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All True

21 hours ago 140.4K views 0 shares

The brutal truth of an IT career visualized in one devastating graph. Your desire to BE in IT? Plummeting faster than a production server at 5 PM on Friday. Meanwhile, the number of idiots you have to deal with? Exponentially skyrocketing like it's trying to reach escape velocity. The excuses for bugs? Growing steadily because apparently "it works on my machine" is a personality trait now. Credit from your manager? Flatter than a pancake, basically nonexistent. Stress levels? Climbing those stairs to burnout city, one sprint at a time. And the pièce de résistance: your desire to LEAVE IT shoots up exponentially like a hockey stick graph, threatening to break through the ceiling. The only thing that stays consistently low is managerial credit—because why acknowledge the people who actually keep the lights on?

I Suffer From Shiny Object Syndrome

React Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

2 days ago 300.8K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you discover some bleeding-edge framework on GitHub with 47 stars, zero documentation, and a README that just says "WIP"? And suddenly React feels like ancient technology from the Paleolithic era? Yeah, your manager just crushed that dream faster than a null pointer exception. The painful irony here is that the shiny new framework probably has terrible docs and a community consisting of three people arguing in GitHub issues, while React has literally millions of developers, Stack Overflow answers for every conceivable problem, and more npm packages than there are atoms in the universe. But nope, your brain sees "new" and goes full dopamine rush mode. That sad otter perfectly captures the internal screaming of every developer who's been forced to be... reasonable . Deep down you know your manager is right, but it still hurts to stay with the boring, stable, well-documented choice when there's experimental tech to break prod with.

My Boss

Programming Debugging

3 days ago 181.2K views 0 shares

The duality of workplace reactions: you're out here ready to flip tables and rage-quit over yet another production bug at 5 PM on a Friday, meanwhile your boss is sitting there like some emotionless algorithm analyzing edge cases. "Oh that's interesting" is corporate-speak for "I have zero emotional investment in your suffering and will now ask you to investigate this during your weekend." The sheer contrast between your very human, very justified meltdown and their cold, detached curiosity is the perfect summary of every dev's relationship with management. They're observing your crisis like it's a fascinating science experiment while you're literally combusting.

Interesting Problems Bring Management Headaches

Debugging Agile Programming

3 days ago 199.6K views 0 shares

Interesting Problems Bring Management Headaches

The moment you utter the word "interesting" about a bug or technical challenge, your manager's fight-or-flight response kicks in. To you, it means you found something intellectually stimulating that might require some creative problem-solving. To them, it translates to: delayed timelines, scope creep, potential system meltdowns, and having to explain to stakeholders why the "simple feature" is now a three-week research project. Developers live for these moments—the weird edge cases, the bizarre race conditions, the "wait, that shouldn't even be possible" scenarios. Management lives in fear of them. It's the eternal conflict between curiosity and deadlines, between engineering elegance and shipping code that just works™.

Meetings Are Forever

AI Agile Programming

12 days ago 164.2K views 0 shares

So we were promised AI would automate all the boring stuff and free us up to do actual work. Instead, we got more meetings—just now they're about AI. Strategy sessions, adoption roadmaps, governance committees, ethical frameworks... it's meetings all the way down. The cruel irony is that AI was supposed to be our savior from calendar hell, but management heard "AI" and immediately scheduled 6 recurring syncs to discuss it. You're not coding anymore—you're explaining to stakeholders why ChatGPT can't just "fix the legacy codebase" while your actual sprint work collects dust. The revolution will not be automated. It will be scheduled for 2pm on Thursday with optional attendance.

When Going To Production

Devops Agile Programming Testing Backend

16 days ago 221.6K views 0 shares

Oh look, it's just a casual Friday deployment with the ENTIRE COMPANY breathing down your neck like you're defusing a nuclear bomb! Nothing says "low-pressure environment" quite like having QA, the PM, the Client, Sales, AND the CEO all hovering behind you while you're trying to push to prod. The developer is sitting there like they're launching missiles instead of merging a branch, sweating bullets while everyone watches their every keystroke. One typo and it's game over for everyone's weekend plans. The tension is so thick you could cut it with a poorly written SQL query. Pro tip: next time just deploy at 3 AM when nobody's watching like a normal person!

Boss We're Upgrading Now

Programming Typescript Debugging Backend

18 days ago 279.0K views 0 shares

Nothing says "modern software development" quite like being held hostage by a codebase that's older than your career. The error message demanding version 14.0 or greater is the cherry on top—because apparently your company's legacy project is still running on a language version from when flip phones were cool. Meanwhile, management keeps asking why the new features are taking so long. Maybe because we're trying to build a rocket ship with stone tools? The best part is knowing that even if you DO upgrade, you'll spend the next three months fixing breaking changes and dealing with dependencies that haven't been maintained since the Obama administration.

Nips Nips

Linux Programming Backend

21 days ago 150.5K views 0 shares

The classic Dilbert-style miscommunication between management and tech. Boss wants "eunuch programmers" (which... let's not unpack that workplace HR nightmare), but Dilbert correctly interprets this as needing Unix developers. The guy already knows Unix, perfect fit! But then the punchline hits: if the company nurse swings by, he's supposed to say "never mind" about the whole eunuch thing. The joke plays on the phonetic similarity between "eunuch" (a castrated male) and "Unix" (the legendary operating system that spawned Linux, macOS, and basically everything that isn't Windows). It's a brilliant commentary on how non-technical managers butcher tech terminology while also creating the most uncomfortable job requirement imaginable. The nurse reference seals the deal—implying the boss was about to make this VERY literal before realizing his mistake. Fun fact: Unix was created at Bell Labs in 1969, and its name was actually a pun on "Multics" (an earlier operating system). So Unix itself started as wordplay, making this meme extra meta.

The Best Way To Improve Productivity

AI Agile Programming

23 days ago 192.6K views 0 shares

Management really thought they had a galaxy brain moment forcing devs to use AI tools. "Let's make them more productive by having ChatGPT write their code!" they said. Devs were like "yeah sure whatever" and went back to sleep. Plot twist: turns out AI is actually pretty good at generating status reports, attending meetings, writing performance reviews, and crafting those passive-aggressive Slack messages that middle management specializes in. Suddenly everyone's awake because the productivity "improvement" is about to hit a bit different than expected. The irony is chef's kiss – companies trying to automate the workers ended up creating a tool that's better at automating the people who made that decision. Maybe that's the real productivity boost we needed all along.

Ability To Make Critical Decisions Quickly

Testing Agile Programming

25 days ago 239.6K views 0 shares

Ability To Make Critical Decisions Quickly

Developer presents a straightforward test case for calculating the area of a square. Management immediately pivots to TDD philosophy and decides they're actually in the circle business instead. Nothing says "agile decision-making" quite like rejecting a perfectly reasonable test case because your product suddenly doesn't align with the geometric shape you're testing. The presenter is explaining basic unit testing while the executives are having an existential crisis about whether they make software for circles or squares. The real kicker? They're so confident about this completely irrelevant distinction that they're making critical architectural decisions based on... shapes. Tomorrow they'll probably pivot to triangles after the morning standup.

Just Put The Fries In The Bag

Programming Agile Testing

26 days ago 179.9K views 1 shares

You've got the overeager junior dev trying to impress management with massive features, the manager eating it up like it's the next unicorn startup, and the senior dev slowly drowning in existential dread knowing they'll be the one debugging this mess at 2 AM. Meanwhile, underwater where nobody's watching, some software architect is passionately explaining why their elaborate unit test framework is the answer to world peace. Nobody asked, nobody's listening, but they're down there living their best life anyway. The title says it all: sometimes you just want people to do the simple thing instead of overcomplicating everything. But here we are, building enterprise-grade solutions for problems that don't exist while the actual codebase is held together with duct tape and prayer.

Golden Handcuffs

Gamedev Webdev Unity Programming Frontend

29 days ago 263.9K views 0 shares

The classic trajectory of selling your soul for a decent salary. You start with dreams of building the next indie hit, spend years learning game development, then reality hits and you need to eat. So you pivot to web dev because, well, those FAANG salaries don't grow on trees. Fast forward a few years and boom—you're now a senior architect making bank, attending meetings about meetings, reviewing PRs, and writing documentation. The only code you touch is approving merge conflicts. The golden handcuffs have locked: you're too well-compensated to leave, but you haven't opened your IDE in months. Your game dev dreams? They're now a dusty Unity project folder labeled "someday.zip".

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