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Thank You Linus

8 hours ago 91.4K views 0 shares

Behold the holy trinity of version control systems! Git is living its best life, getting all the love and attention from programmers worldwide. Meanwhile, Mercurial is drowning in obscurity, desperately gasping for relevance while watching Git get all the glory. And then there's SVN – literally a skeleton at the bottom of the ocean, forgotten by time itself, still waiting for someone to remember it exists. Thanks to Linus Torvalds for blessing us with Git and single-handedly sending SVN to its watery grave. The man really said "let there be distributed version control" and the rest is history. Poor SVN thought it was hot stuff with its centralized repository until Git showed up and absolutely DEMOLISHED the competition.

Who Feels Like This Today

AI Webdev Devops Docker Frontend

8 hours ago 105.4K views 0 shares

The AI/ML revolution has created a new aristocracy in tech, and spoiler alert: traditional developers aren't invited to the palace. While ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and MLOps Engineers strut around like they're founding fathers of the digital age, the rest of us are down in the trenches just trying to get Docker to work on a Tuesday. Web Developers are fighting CSS battles and JavaScript framework fatigue. Software Developers are debugging legacy code written by someone who left the company in 2014. And DevOps Developers? They're just trying to explain to management why the CI/CD pipeline broke again after someone pushed directly to main. Meanwhile, the AI crowd gets to say "we trained a model" and suddenly they're tech royalty with VC funding and conference keynotes. The salary gap speaks for itself—one group is discussing their stock options over artisanal coffee, while the other is Googling "why is my build failing" for the 47th time today.

Unpopular Opinion

Git Devops Agile Programming

1 day ago 317.1K views 0 shares

Git branch protection policies weren't created to protect your code from bugs or merge conflicts—they exist because Karen from marketing somehow got write access to main and pushed her "quick fix" that broke production at 4:47 PM on a Friday. Protected branches are basically the digital equivalent of "we can't have nice things." You need pull request reviews? That's because someone once merged their own code that deleted the entire user database. Require status checks to pass? Yeah, because Jenkins caught Steve's "it works on my machine" masterpiece before it could take down the entire infrastructure. The real hot take here is that if developers were actually trustworthy and disciplined, we'd all be pushing straight to production like cowboys. But since we live in reality where typos happen and `git push --force` exists, we need these guardrails to save us from ourselves.

The Seven Laws Of Computing

Devops Windows Programming Linux

2 days ago 270.4K views 0 shares

Oh, so we're calling it "Seven Laws" when there are EIGHT rules? Already off to a brilliant start. But honestly, this is the most sacred scripture ever written in the tech world. Rules 1-5 are basically just screaming "BACKUP YOUR STUFF OR PERISH" in increasingly desperate ways, like a paranoid sysadmin having a meltdown. Then Rule 6 casually drops the nuclear option: uninstall Windows. Rule 7 follows up with "reinstall Linux" because obviously that's the only logical solution to literally everything. And Rule 8? Turn your egg whites into meringue. Because when your production server crashes at 3 AM and you've lost everything because you ignored Rules 1-5, at least you can stress-bake some pavlova while contemplating your life choices. Honestly, the progression from "make backups" to "become a pastry chef" is the most relatable career trajectory in tech.

We Don't Deploy On Friday

Devops Programming Debugging Backend Cloud

2 days ago 249.2K views 0 shares

Friday deployments are the forbidden fruit of software development, and this developer just took a big ol' bite. Cruising along smoothly on a regular day? No problem! But the SECOND you decide to push that "deploy" button on a Friday afternoon, you've basically signed a blood oath to sacrifice your entire weekend to the bug gods. What could possibly go wrong, right? EVERYTHING. Everything can go wrong. Now instead of enjoying your Saturday brunch and Sunday Netflix binge, you're frantically SSH-ing into production servers at 2 AM in your pajamas, wondering why you didn't just wait until Monday like literally every senior dev warned you. The golden rule exists for a reason, folks—your weekend plans are NOT worth testing in production when nobody's around to help you clean up the mess.

What The Hell Is Going On

Networking Devops Hardware

4 days ago 174.7K views 0 shares

Oh, just a casual Tuesday in the server room where someone decided to create a modern art installation titled "Ethernet Cable Massacre." Look at those poor RJ45 connectors just... existing in their half-crimped, wire-exposed glory, scattered around like the aftermath of a networking battlefield. Someone clearly had ONE job—crimp these cables properly—and instead chose violence. The MikroTik Cloud Router Switch sitting there all pristine and professional while surrounded by this absolute chaos of exposed twisted pairs is sending me. It's giving "I showed up to a black-tie event and everyone else came in pajamas" energy. Pro tip: This is what happens when you let the intern handle cable management after watching one YouTube tutorial at 2x speed. Those wires are more exposed than my code on GitHub, and just as embarrassing.

Cloud Bill Debt

Cloud Devops AWS Programming Backend

4 days ago 171.6K views 0 shares

The classic developer pipeline: passion project → side hustle → AWS hostage situation. Started coding because you loved building things, now you're building things because AWS won't stop sending invoices. Nothing quite like watching your hobby transform into a financial obligation faster than your S3 bucket can rack up egress charges. The real tragedy? Your app probably has like 12 users, but somehow you're spending enough on cloud infrastructure to fund a small coffee addiction. Welcome to the modern developer experience where "serverless" just means you don't see the server that's bankrupting you.

Infra As React

AWS Devops React Javascript Frontend

4 days ago 179.4K views 3 shares

Someone really woke up and said "You know what DevOps needs? More JSX." Because apparently writing infrastructure as code in YAML or HCL wasn't hipster enough, so now we're defining VPCs, RDS instances, and Lambda functions with React components and className props. Nothing screams "production-ready" quite like treating your AWS infrastructure like it's a frontend component library. Next thing you know, someone's gonna useState() to manage their Kubernetes cluster state and useEffect() to provision EC2 instances. The fact that it generates actual Terraform files is both impressive and deeply concerning – like watching someone build a house with a spoon and somehow succeeding.

Oops The Wrong Email Guys

AWS Devops Cloud

5 days ago 167.8K views 0 shares

When you accidentally send that internal company rant about AWS pricing to the entire engineering distribution list instead of your teammate's DM. The panic that sets in when you realize 16,000 developers just got an email they definitely weren't supposed to see is the exact moment you understand why email recall features exist (and why they never actually work). Amazon's response? Fire everyone who saw it. Problem solved. Can't have a leak if there's nobody left to leak. Classic enterprise damage control strategy right there. It's like doing git reset --hard HEAD~1 on your entire workforce. Pro tip: Always double-check that "To:" field before hitting send. And maybe don't keep "[email protected]" right next to "[email protected]" in your autocomplete.

When Ram Is So Precious Nowadays!

Docker Devops Hardware Programming Backend

5 days ago 178.9K views 0 shares

Docker containers are supposed to be lightweight and resource-efficient. Spoiler alert: they're not. CPU asks Docker if it can spin up some containers? Sure thing, papa. CPU asks if it can actually use some RAM? Absolutely not. CPU tries to tell a white lie about memory usage? Denied. But when Docker itself opens its mouth, you see com.docker.hyperkit casually consuming 9.06 GB like it's ordering a venti at Starbucks. The irony is thicker than your swap file. Docker preaches containerization and efficiency while its own hypervisor process eats RAM like Chrome's distant cousin at a family reunion. Your containers might be lean, but Docker Desktop? That's a different story.

Double Production.... Right?

Hardware Devops Databases Backend Cloud

5 days ago 259.4K views 0 shares

When hardware manufacturers announce they're doubling NAND memory capacity, every sysadmin and DevOps engineer immediately goes into panic mode. Sure, double the storage sounds great until you realize it means double the potential for catastrophic data loss, double the complexity in RAID configurations, and double the fun when trying to explain to management why "more storage" doesn't automatically mean "better performance." The nervous smile turning into existential dread perfectly captures that moment when you realize your carefully balanced production environment is about to get "upgraded" whether you like it or not. Because nothing says "stable infrastructure" quite like forcing everyone to migrate to new hardware with twice the capacity and probably twice the weird edge cases you'll discover at 3 AM. Spoiler alert: It's never production-ready when they say it is. You'll be the one finding out the hard way.

Docker Docker

Docker Devops Programming Backend

5 days ago 242.6K views 0 shares

Your CPU is basically that strict parent interrogating Docker about its absolutely OBSCENE resource consumption. "Docker, Docker" gets a sweet "Yes papa" response. But then things take a dark turn when papa CPU asks about eating RAM, and Docker straight-up denies it like a toddler with chocolate smeared all over their face. Same with telling lies. But the MOMENT papa CPU says "Open your mouth!" we see the truth: com.docker.hyperkit casually munching on 9.06 GB of memory like it's a light snack. Busted! Nothing says "lightweight containerization" quite like your Docker daemon treating your RAM like an all-you-can-eat buffet while swearing it's on a diet.

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