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Nothing Is More Permanent Than A Temporary Fix
Programming Debugging Backend
5 hours ago 76.4K views 0 shares
Nothing Is More Permanent Than A Temporary Fix
The universal truth that haunts every codebase like a ghost that refuses to leave. You slap together a "quick workaround" at 3 AM promising yourself you'll come back to refactor it properly next sprint. Fast forward three years and that temporary hack is now load-bearing infrastructure that nobody dares touch because the original developer left, documentation was never written, and removing it would probably cause the entire system to collapse like a house of cards. The temporary fix has achieved immortality while your carefully architected "proper solutions" got deprecated last Tuesday. Poetry in motion, really.

Enron Architecture
Programming Security Debugging Backend
5 hours ago 82.7K views 0 shares
Enron Architecture
When your codebase is so sketchy it's basically a federal crime. Building financial products with code so questionable you're not networking at meetups—you're collecting character witnesses for your inevitable trial. Two lawyers, three cops, a judge, and almost Maduro? That's not a professional network, that's a legal defense dream team in the making. Your architecture isn't just bad, it's "cooking the books" level fraudulent. At least Enron had the decency to collapse quickly—your technical debt is the gift that keeps on giving to law enforcement.

Java Vs Jython Or Python
Java Programming Python
13 hours ago 171.2K views 0 shares
Java Vs Jython Or Python
The eternal triangle of programming language drama, except one side is literally just a hybrid nobody asked for. Java and Python are out here living their best lives with massive communities and endless job postings, while Jython is sitting in the corner like "remember me? I let you run Python on the JVM!" Jython is that awkward middle child trying to bridge Java and Python together, combining the "write once, debug everywhere" philosophy of Java with Python's syntax. The problem? It's stuck on Python 2.7 (yes, you read that right), making it about as relevant as a floppy disk drive in 2024. The real kicker is how everyone's fighting over Java vs Python while Jython is desperately waving its hands like "I'm both! Love me!" Spoiler alert: nobody does. When you want Java's performance, you use Java. When you want Python's simplicity, you use Python. When you want both? You probably just use microservices and call it a day.

Hate When This Happen
Programming Webdev Javascript
1 day ago 262.5K views 0 shares
Hate When This Happen
Nothing quite like having a principal dev who's been maintaining that legacy COBOL system since the Reagan administration get schooled by the 23-year-old who just finished a React bootcamp. The confidence of fresh grads who think their 6 months of JavaScript experience qualifies them to refactor a battle-tested system that's been running production for 15 years is truly something to behold. Meanwhile, the senior dev is standing there thinking about all the edge cases, technical debt, and production incidents that aren't covered in the latest Medium article the junior just read. But sure, let's rewrite everything in the framework-of-the-month because "it's how it's done now."

Happy New
Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend Backend
1 day ago 211.4K views 0 shares
Happy New
When you're so confident it's gonna be a short year that you hardcode the max date to 2025, then January 1st hits and you're frantically pushing hotfixes to bump it to 2026. Nothing says "professional software development" quite like annual date validation updates. At least someone's job security is guaranteed – see you next December for the 2027 patch!

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True Story
Java Programming
1 day ago 183.4K views 0 shares
True Story
Oracle's been flexing that "3 Billion Devices Run Java" slogan since 2009, and here we are a decade later... still 3 billion devices. Not 3.1 billion, not 4 billion—exactly 3 billion. Either Oracle's marketing team got really comfortable with that number, or Java's been running on the same devices for 10 years straight. Maybe those devices are just immortal? Or perhaps counting is hard when you're too busy suing Google over Android. The real kicker? In those 10 years, we went from flip phones to smartphones that can literally edit 4K video, but apparently Java's market share just... froze in time. It's like they found the perfect marketing tagline and decided "why fix what ain't broke?" Even if it's technically a lie at this point.

Its Almost 2026
Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend
2 days ago 122.5K views 1 shares
Its Almost 2026
Nothing screams "legacy codebase" quite like a footer that still says "© 2022" in the year 2025. The irony here is beautiful: a product claiming to solve the problem of outdated copyright years... while displaying an outdated copyright year in its own footer. It's like a fitness app with a broken step counter or a spell-checker with typos in its marketing. The real kicker? They're marketing this as "Product of the day 46th" while simultaneously proving they need their own product. Either they haven't launched yet, or they're running the most meta marketing campaign in history. Pro tip: if you're selling a solution to automatically update copyright years, maybe start by using it on your own site. Just a thought.

Yes The Fix Did Not Address The Root Problem And Introduced Bugs
Debugging Git Programming Testing Backend
2 days ago 127.2K views 0 shares
Yes The Fix Did Not Address The Root Problem And Introduced Bugs
You come back refreshed, ready to tackle problems with a clear mind. Then you open the repo and discover your teammates have been "productive" in your absence. That innocent bug fix? Now it's a hydra—cut off one head and three more appear. The band-aid solution that ignores the underlying architectural nightmare? Check. New bugs that weren't even possible before? Double check. The best part is watching that smile slowly morph into existential dread as you realize you'll spend the next week untangling spaghetti code instead of doing actual work. Welcome back to the trenches, soldier. Your vacation tan will fade faster than your will to live.

When You Finally Remove Useless Classes From Your Code
Programming Csharp Java Backend
3 days ago 162.9K views 0 shares
When You Finally Remove Useless Classes From Your Code
You know that revolutionary feeling when you delete 3,000 lines of dead code that's been sitting there since the previous dev "might need it later"? Yeah, it's basically a spiritual awakening. Nothing quite matches the dopamine hit of nuking those AbstractFactoryManagerBeanSingletonHelper classes that do absolutely nothing except make your IDE lag. The best part? Running the build and watching everything still work. No broken imports. No mysterious runtime errors. Just pure, clean code liberation. You're basically the Lenin of refactoring, leading the proletariat (your remaining classes) to freedom from the tyranny of bloat. Pro tip: git blame those deleted classes and you'll find they were added during a 3 AM "temporary fix" in 2019. They were never temporary. They were never a fix.

I Mean If It Works, It Works
Gamedev Programming Debugging
4 days ago 187.7K views 0 shares
I Mean If It Works, It Works
Game devs really out here milking TF2 and webfishing like they're the last two functional udders on the farm. Meanwhile, they're cheerfully skipping past the absolute Frankenstein's monster of spaghetti code and duct tape that's barely holding these games together. The cow looks like it's seen things—probably the codebase at 3 AM during a critical bug fix. But hey, as long as players keep showing up and the servers don't spontaneously combust, who needs refactoring? Technical debt is just a suggestion anyway. The "good morning sunshine" energy while ignoring the structural integrity of your entire project is peak game dev mentality. Ship it and pray.

Don't Try This At Home
Debugging Devops Git Programming Testing
4 days ago 206.8K views 0 shares
Don't Try This At Home
Ah yes, the ancient art of strategic bug deployment. Because nothing says "job security" quite like waiting for the one person who actually understands the legacy codebase to board their flight to Cancun before releasing that critical production bug. The genius here is the timing. Senior dev on vacation means: no code reviews that actually catch things, no "well actually..." corrections in Slack, and most importantly, no one to fix your mess when everything inevitably catches fire. It's the developer equivalent of committing arson and then immediately leaving the country. Pro tip: If you're the senior dev reading this, never announce your vacation dates in advance. Junior devs are watching, waiting, and their Git branches are getting suspiciously active.

When You Finally Remove Useless Classes From Your Code
Programming Csharp Java Backend
4 days ago 233.9K views 0 shares
When You Finally Remove Useless Classes From Your Code
You know that feeling when you've been carrying around dead code for months—maybe years—and you finally get the courage to delete those abstract factory singleton builder classes that literally do nothing? Revolutionary moment right there. It's like declaring independence from technical debt. The crowd goes wild because everyone's been silently judging that bloated codebase, but nobody wanted to be the one to touch it. Now you're the hero who reduced the bundle size by 40% and made the CI pipeline actually finish before the heat death of the universe. Chef's kiss. Until you realize three months later that one of those "useless" classes was actually being reflection-invoked by some ancient framework configuration and now production is on fire.