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Good Devs Are Expensive Until Disaster Strikes
Devops Agile Programming Debugging Testing
1 day ago 54.0K views 0 shares
Good Devs Are Expensive Until Disaster Strikes
The financial calculus of software development hits different at 3 AM when your servers are burning. That $150/hour senior dev you rejected? Suddenly looks like a bargain when compared to the $50,000/minute revenue loss from your payment system being down. The technical debt collector always shows up at the worst possible time, and unlike regular debt collectors, this one charges compound interest in the form of your engineering team's sanity and your customers' trust. Pro tip: The cost of prevention is always cheaper than the cost of the cure.

Can You Explain The Gap In Your Resume?
C++ Devops Git Programming
7 days ago 90.8K views 0 shares
Can You Explain The Gap In Your Resume?
The irony of Bjarne Stroustrup—you know, just the guy who created C++ —having only one green square on his GitHub contribution graph is chef's kiss material. Recruiters everywhere are frantically updating their "red flags" documentation. Meanwhile, the person who invented the language that powers half the world's critical infrastructure would probably get auto-rejected by the ATS systems he helped make possible. Next interview question: "So, Mr. Stroustrup, what would you say you actually do here?"

The Job Market Is Stranger Than Fiction
Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming
8 days ago 93.5K views 0 shares
The Job Market Is Stranger Than Fiction
Remember 2010? When a homeless guy coding HTML for food was a joke? Fast forward to 2024, and suddenly we're all one framework update away from that cardboard sign. The tech industry's evolution has been less "innovation curve" and more "existential horror movie." Back then, we laughed at HTML being considered a survival skill. Now we're watching junior devs with 12 frameworks and a GitHub full of projects getting rejected for not having "10+ years of Svelte experience." The real horror isn't the job market—it's realizing that cardboard sign guy was just 14 years ahead of his time. A true visionary entrepreneur with impeccable market timing.

Prompt Injection: Job Application Edition
AI Security Programming
9 days ago 75.6K views 0 shares
Prompt Injection: Job Application Edition
Behold, the modern job search hack! This genius is trying to prompt-inject the resume-scanning AI that most companies use to filter candidates. It's like SQL injection but for desperate job seekers. Anyone who's suffered through the automated application void knows these systems are the final boss between you and a human interviewer. This person's just skipping the grind and going straight for the exploit. Ten years of experience says this won't work, but five years of cynicism says it's worth a shot. The real irony? The person who built the CV scanner probably appreciates this hack more than the HR team ever would.

Come On Suffer With Us
Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging
11 days ago 70.8K views 0 shares
Come On Suffer With Us
Ah, the eternal workplace dynamics. Designers treat new hires like existential threats to their creative domain. "Am I not enough?" they sob, while questioning their entire portfolio and life choices. Engineers, meanwhile, just grunt "apes together strong" and immediately add the new dev to their collective debugging hivemind. Nothing bonds engineers like shared trauma over legacy code. The more hands to hold while staring into the void of production bugs, the better.

Job Interview Question For Team Lead Position
Agile Algorithms Programming
12 days ago 66.9K views 0 shares
Job Interview Question For Team Lead Position
This is basically the "Fox, Chicken, and Grain" logic puzzle repackaged as the ultimate management nightmare. Except instead of preventing your chicken from being eaten, you're preventing your team from murdering each other. The solution? Move the bore first, then the idiot, then bring the bore back, then move the asshole, and finally move the bore again. Though the real power move would be to just quit and find a company with functioning HR. And they say technical interviews are unrealistic...

Core Requirement
Debugging Devops Agile Programming Testing
12 days ago 78.0K views 0 shares
Core Requirement
The thousand-yard stare of a developer who's survived multiple production outages is worth more than any certification. Nothing teaches you how to handle chaos like watching your carefully crafted code implode spectacularly at 3 AM while executives breathe down your neck. The battle scars of debugging nightmares are basically an unwritten qualification on every senior dev job posting.

Not A Skill Problem
Programming Devops Frontend Backend
16 days ago 60.9K views 0 shares
Not A Skill Problem
THE AUDACITY of job listings these days! 😤 The top panel shows some corporate suit LYING through his teeth with "You don't need to have the skills of an entire dev team" while the bottom panel reveals the BRUTAL truth: "If those kids could read they'd be very upset." Every. Single. Job. Posting. Ever. Wants a "full-stack ninja rockstar unicorn wizard" who can somehow do the work of 17 people for entry-level pay! The disconnect is so catastrophic it should have its own disaster relief fund! Meanwhile, all of us developers are just standing there like Bobby Hill, clutching our single programming language and wondering if we should have learned Kubernetes, React, and quantum physics before breakfast. THE HORROR!

The Future Is Here: Just Not The One We Need
Programming AI Devops Agile
17 days ago 83.3K views 0 shares
The Future Is Here: Just Not The One We Need
Ah, the classic corporate brainstorming session where everyone's looking for shortcuts except the one person suggesting the obvious solution. Low-code, AI, buzzwords galore—but nobody wants to hear "just hire someone who knows what they're doing." That dev getting thrown out the window represents every competent engineer watching their company chase shiny tech instead of proper staffing. The real punchline? Six months later they'll hire three devs anyway, but only after burning through the budget on half-baked AI solutions that generated more bugs than features.

Union Makes Us Strong
Frontend Webdev React Programming Debugging
21 days ago 67.4K views 0 shares
Union Makes Us Strong
The ULTIMATE workplace personality split! 😭 Designers having full-blown existential crises when another creative joins the team - "AM I NOT ENOUGH?!" Meanwhile, engineers are over there like primitive geniuses forming their coding tribes with zero emotional damage. The sheer AUDACITY of designers thinking they're special unique snowflakes while engineers are just like "MORE MONKEYS TO HELP DEBUG THIS NIGHTMARE!" Engineers secretly know the truth: no single human can possibly untangle the unholy mess of legacy code they've created, so reinforcements are ALWAYS welcome. It's not collaboration, it's survival strategy!

Recruiters Be Like
Databases Webdev Programming Frontend
21 days ago 96.6K views 0 shares
Recruiters Be Like
Imagine trying to connect to a database with CSS, the language responsible for making buttons pretty and text centered. That's like trying to open a door with a banana peel. Tech recruiters are infamous for writing job descriptions that combine technologies with the coherence of a toddler playing tech buzzword bingo. "Must have 10 years experience in a framework released last month" is practically a recruiting tradition at this point. Next week they'll be looking for someone who can "deploy microservices using Microsoft Paint" or "debug kernel issues with HTML comments."

The AI Revolution vs. The Job Posting
AI Programming
28 days ago 91.0K views 0 shares
The AI Revolution vs. The Job Posting
Ah, the classic corporate dilemma: "We need more engineers!" *proceeds to post job listings* while simultaneously a headline announces an AI that can supposedly replace them. The irony is delicious. Companies are still desperately hiring humans while breathlessly hyping the AI that will make us obsolete. Fifteen years in this industry and I've seen this movie before—neural networks, blockchain, quantum computing—all going to revolutionize everything... until they don't. Meanwhile, some poor hiring manager is still trying to find a senior dev with 10 years experience in a 3-year-old framework for entry-level pay. The circle of tech life continues.