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I See You Aspiring Developer
Programming
1 hour ago 16.3K views 0 shares
I See You Aspiring Developer
The IT industry looking at fresh-faced aspiring developers with that thousand-yard stare. You know what's coming, kid. The late-night production incidents, the legacy code written by developers who've long since fled the country, the meetings that could've been emails, the sprints that never end, the technical debt that's now technically a mortgage. They're all excited about building the next big thing, learning React, mastering algorithms. Meanwhile, the industry knows they'll spend 80% of their time trying to figure out why the build suddenly stopped working after someone updated a dependency three layers deep in node_modules. Welcome to the thunderdome, junior. Your optimism is adorable and we're about to ruin it systematically over the next 2-5 years.

WASD Or Arrows???
Programming
1 day ago 147.6K views 0 shares
WASD Or Arrows???
When someone says "swimming courses for programmers," they're not talking about learning the butterfly stroke. They mean taking your laptop into an actual swimming pool because why would you ever leave your desk? The guy's literally standing in water, coding away, treating "immersive learning" a bit too literally. Most programmers already spend 90% of their time drowning in documentation, Stack Overflow threads, and legacy code anyway—might as well make it physical. At least the pool water is cleaner than most codebases. Plus, waterproof keyboards are cheaper than therapy for burnout, so really, he's just being financially responsible here.

It Be Like This
Programming
3 days ago 205.0K views 0 shares
It Be Like This
Take a vacation, touch some grass, maybe read a book. Come back to your IDE and suddenly you're staring at your own code like it's written in ancient Sumerian. That function you wrote two weeks ago? No idea what it does. That design pattern you were so proud of? Completely foreign. Your muscle memory has been factory reset and you're back to Googling "how to reverse a string" like it's day one of bootcamp. The knowledge decay is real and it's exponential.

10 Years Of Experience And Here's My Update
Programming
9 days ago 227.6K views 0 shares
10 Years Of Experience And Here's My Update
Ten years in the industry and the only visible progress is a slightly fancier mousepad. Same grumpy expression, same outdated monitor, same existential dread—but hey, at least the desk accessories got a minor RGB upgrade. The real kicker? You're probably making 3x the salary now but still feeling just as dead inside. That's the senior developer lifecycle for you: more money, same problems, marginally better peripherals. Some call it career growth, others call it a slow descent into comfortable misery with better lighting.

We Should Rename The Term
Programming
10 days ago 99.4K views 0 shares
We Should Rename The Term
Listen, "vibecoding" sounds way too aspirational and zen for what's actually happening here. You're not channeling cosmic energy through your keyboard—you're literally just vibing with the code, hoping something sticks while your brain runs on autopilot and three cups of coffee. It's that beautiful state where you're not really thinking, not really planning, just... existing alongside your IDE and praying to the syntax gods. "Lazycoding" is the HONEST rebrand we desperately need. No more pretending we're in some flow state when we're actually just too mentally exhausted to open the documentation. We're not vibing, we're surviving. Call it what it is!

The Real Wish
Agile Programming
11 days ago 150.9K views 0 shares
The Real Wish
You know your career has peaked when a magical genie offers you wishes and your first instinct is to check your ticket backlog. The programmer logs into Jira and discovers zero issues—a miracle so statistically improbable it makes winning the lottery look like a Tuesday. But here's the kicker: even with a genie granting impossible wishes, the programmer's second wish isn't infinite knowledge, world peace, or even unlimited coffee. Nope. He wants to become a duck farmer. Because at some point, you realize that dealing with actual ducks is probably less chaotic than dealing with sprint planning, merge conflicts, and stakeholders who want "just one small change" on Friday afternoon. The genie's seen some stuff, but even he knows: every developer secretly dreams of escaping to a simpler life where the only bugs are the ones eating your crops.

Bloated Ticket
AI Agile Programming
13 days ago 286.5K views 0 shares
Bloated Ticket
Nothing says "I care about this project" quite like a 47-paragraph ticket that reads like a doctoral thesis but was actually generated by ChatGPT in 3 seconds. You open it expecting clarity, instead you get five pages of corporate buzzwords, redundant acceptance criteria, and suspiciously perfect formatting. The real kicker? Buried somewhere in paragraph 23 is the actual requirement: "make button blue." Meanwhile you're sitting there like a rain-soaked anime protagonist, dead inside, knowing you'll have to parse through this AI slop to figure out what they actually want. The ticket looks impressive in standup though, so there's that.

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Did Anyone Say .. Sleep? What Sleep?
Gamedev Unity Programming Debugging
13 days ago 256.3K views 0 shares
Did Anyone Say .. Sleep? What Sleep?
Game developers have transcended the physical realm and no longer require sleep. While teachers toss and turn grading papers, lawyers stress in their sleep over cases, and engineers curl up in the fetal position debugging their nightmares, game devs have simply... vanished. No body, no bed, no evidence they even attempted rest. The progression is beautiful: from slightly uncomfortable, to moderately distressed, to full existential crisis mode, to straight-up nonexistent. It's like watching the evolution of work-life balance in reverse. Game dev crunch culture has literally erased the concept of horizontal rest from existence. The empty pillow isn't just a joke—it's a documentary. Between fixing that one shader bug at 4 AM, optimizing frame rates, dealing with Unity's latest "features," and responding to Steam reviews calling your masterpiece "literally unplayable" because of a typo, who has time for biological necessities?

Just Fuck My Career Up Bruh
Gamedev Unity Programming
15 days ago 154.5K views 0 shares
Just Fuck My Career Up Bruh
Nothing says "I'm making informed career decisions" quite like clicking on a YouTube video titled "20 Game Dev Tips I Wish I Was Told Earlier" at 8:40 in the evening. Because clearly, the best time to question your entire professional trajectory is right before bed when your brain is already running on fumes and existential dread. The thumbnail's desperate "GIVE UP NOW" energy combined with that haunting orange character perfectly captures that special moment when you realize you've been doing everything wrong for years. The algorithm knows exactly when you're vulnerable and serves up content that'll have you rewriting your entire codebase at midnight. Fun fact: Game dev is one of the few industries where you can work 80-hour weeks, learn 15 different engines, master shader programming, and still make less than a junior web developer who learned React last month. But sure, let's watch another tutorial about what we should've done differently.

In Case It Doesn't Work Out
Programming Agile
19 days ago 201.3K views 0 shares
In Case It Doesn't Work Out
So you're having doubts about your coding career? Don't worry, the tech industry has prepared some lovely exit routes for you. Product management is the "I still want to be in tech but without the actual coding" path. Teacher is for those who think "if I can't do it, I'll teach it" (and honestly, respect). DevRel is basically getting paid to tweet and go to conferences while pretending you still code. And then there's goose farming – the most honest option here, because at least geese are upfront about being annoying and difficult to work with, unlike your CI/CD pipeline. The real kicker? Half the senior devs you know have already mentally chosen their path. They're just waiting for the right moment or the next production incident to pull the trigger.

Too Much Stress
Programming Agile Debugging
23 days ago 168.6K views 0 shares
Too Much Stress
Scientists invent a bracelet that converts stress into electricity? Cool tech. Programmers wearing one? Congrats, you just created a portable nuclear reactor. Between production bugs, merge conflicts, legacy code that looks like it was written by a caffeinated raccoon, and meetings that could've been emails, you're basically powering the entire grid. Forget renewable energy—just hook up a dev team during sprint week and you've solved the energy crisis. That glowing figure at the end isn't just stressed, they've achieved fusion .

It's A Feature Not A Stress Overflow Error
Agile Programming Debugging
24 days ago 229.1K views 0 shares
It's A Feature Not A Stress Overflow Error
When you're so deep into sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives that your brain's stack trace just... vanishes. The beautiful irony here is claiming to be "so agile" while simultaneously experiencing complete memory loss about yesterday's work. That's not iterative development, that's just your hippocampus running out of heap space. The title's "stress overflow error" is *chef's kiss* because it perfectly parallels stack overflow errors—when you push too many function calls onto the stack until it crashes. Except here, it's your mental stack getting absolutely obliterated by too many context switches, ticket updates, and Jira notifications. Your brain literally garbage-collected yesterday's work to make room for today's chaos. Pro tip: If you can't remember what you did yesterday, your sprint velocity isn't the only thing that needs attention. Maybe it's time to refactor your work-life balance before you hit a segmentation fault IRL.