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VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Programming Microsoft Databases Backend
19 hours ago 161.3K views 0 shares
VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Nothing humbles a CS graduate with 6 years of experience and a GitHub full of microservices quite like watching Brenda from Accounting unleash her Excel VBA sorcery. While you're debating which framework to use, she's built an entire ERP system with macros and formulas that somehow never breaks. Her Excel sheets communicate better than your team's Slack channel. The funniest part? She learned it all from a weekend workshop in 2003 and calls it "just a little spreadsheet trick."

Multilayer Perceptron: It Just Says 4
AI Algorithms Math Programming
5 days ago 67.8K views 0 shares
Multilayer Perceptron: It Just Says 4
The perfect visualization of AI conversations between a data scientist and a manager. Left guy: "Here's our multilayer perceptron neural network with input, hidden, and output layers." Manager: "What's it do?" Data scientist: "It outputs a 4." Manager: "That's it? That's dumb as hell." Meanwhile, the beautiful 3D function surface plot that actually represents complex mathematical transformations sits there being completely unappreciated. It's the classic "I spent 3 weeks optimizing this model and all my boss cares about is if it makes the line go up."

We Spared No Expense (Except On I.T. Staff)
Programming Networking Devops Debugging
5 days ago 78.8K views 0 shares
We Spared No Expense (Except On I.T. Staff)
The classic Jurassic Park quote gets a corporate tech twist! While companies boast about investing in cutting-edge infrastructure and fancy office perks, they somehow always manage to run their entire operation on a skeleton crew of underpaid IT folks. One sysadmin desperately trying to maintain 200+ servers while management wonders why the network keeps going down. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" echoes through the building as the lone IT person contemplates whether the dinosaurs had it easier than dealing with printer issues for the 5th time today.

Start-Up Be Like: The AI Smoke And Mirrors Show
AI Programming
6 days ago 53.4K views 0 shares
Start-Up Be Like: The AI Smoke And Mirrors Show
The circle of startup AI innovation: Manager asks impossible question → Developer frantically asks ChatGPT → Developer presents ChatGPT's answer as their own work → Manager impressed → Company secures another round of funding. Let's be honest, half the "AI strategy" presentations in boardrooms right now are just regurgitated LLM outputs with fancy transitions. The real innovation is how quickly we've normalized outsourcing our thinking to robots while maintaining our poker faces.

Spoke My Mind At Work... Now Updating My Résumé
Gamedev Programming
8 days ago 55.5K views 0 shares
Spoke My Mind At Work... Now Updating My Résumé
OH. MY. GOD. The absolute CAREER SUICIDE happening in real time! 💀 Boss: "Our game revenue is crashing!" Coworkers: *give safe corporate answers like "COVID-19" and "Market Saturation"* This poor dev with a DEATH WISH: "We treat players like wallets, not gamers." And just like that, homeboy's LinkedIn status changed to "OPEN TO WORK" faster than you can say "microtransaction." That resume update is happening at the speed of light while the boss's face turns the color of a production server error!

Who Needs Algorithms If You Have AI
AI Algorithms Programming
9 days ago 92.2K views 0 shares
Who Needs Algorithms If You Have AI
Marketing folks rejecting actual algorithms while embracing "AI" is peak corporate comedy. They don't want the nerdy math stuff—they want the shiny buzzword they can slap on everything! Never mind that AI literally runs on algorithms... but why let technical reality get in the way of a good slide deck? Next quarter they'll discover "machine learning" and act like they invented fire.

Meeting Driven Development: The Must Have Skill
Agile Devops Programming
10 days ago 73.3K views 1 shares
Meeting Driven Development: The Must Have Skill
The ultimate corporate evolution: from writing code to endless meetings where everyone talks about writing code. Grumpy Cat perfectly captures that dead-inside feeling when you realize your calendar is just back-to-back meetings discussing "sprint velocity" while your actual IDE collects digital dust. The top text reveals the twisted logic – can't have maintenance problems if you're too busy in meetings to write anything. Modern problems require modern solutions, I guess? Meanwhile, your skills slowly atrophy as you perfect the art of looking thoughtful while mentally debugging your life choices.

Great Book For Productivity
Agile Devops Programming
10 days ago 65.8K views 0 shares
Great Book For Productivity
The ultimate productivity hack: never write code, just attend meetings about it. Featuring the famously grumpy cat as your spirit animal, this mock book cover perfectly captures the soul-crushing reality of corporate development environments where actual coding takes a backseat to endless discussions about coding. The tagline "This is your life now" hits with the subtlety of a server rack falling on your foot. Somewhere, a developer just checked their calendar with 7 hours of meetings and quietly died inside.

The Byte-Sized Corporate Conundrum
Hardware Programming
10 days ago 63.0K views 0 shares
The Byte-Sized Corporate Conundrum
The corporate world asking you to spot differences between 1 bit and 4KB is like asking you to compare a grain of sand to a beach. That's a 32,768x difference! Your hard drive knows this pain all too well—constantly being filled with duplicate files, 17 versions of the same document, and those screenshots you'll "organize later." No wonder it's giving you that judgmental look. It's basically saying "I have 500GB of storage and somehow you're at 99% capacity with what is essentially the same PowerPoint presentation saved 47 times."

Process Over Progress
Agile Devops Programming
11 days ago 79.7K views 0 shares
Process Over Progress
THE AUDACITY of companies thinking they're "agile" just because they force everyone to use Jira! 💀 It's like buying gym equipment and expecting to get fit without actually exercising! Meanwhile, project managers are frantically creating 57 different epics, backlogs, and sprints while the actual code sits untouched for WEEKS. The truth hurts so bad that if PMs could actually comprehend this sign, they'd have an existential crisis right in the middle of their 3-hour sprint planning meeting. But don't worry - they're too busy color-coding tickets to notice!

Meeting Driven Development
Agile Devops Programming
12 days ago 86.9K views 2 shares
Meeting Driven Development
The perfect encapsulation of modern corporate development culture. You spend 90% of your time in meetings discussing features that will never see the light of day, while your actual coding time shrinks to whatever's left between "sync-ups" and "alignment sessions." The grumpy cat perfectly captures that dead-inside feeling when you realize your job title says "developer" but your calendar says "professional meeting attendee." The genius insight here? Can't have technical debt if you never write any actual code. *taps forehead*

The NVIDIA Corporate Strategy Meeting
Hardware AI Gamedev Programming
12 days ago 104.4K views 0 shares
The NVIDIA Corporate Strategy Meeting
The corporate boardroom at NVIDIA is a special kind of hell. When the boss says "We need to make better GPUs," two executives immediately jump to the money-making strategies: "Add more AI upscaling features!" and "Make it £2000!" Meanwhile, the lone reasonable employee suggests "Maybe some more v-ram and price it fairly." Next frame: That employee gets defenestrated from the building. Because nothing says "valued team member" like being thrown through a window for suggesting consumer-friendly features instead of wallet-draining AI buzzwords. Fun fact: NVIDIA's latest GPUs cost more than my first car, but at least they can render my tears in real-time ray-traced 8K.