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Corporations Are Not Your Friends
Programming Devops Docker Cloud
6 days ago 71.0K views 0 shares
Corporations Are Not Your Friends
That cute open-source project with 10k GitHub stars? Just wait until BigTech acquires it and slaps a $49.99/month "enterprise" tier on features that used to be free. Remember when MongoDB changed their license because AWS was eating their lunch? Or when Docker suddenly needed to "monetize" after years of free containers? The corporate circle of life: embrace, extend, extinguish... and extract your credit card info. The only relationship these companies want is with your wallet.

Justice For EU Residents!!!
Programming
13 days ago 71.6K views 0 shares
Justice For EU Residents!!!
That crushing moment when you discover an awesome software giveaway on r/pcmasterrace only to find the dreaded "US Residents Only" fine print. European devs get to build the software but can't win the free licenses. The digital equivalent of seeing a buffet through a restaurant window while starving. Next they'll tell us Stack Overflow karma can't be exchanged for healthcare either.

Producing Product In Production
AI Devops Git Programming
1 month ago 121.3K views 0 shares
Producing Product In Production
The duality of modern coding life. First panel: "OMG, GitHub Copilot is free in VS Code?!" *frantically puts on glasses to see clearly* Second panel: "Wait... my code is free for GitHub Copilot?" *realization sets in* Remember when we used to worry about other devs stealing our code? Now we're feeding the AI overlords our precious algorithms so they can regurgitate them to junior devs who'll get paid more than us. The circle of tech life, folks.

Unity Bad, OpenGL Good
Unity Gamedev C++ Programming
1 month ago 111.4K views 0 shares
Unity Bad, OpenGL Good
Left: Game dev crying because Unity changed their pricing model and now they need a second mortgage to make a 2D platformer. Right: The bearded C++ developer who's been writing their own engine since 2003 and still hasn't released a game, but boy does that skybox rendering look crisp. It's the classic tradeoff - use a commercial engine and get destroyed by licensing fees, or build your own and get destroyed by feature creep. Either way, your game is never shipping.