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Imagine How Long This Would Take...

9 hours ago 77.2K views 0 shares

SWEET MOTHER OF STORAGE NIGHTMARES! Windows 11 on 45,686 floppy disks?! Just IMAGINE the absolute hellscape of sitting there, feeding disk after disk into your computer like some deranged digital hamster for what would literally be WEEKS of your life! You'd be gray-haired and developing carpal tunnel syndrome by disk 387, contemplating your life choices by disk 12,493, and probably dead of old age before you even reached the halfway point! And don't you DARE sneeze near disk 32,651 or you'll have to start ALL OVER AGAIN! Modern operating systems have gone from megabytes to gigabytes to "let's just consume your entire existence" bytes!

Og Python Logo

Python Programming

16 days ago 93.4K views 0 shares

Driver pulls out ID featuring the iconic green Python mascot while the Python logo sits in the car saying "Old photo, officer." Classic case of language evolution. The snake's been hitting the gym since that ID photo was taken, clearly bulked up on all those new libraries and frameworks. Still the same reptile underneath though, just with better syntax.

I Defragged My Zebra

Windows Microsoft Programming

19 days ago 119.2K views 1 shares

Remember when we'd spend hours defragging hard drives just to squeeze out a bit more performance? This zebra's gone through the same treatment - consolidating all those black and white stripes into neat, contiguous blocks. Disk optimization for animals! Next up: running chkdsk on a dalmatian and upgrading a giraffe's neck to SSD. The younger devs won't even understand what defragging is... just like they've never experienced the sweet symphony of a dial-up modem.

Bend The Knee To Windows 11 Or Perish

Windows Microsoft

29 days ago 60.4K views 0 shares

OH MY GOD, Microsoft is going FULL MEDIEVAL on us! The Windows 10 support guillotine is about to drop, and Microsoft is standing there in LITERAL ARMOR demanding we upgrade to Windows 11 or PERISH in digital flames! 💀 Meanwhile, millions of us are barricading ourselves behind our perfectly functional Windows 10 systems, screaming "YOU'LL PRY THIS OS FROM MY COLD, DEAD HARD DRIVE!" The drama is just TOO MUCH. Microsoft as Stannis Baratheon is the crossover nobody asked for but absolutely deserved. And honestly? The thought of upgrading to an OS that requires TPM 2.0 just to check emails makes me want to throw my computer into the sea and become a shepherd.

Marquee Tag: The Original Motion Graphics

Webdev Programming Frontend

1 month ago 75.8K views 0 shares

Marquee Tag: The Original Motion Graphics

Remember when we thought scrolling text was the pinnacle of web design? The <marquee> tag was the 90s equivalent of today's fancy animations – except it was basically just text having a seizure across your screen. We'd slap that bad boy on every element, add some neon text, maybe throw in a few animated GIFs of construction workers, and boom – suddenly we were "web developers." The digital equivalent of putting flame decals on a car to make it go faster. Those college websites with black backgrounds, rainbow text, and that sweet, sweet scrolling marquee... we really thought we were revolutionizing the internet. And now we argue about React state management while silently judging each other's CSS.

Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)

Webdev Javascript Programming Databases Frontend

1 month ago 107.3K views 0 shares

Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)

Government agencies finally entering the digital age but making the worst possible tech choices? *Chef's kiss* Nothing says "we hired consultants from 2003" quite like rejecting clean, lightweight JSON in favor of bloated XML files that require a PhD to parse. The kind of decision that makes developers contemplate career changes to literally anything else. Fun fact: Some government systems still use COBOL, a language older than the moon landing. At this rate, they'll discover JSON around the same time we colonize Mars.

Absolute Fools: The DevOps Complexity Circus

Devops Kubernetes Docker Linux Cloud

1 month ago 142.9K views 0 shares

Absolute Fools: The DevOps Complexity Circus

The eternal battle between old-school sysadmins and modern DevOps continues! This is basically every grizzled Unix veteran watching their company adopt Kubernetes to run a simple CRUD app that could've been handled by a single server from 2003. The meme brilliantly captures the frustration of seeing simple problems solved with absurdly complex solutions. Unix sockets? Nah, let's orchestrate 47 containers across 3 availability zones instead! Because nothing says "enterprise ready" like needing three diagrams that look like circuit boards just to deploy a hello world app. And the cherry on top? After all that complexity, the only actual requirement was "no downtime please" - which ironically would've been easier to achieve with the simpler setup. The real DevOps was inside us all along!

Good Bye Old Friend

Microsoft Networking Windows

2 months ago 86.7K views 0 shares

THE CORPORATE EXECUTION SCENE WE NEVER WANTED! Microsoft taking Skype behind the shed like it's Old Yeller is the tech tragedy of our time! 💔 After buying Skype for a CASUAL $8.5 BILLION in 2011, Microsoft is now basically putting it out of its misery as Teams becomes the golden child. The classic "acquire then retire" move that makes tech enthusiasts scream into their mechanical keyboards. Pour one out for those iconic notification sounds that interrupted COUNTLESS important meetings! You'll be remembered fondly... until we completely forget about you next week.

FTP Goes Brrrr

Webdev Networking Programming Frontend

2 months ago 94.1K views 0 shares

Grandma's out here reminiscing about the golden age of web development when all you needed was a basic HTML file and FileZilla to upload it via FTP. No JavaScript frameworks, no CI/CD pipelines, no containerization - just pure HTML and a prayer that your connection wouldn't drop mid-upload. The younger generation can't comprehend how we used to build websites by basically throwing files at a server like digital confetti. Those were simpler times... before we decided every website needed 300MB of node_modules to display "Hello World".

The Evolution Of Developer Crutches

AI Programming StackOverflow Debugging

2 months ago 129.2K views 0 shares

Remember when we actually had to understand algorithms? Now it's just "fancy bear, what's the optimal way to balance this binary tree?" And Stack Overflow? That's just AI with extra steps and judgment. But coding without internet? That's like trying to remember your ex's phone number – theoretically possible but why would you put yourself through that pain? The real pros among us still have that O'Reilly book collection gathering dust somewhere, just in case the apocalypse hits and we need to remember how pointers work.

Modern Luxury Vs. Battle-Tested Reliability

Linux Hardware Vim Bash Apple

2 months ago 163.8K views 0 shares

Modern Luxury Vs. Battle-Tested Reliability

The eternal battle of development environments! On the left, we have sleek iPads representing modern Apple hardware—thin, light, beautiful, and probably costs more than your monthly rent. On the right? A battle-hardened ThinkPad running Linux with terminal windows that look like they're decrypting the Matrix. Plot twist: that ancient ThinkPad has survived three coffee spills, two office moves, and can compile kernel code while the iPad is still trying to figure out if it's a computer or a really expensive cutting board. The real punchline? That 10-year-old ThinkPad with its mechanical keyboard and enough ports to connect to NASA is probably the one actually shipping production code. Those stickers aren't decoration—they're battle scars!

The Danger Zone: FTP Straight To Production

Devops Webdev Programming Debugging

2 months ago 103.6K views 0 shares

The Danger Zone: FTP Straight To Production

While the cool kids flex their fancy CI/CD pipelines with automated tests and rollbacks, you're over here living dangerously with your IDE directly connected to production via FTP. That nervous sideways glance says it all – you know one wrong keystroke could bring down the entire system, but hey, it's not a bug, it's a feature! Who needs 12 deployment steps when you can just drag-and-drop straight to chaos? The digital equivalent of performing surgery with a chainsaw while blindfolded.

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