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Blameless Does Not Mean Nameless

7 hours ago 98.3K views 0 shares

The office wall of shame has spoken! While Spoingus gets a gold star for reviewing 12 PRs (what a tryhard), poor Bingus has achieved infamy by accidentally taking down Cloudflare. We've all been there – one tiny config change, one misplaced semicolon, and suddenly half the internet is screaming. The best part? Everyone knows exactly who to blame when the status page turns red. Your "blameless postmortem" culture means nothing when your photo is literally pinned to the wall under "Naughty." Career advancement strategy: break stuff so spectacularly they have to promote you to fix it.

November 18th 2025: A Developer Story

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13 hours ago 170.2K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic "fix Cloudflare by pushing to GitHub" scenario. Because nothing says "I understand how infrastructure works" like pushing code changes to fix a third-party CDN outage. It's like trying to fix a power outage by changing the lightbulb. Somewhere, a DevOps engineer is silently screaming while a junior dev proudly announces they've "solved the problem" right before the entire internet magically comes back online on its own.

Reset The Counter: Microsoft's AI Adventure

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17 hours ago 138.0K views 0 shares

Reset The Counter: Microsoft's AI Adventure

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute DRAMA of it all! Microsoft proudly announces that 30% of their code is now AI-generated, and then BOOM! 💥 Git operations are failing EVERYWHERE! It's like watching a corporate horror movie unfold in real-time! The grim reaper couldn't have timed his entrance better! One minute they're bragging about AI writing their code, and the next minute their Git operations are having an existential crisis. Coincidence? I think NOT! This is what happens when you replace human developers with AI that learned to code by copying StackOverflow answers without reading the comments! Reset the counter indeed—we've gone exactly ZERO days without a Microsoft AI disaster. The skeleton is all of us watching our repositories crumble while Microsoft's PR team frantically tries to explain that AI definitely wasn't responsible for this catastrophe. Sure, Jan. 🙄

This Is Cloudflare Armageddon All Over Again

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19 hours ago 71.2K views 0 shares

This Is Cloudflare Armageddon All Over Again

OH. MY. GOD. The internet is literally BURNING TO THE GROUND right now!!! That moment when Cloudflare goes down and suddenly half the internet vanishes into the void, and we're all transformed into digital cavemen smearing our faces with error code war paint! 💀 The absolute CHAOS of watching developers frantically refreshing their browsers like it's going to magically fix a global CDN outage. Meanwhile, DevOps teams are having collective meltdowns in Slack channels that—plot twist—ALSO run on Cloudflare! The circle of digital hell is complete!

It's Always A Cloudflare Problem

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20 hours ago 70.3K views 0 shares

The universal scapegoat of our generation has arrived. When the production server catches fire at 3 AM and your phone rings, nothing beats the sweet relief of saying "Sorry, it's a Cloudflare problem" with that smug little smile. Cloudflare—taking the blame so you don't have to since 2010. The perfect excuse to go back to sleep while someone else's engineering team deals with the dumpster fire. And the best part? Sometimes it's actually true!

When The Internet's Bouncer Has Had Too Much To Drink

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21 hours ago 68.9K views 0 shares

When The Internet's Bouncer Has Had Too Much To Drink

Ah, Cloudflare's status page—where "investigating" and "continuing to investigate" are just fancy ways of saying "we have no clue what's happening but we're frantically Googling the error messages too." The true poetry is in that beautiful ASCII shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ update, silently screaming "have you tried turning the internet off and on again?" while half the web burns. Nothing says "mission-critical infrastructure" quite like timestamps proving they've been "investigating" for 3+ hours while DevOps teams worldwide explain to management why their five-nines uptime just became three-nines.

Cloudflare Outage: From Panic To S'mores

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21 hours ago 68.9K views 1 shares

Cloudflare Outage: From Panic To S'mores

The Cloudflare support engineer's two moods during server incidents: Panel 1: Initial panic with a simple "lol" while watching the server rack burst into flames. Classic understatement for "half the internet just went down." Panel 2: Acceptance phase with "yummy" as they casually roast a marshmallow over the burning infrastructure. Because if 30% of the web is already offline, might as well make s'mores while DNS propagates. Remember that time in 2022 when a single config error took down 19 million websites? Good times.

The Apocalypse Is Near

Cloud Networking Security Devops Backend

23 hours ago 76.4K views 0 shares

The internet is LITERALLY CRUMBLING before our eyes! That moment when Cloudflare goes down and suddenly half the internet vanishes into the void! 💀 Developers everywhere transforming from calm professionals into wide-eyed panic monsters faster than you can say "DNS error." It's not just websites failing—it's our collective sanity! The blank stare of existential dread says it all... like watching your entire digital kingdom burn while holding an empty fire extinguisher. And the best part? No one outside tech even notices until they can't post their breakfast photos. Meanwhile, DevOps teams are sacrificing keyboards to the server gods begging for mercy!

The Internet's Precarious Foundation

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23 hours ago 81.4K views 2 shares

The entire internet is depicted as a massive, precarious tower of servers and infrastructure, but the whole thing is being held up by a single Cloudflare support beam. One tiny service outage and civilization collapses! This is basically what happened during the July 2020 Cloudflare outage when half the web went dark for 30 minutes because someone tripped over a cable (or something equally trivial). Every DevOps engineer just felt a cold shiver down their spine remembering that day. Single point of failure? More like single point of "we're all doomed."

Cloudflare Downdetector Uses Cloudflare

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1 day ago 77.9K views 0 shares

The perfect digital ouroboros doesn't exi— Trying to check if Cloudflare is down? Too bad, the downdetector site itself is protected by Cloudflare. It's like asking the bartender if he's at work by calling the bar, but he's the only one who answers phones. The irony is so thick you could route packets through it. Somewhere, a network engineer is staring blankly at their monitor, questioning every life decision that led to this moment.

If I Go Down I'm Taking You With Me

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1 day ago 77.8K views 1 shares

Ah, the perfect digital murder-suicide! Your service crashes, but instead of letting the world know about your incompetence, you take down the monitoring service too. It's like unplugging the smoke detector during a house fire because the beeping is annoying. That Cloudflare logo just makes it *chef's kiss* - because nothing says "high availability" like being the single point of failure for half the internet. When your status page is hosted on the same infrastructure that's currently burning to the ground, you've achieved peak DevOps enlightenment.

Kubernetes: The Unauthorized Aging Accelerator

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1 day ago 77.2K views 0 shares

Kubernetes: The Unauthorized Aging Accelerator

Nothing ages you quite like maintaining a Kubernetes cluster. One day you're a bright-eyed developer pushing your first container, the next you're frantically Googling "why pods evicted" at 2AM while your hair turns gray in real-time. The human body simply wasn't designed to withstand YAML indentation errors and cryptic etcd failures. For every successful deployment, your telomeres shorten by approximately 17%.

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