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When Are The 3 Months Gonna End

5 hours ago 82.6K views 0 shares

So you're out here pulling all-nighters, manually grinding through the tedious logic and soul-crushing repetitive tasks, making ChatGPT your personal code monkey while the AI doomsday prophets keep screaming that robots will steal your job in 3 months. Plot twist: you've basically become the puppet master pulling the strings, making the AI do YOUR bidding. The irony is absolutely *chef's kiss* – everyone's terrified AI will replace developers, but here you are, already replacing yourself with AI to do the boring stuff while you handle the actual thinking. Those 3 months? Yeah, they came and went, and we're all still here, just with fancier autocomplete. The real horror is realizing you're not being replaced – you're just being promoted to AI babysitter.

"Gaming Laptops Are A Scam" Mfs When They Have To Travel And They Want To Bring Their Desktop Setup

Hardware Gamedev Programming

13 hours ago 191.0K views 0 shares

"Gaming Laptops Are A Scam" Mfs When They Have To Travel And They Want To Bring Their Desktop Setup

Oh, the DELICIOUS irony! Those desktop purists who spend hours ranting about how gaming laptops are "overpriced garbage" and "thermal throttling nightmares" suddenly discovering the harsh reality of physics when they need to travel. Look at them now, literally strapping their entire RGB-infested battle station to their back like some sort of Death Stranding protagonist carrying the weight of their own hubris. Sure, your desktop has better price-to-performance ratio and superior cooling, but good luck fitting that triple-monitor setup, mechanical keyboard, and tower the size of a mini fridge into a carry-on. Meanwhile, the gaming laptop users are already at their destination, sipping coffee and compiling code while you're still figuring out how to convince TSA that your liquid cooling system isn't a bomb. The real kicker? They'll STILL insist it was worth it because "at least I'm getting proper framerates" while their chiropractor bills skyrocket faster than their CPU temps ever did.

I Just Wanted To Change A Button Color

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

23 hours ago 268.7K views 1 shares

You start your day thinking "I'll just tweak this button color real quick." Two hours later, you've somehow installed 47 dependencies, each one pulling in 200 more of its "friends," and your node_modules folder has achieved sentience and is now larger than the entire Windows operating system. That one "lightweight" color picker library? Yeah, it needed React, three different date formatters, and something called "left-pad-2-electric-boogaloo." Your project went from 50MB to 850MB, your build time tripled, and you're pretty sure one of those packages is just someone's cryptocurrency miner. But hey, the button is now #3B82F6 instead of #2563EB, so totally worth burning down the entire city for it.

Smile And Wave Fellas

Databases Programming Debugging Backend

1 day ago 160.1K views 0 shares

Nothing quite like the existential dread of sitting through a standup meeting where your manager is cracking jokes while you're internally calculating how many backup jobs you forgot to verify before running that UPDATE without a WHERE clause. 42,700 rows is oddly specific too—not catastrophic enough to make headlines, but definitely enough to ruin your entire week and possibly your performance review. The forced laughter while your soul leaves your body is a survival skill they don't teach in bootcamp. You're just standing there hoping nobody checks the logs before you can quietly restore from yesterday's backup at 2 AM. Pro tip: always wrap your destructive queries in a transaction. And maybe start looking at those backup procedures you've been putting off.

My Thoughts On Seeing The Latest Discord News

Security Programming

2 days ago 143.9K views 0 shares

My Thoughts On Seeing The Latest Discord News

Discord really said "show us your face to access NSFW channels" and every developer collectively remembered they have... other things to do. Suddenly that bug from 2019 needs immediate attention. The juxtaposition of Discord's cheerful logo next to a literal face scan is peak dystopian tech vibes. Nothing says "fun gaming chat app" quite like biometric surveillance. SpongeBob gets it—sometimes the best response to corporate overreach is just to nope out of there faster than a failed deployment on a Friday afternoon. Fun fact: This is basically Discord speed-running how to lose their entire developer community in one policy update. Because nothing screams "privacy-conscious tech professional" like uploading your government ID to a chat platform owned by a company that's definitely not going to get hacked eventually. Right?

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us Fifty One Years

Debugging Programming

2 days ago 242.7K views 0 shares

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us Fifty One Years

Writing code is pure bliss. You're in the zone, fingers flying across the keyboard, creating beautiful abstractions, feeling like a god. Then you hit run and something breaks. Now you're stepping through line 247 for the 18th time, questioning every life decision that led you to this moment, wondering if that business degree your parents suggested wasn't such a bad idea after all. The debugging phase is where dreams go to die and Stack Overflow tabs multiply like rabbits. You'll spend 4 hours hunting down a bug only to discover you misspelled a variable name or forgot a semicolon in a language that actually needs them. The ratio of coding time to debugging time is basically a lie we tell ourselves to get through the day.

Teach Em Young

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

2 days ago 233.3K views 0 shares

Kid picks up a JavaScript book and immediately has an existential crisis in the shopping cart. Can't blame them—they haven't even learned about undefined vs null yet and they're already experiencing the emotional trauma that comes with it. Starting with JavaScript is like learning to swim by being thrown into the ocean during a storm. Sure, you'll eventually figure out how to float, but you'll question every life decision that led you there. The kid's reaction is honestly the most realistic response to encountering JavaScript for the first time—pure, unfiltered despair. Fun fact: This is actually the recommended age to start learning JavaScript. By the time they're old enough to understand what a callback hell is, they'll already be numb to the pain.

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us 51 Years

Debugging Programming

2 days ago 263.7K views 1 shares

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us 51 Years

Writing code? Pure bliss. Everything makes sense, you're in the zone, feeling like a digital god. Then you hit run and something breaks. Now you're stepping through line 47 for the 23rd time, questioning every life choice that led you to this profession. The transition from "I am inevitable" to "what fresh hell is this" happens faster than a segfault in production. Debugging doesn't just age you—it steals your soul and replaces it with console.log statements and existential dread.

Disappointed Yet Again

Git Programming Debugging

2 days ago 233.1K views 0 shares

Oh, the eternal cycle of hope and despair! You Google your bug, find a GitHub issue from 2017, and think "FINALLY! Someone else suffered through this nightmare and surely the devs have blessed us with a fix by now!" But NOPE. You scroll through four entire pages of people begging for a solution, only to find h4t0n dropped a comment last week asking "any progress on this?" and the silence is DEAFENING. The "GODDAMMIT" at the end? That's the sound of your soul leaving your body as you realize you're about to become comment number 247 asking the same question. Spoiler alert: there will be no progress. There never is. Welcome to open source, where issues from the Obama administration still haunt us. 💀

Oh No, Anyway

Windows Microsoft Programming

3 days ago 233.5K views 0 shares

Microsoft announces they'll stop selling Windows 10 product keys, and the entire developer community collectively shrugs while adjusting their pirate hats. Because let's be real—who's actually been buying Windows keys at full price? Between gray market keys for $5, corporate volume licenses that mysteriously multiply, and the fact that Windows basically activates itself if you stare at it long enough, this announcement has all the impact of a semicolon in Python. The "OH NO! ANYWAY" format perfectly captures how developers feel about Microsoft's licensing theatrics. They've been playing whack-a-mole with activation for decades while we've been out here running unactivated copies with that little watermark like it's a badge of honor. Plus, most devs are either on Linux, using their company's license, or have already moved to Windows 11 (willingly or not). Fun fact: Windows activation has been "cracked" so many times that Microsoft basically gave up and made Windows 10 free to upgrade to back in 2015. The pirate hat is just chef's kiss—a visual representation of every developer's relationship with Microsoft licensing since the dawn of time.

Dis Ap Point Ed Ye Tagain

Debugging Git Programming

3 days ago 214.1K views 0 shares

Every developer's journey to enlightenment: Google the bug, find that sacred GitHub issue from 2017, think "surely this ancient artifact has been resolved by the maintainers," scroll through four pages of increasingly desperate comments, only to find h4t0n asking the real question 7 days ago with zero responses. The cycle of disappointment is complete. GODDAMMIT indeed. The real kicker? You're not just disappointed—you're disappointed again , because deep down you knew this would happen. That 2017 issue is still open for a reason, and h4t0n's comment is basically your own internal monologue externalized into the void. Welcome to open source, where issues age like fine wine but never get resolved.

I Love Those Scrum Meetings

Agile Programming

3 days ago 229.2K views 0 shares

The ultimate dream setup for daily standups: a fully reclined gaming throne where you can deliver your status update while achieving maximum comfort and minimum effort. "Nothing from my end, thanks" has never been said with such ergonomic perfection. The chair costs more than your monthly salary, but hey, at least you're comfortable while pretending those 15-minute meetings won't somehow stretch into 45. Bonus points if you keep your camera off and just unmute once to deliver your line. The Scrum Master can't prove you're not paying attention when you're this horizontal.

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