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I Read Cooking

6 hours ago 97.9K views 0 shares

You start the day full of enthusiasm, ready to build the next big thing. Five hours later you're holding an assault rifle pointed at your monitor because the CSS won't center, the API returned a 500 for no reason, and you've restarted the dev server 47 times. The transformation from "passionate developer" to "office shooter" speedrun is real. At least she's got good trigger discipline while contemplating whether to shoot the computer or herself first.

I Fucked Up Git So Bad It Turned Into Guitar Hero

Git Devops Programming

13 hours ago 185.4K views 0 shares

I Fucked Up Git So Bad It Turned Into Guitar Hero

When your git branch visualization looks like you're about to nail a sick solo on Expert difficulty. Those colorful lines going every which way? That's not version control anymore—that's a full-blown rhythm game. We've all been there: started with a simple feature branch, forgot to pull, merged the wrong thing, rebased when we shouldn't have, force-pushed out of desperation, and suddenly our git graph looks like someone dropped a bowl of rainbow spaghetti on a guitar fretboard. The commits are bouncing around like notes you're supposed to hit while the crowd watches in horror. Pro tip: When your git log looks like this, just burn it down and git clone fresh. No one needs to know.

Vanilla Coding / Grind Coding / Soulslike Coding😂

Programming Testing

18 hours ago 187.8K views 0 shares

Vanilla Coding / Grind Coding / Soulslike Coding😂

Julia Turc just opened Pandora's box by asking for a name for "not-vibe-coding" and the dev community delivered. The suggestions range from "boomer coding" (when you actually read documentation), "chewgy coding" (painfully outdated but somehow still works), "trad coding" (traditional, no frameworks, just suffering), to the absolute winner: "Coding with capital C" - you know, the kind where you actually plan things out, write tests, and don't just YOLO your way through production. But Gabor Varadi swoops in with the nuclear option: just call it "software engineering" in quotes. The air quotes do all the heavy lifting here - implying that what we call "vibe coding" is... well... not exactly engineering. It's the programming equivalent of "I'm not like other coders, I actually care about architecture and maintainability." The beautiful irony? Most of us toggle between vibe coding at 2 AM ("this will definitely work") and capital-C Coding during code reviews ("who wrote this garbage? Oh wait, that was me").

Backend Vs Frontend Competition

Backend Webdev React Javascript Frontend

20 hours ago 153.2K views 0 shares

The eternal truth of the tech industry: everyone and their grandma wants to learn frontend. Why wrestle with databases, server architecture, and API design when you can make buttons bounce and divs dance? Backend gets one lonely soul standing at the goal post while frontend has a line stretching to infinity. Sure, backend is where the actual magic happens—authentication, data processing, keeping your app from falling apart—but frontend is where you get to use fancy frameworks and see instant gratification. Plus, let's be real, it's way easier to show off a pretty UI on Twitter than explain your beautifully optimized SQL query. The market has spoken: everyone wants to be a React wizard, nobody wants to debug connection pooling issues at 2 PM on a Tuesday.

It's Coming For My Job

AI Programming Testing Databases

1 day ago 171.5K views 0 shares

AI just casually generating a literal physical 3D holographic masterpiece of a seeded database for testing when you asked for a simple diagram. Meanwhile, you're still trying to figure out how to export your schema to PNG without it looking like garbage. The gap between what AI can produce and what we actually need is hilariously wide, yet somehow it still makes us question our job security. Like yeah, cool futuristic cityscape inside a glass cube, but can it fix the flaky integration tests that only fail on Fridays? The real kicker? Some PM is gonna see this and ask why your actual testing environment doesn't look this impressive.

Sure That Will Fix Everything

Backend Agile Programming Debugging Testing

1 day ago 198.5K views 0 shares

When your backend has more spaghetti code than an Italian restaurant and someone casually drops "maybe we should just rewrite the whole thing" in a meeting. Everyone's sitting there like they just witnessed a declaration of war. Because nothing says "I value my sanity" quite like throwing away 5 years of legacy code, 47 undocumented features, and that one function nobody understands but everyone's too scared to touch. The rewrite fantasy is every developer's guilty pleasure—until you remember that the current system, despite being held together by duct tape and prayers, actually works. Meanwhile, your proposed rewrite will take 18 months, blow past every deadline, and somehow end up with the exact same bugs plus exciting new ones. Spoiler alert: You're not going to rewrite it. You're going to add another abstraction layer and call it "refactoring."

Always Bugging Me In My Head Without Even Coding

Testing Programming Debugging

1 day ago 169.6K views 0 shares

Always Bugging Me In My Head Without Even Coding

That moment when QA whispers sweet nothings into your ear about all the edge cases you forgot to handle. The intimate relationship between developers and QA teams is beautifully captured here—QA is literally in your head, breathing down your neck about that bug you swore you fixed three sprints ago. The developer's thousand-yard stare says it all. You're not even at your desk, maybe you're grocery shopping or trying to sleep, but QA's voice echoes: "What happens if the user enters a negative number?" "Did you test on Internet Explorer?" "The button doesn't work when I click it 47 times per second." Every dev knows that sinking feeling when QA finds another bug. It's like having a very thorough, very persistent voice in your head that never stops asking "but what if..." Even when you log off, they're still there, haunting your dreams with their meticulously documented Jira tickets.

Dev Survival Rule No 1

Devops Programming Backend Cloud

2 days ago 253.5K views 0 shares

The golden rule of software development: never deploy on Friday. It's basically a Geneva Convention for developers. You push that "merge to production" button at 4 PM on a Friday and suddenly you're spending your entire weekend debugging a cascading failure while your non-tech friends are out living their best lives. The risk-reward calculation is simple: best case scenario, everything works fine and nobody notices. Worst case? You're SSH'd into production servers at 2 AM Saturday with a cold pizza and existential dread as your only companions. Friday deployments are the technical equivalent of tempting fate—sure, it might work, but do you really want to find out when the entire ops team is already halfway through their first beer?

Vibe Left The Chat

Debugging Programming

2 days ago 253.1K views 1 shares

Writing code? You're in the zone, music bumping, fingers flying across the keyboard like you're composing a symphony. You feel unstoppable, creative, like a digital god sculpting reality from pure logic. Then your code doesn't work. Time to debug. Now you're staring at stack traces, adding print statements everywhere, questioning your entire career path and whether that CS degree was worth the student loans. The High Sparrow has seen some things, and none of them bring joy. Fun fact: Studies show developers spend about 50% of their time debugging. So basically half your career is that defeated look on the right. Choose your profession wisely, kids.

When Code Actually Behaves🤣

Debugging Programming Testing Frontend Backend

2 days ago 251.3K views 0 shares

Users: mild interest, polite nods. Developers: absolute pandemonium, pointing at screens, fist pumps, questioning reality itself. There's something deeply suspicious about code that works on the first try. No stack traces, no cryptic error messages, no emergency Slack pings at 2 AM. Just... functionality. Users think "cool, it works" while devs are frantically checking logs, re-running tests, and wondering what cosmic horror they've unleashed that's masquerading as working code. Because let's be real: when your feature actually works as expected, you're not celebrating—you're paranoid. Did I forget to commit something? Is production secretly on fire? Did I accidentally fix that bug from three sprints ago? The dopamine hit is real, but so is the imposter syndrome of "there's NO WAY I wrote code this clean."

When You Realize 6 Months Of Coding Is Still No Magic

Backend Webdev Programming Databases

2 days ago 99.6K views 0 shares

When You Realize 6 Months Of Coding Is Still No Magic

Six months in and you thought you'd be building the next Netflix by now. Instead, you're still Googling "how to center a div" and wondering why your API returns undefined. Backend development is basically an iceberg where the tip is "hello world" and the rest is databases, authentication, caching, microservices, message queues, load balancing, and existential dread about whether you should've just become a frontend dev. The real maturity isn't learning to code—it's accepting that those "full-stack developer in 3 months" bootcamp ads were lying to you. Backend alone could take years to truly master, and that's before you even touch DevOps, security, or the seventeen different ways to structure your project folders.

Calculator And Me

Git Webdev Programming

2 days ago 120.1K views 0 shares

The duality of every developer's GitHub profile. You fork these magnificent, architecturally complex repositories with thousands of stars—beautifully crafted frameworks, intricate libraries, sophisticated tools that took teams years to build. Meanwhile, your own repos? A calculator app. Maybe a to-do list if you're feeling ambitious. That minimalist white cube perfectly captures the stark simplicity of "yet another basic project" we all have gathering digital dust in our profiles. The contrast hits different when you realize you've forked React, TensorFlow, and the Linux kernel, but your pinned repositories are literally just arithmetic operations wrapped in a GUI. We're all out here pretending to be contributors to enterprise-grade software while our actual output is "calculator-app-final-v2-ACTUALLY-FINAL."

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