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Why Don't They Just Say The Fricking Dress Code

Programming

1 day ago 59.8K views 0 shares

Why Don't They Just Say The Fricking Dress Code

The classic tech interview ambush! You're told "come as you are" for the interview, so you show up in your comfy black hoodie and jeans like a proper developer. Meanwhile, the interviewer is sitting there in full business attire looking at you like you just committed a merge conflict to production. This is the software engineering equivalent of a trap card. The unwritten rule of tech interviews: dress code is simultaneously "casual" and "business professional" until observed, existing in a quantum superposition that collapses into "wrong" the moment you make a choice.

I Dont Make The Rules

Git Webdev Programming

3 days ago 53.8K views 0 shares

I Dont Make The Rules

Ah, the eternal GitHub pronunciation debate has finally been settled by presidential decree! The pixel art podium has spoken: "It's pronounced 'JitHub'." Just imagine all those developers who've been saying "GitHub" with a hard G for years, suddenly questioning their entire existence. Next thing you know, they'll tell us SQL is actually pronounced "squirrel" and Python is "pie-thon." The best part? This is clearly a matter of national security, hence the flags. Nothing says "this pronunciation is non-negotiable" like a pixelated presidential address. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them with my pull requests.

Integrating Into Galactic Society

Programming Frontend

3 days ago 53.5K views 0 shares

Integrating Into Galactic Society

Oh, the eternal struggle of dark mode vs light mode just went intergalactic! The alien's response is basically every senior dev when a junior shows up with default light theme settings. "Sorry buddy, we're throwing you back to space - we only accept developers who protect their retinas around here." The cosmic horror isn't alien invasion, it's having to pair program with someone using a light-themed IDE. Immediate grounds for deportation from Planet Developer.

I Dont Even Test

Testing Devops Agile Git Programming

8 days ago 75.1K views 0 shares

I Dont Even Test

When a dev tweets "the energy i bring to the team" and it's just someone commenting "i'm merging it. fuck the tests" - that's peak chaotic developer energy right there! 🔥 And then that reply about test cases being "a sign of weakness"? Pure madness! This is that 3 AM deploy energy when you're running on nothing but energy drinks and blind confidence. Ship it and pray nothing breaks! Who needs sleep when you have the adrenaline rush of potentially breaking production?

You Son Of A Gun

StackOverflow Programming Debugging

9 days ago 51.5K views 0 shares

You Son Of A Gun

The ultimate power trip doesn't exist in chess—it exists on Stack Overflow. That smug little smirk says it all: "Actually, your approach is completely wrong and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of basic principles that I mastered during my lunch break in 2011." Nothing quite matches the high of demolishing someone's simple question with an unnecessarily complex answer sprinkled with links to documentation they should have "obviously" read. Bonus points for starting with "As others have pointed out incorrectly..." before proceeding to write a dissertation that could've been a three-word reply.

Weare Sorry

Testing Agile Programming Debugging

9 days ago 49.7K views 0 shares

Weare Sorry

Oh sweet summer intern! That awkward elevator moment when you realize why everyone's being suspiciously nice to you. 😅 The classic bait-and-switch where you go from "Wow, what a welcoming team!" to "Oh wait, I'm just free labor for unit tests nobody wants to write." The senior dev's face says it all - that perfect mix of guilt and relief that the testing burden is about to be offloaded. It's like getting invited to a party only to discover it's actually a moving day and you're the only one without a sudden back injury!

Nostalgia For A Time You Have Never Experienced

Linux AI C Programming Debugging

13 days ago 87.7K views 0 shares

Nostalgia For A Time You Have Never Experienced

This meme is peak programmer time travel fantasy! It's portraying the classic "wake up from a coma" trope where our modern dev suddenly finds himself in the golden age of computing (70s/80s) with two Unix beard legends telling him all his 2023 AI anxiety was just a bad dream. ChatGPT? Devin AI? Job losses? Nope, none of that exists - instead, let's do something actually meaningful like rewriting Unix in C! The irony is delicious - modern devs romanticizing an era of limited computing power, punch cards, and no Stack Overflow as somehow more "pure" than our current AI-assisted coding hellscape. Nothing says programmer nostalgia like yearning for a time when debugging meant actual physical switches and you had to wait overnight for your code to compile.

Oobabooga

Programming AI Webdev Git Frontend

13 days ago 88.9K views 0 shares

Oobabooga

This meme perfectly captures the hilarious contrast between scientists and developers when it comes to naming things. Scientists are literally crying over chemical nomenclature, insisting that a benzene ring with a methyl group must be called "toluene" and follow strict naming conventions. Meanwhile, developers are just chilling with their GitHub repo called "oobabooga" for a text generation tool, completely unbothered by naming standards. Why spend hours debating proper terminology when you can just slap "oobabooga" on your AI project and call it a day? Naming things might be one of the two hardest problems in computer science, but clearly some devs have found the ultimate solution: embrace the absurd!