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Go Homeless In Less Than A Month
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
14 days ago 88.0K views 0 shares
Go Homeless In Less Than A Month
Forget smoking and overpriced coffee - the real financial death spiral is forgetting about that EC2 instance you spun up "just to test something real quick." Nothing says "surprise bankruptcy" quite like getting that AWS bill showing you've been hosting the digital equivalent of an empty room for $200/day. The cloud giveth scalability, and the cloud taketh away your rent money. Next time you're debugging at 2 AM, set a calendar reminder titled "DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A CARDBOARD BOX?"

Looking At You Big 4
Programming Agile
15 days ago 64.7K views 0 shares
Looking At You Big 4
Ah, the beautiful world of consulting firms where mathematical wizardry transforms two inexperienced interns into "senior experts" with a simple multiplication of the hourly rate. The meme perfectly captures that awkward moment when you're the project lead forced to pretend these kids fresh out of college who still have "Hello World" as their greatest achievement are actually worth $250/hour to your client. Meanwhile, the client is paying premium rates for what is essentially a glorified internship program where you're secretly the one doing all the actual work while simultaneously teaching these two how to use Git without destroying the repository. The circle of corporate life continues...

I'm Doing My Part (Against AWS)
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
17 days ago 90.6K views 0 shares
I'm Doing My Part (Against AWS)
When AWS sends you a bill for $14.74 from four years ago, you become the silent resistance fighter. While everyone's making grand gestures canceling Prime accounts over Amazon's latest controversy, you're quietly fighting the system by "forgetting" to pay that ancient cloud hosting bill for your abandoned side project. It's not tax evasion, it's a principled stand against corporate memory! The AWS debt collectors can pry that $14.74 from your cold, dead keyboard.

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
1 month ago 116.9K views 0 shares
Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
The ultimate cheat code for burning through money: Amazon Web Services! 💸 Anyone who's ever received an unexpected AWS bill knows the pain. You spin up an EC2 instance thinking "I'll just test this quickly" and suddenly your credit card is sobbing in the corner. The SRE in this joke knows that AWS could easily burn through $100M without breaking a sweat – no gambling or frivolous spending required! The genie adding a fourth rule is basically saying, "Nice try, smartypants. I'm not falling for that cloud computing money pit."

EC2 Meet Your Competitor
Cloud Devops AWS Javascript Backend
2 months ago 162.0K views 0 shares
EC2 Meet Your Competitor
The cloud bill from hell has arrived! Someone's serverless function just went nuclear at 24166% of the monthly limit, casually adding $96,280 to the bill. That innocent little function you deployed Friday evening before heading to the bar? It's been partying harder than you did. Vercel just sent the kind of notification that makes DevOps engineers update their resumes at 3 AM. The best part? That cheerful reminder you'll continue being charged $40 per 100 GB hours, as if saying "Hope you enjoyed your accidental Ferrari purchase, would you like fries with that?" This is why we can't have nice things in the cloud. Free tier giveth, infinite scaling taketh away.

Vibe Coders After Their First AWS Bill
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
2 months ago 162.7K views 0 shares
Vibe Coders After Their First AWS Bill
That moment when you deploy your first "serverless" app thinking you'll save money, then AWS hits you with a bill that makes your coffee taste like tears. Nothing quite like the transition from "I'm a cloud genius" to "I should've read the pricing page" in just 30 days. The free tier is just AWS's gateway drug.

How Your Webdev Boyfriend Makes Money
Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend Backend
2 months ago 91.0K views 0 shares
How Your Webdev Boyfriend Makes Money
The secret financial strategy of web developers finally exposed! A basic client-server diagram showing a request and... wait for it... a "Reponse" (yes, that typo is the entire business model). Every web dev knows charging by the hour while debugging your own spelling mistakes is the real passive income stream. The client never needs to know those 4 hours of "complex backend optimization" was just you frantically googling "how to spell response in French" because you committed the typo to production and now you're too embarrassed to admit it.