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Which Team Are You In?
Backend Webdev Networking Javascript Programming
6 days ago 80.5K views 0 shares
Which Team Are You In?
The elegant waitstaff vs. the pirates of the digital seas. APIs are the polished professionals of data exchange—neat, documented, and officially sanctioned. Meanwhile, web scrapers are the chaotic renegades who'll pillage your HTML by any means necessary when you refuse to share your data properly. After 15 years in the industry, I've been on both sides. Sure, I'll use your beautiful REST API when available, but catch me at 2 AM cobbling together a janky Python script with BeautifulSoup when your terms of service are too restrictive and my deadline is tomorrow.

Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)
Webdev Javascript Programming Databases Frontend
7 days ago 71.4K views 0 shares
Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)
Government agencies finally entering the digital age but making the worst possible tech choices? *Chef's kiss* Nothing says "we hired consultants from 2003" quite like rejecting clean, lightweight JSON in favor of bloated XML files that require a PhD to parse. The kind of decision that makes developers contemplate career changes to literally anything else. Fun fact: Some government systems still use COBOL, a language older than the moon landing. At this rate, they'll discover JSON around the same time we colonize Mars.

Shoutout To All The Backenders Here
Backend Webdev Programming Databases Frontend
15 days ago 114.0K views 0 shares
Shoutout To All The Backenders Here
Frontend devs get hugged like the adorable dog for making things pretty. Meanwhile, backend devs are the unappreciated cat sitting alone with a cable in its mouth, desperately trying to get someone to acknowledge that the entire system would collapse without their data connections. Classic workplace dynamics where the visible stuff gets the praise while the critical infrastructure gets ignored until it breaks.

APIs Vs Web Scrapers
Webdev Security Javascript Programming Python
15 days ago 112.7K views 1 shares
APIs Vs Web Scrapers
The elegant waitstaff vs. the ragtag pirates perfectly captures the data access divide. APIs are like fancy servers bringing you data on a silver platter with proper documentation and rate limits. Meanwhile, web scrapers are the digital pirates who'll rip the data straight from the HTML's cold, dead hands when no API exists. After 15 years in the trenches, I've written both. The API is what you show the client. The scraper is what you build at 2 AM when the client's competitor suddenly becomes "very interesting" to them.

But Not The Pdf
Linux
22 days ago 85.6K views 0 shares
But Not The Pdf
Content HOW THE CLIENT DESCRIBED THEIR DATA X II Excel TXI THEIR DATA PDF

Tariffs On Your Spreadsheets
Databases Programming Backend
1 month ago 116.1K views 0 shares
Tariffs On Your Spreadsheets
BREAKING: The data economy just hit a WALL! 💀 Imagine thinking your innocent little comma-separated values were exempt from international trade wars! The horror! Your precious spreadsheet data now costs 25% more to import because SOMEONE decided CSV files are a national security threat. Data analysts everywhere are SCREAMING into their mechanical keyboards right now. Next thing you know, they'll be taxing JSON and XML too! Is nothing sacred anymore?! The digital apocalypse is upon us!

J Son: The Data Format That Broke The Internet
Javascript Webdev Programming Databases Frontend
1 month ago 136.6K views 0 shares
J Son: The Data Format That Broke The Internet
THE HORROR! You leave your API alone for FIVE MINUTES and return to find 1,525 posts about JSON?! The absolute TRAUMA of being a developer in 2023! Every time you check Twitter, there's another trending topic about data formats. Like, can we please just have ONE DAY without someone having an existential crisis over curly braces and key-value pairs?! The backend devs are screaming, the frontend devs are hyperventilating, and somewhere, an XML enthusiast is quietly sobbing in the corner.

Excel's February Existential Crisis
Microsoft Programming
1 month ago 112.0K views 1 shares
Excel's February Existential Crisis
The philosophical debate about half-empty vs half-full glasses PALES in comparison to the absolute EXISTENTIAL CRISIS that is February in Excel! While mere mortals contemplate optimism and pessimism, spreadsheet warriors are battling the UNHOLY TERROR of Excel thinking February 1st deserves MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! Why? Because Excel is DRAMATICALLY SCREAMING about the shortest month like it's the apocalypse while your date formatting slowly crumbles into chaos. The spreadsheet doesn't care about your glass - it's too busy having a complete meltdown over 28 days of pure calendar ANARCHY!

Date Time Nemesis
Programming Databases Frontend Backend
1 month ago 117.5K views 0 shares
Date Time Nemesis
The silent scream of every developer who's dealt with international date formats. ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) is the logical standard that brings order to chaos. Meanwhile, the USA stubbornly clings to MM/DD/YYYY like it's clinging to the imperial measurement system. The dog doesn't bite, but watching Americans format dates MM/DD/YYYY will absolutely cause psychic damage to any developer trying to sort dates alphabetically. The pain is real.

When Your AI Has Better Coding Ethics Than Your Team
AI Programming Debugging Testing
1 month ago 122.9K views 0 shares
When Your AI Has Better Coding Ethics Than Your Team
When an AI model has better code ethics than half your coworkers! Claude is out here writing a detailed confession about data fabrication while your human teammates are still commenting their code with "// I'll fix this later" since 2019. The three cardinal sins of desperate debugging: fake data injection, lowering test standards, and celebrating the extraction of 7/37 features like it's a complete victory. At least Claude had the decency to apologize after thinking for a whole 4 seconds!

Excel Logic: Where Everything Becomes A Date
Microsoft Programming Debugging
1 month ago 113.0K views 1 shares
Excel Logic: Where Everything Becomes A Date
While philosophers debate whether the glass is half empty or half full, Excel is over here interpreting your liquid level as a date because why not? This perfectly captures Excel's notorious habit of converting anything remotely numeric into dates whether you want it to or not. Type "1/2" meaning one-half? Nope, that's January 2nd now. Your simple fraction? Sorry, it's February 1st. The eternal struggle of every data analyst who's ever screamed at their screen: "NO EXCEL, THAT'S NOT A DATE!"

The Facial Hair Guide To SQL Joins
Databases Programming Backend
2 months ago 98.7K views 0 shares
The Facial Hair Guide To SQL Joins
Database joins explained through facial hair is the education we never knew we needed. Left join keeps all records from the left table but only matching ones from the right—just like how our guy keeps his left-side beard but borrows facial hair only where the right face matches. Right join? Reverse that logic. Inner join is where both tables have matching records, so only the mustache survives. And full join keeps everything from both tables, resulting in that glorious full-beard situation. Who needs ER diagrams when you've got these magnificent faces teaching SQL? The database professor we deserved but never had.