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Buying Games > Playing Games

17 hours ago 45.6K views 0 shares

The digital hoarding phenomenon strikes again! That sweet dopamine hit from clicking "Purchase" during Steam sales is vastly superior to the actual commitment of downloading and playing the games. My Steam library has more unplayed titles than a bookshelf at an illiterate's house. It's basically a digital museum of good intentions at this point. The backlog grows faster than technical debt in a startup with no code reviews.

Good Luck QA

Testing Agile Programming Debugging

1 day ago 151.1K views 0 shares

The classic developer-QA relationship in four panels! Developer confidently tosses code over the wall with zero testing, QA's initial excitement quickly fades into existential dread when they realize the dev hasn't even run the code once. That awkward silence in the last panel is worth a thousand compiler errors. It's basically the software development equivalent of handing someone a sandwich and then quietly admitting you're not sure if the meat is expired.

Quotes From The Greats

Programming Debugging Testing

1 day ago 47.1K views 0 shares

The eternal wisdom of programming: even terrible documentation feels like a gift when you've spent hours staring at undocumented code wondering why the hell it works at all. Nothing quite matches that specific joy of finding a single cryptic comment after debugging for 3 hours. "// Don't touch this or everything breaks" - ah yes, the pinnacle of technical writing. And yet, we all know that one codebase with documentation so pristine it practically whispers sweet nothings in your ear. A rare and beautiful creature indeed.

The Forbidden Phrase: "I'm Free"

Agile Programming

1 day ago 44.8K views 0 shares

The cardinal sin of software development: finishing your tasks early. That sinister smile is the universal "I've got more work for you" face that haunts developers' nightmares. Pro tip from a battle-scarred veteran: never announce you're done until 4:55pm on Friday. Otherwise, that backlog of "nice-to-have" features magically transforms into "critical for this sprint" faster than you can say "but I estimated correctly." The real sprint is always the one away from your manager's desk.

Real Impact Not Just Views

Git Webdev Programming

3 days ago 83.7K views 0 shares

When your GitHub contributions actually change the world but your YouTube dance videos get all the fame. The knight with 500 GitHub followers stands tall and majestic—a true warrior of code who's probably fixed critical bugs in Linux kernels and contributed to libraries used by millions. Meanwhile, the tiny figure with 2 million YouTube subscribers is just showing off their "Hello World" tutorial with clickbait thumbnails. Real devs know where the true power lies. Quality over quantity, folks!

Sweet Catharsis Of Power

Programming

3 days ago 56.2K views 0 shares

That glorious moment of power when a LinkedIn recruiter messages you about an "exciting opportunity" while you're comfortably employed. Suddenly you're no longer the desperate peasant begging for scraps—you're aristocracy, looking down your powdered nose at their "competitive salary" and "ping pong tables." The tables have turned, and now you get to ghost them after a single conversation. Revolutionary!

Your Null Has Been Shipped

Programming Javascript Debugging Backend

4 days ago 73.7K views 0 shares

HONEY! The bank just emailed! My literal NOTHING is on its way! 🎉 Can't wait to open that empty package of pure void and stare into the existential abyss of my bank account! They even let me track my non-existent card! How thoughtful! It's like Christmas morning except Santa brought me a beautiful gift-wrapped box of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Programmers everywhere feeling that special joy when their null references escape into the real world. Bank developers probably sitting there like "Did we just ship... nothing? Eh, ship it anyway!"

Which Team Are You In?

Backend Webdev Networking Javascript Programming

4 days ago 74.1K views 0 shares

The elegant waitstaff vs. the pirates of the digital seas. APIs are the polished professionals of data exchange—neat, documented, and officially sanctioned. Meanwhile, web scrapers are the chaotic renegades who'll pillage your HTML by any means necessary when you refuse to share your data properly. After 15 years in the industry, I've been on both sides. Sure, I'll use your beautiful REST API when available, but catch me at 2 AM cobbling together a janky Python script with BeautifulSoup when your terms of service are too restrictive and my deadline is tomorrow.

It's Hard Work Finding Your Own Bugs

Debugging Programming Testing

4 days ago 48.2K views 0 shares

Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of this truth! 😂 Finding bugs in your own code? Might as well use a tiny walking stick like blind Bart up there. But finding bugs in someone else's code during peer review? Suddenly we're NASA scientists with the Hubble telescope! Nothing brings out the eagle-eyed code detective faster than the chance to point out that someone ELSE messed up. The hypocrisy is just *chef's kiss* MAGNIFICENT. We'll spend three hours debugging our own spaghetti code only to spot seventeen issues in a colleague's PR within 45 seconds flat. It's not a superpower we asked for, but it's definitely one we abuse!

Microtransactions For Devs

AI Programming Cloud

5 days ago 56.4K views 0 shares

Squinting at "LLM Token Pricing" with confusion, then putting on glasses to see "Microtransaction For Devs" with sudden clarity. That moment when you realize OpenAI isn't selling you API access—they're selling you the gaming industry's most hated business model. "That'll be $0.002 per token to debug your code. Want to generate an entire function? That's the premium package, buddy." Next they'll be selling loot boxes with random completions. "Congratulations! You got three hallucinations and a refused response!"

Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)

Webdev Javascript Programming Databases Frontend

5 days ago 67.8K views 0 shares

Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)

Government agencies finally entering the digital age but making the worst possible tech choices? *Chef's kiss* Nothing says "we hired consultants from 2003" quite like rejecting clean, lightweight JSON in favor of bloated XML files that require a PhD to parse. The kind of decision that makes developers contemplate career changes to literally anything else. Fun fact: Some government systems still use COBOL, a language older than the moon landing. At this rate, they'll discover JSON around the same time we colonize Mars.

Why Fork It When Nobody Fixes It

Git Devops Programming Debugging

6 days ago 73.4K views 0 shares

The SHEER AUDACITY of those forkers! You spend HOURS tracking down a hideous bug in a repository, dragging your soul through the mud of someone else's code, only to discover that FIFTY-SEVEN people forked the project and NOT A SINGLE ONE bothered to fix it! They just... synchronized with the original like mindless drones! What's the point of open source if everyone's just going to copy-paste the same broken garbage?! The collective disappointment is CRUSHING. It's like opening the fridge fifty times hoping food will magically appear, but it's STILL EMPTY EVERY TIME! 😭

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