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Programmers Are Cooked For Real
Programming
14 days ago 59.2M views 0 shares
Programmers Are Cooked For Real
You know that classic life progression chart? Young people have time and energy but no money, adults have money and energy but no time, old people have time and money but no energy. Well, programmers managed to speedrun straight to the worst possible outcome: literally nothing. Not even "reasons to live" made it past 5%. Sitting there with three monitors of code, dead inside, with bars so low they're practically underground. The career path went from "I'll make cool stuff and change the world" to "I've merged 47 PRs today and I can't remember if I ate lunch." At least retirement sounds nice... if we make it there without burning out first. The kicker? They even added a "FRIENDS" bar just to twist the knife a little deeper. Because who has time for those when you're on-call every other week?

Found This Easter Egg When I Was Disassembling My Keyboard. Poor Fella
Hardware
5 months ago 917.1K views 0 shares
Found This Easter Egg When I Was Disassembling My Keyboard. Poor Fella
Someone at the keyboard factory had feelings and decided to immortalize them in plastic. There's a little stick figure molded into the keyboard case, sitting in existential despair with the text "I'm so lonely" etched above them. Imagine being the engineer who designed this—spending your days creating injection molds for keyboard housings, knowing full well that 99.9% of users will never see your cry for help because who actually disassembles their keyboard? It's like leaving a message in a bottle, except the ocean is a sea of mechanical switches and the bottle is ABS plastic. The hardware equivalent of commenting "// TODO: fix my life" in production code.