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It's Never Just A Small Change
Debugging Programming Testing Devops Git
2 months ago 4.3M views 0 shares
It's Never Just A Small Change
Someone with a PhD in computer science knows exactly what "just a small change" really means. They've seen enough production systems burn to the ground because someone touched one line of CSS. The sweating, the nervous smile, the visible distrust—that's the face of someone who's debugged a "quick fix" at 3 AM that cascaded into 47 broken tests and a rollback. There's no such thing as a small change. Only small lies we tell ourselves before opening a pull request that touches 23 files across 4 microservices.

Aged Like Milk
Hardware Programming
7 months ago 300.6K views 0 shares
Aged Like Milk
Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, confidently declared in 1977 that nobody would ever need a computer at home. Fast forward a few decades and we're literally panicking when our phone battery drops below 20%. We've got computers in our pockets, on our wrists, in our fridges, and probably embedded in our toasters at this point. The irony here is chef's kiss level. The guy was literally selling computers while simultaneously predicting they'd never be a household item. It's like a car salesman saying "nobody will ever need personal transportation." Digital Equipment Corporation eventually went bankrupt in 1998, probably around the time people were installing Windows 98 on their home PCs and playing Solitaire instead of working. Fun fact: Today we have more computing power in our smartphones than NASA used to land on the moon. So yeah, Ken... we found a few reasons to have computers at home. Like doomscrolling Twitter at 2 AM and arguing with strangers on Reddit about whether tabs or spaces are superior.