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Karen Inspect - The Python HR Linter

Karen Inspect - The Python HR Linter
Ah, the "Karen Inspect" linter - for when your code needs to speak to the manager of syntax. This satirical Python tool scans your code for "problematic" terms like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, while enforcing ridiculous rules like "function names must be complete sentences with punctuation." Because nothing says "production ready" like code that passes HR's sensitivity training but can't actually run. My favorite part is flagging "temp" variables because "everything should be permanent!" - clearly written by someone who's never had to debug a 10,000-line legacy codebase at 2am. Next update will probably flag recursion as "self-centered behavior" and loops as "showing signs of obsessive tendencies."

Questionable Terminology

Questionable Terminology
The awkward moment when the game show host realizes all four answers are technically correct in programming contexts: Master-slave (the problematic database/device relationship pattern) Deforestation (removing trees from expression trees in functional programming) Children (those poor innocent DOM nodes) STD (Standard Template Library in C++, not what you're thinking) And this is why we're renaming everything in tech. The host's face says it all: "Did I just walk into the world's most uncomfortable tech interview?"

When Politics Tries To Git Involved

When Politics Tries To Git Involved
When politics meets version control and developers collectively facepalm! The fake news headline about an executive order forcing Git to revert from 'main' back to 'master' branches is peak tech-politics satire. For context: many Git repositories changed default branch names from 'master' to 'main' around 2020 to use more inclusive terminology. The joke imagines a world where government mandates coding conventions—like forcing everyone to use tabs instead of spaces or declaring semicolons mandatory. Next up: executive order making all boolean variables named 'isTrump' default to TRUE.