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Mini Heart Attack To Boss
Programming
10 days ago 219.2K views 0 shares
Mini Heart Attack To Boss
That split-second panic when you see "Your name is in Einstein Files" from your boss and your brain immediately goes into full disaster recovery mode. Did I accidentally commit credentials? Push to main? Delete the production database? Nope—turns out someone named Rawbare just wants a job and cleverly used the Einstein Files subject line as a notification hack to stand out in your inbox. The relief is real, but also... respect the hustle. That's some A+ social engineering right there. Your heart rate can return to normal now.

Five Hours Wasted
Debugging Gamedev C++ Programming
2 months ago 398.0K views 0 shares
Five Hours Wasted
Nothing quite like the special kind of rage that comes from debugging C for hours, only to realize the "bug" was actually a feature you forgot you implemented. Or worse—it was working exactly as intended and you just didn't understand your own code anymore. The progression here is beautiful: starts with innocent optimism, discovers something's wrong, descends into debugging hell trying to fix it, then finally achieves enlightenment (or insanity?) when you realize there was never anything to fix. Those five hours? Gone. Vaporized. Could've been playing the game instead of hunting phantom bugs. Bonus points for doing this in C where every "bug" could legitimately be undefined behavior, a segfault waiting to happen, or just your pointer arithmetic being spicy. The paranoia is justified, which makes the realization even more painful.

Magic Comes With IDE
Debugging Programming
9 months ago 182.9K views 0 shares
Magic Comes With IDE
Nothing quite like the existential crisis of spending 30 minutes debugging an "error" only to discover it's just a comment. The IDE highlights it, your brain panics, and suddenly you're questioning every life decision that led you to this career. The worst part? You'll absolutely do it again next week.

Suspicious Login
Security Networking Programming
10 months ago 230.5K views 1 shares
Suspicious Login
When your security system flags your own home network as "suspicious." The IP address 192.168.240.1 is a private IP address that can only be accessed from within your local network—literally your own devices. It's like getting a text from your spouse asking who that stranger in your bed is... while they're lying next to you. The real security threat is apparently the security system itself.