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The Bathroom Recruiter: Python Edition

1 day ago 85.6K views 0 shares

The unspoken rule of urinal etiquette meets Python evangelism. Two developers at the bathroom wall, maintaining proper spacing like civilized humans, until the Python dev decides the perfect moment for recruitment is mid-pee. Nothing says "I'm passionate about my programming language" quite like breaking the sacred code of urinal silence to suggest a tech stack change. Ten years in the industry and I've never once converted anyone to a new framework while they're literally holding their... code in hand. But Python folks? They'll find you anywhere.

Learning C++/Unreal Engine After C#/Unity

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4 days ago 66.9K views 0 shares

Learning C++/Unreal Engine After C#/Unity

Switching from Unity to Unreal is like going from a corporate office to a mob family. In Unity, you innocently call GetComponent<>() and HR's on the phone ready to write you up. Meanwhile, Unreal Engine bros just casually dropping GetWorld()->GetSubsystem<>() like they're asking for a coffee, and everyone thinks it's charming. The syntax difference isn't just technical—it's a whole cultural shift. One's calling HR, the other's getting heart emojis. The language barrier is real, folks.

Before The Beginning Of Time

AI Programming Debugging

6 days ago 74.1K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the mythical creature known as "The Senior Who Codes Without ChatGPT" – a tale passed down through generations of developers around the campfire. The juniors sit there in absolute awe, mouths agape, as if hearing about a programmer who remembers how to center a div without Stack Overflow or can write a recursive function without asking an AI to debug it. It's basically the programming equivalent of "back in my day, we walked uphill both ways in the snow" except it's "back in 2021, we actually had to understand our own code."

I Like My Memory How I Like My Sprints: Unmanaged

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9 days ago 78.5K views 0 shares

I Like My Memory How I Like My Sprints: Unmanaged

The Rust evangelism strike force claims another victim! Some poor soul dared to mention they're still using C/C++ in 2022, and now they're being lectured about Rust's memory safety features while their friends slowly back away. Classic language elitism in its natural habitat – because nothing says "I'm a modern developer" like making others feel bad about their tech stack choices. Meanwhile, the C++ devs are too busy fighting memory leaks to defend themselves.

But Why Would You Print Code?!

Programming Debugging Testing

10 days ago 51.8K views 0 shares

THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of someone murdering trees just to review code in 2023! My soul literally leaves my body when I witness this prehistoric ritual. Like, have you heard of GitHub? Pull requests? THE INTERNET?! It's the Tom-from-Tom-and-Jerry face of utter disbelief for me. First looking at the paper like "is this for real?" Then that second glance of "did we time travel back to 1995?!" The digital age is SOBBING right now.

The Holy War Of Programming Languages

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16 days ago 77.1K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of programming language tribalism captured in one devastating image! 💅 Two kingdoms separated by a river of PURE HATRED, each convinced their programming language is heaven-sent while the other is LITERAL GARBAGE. "Our blessed syntax" vs "Their barbarous indentation rules" - as if your semicolons make you ROYALTY, honey! 👑 The AUDACITY of calling your debugging "heroic" while dismissing others as having "brutish quick fixes" is sending me to another dimension! We're all just trying to make computers do things without crying, yet here we are, building FORTRESSES around our precious language choices! Sweetie, your "noble design patterns" and their "backward legacy code" are probably both going to be obsolete in five years anyway. The drama! The delusion! I can't even! 💁‍♀️

Organic Free-Range Code

AI Programming Debugging

17 days ago 67.1K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the coveted "No AI" badge—proudly displayed by developers who spent 17 hours debugging their own spaghetti code instead of asking ChatGPT to fix it in 3 seconds. It's like bragging about churning your own butter when there's a perfectly good supermarket next door. "Look at me, I suffered unnecessarily and have the dark circles under my eyes to prove it!" Meanwhile, the deadline was yesterday and the client is wondering why a simple feature costs more than their car payment.

GitHub Followers: The True Currency Of Developer Prestige

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19 days ago 76.5K views 1 shares

GitHub Followers: The True Currency Of Developer Prestige

In the realm of developer clout, 500 GitHub followers makes you practically royalty, while 2 million YouTube subscribers is just... meh. Nothing says "I've made it" like having a handful of fellow nerds who appreciate your elegant solutions to problems nobody else understands. YouTube fame is for the masses—GitHub fame is for the classes. The true knights of the coding round table don't need dance videos and clickbait thumbnails to prove their worth—just clean commits and well-documented PRs.

Literal Psychopath

Programming

20 days ago 61.2K views 0 shares

A software engineer without the holy trinity of dev peacocking? Impossible. We've all become walking billboards for our employers, mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, and laptop sticker collectors. It's practically our uniform at this point. The true horror isn't the missing swag—it's using the default IDE. No custom theme, no obscure plugins, no 47 keyboard shortcuts that make your coworkers think you're hacking the Pentagon. That's not a developer, that's an alien studying human behavior.

Vibe Coding: I'm A Developer Now

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20 days ago 116.2K views 0 shares

Nothing says "I've made it as a developer" quite like buying an O'Reilly book with a cartoon character staring awkwardly at a MacBook. That's right, forget actual coding skills—all you need is the right prop on your desk and suddenly you're qualified to explain why everyone else's code is garbage. The irony of "Vibe Coding" is that it perfectly captures the modern dev culture: looking the part is half the battle. Next chapter: "How to sound smart in meetings by randomly inserting 'blockchain' into conversations."

No As A Service

Cloud Devops Programming

25 days ago 101.1K views 0 shares

In a world where everything is becoming "as a Service" (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), someone finally created the most useful service of all: rejection automation. This person's hoodie proudly declares their business model - saying "No" so you don't have to! For just $4.99/month, they'll decline all your meeting invites, reject pull requests with insufficient tests, and automatically respond "Have you checked Stack Overflow?" to all questions. The enterprise tier includes custom rejection templates and a "Maybe Later" option that recursively schedules itself to infinity. The irony? Their API documentation consists of a single endpoint that always returns 403 Forbidden.

Java Programmers Wear Glasses

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26 days ago 74.7K views 0 shares

Ah, the language war in coffee mug form. The punchline here is that Java programmers need glasses because they don't "C#" (see sharp). Classic programming dad joke that hits harder after your fourth cup of coffee and fifteenth NullPointerException of the day. It's the kind of mug you hide when clients visit but secretly cherish when debugging legacy code at 11pm. The irony is that most of us need glasses regardless of our language preference—staring at poorly indented code for a decade will do that to anyone.

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