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SQL Clause Is Coming To Town
Databases Programming Backend
19 days ago 286.4K views 1 shares
SQL Clause Is Coming To Town
Someone took "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and turned it into a database admin's Christmas carol. The lyrics perfectly map SQL operations to the original song: making a database (making a list), sorting twice (checking it twice), and the WHERE clause filtering for good behavior. The real genius here is "SQL Clause" instead of "Santa Claus" – it's the kind of dad joke that makes you groan and chuckle simultaneously. Props to whoever printed this on what appears to be toilet paper, because that's exactly where most of our SQL queries deserve to end up after the third JOIN goes wrong. Fun fact: The ORDER BY clause actually has to process the entire result set before returning anything, which is why sorting twice would genuinely make Santa's database performance absolutely terrible. Maybe that's why some kids don't get presents – query timeout.

Christmas Tree
Python Programming
19 days ago 205.3K views 0 shares
Christmas Tree
When you try to print a Christmas tree in Python but forget how nested loops work. Someone wrote for i in range(5): print("*") expecting a beautiful triangular tree, but instead got five sad asterisks stacked vertically like the world's most depressing Christmas decoration. The photo shows exactly what this code produces in real life: a pathetically tall, skinny "tree" that's basically just a decorated stick leaning against the wall. Pro tip: You need nested loops and some string multiplication to build an actual tree shape. But hey, at least this one fits in small apartments.

Nothing Better Than Coding During Christmas 🎄
Security Devops Git AWS Programming
20 days ago 212.7K views 0 shares
Nothing Better Than Coding During Christmas 🎄
Family gathering downstairs? Nah. Turkey dinner? Pass. Opening presents? Maybe later. But committing your AWS credentials and database passwords to a public repo in a blurry .env file while sitting alone with your laptop? Now that's the holiday spirit. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" quite like exposing your entire infrastructure to the internet. The tree is decorated, the lights are twinkling, and your BETTER_AUTH_SECRET is about to become everyone's secret. At least the photo is blurry enough that we can only read like 80% of those credentials. Security through jpeg compression—a strategy as old as time. Pro tip: Next year, maybe add .env to your .gitignore before you add it to your Christmas card.

Merry Xmas Everyone
Programming Webdev Debugging
21 days ago 220.0K views 0 shares
Merry Xmas Everyone
Nothing says holiday cheer like debugging production code next to a Christmas tree with some oranges and what appears to be mulled wine. The cozy festive setup complete with twinkling lights really highlights the fact that bugs don't take holidays off. Someone's Christmas wish list probably included "working code" and "no rollbacks on December 25th" but here we are, laptop open, IDE running, living the dream. At least the ambiance is nice—most people debug in fluorescent-lit offices at 2 AM with stale coffee. This developer got the aesthetic memo: if you're gonna work through Christmas, might as well make it look like a Hallmark movie. The oranges are a nice touch too. Vitamin C for the inevitable all-nighter.