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Apple Downloaded A CSS Filter And Called It "Liquid Glass"
Apple Webdev Programming Frontend
3 days ago 138.0K views 0 shares
Apple Downloaded A CSS Filter And Called It "Liquid Glass"
When you realize Apple's revolutionary "Liquid Glass" design is just backdrop-filter: blur(2px); CSS. Tech companies repackaging basic code as groundbreaking innovation is the circle of life in Silicon Valley. Next they'll discover the revolutionary concept of "if statements" and charge you $999 for the privilege. Meanwhile, frontend devs are just sitting there like "I've been doing this since 2017 for free."

All Apple Did Was A 3 Liner...
Apple Webdev Frontend
5 days ago 132.5K views 0 shares
All Apple Did Was A 3 Liner...
OH. MY. GOD. Apple just launched their revolutionary "Liquid Glass" effect and developers are absolutely LOSING THEIR MINDS after discovering it's literally just backdrop-filter: blur(2px); — a CSS one-liner that's been around since the STONE AGE of web development! 💀 The AUDACITY to present basic CSS as groundbreaking technology while charging $1999 for devices to run it! I'm SCREAMING! Next they'll announce they've invented the revolutionary concept of... wait for it... MARGINS! *faints dramatically*

It's All Just CSS
Frontend Webdev Apple Programming
7 days ago 77.3K views 0 shares
It's All Just CSS
Frontend devs looking at Apple's fancy new "Liquid Glass" design: *puts on glasses* Yep, just a 2px blur filter. The magic of tech marketing vs. the brutal reality of CSS inspection. Apple announces revolutionary design innovation, and somewhere a web developer is thinking "I could've done that with one line of code during my lunch break." The emperor's new clothes are just backdrop-filter: blur(2px); all along!

The Hype Cycle Continues
Gamedev Unity Programming
8 days ago 55.6K views 0 shares
The Hype Cycle Continues
Game devs announcing their new project while everyone's still salty about their last disaster is peak software industry energy. The crown just gets passed from one overhyped disappointment to the next while we keep opening our wallets like amnesiacs. Been in this industry 15 years and the cycle never changes—promise the moon, deliver a rock, then immediately start hyping the "revolutionary" sequel. And we fall for it. Every. Single. Time.

Who Needs Algorithms If You Have AI
AI Algorithms Programming
16 days ago 102.5K views 0 shares
Who Needs Algorithms If You Have AI
Marketing folks rejecting actual algorithms while embracing "AI" is peak corporate comedy. They don't want the nerdy math stuff—they want the shiny buzzword they can slap on everything! Never mind that AI literally runs on algorithms... but why let technical reality get in the way of a good slide deck? Next quarter they'll discover "machine learning" and act like they invented fire.

You Don't Get Unhinged Posts Like These In The Regular Software Industry
Gamedev Programming
17 days ago 79.1K views 0 shares
You Don't Get Unhinged Posts Like These In The Regular Software Industry
Indie game developers living on the edge of sanity and a ramen-only diet. This dev's marketing "strategy" starts with historical events, takes a hard left into OnlyFans economics, sprinkles in some Marx, documents getting shaken down by Discord mods, and concludes with what can only be described as "definitely illegal user acquisition tactics." The best part? This is probably tamer than what's actually in the devlog. When your marketing budget is $12.47, conventional wisdom goes out the window and pure chaos takes the wheel.

What Is Feasible Analysis
Programming Devops Agile
17 days ago 65.6K views 0 shares
What Is Feasible Analysis
Ah yes, the classic "feasibility analysis" where marketing shows off vaporware while devs smile through gritted teeth. The image perfectly captures that moment when sales is demoing the "revolutionary AI-powered feature" that's literally just a mockup on a laptop. Meanwhile, the developer knows they'll be the one explaining to management why it'll take 6 months instead of the "2 weeks" that was promised. The universal language of tech companies: sell it first, build it... eventually.

The Duality Of Gaming Hardware
Hardware Gamedev
18 days ago 79.1K views 0 shares
The Duality Of Gaming Hardware
THE DUALITY OF GAMING HARDWARE! On the left: the tragic aftermath of a Razer product meeting its inevitable doom - shattered into a million pieces after being dropped from a height of approximately 2 millimeters. On the right: the FANTASY marketing photos showing a pristine setup with RGB lighting that could probably be seen from the International Space Station. The gaming hardware industry's biggest lie isn't the FPS boost claims - it's the suggestion that their products won't disintegrate if you breathe near them while costing you a kidney and half your liver. But we keep buying them because CLEARLY our 0.002 second faster reaction time is worth the financial ruin!

Software Terminology: It's All Just Apps Now
Programming Webdev Apple Frontend
19 days ago 72.7K views 0 shares
Software Terminology: It's All Just Apps Now
Oh. My. GOD. Remember when we actually had DIFFERENT WORDS for things?! The absolute HORROR of today's tech world where literally EVERYTHING is just an "app" now! 🙄 We've gone from a rich vocabulary of technical terms like "operating system," "daemon," and "compiler" to just... "app." THAT'S IT. That's all we get! The entire computing universe has been reduced to a single three-letter word while some turtleneck-wearing executive laughs maniacally at how they've destroyed our linguistic diversity! Next thing you know, we'll just grunt and point at screens. Why use many word when few word do trick?

Software Terminology: It's All Just Apps Now
Programming Webdev Frontend Backend
19 days ago 77.2K views 0 shares
Software Terminology: It's All Just Apps Now
Remember when we had specific terminology for different software components? Now marketing departments have decided everything is just an "app." Your compiler? App. Your operating system? App. That daemon running critical background processes? You guessed it—app. Next time someone asks what I do for a living, I'm just going to say "I make apps" and save us all 20 minutes of technical explanation that would've been ignored anyway.

Extreme Waterproof Testing: YouTuber Edition
Hardware Testing
20 days ago 57.0K views 0 shares
Extreme Waterproof Testing: YouTuber Edition
The brutal truth about tech reviews that no one asked for! This meme perfectly captures that bizarre moment when YouTubers suddenly transform into liquid-extraction specialists during headphone reviews. Like, why are they always violently wringing out towels to demonstrate water resistance on audio equipment ? As if my primary use case for $300 headphones is jogging through a hurricane. Next they'll be testing if they survive being run over by a tank—because that's definitely a common household accident. The compression testing here is giving strong "but will it blend?" energy from 2007 YouTube.

The Great Departmental Divide
Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend
21 days ago 78.4K views 0 shares
The Great Departmental Divide
The eternal cold war between Developers and Marketing, perfectly captured in a Star Trek format. Marketing thinks they're besties collaborating on the company mission, while Developers are silently calculating how many more "urgent priority changes" they can handle before rage-quitting to a cabin in the woods. The only thing these departments have in common is mutual bewilderment at each other's existence. Marketing's enthusiastic "Yes" paired with the Developer's deadpan "No" is basically every product meeting I've sat through for the last decade.