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Best Pull Request Of All Time

3 hours ago 54.6K views 0 shares

Someone really just opened a PR to add their own name to the README as a "random contributor" because they "thought it would be cool to be on it." The sheer audacity of this self-nomination is chef's kiss. No code changes, no bug fixes, no documentation improvements—just pure, unfiltered main character energy. And they're "open to feedbacks on the implementation" like they just architected a distributed system instead of typing their own name into a markdown file. The reactions tell the whole story: 1 thumbs up (probably from their alt account), 9 thumbs down, 8 laughing emojis, and 2 party poppers from people who appreciate the comedy gold. This is the kind of confidence we all need when negotiating salaries, honestly.

Romance Hits Different In Tech

Git Webdev Programming

9 hours ago 125.1K views 0 shares

So artists write love songs, but tech bros? They name git branches after their crushes. Nothing says "I'm emotionally unavailable but also weirdly sentimental" quite like git checkout -b feature/sarah-redesign . The Reddit comment about Rebecca Purple is chef's kiss though - that's actually a CSS color named after Rebecca Alison Meyer, the daughter of CSS legend Eric Meyer, who passed away at age 6. So yeah, naming conventions in tech can get surprisingly deep and emotional. But your crush? She doesn't need a git branch, my guy. She needs a text message.

Just Followed The Replication Steps

Git Programming Debugging Testing

19 hours ago 157.8K views 0 shares

You know that special kind of pain when you spend three hours meticulously following bug reproduction steps, questioning your entire existence and career choices, only to discover you've been testing on the wrong branch the whole time? Yeah. That's the face of someone who just realized they could've been home by now. The bug report was probably crystal clear too. Steps numbered 1 through 10. Expected behavior documented. Actual behavior documented. Everything perfect. Except the part where you check which branch you're on. That's optional, right? Pro tip: git branch before debugging. Not after. Before.

When You Think You Finished

Git Agile Programming Debugging

1 day ago 302.2K views 1 shares

You've spent hours carefully building your feature, tested it locally, got it reviewed, pushed it up, and it's sitting there all nice and organized ready to merge. Then some maniac on your team merges their branch first and suddenly your pristine PR looks like a Lego explosion at a daycare. Now you're untangling merge conflicts that make no sense because they touched the same file you did for "unrelated" changes. The worst part? Half the time it's formatting changes or someone reorganizing imports. You went from "ship it" to "git merge --abort" real quick. Welcome to collaborative development, where your perfectly stacked blocks become chaos the moment you look away.

Only Squash Merge Allowed

Git Devops Programming

1 day ago 296.6K views 0 shares

When your team enforces squash-only merge policies, every single commit in your feature branch gets obliterated into one bland, generic message. All those carefully crafted commit messages documenting your thought process? Gone. That commit where you finally fixed the bug at 3 AM? Erased from history. The one where you admitted "I have no idea why this works"? Vanished. Sure, it keeps the main branch "clean," but at what cost? Your entire development journey compressed into "feat: implemented user authentication" while the git history becomes as emotionally sterile as a corporate mission statement. Roy Batty would understand—he's seen things you people wouldn't believe, just like your commit history that nobody will ever see again.

And Fucked Up The Merge Too

AI Git Programming Debugging

2 days ago 312.2K views 1 shares

Nothing says "group project chaos" quite like that one teammate who swore they'd code everything manually, only to secretly let ChatGPT rewrite the entire codebase... three times in one day. The best part? They somehow managed to create merge conflicts that would make even Linus Torvalds weep. You know it's bad when the commit history looks like a crime scene and everyone's just staring at the PR like "what fresh hell is this?" The guy probably force-pushed to main too, because why stop at just one war crime?

Journalists Having Bad Ideas About Software Development

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3 days ago 178.0K views 0 shares

Journalists Having Bad Ideas About Software Development

So a tech journalist just suggested that open source should "ban itself" in certain countries based on geopolitics. That's like suggesting gravity should stop working in specific time zones because of trade disputes. The entire point of open source is that the code is, well, open . It's publicly available. You can't "ban" something that's already distributed across millions of repositories, forks, and local machines worldwide. Even if you deleted every GitHub repo tomorrow, the code would still exist on countless hard drives, mirrors, and archive sites. Trying to geofence open source is like trying to un-ring a bell or put toothpaste back in the tube. The MIT license doesn't come with geographical restrictions for a reason. That's literally the opposite of how information distribution works on the internet. But hey, at least we got a solid Boromir meme out of someone's fundamental misunderstanding of software licensing and distribution.

Replace Github

Git Webdev Programming

3 days ago 149.4K views 0 shares

Someone just declared war on GitHub and the official GitHub account swooped in with the most passive-aggressive "please share the repo link bestie 👀" energy imaginable. It's giving "I dare you to actually build something better" vibes. The sheer confidence of GitHub basically saying "go ahead, we'll wait" while sitting on their throne of 100+ million repositories is CHEF'S KISS. They know nobody's replacing them anytime soon, and they're not even trying to hide it. The ratio of engagement on their reply? *Devastating*. GitHub really said "talk is cheap, show me the code" and the internet collectively lost it.

Looks Good To Me

Git Agile Programming Debugging

3 days ago 163.5K views 3 shares

The inverse relationship between thoroughness and effort. Someone submits a 2-line bugfix? You'll scrutinize every character, suggest refactoring the entire module, and debate variable naming for 20 minutes. Someone drops a 47-file PR that touches half the codebase? "LGTM" and you're back to scrolling Reddit. It's not laziness—it's self-preservation. Nobody has the mental bandwidth to review a small country's worth of code changes, so we just trust that someone else will catch the bug that inevitably ships to production next Tuesday.

Finally Inner Peace

Git Webdev Programming

3 days ago 216.0K views 1 shares

You know that feeling when you discover a GitHub repo that looks like it'll solve all your problems, and then you check the commit history? Most of the time it's either "last updated 4 years ago" or the dreaded "initial commit" from 2019. But 5 hours ago? That's the developer equivalent of finding a warm pizza in an abandoned building—suspicious but absolutely delightful. It means the maintainer is not only alive, but actively working on it RIGHT NOW. No more praying to the open-source gods that your issue will get answered sometime before the heat death of the universe. No more forking a dead project and becoming the reluctant maintainer yourself. Just pure, unadulterated hope that your pull request might actually get merged. This is what serenity looks like in the chaotic hellscape of dependency management.

Bro You Used MIT

Git Webdev Programming

5 days ago 234.8K views 0 shares

The MIT license literally says "do whatever you want with this code, I don't care." It's the most permissive open-source license out there—you can use it, modify it, sell it, tattoo it on your forehead, whatever. So when a dev slaps MIT on their repo and then has a meltdown on Twitter because someone actually *used* their code, it's like putting up a "FREE PIZZA" sign and then crying when people eat the pizza. The cat's bewildered stance perfectly captures the rest of us watching this drama unfold, wondering if they've ever actually read the license they chose. Pro tip: if you don't want people using your code, maybe don't pick the license that's basically the digital equivalent of "take it, it's yours."

Seniors Am I Doing This Correctly

Security Webdev React Git Javascript

5 days ago 163.7K views 0 shares

Junior dev commits what looks like a security audit's worst nightmare directly to staging. We've got hardcoded API keys with "sk-proj" prefixes (looking at you, OpenAI), admin passwords literally set to "admin123", MongoDB connection strings with credentials in plain text, AWS secrets just vibing in variables, and a Stripe key that's probably already been scraped by seventeen bots. But wait, there's more! They're storing passwords in localStorage (chef's kiss for XSS attacks), setting global window credentials, fetching from a URL literally called "malicious-site.com", and my personal favorite - trying to parse "not valid json {{(" because why not test your error handling in production? The loop creating 10,000 arrays of 1,000 elements each is just the performance cherry on top of this security disaster sundae. Someone's about to learn why we have .env files, code reviews, and why the senior dev is now stress-eating in the corner.

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