused about needing a +1 approval while the senior dev is like "lgtm, ship it" despite the code clearly containing an API key hardcoded in plain text with debugging logs printing credentials. Security theater at its finest - the branch is protected but the data sure isn't.

I Can't Do This Anymore

Security Programming Debugging Testing

14 days ago 101.3K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of cybersecurity teams! 😱 When you're desperately wandering around like a blind Bart Simpson trying to get help with actual security issues, they're NOWHERE to be found! But the MILLISECOND you name a test variable "test_secret" in some throwaway file that will never see production? SUDDENLY they've got NASA-grade telescope vision and are BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK like you've just committed high treason against the state! The audacity! The drama! The sheer ridiculousness of it all! Meanwhile your actual security concerns are collecting dust somewhere in ticket purgatory. #SecurityTheaterAtItsFinest

The Unbearable Truth About Testing

Testing Devops Programming Debugging

20 days ago 110.6K views 0 shares

When a developer finally musters the courage to hear the harsh truth about testing, only to immediately burst into tears upon learning that—gasp—proper testing could have prevented most of their bugs. It's like finding out Santa isn't real, except instead of presents, you've been getting production outages and 3AM emergency calls. The audacity of suggesting developers should test their code before pushing it! Next you'll tell me documentation is useful too!

But It Works, It Is The Main

Programming Security Debugging Testing

23 days ago 97.6K views 0 shares

The padlock is technically locked... if you ignore the fact that it's completely bypassing the actual mechanism. Just like your code that passes all tests while violating every principle in the documentation. Security through obscurity at its finest. The best part? You'll be the one on call when it inevitably breaks at 2am on a Saturday.

The Documentation Paradox

Programming Debugging Testing

23 days ago 122.1K views 0 shares

Ah, the circle of developer life. Junior devs step on rakes by not documenting code, then get smacked in the face when they forget how their own sorcery works a week later. Meanwhile, seniors are out here doing sick skateboard tricks with proper documentation, clean code, and READMEs... but still wiping out spectacularly when that one function they wrote 6 months ago might as well be ancient Sumerian. The real truth? Nobody remembers how anything works. The difference is seniors have learned to leave themselves breadcrumbs for when future-them inevitably becomes an amnesiac.

The Last .Gitignore You Will Ever Need

Git Webdev Devops Programming

26 days ago 72.7K views 0 shares

The ultimate solution to your version control woes! This developer just wrote the most efficient .gitignore file in history: * (literally just an asterisk). Why waste time specifying hundreds of file patterns when you can simply tell Git to ignore EVERYTHING? Then just manually add the few files you actually want to track. It's like burning down your house to avoid cleaning it. Pure chaotic genius that would make any senior developer simultaneously laugh and cry.

The Pipeline Terrorist Has Been Identified

Devops Git Docker Programming Debugging

29 days ago 102.1K views 0 shares

The Pipeline Terrorist Has Been Identified

THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY OF OUR TIME! 🔥 Some developer thought it was a brilliant idea to hardcode their local desktop path into the CI/CD pipeline, and now the entire build is collapsing like my will to live on Monday mornings! Nothing says "I'm special" quite like using C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\project\ in production code. The rest of us are just sitting here, drowning in error messages, contemplating career changes while staring into the void. The betrayal! The audacity! I can literally feel my soul leaving my body with each failed build notification. And the worst part? We all know exactly who did it because WE'VE ALL DONE IT AT SOME POINT. 💀

If Those Commit Messages Could Speak

Git Devops Programming Debugging

1 month ago 91.0K views 0 shares

Ah, the sacred art of commit messages. The sign demands "Commit messages must contain actual information" while the developer mutters "If those kids could read they'd be very upset." Nothing quite captures the essence of developer rebellion like pushing code with messages like "fixed stuff," "it works now," and the ever-popular "some bug fixes." Sure, future-you will have absolutely no idea what changes were made or why, but present-you saved a whole 15 seconds not documenting properly. Brilliant strategy!

Java Has A Higher State Of Mind

Java Programming Debugging

1 month ago 65.2K views 1 shares

Java developers evolving their equality-checking techniques like they're climbing the social ladder at a fancy dinner party. First panel: The peasant's approach with == that compares memory references instead of actual content. How primitive! Second panel: The middle-class obj1.equals(obj2) method - respectable, gets the job done, but lacks a certain... je ne sais quoi. Third panel: The aristocratic Objects.equals(obj1, obj2) with its monocle and top hat - handles null checks and prevents NullPointerExceptions with the elegance of someone who has staff to handle their exceptions for them.

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