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Bruh Just Lemme Download The SDK
Java Devops Programming
11 days ago 72.1K views 0 shares
Bruh Just Lemme Download The SDK
The special circle of hell reserved for developers is having to create an Oracle account just to download the Java SDK. Nothing quite says "we hate our users" like forcing you through a bureaucratic nightmare of forms, verification emails, and personal questions just to get the basic tools needed to write "Hello World." Meanwhile, Oracle sits there with that troll face, knowing full well you're trapped because some legacy project requires their specific JDK version. The modern developer's hostage situation.

Government's Million-Dollar Free Software Fiasco
Microsoft Security Programming
14 days ago 90.0K views 0 shares
Government's Million-Dollar Free Software Fiasco
OH. MY. GOD. The government is literally HEMORRHAGING money on VSCode licenses that are FREE FOR EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET! 💸💸💸 Imagine being the poor soul who authorized payment for 250 VSCode licenses when only 33 people are using them... and VSCode is literally FREE and OPEN SOURCE! This is tax dollars evaporating faster than my will to live during a Monday morning standup! 😱 But wait, it gets better! Those 5 cybersecurity licenses for 20K seats when they only have 15K employees? That's like buying a mansion for your pet rock! I simply cannot with this level of bureaucratic chaos! 🤦‍♀️

Enterprise Apps: Where Simple Tasks Go To Die
Testing Devops Agile Programming Debugging
15 days ago 102.4K views 0 shares
Enterprise Apps: Where Simple Tasks Go To Die
Nothing says "I'm having a fantastic day" quite like spending three hours navigating through 25-step deployment processes just to change a single button's text. Enterprise apps: where simple tasks require committee approval, seven different environments, and a blood sacrifice to the legacy code gods. The best part? When you finally reach step 17, you realize you forgot to update a config file back at step 3. Pure. Developer. Bliss.

Average Jira Enjoyer
Agile Devops Programming
18 days ago 60.7K views 0 shares
Average Jira Enjoyer
The spiritual journey of every developer who's had to deal with Jira ticket management. That moment when your project manager starts channeling their inner zen master, asking you to reflect on your workflow choices, only to hit you with the existential crisis of ticket proliferation. Nothing says "we value process over progress" quite like creating 17 tickets to document that you changed a button color from blue to slightly-less-blue. The road to burnout is paved with unnecessary Jira tickets.

The Infinite Time-Tracking Loop
Agile Devops Programming
28 days ago 78.2K views 1 shares
The Infinite Time-Tracking Loop
Ah, the infinite recursion of corporate time tracking. You're spending so much time documenting your hours in Jira that you need to document the time spent documenting time... and then document that time too. It's the bureaucratic equivalent of a stack overflow, except your sanity crashes first. Eight years into my career and I've started estimating "Jira maintenance" as its own task. 2 hours per sprint just to update tickets that tell management what I'm doing instead of, you know, actually doing it. The real joke? Somewhere there's a product manager using this data to optimize workflows. Irony, thy name is enterprise software.

We Are Behind On Our Sprint Goals! We Need To Hire Another Solutions Architect!
Agile Devops Programming
1 month ago 78.4K views 0 shares
We Are Behind On Our Sprint Goals! We Need To Hire Another Solutions Architect!
Ten people standing around watching one developer dig a hole. Classic enterprise development in its natural habitat. The lone coder does all the actual work while a small army of managers, architects, and stakeholders provide their essential service of... standing there. Adding another solutions architect would definitely fix that sprint backlog. Maybe they can architect a solution for how to hold a shovel.

Jira Fans Issue Is Now Work Item
Agile Devops Programming Testing
1 month ago 92.4K views 0 shares
Jira Fans Issue Is Now Work Item
Atlassian just solved all our problems by renaming "Issue" to "Work Item" in Jira! Because clearly what's been holding back our sprint velocity isn't technical debt or unrealistic deadlines—it's terminology . Next sprint they'll rename "bugs" to "unexpected features" and our code will magically fix itself! Meanwhile, developers everywhere are updating their résumés to include "Work Item Resolution Specialist" instead of "Issue Fixer." That'll definitely boost our market value by at least 0.00001%.

Im Glad They Sorted This They Must Have Been Paying Millions For Those Vscode Liscences
Devops Programming
2 months ago 90.8K views 0 shares
Im Glad They Sorted This They Must Have Been Paying Millions For Those Vscode Liscences
Government efficiency at its finest! 🤣 Paying for 250 VSCode licenses when only 33 are being used is peak bureaucracy! The best part? VSCode is literally FREE for everyone else on planet Earth! It's like buying 250 tickets to breathe air and then only using 33 of them. Tax dollars hard at work buying premium versions of stuff that's already free! And don't get me started on those 380 Microsoft 365 licenses with ZERO users. Someone's getting a performance bonus for this stellar resource management!

All Security Wants In Return Is To Bring Dev Into Compliance
Security Devops Programming Testing
2 months ago 99.6K views 0 shares
All Security Wants In Return Is To Bring Dev Into Compliance
The eternal battle between security teams and developers rages on! Security wants SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) implemented in a dev environment that's literally called "isolated" for a reason. The developer's response? A middle finger and an offer to enable 2FA on static accounts—which is like putting a state-of-the-art lock on a cardboard box. It's the perfect encapsulation of the security-versus-convenience standoff that happens in every enterprise. Security folks wanting Fort Knox protocols for sandboxes while developers just want to ship code without jumping through seventeen authentication hoops for an environment where the worst thing you could leak is test data shaped like "foo" and "bar".