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The Great Editor War: DOS User Has Entered The Chat
Vim Bash Programming Linux
3 days ago 50.4K views 0 shares
The Great Editor War: DOS User Has Entered The Chat
The GREAT EDITOR WAR rages on with Vim and Emacs users acting like they're in some kind of text editor street gang, flashing their keyboard shortcuts like gang signs! Meanwhile, the DOS_USER at the bottom is just standing there, absolutely BAFFLED that people would wage holy war over text editors when they're still typing commands like "edit.com" in a command prompt from the STONE AGE! 💀 It's like watching two people argue about the best way to climb Mount Everest while you're still figuring out how stairs work. THE DRAMA! THE TRAGEDY! The sheer AUDACITY of still using DOS in 2023!

How Jurassic Park Could Have Ended
Devops Security Programming Linux Debugging
5 days ago 62.0K views 0 shares
How Jurassic Park Could Have Ended
Alternate Jurassic Park ending: Dennis Nedry realizes he's the only IT guy maintaining a critical system with actual dinosaurs and demands fair compensation. Hammond reluctantly agrees instead of lowballing him. Movie ends peacefully, no one gets eaten, and the park probably has working door locks. The real horror was the salary negotiation all along.

Draw 25 Or Face The Windows 11 Abyss
Windows Microsoft Programming
11 days ago 64.4K views 0 shares
Draw 25 Or Face The Windows 11 Abyss
Microsoft: "Upgrade to Windows 11 or face the consequences of unsupported software!" Developers with battle-hardened machines: "I'll take the entire deck of security vulnerabilities, thanks." The risk calculation is simple—potential system instability from upgrading vs. the guaranteed productivity loss from having your PC held hostage by feature updates for 3 hours. I've seen Windows 11 "improvements" and I'm drawing 25 cards until my hardware physically disintegrates.

The \n Nightmare: When Fixing A Bug Ruins Your Career
Debugging Windows Programming Backend
17 days ago 87.4K views 0 shares
The \n Nightmare: When Fixing A Bug Ruins Your Career
OH. MY. GOD. The universe has a sick sense of humor! 😱 This poor developer fixed a bug where usernames starting with "n" couldn't use their app on Windows because \n was interpreted as a newline in config files. The DELICIOUS IRONY? Only veteran employees with "n" usernames were affected - including their manager, their manager's manager, AND THEIR MANAGER'S MANAGER'S MANAGER who wanted to try the app and now thinks they're a complete moron! 💀 The cherry on this catastrophe sundae? Their reward for fixing this career-ending nightmare and winning a company award is... *dramatic pause*... lunch with the VERY SAME executive who now thinks they're the village idiot! I'm absolutely DYING at this perfect storm of professional humiliation! Someone please check on this developer's will to live! 😂

Don't Leave Me: The Windows Update Paradox
Windows Microsoft
17 days ago 72.4K views 0 shares
Don't Leave Me: The Windows Update Paradox
The ultimate Microsoft Stockholm Syndrome! In 2020, users were desperately clinging to Windows 7, screaming "DON'T FORCE ME TO INSTALL 10" as Microsoft ended support. Fast forward to 2025, and those same users are now sobbing on the floor begging Windows 10 "DON'T LEAVE ME" as its end-of-life approaches and Windows 11 looms ominously. The irony is delicious. First we hate the update, then we can't live without it. It's like refusing to try a new IDE for years, then panicking when your favorite gets deprecated. The cycle of tech dependency continues!

If It Can Be Written In Javascript It Will
Javascript Programming Backend
20 days ago 111.5K views 0 shares
If It Can Be Written In Javascript It Will
Ah, the inevitable JavaScript invasion question! The Social Security system runs on COBOL because it was built when dinosaurs roamed Silicon Valley. COBOL's delightful Y2K-ready feature: missing dates default to 1875, creating phantom 150-year-old benefit recipients. Meanwhile, JavaScript developers are wondering why they can't rewrite critical government infrastructure using npm packages that break every Tuesday. Because nothing says "reliable pension system" like a framework that's deprecated faster than milk expires. The real tragedy? If Social Security was written in JavaScript, those 150-year-olds would be getting NaN dollars per month while the system tries to figure out if their birthdate is truthy.

The Hard Truth About Late Night BIOS Coding
Hardware Linux Debugging
24 days ago 73.1K views 0 shares
The Hard Truth About Late Night BIOS Coding
Nothing says "I've made terrible life choices" quite like debugging BIOS code at 3AM and suddenly realizing you're staring at a boot menu that says "Hard Dick Drive" instead of "Hard Disk Drive." The best part? This isn't even a typo you can blame on autocorrect. Some sleep-deprived firmware engineer had to manually code this masterpiece, then it passed through QA, got shipped to thousands of computers, and nobody noticed until users started giggling like 12-year-olds during system setup. Legacy hardware: where professionalism goes to die.

FFmpeg Goes To Washington
Programming Bash Linux
25 days ago 89.2K views 0 shares
FFmpeg Goes To Washington
When a video encoding tool claims they're rewriting Social Security in assembly, you know it's April 1st. FFmpeg joining forces with Dogecoin to optimize government infrastructure is like saying "we're fixing healthcare with blockchain" – technically impressive, completely absurd, and would probably still run better than the current system. Just imagine the command line arguments needed to calculate your retirement benefits. Somewhere a COBOL programmer is nervously laughing while backing up their job security.

Either That Or A.I.
Microsoft Programming Databases
1 month ago 80.9K views 0 shares
Either That Or A.I.
The trillion-dollar financial industry's dirty secret? It's just a bunch of spreadsheets in a trenchcoat. Banks, hedge funds, and trillion-dollar markets all crucified on the cross of Microsoft Excel. One misplaced decimal, one broken VLOOKUP, and the economy tanks. Meanwhile, some 22-year-old analyst is frantically trying to fix their circular reference errors before the CFO notices. The modern economy: powered by a program designed in the 80s that crashes if you sort a column wrong.

Hackers Before Advanced Encryption: Just Say "Eh"
Security Microsoft Programming
1 month ago 91.3K views 0 shares
Hackers Before Advanced Encryption: Just Say "Eh"
Remember when "hacking" meant typing "eh" into Hotmail instead of spending 12 years learning advanced cryptography and neural network vulnerabilities? The 90s were wild—back when security was just a suggestion and the most sophisticated cyber attack was basically saying "please" to the server. Modern security pros looking at this are probably crying into their 64-character randomly generated passwords right now. Meanwhile, Microsoft was probably like "eh, good enough" when designing their authentication system. The golden age when you could become an elite hacker during your lunch break!

He Seems To Be Powered By The Holy Spirit
Hardware Devops Linux Debugging
1 month ago 78.8K views 0 shares
He Seems To Be Powered By The Holy Spirit
When your legacy server keeps crashing but you're out of technical solutions so you install a religious icon as a CPU heatsink. That machine's been running for 7 years straight now, and nobody dares to update it. The icon isn't covering anything important anyway, right? RIGHT? The sacred art of hardware debugging—where divine intervention meets thermal management. Beats having to explain to management why you need a budget for new equipment.

In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
1 month ago 91.8K views 0 shares
In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
The eternal struggle between management and sysadmins, narrated in the grim tones of Werner Herzog. While executives demand explanations in their cubicle kingdom, the battle-hardened sysadmins are just trying to keep the digital house of cards from collapsing. They're not solving problems—they're performing digital triage. The truth? Most IT infrastructure is held together with duct tape, prayers, and that one Perl script written by a guy who left in 2011. Nobody touches the production server because nobody knows what will break if they do. It's not incompetence; it's survival.