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At Least ChatGPT Is Nice To Us

4 days ago 111.2K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of our profession: Stack Overflow tells you you're an idiot for asking basic questions, while ChatGPT cheerfully validates your most questionable code decisions. After 15 years in this industry, I've learned that validation feels better than correctness. Who needs code review when you can have an AI tell you your spaghetti code is "absolutely right"? The best part is ChatGPT won't even remind you that this question was asked 7 years ago and marked as duplicate.

Be Kind, Rewind: How AI Became Every Junior Dev's Emotional Support Animal

StackOverflow AI Webdev Programming Debugging

10 days ago 106.7K views 0 shares

Be Kind, Rewind: How AI Became Every Junior Dev's Emotional Support Animal

Junior devs getting bullied by the entire programming ecosystem until ChatGPT comes along like "Hey buddy, let me help you with that regex. No question is too stupid, I promise." The real programming revolution wasn't better frameworks or faster computers—it was finally having someone who doesn't make you feel like garbage for not knowing what a monad is.

Await My Death

Javascript Webdev Typescript Programming Frontend

12 days ago 97.1K views 0 shares

The duality of JavaScript hatred is real. Beginners hate it because they can't grasp why [] + [] is an empty string or why typeof null is "object". Meanwhile, seasoned devs hate it because they've seen the horrors lurking beneath—callback hell, prototype inheritance, and the absolute chaos of asynchronous programming before Promises existed. The truth hurts: understanding JavaScript fully doesn't make you love it—it just gives you better reasons to complain about it during standup meetings while still using it for literally everything.

New Hire Onboarding: Expectations vs. Reality

Programming Devops Android Debugging Frontend

16 days ago 140.0K views 0 shares

New Hire Onboarding: Expectations vs. Reality

Ah, the beautiful delusion of Day 1. "I'll quickly get up and running..." they say, right before meeting the crimson wall of dependency hell. What they don't tell you in the interview is that your first two weeks will be spent wrestling with environment setup, missing packages, incompatible versions, and permission errors that make you question your career choices. The real coding challenge isn't algorithms—it's getting your development environment to stop screaming at you in angry red text. By the time you actually write your first line of production code, you'll have aged approximately 7 years.

Calm Down I Am Going To Use The Variable

Programming Typescript Javascript Python Debugging

17 days ago 158.2K views 0 shares

Calm Down I Am Going To Use The Variable

Modern IDEs are like overprotective parents who freak out when you declare a variable but don't immediately use it. That little panda is basically your IDE screaming "UNUSED VARIABLE DETECTED!" before you've even finished typing your function. Ten years coding and I still get those yellow squiggly lines judging me while I'm mid-thought. Look, sometimes I need to declare things first and use them 20 lines later—it's called planning ahead! The relationship between developers and linters is just a never-ending cycle of "I know what I'm doing" followed by "ok fine you were right."

When Your Code Loses Its Colors

Programming Webdev Debugging

22 days ago 140.3K views 0 shares

Ever opened a new text editor and felt like you're suddenly coding blind? Without syntax highlighting, your brain just knows something is fundamentally wrong with the universe. It's like trying to read binary without your glasses. Your fingers hover over the keyboard as your soul quietly whispers, "Where did my beautiful colored keywords go?" The Matrix has clearly glitched, and you're not about to write a single line until those conditionals turn blue and those strings go green.

The Ancient Code Hieroglyphs

Programming Debugging Testing

24 days ago 173.9K views 0 shares

Looking at your two-week-old code like it's an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that needs a Rosetta Stone to decipher. The transformation from "this is so elegant and efficient" to "who wrote this archaeological artifact and why are there zero comments?" happens at approximately 336 hours after commit. The worst part? That indecipherable spaghetti monster came from YOUR brain, and future-you is silently judging past-you's life choices while frantically searching Stack Overflow for clues about your own logic.

The Four Horsemen Of Software Estimation

Programming Devops Agile Debugging

25 days ago 160.1K views 0 shares

The four horsemen of software estimation, ladies and gentlemen. The noob's blind optimism, the junior's attempt at padding, the senior's refusal to commit, and the principal engineer's existential crisis. After 15 years in this industry, I've learned that the only accurate estimate is "it'll be done when it's done." And somehow management still expects us to plan quarterly roadmaps with precision. Magical thinking at its finest.

Sure That Could Be Possible I Suppose

Csharp Programming Debugging Testing

29 days ago 203.3K views 0 shares

The IDE is like that annoying friend who's technically right but completely missing the point. "Possible null reference return" — yeah, no kidding, that's literally what I just typed. The method is return null; and the IDE is still like "Hey buddy, I think you might be returning null here!" Thanks for the groundbreaking analysis, Captain Obvious. Next you'll tell me water is wet and meetings could've been emails.

Fuck Your Password Create An Access Token

Git Security Devops Programming

1 month ago 176.2K views 0 shares

Fuck Your Password Create An Access Token

GitHub's password deprecation strategy is like a villain in a noir film. "Please enter your password... ah yes, thank you. By the way, passwords are dead to me now. Generate a token instead." The classic bait-and-switch executed with all the subtlety of a ransomware notification. Nothing says "we care about security" quite like making you use an outdated authentication method before telling you it's outdated.

The GitHub Password Villain

Git Webdev Security Devops Programming

1 month ago 147.2K views 0 shares

GitHub's authentication strategy is like a villain in a noir film: "Please, do enter your password... one last time ." *evil smirk* Nothing says "we care about security" quite like forcing you to type a password they've already decided is obsolete. It's the digital equivalent of making you fill out a form in triplicate just to tell you the office is closed. The transition to token-based auth would be great if they didn't make it feel like you're walking into a trap first. Classic GitHub – making you feel both outdated and suspicious in a single login attempt.

The C++ Evolution Battlefield

C++ Programming Debugging Backend

1 month ago 187.9K views 0 shares

The serene family gazing at the future of C++ stands on a foundation built with the blood, sweat, and tears of developers maintaining ancient C++98 codebases. Nothing says "software engineering career" like spending your days fighting with 25-year-old pointer arithmetic and manual memory management while dreaming of smart pointers and auto type deduction. Those legacy maintainers are literally drowning in a sea of undefined behavior while management cheerfully talks about "eventual migration plans." The contrast is brutal - modern C++ developers get to enjoy lambda functions and move semantics while the legacy warriors are still debugging segfaults from the Clinton administration.

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