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In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
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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.

The Future Is Here: Just Not The One We Need
Programming AI Devops Agile
21 hours ago 69.2K views 0 shares
The Future Is Here: Just Not The One We Need
Ah, the classic corporate brainstorming session where everyone's looking for shortcuts except the one person suggesting the obvious solution. Low-code, AI, buzzwords galore—but nobody wants to hear "just hire someone who knows what they're doing." That dev getting thrown out the window represents every competent engineer watching their company chase shiny tech instead of proper staffing. The real punchline? Six months later they'll hire three devs anyway, but only after burning through the budget on half-baked AI solutions that generated more bugs than features.

Too Many Captains, Not Enough Rowers
Agile Devops Programming
22 hours ago 67.8K views 0 shares
Too Many Captains, Not Enough Rowers
Adding more project managers and consultants to a sinking project is like adding more people to the top deck of a sinking boat. "Why aren't we moving faster?" asks the clueless executive as the poor dev in the water desperately tries to paddle. Classic corporate solution: throw more management at the problem while the actual workforce drowns. The Brooks' Law special – adding more people to a late project just makes it later. But hey, at least there's plenty of people to document the failure in a retrospective PowerPoint!

Please Use Static Analysis On Your C++ Codebase
C++ Programming Debugging Testing
2 days ago 59.4K views 0 shares
Please Use Static Analysis On Your C++ Codebase
The eternal struggle between C++ developers and management in one perfect image. The developer is begging for static analysis tools while management responds with the programming equivalent of "thoughts and prayers." Because why fix bugs before they happen when you can just blame the dev team later? Static analysis would catch those memory leaks faster than management catches excuses for why the project is six months behind schedule. But sure, let's keep pretending that manually reviewing 500,000 lines of code is a viable strategy.

The Corporate Recognition Hierarchy
Programming Agile
4 days ago 64.8K views 0 shares
The Corporate Recognition Hierarchy
Ah, the corporate food chain in its natural habitat. The junior programmer—submerged in mud and barely visible—did all the actual work while the Dev Lead stands there looking presentable. Meanwhile, Senior Management is off-screen, probably sending "congratulations" emails from a golf course. The hippo gets more recognition than the person who wrote the code. Just another day in tech where your Git commits are inversely proportional to your visibility at the success party.

To Own The Libs: A Corporate Tragedy
Programming Devops Javascript Backend
5 days ago 65.2K views 0 shares
To Own The Libs: A Corporate Tragedy
The corporate mantra that haunts every developer's nightmares. Some exec heard "dependencies are risky" once at a golf course and suddenly your team is reinventing perfectly good wheels because "we need to own the libs." Meanwhile, the same company will happily outsource their entire infrastructure to AWS without blinking. The irony burns hotter than my CPU after running npm install.

The Corporate Efficiency Boomerang
AI Agile Programming
6 days ago 71.1K views 0 shares
The Corporate Efficiency Boomerang
The corporate circle of life in its natural habitat! First, management gets excited about AI boosting productivity so they can slash the dev team. Then their faces drop when devs use the same logic against them. "Oh, we need fewer managers now that we have fewer devs? surprised Pikachu face " The beautiful irony of corporate efficiency cuts coming back to bite the very people who initiated them. Turns out the sword of optimization cuts both ways... who knew? 🙃

The Eternal Performance-Feature Death Cycle
Programming Webdev Agile Debugging Frontend
8 days ago 62.3K views 0 shares
The Eternal Performance-Feature Death Cycle
THE ETERNAL CYCLE OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TORTURE! 😩 First panel: Developer is FORCED to endure the soul-crushing whining of customers about app performance. Second panel: Developer, dead inside, mutters "ok" while contemplating career changes. Third panel: MIRACLE HAPPENS! Developer optimizes code by 200% and briefly experiences joy! Fourth panel: Management IMMEDIATELY ruins everything - "Great, now let's cram in more features until it's slow again!" And the cycle of suffering continues FOREVER! 💀

Buzzwords Won't Fix Your Architecture
Cloud Devops Kubernetes Docker Programming
9 days ago 79.5K views 0 shares
Buzzwords Won't Fix Your Architecture
Management: "Why didn't moving to the cloud fix everything?" Developer: "Let me redesign for cloud-native." Management: "No. Just containerize it." Developer: "You can't fix architectural problems by saying buzzwords." Management: "Kubernetes." The classic "throw tech at it" approach. Spoiler alert: slapping containers on a monolith is like putting racing stripes on a shopping cart. Still a shopping cart, just more expensive and now someone has to learn Docker.

Code Review Comment Gold
Windows Devops Git Programming Linux
10 days ago 90.6K views 0 shares
Code Review Comment Gold
Ah, the classic code review escalation pattern. First, a technical question about WSL2. Then a polite explanation. Then suddenly the boss goes full nuclear: "I'm the head of engineering and could fire you" followed by "you'll be terminated and lose your 50K." Nothing says "healthy workplace culture" like threatening someone's career over a Windows Subsystem for Linux test. The corporate equivalent of bringing a flamethrower to a paper airplane fight.

My Company Trying To Make Us Use ML
AI Devops Programming
13 days ago 55.2K views 0 shares
My Company Trying To Make Us Use ML
The corporate AI revolution in a nutshell! Management is gently cradling their precious ML/AI initiatives while the dev teams are just another bird in the hand. Classic case of "let's sprinkle some machine learning on everything" syndrome where leadership falls in love with buzzwords before understanding implementation realities. Meanwhile, the actual developers who have to integrate this stuff into legacy codebases are treated with the same enthusiasm as that other bird. The tender loving care disparity is just *chef's kiss* perfect.

How To Teach Management To Stop Using Buzzwords
Cloud Devops Agile Kubernetes Docker
14 days ago 103.9K views 0 shares
How To Teach Management To Stop Using Buzzwords
The eternal struggle between technical folks and management in three painful panels. In the first, the pointy-haired boss complains that moving to "the cloud" didn't magically fix everything. In the second, the engineer suggests actual technical solutions (cloud-native architecture, containerization) but gets shut down. By the third panel, the engineer sarcastically drops "Kubernetes" while the boss complains about "techy things." It's the perfect illustration of management wanting tech miracles without understanding the implementation details. They want cloud benefits without cloud architecture, then get frustrated when engineers use precise terminology. Meanwhile, engineers are dying inside with each buzzword the boss misuses. The irony? The boss is the one actually speaking in meaningless buzzwords while rejecting real solutions.