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Formatting External Disks On Linux Without Wiping Own Machine

25 days ago 92.6K views 0 shares

The eternal Linux disk formatting dilemma in one perfect image. One wrong letter in your device path and suddenly you're not formatting that USB drive but wiping your entire system drive instead. That moment of panic when you realize /dev/sda is your boot drive and /dev/sdb is the external drive you actually wanted to format. The cold sweat. The racing heart. The "oh god what have I done" realization. This is why seasoned Linux admins triple-check every destructive command. We've all been one typo away from an unplanned weekend rebuild.

There Is A First Time For Every Thing They Say

Programming Devops Debugging Testing Backend

1 month ago 98.6K views 0 shares

There Is A First Time For Every Thing They Say

The sacred rite of passage has finally occurred! That magical moment when you push code to production and everything goes spectacularly wrong. It's like losing your developer virginity – painful, awkward, and everyone on the team somehow knows about it immediately. The formal announcement with the aristocratic frog makes it even better. Nothing says "I've royally screwed up" quite like a dignified amphibian in a waistcoat breaking the news that you've just taken down the entire payment system because you forgot a semicolon. Welcome to the club, buddy. We've all been there. Your desk will be decorated with rubber ducks by morning.

Put Wrong IP, Take Down Production

Devops Networking Security Programming Debugging

2 months ago 101.8K views 0 shares

Just another Tuesday in DevOps. You're casually sipping coffee, testing a new rate limiter in what you thought was the staging environment. Then you realize you typed 10.0.1.5 instead of 10.0.1.6 and suddenly the entire company Slack is lighting up with alerts. Production is down, customers are screaming, and your coffee is now being violently expelled from your body as pure adrenaline takes over. The best part? You'll get to explain this in the post-mortem tomorrow while the CTO stares directly into your soul.

The 20px Eyebrow Incident

Frontend Webdev Javascript

2 months ago 126.5K views 0 shares

One pixel of CSS stroke-weight difference and suddenly your website looks like it's ready to judge your code quality. That moment when you hit save and your elegant design turns into a character from a medieval manuscript. The worst part? Your designer friend will notice it before you've even pushed to production.

You're Not The First

Devops Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

2 months ago 92.3K views 0 shares

Ah, the sacred developer initiation ritual! Nothing says "you're one of us now" like that first catastrophic production push. The poor newbie thinks they're about to be fired, but little do they know - breaking production is basically a rite of passage. It's like the developer equivalent of a hazing ceremony, except instead of beer funnels, it's frantic Slack messages and emergency hotfixes at 2AM. The veterans aren't mad - they're proud . That dark cloud of senior devs isn't an execution squad - it's the welcoming committee! Because nothing builds character (and proper deployment procedures) quite like watching your mistake take down an entire website while customers scream. Remember kids: in development, you haven't truly lived until you've died inside after a production disaster!

Learn From Mistakes

Programming Devops Debugging Testing Databases

2 months ago 107.3K views 0 shares

Nothing teaches you like a production server on fire at 2 AM. That tiny stack of theory books? That's your CS degree. The practice pile? That's your first year on the job. But that towering monument of green books? That's the knowledge you've gained by accidentally dropping the production database, pushing to main on Friday, or forgetting that arrays start at zero for the 500th time. The most valuable developer skills aren't taught in bootcamps—they're forged in the flames of catastrophic failure. My resume says "10 years of experience" but it should really say "10 years of increasingly spectacular mistakes."

Limit Prod DB Access

Databases Devops Programming Debugging Backend

2 months ago 106.7K views 0 shares

That moment when you realize your WHERE clause went missing and you just rewrote half the company's customer data. The cold sweat. The panic. The desperate hope that someone's going to tap you on the shoulder and say "just kidding, there's a backup." But deep down, you know... your resume needs updating faster than those 12 million rows you just mangled.

How To Sleep (Or Not)

Security Devops Git Cloud

2 months ago 133.6K views 0 shares

Brain: "Hey you goin' to sleep?" Dev: "Yes, now shut up" Brain: "You committed the API Keys to a public repo" Nothing jolts a developer from the edge of sleep like remembering they accidentally pushed sensitive credentials to GitHub. That moment when your brain reminds you that your AWS keys are now visible to every bot scraping public repos, and your company credit card is about to fund someone's crypto mining operation in Siberia. Sweet dreams!

Never Happened To Anyone Right?

Devops Programming Debugging

2 months ago 92.3K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. That moment when you're mid-champagne celebration and your soul literally LEAVES YOUR BODY because you just remembered you skipped the database backup step! 🥂💀 The project manager is still living in blissful ignorance while you're having an existential crisis behind those ridiculous green sunglasses. Your face says "party" but your brain is screaming "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE WHEN PRODUCTION CRASHES IN 3...2...1..." Nothing says "software development" quite like that stomach-dropping realization that your career is about to implode while everyone else is toasting to your imminent demise!

You're Not The First: The Production Push Baptism

Devops Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

3 months ago 100.3K views 0 shares

You're Not The First: The Production Push Baptism

Ah, the sacred developer initiation ritual! First comes the panic alert: "CODE RED: THE WEBSITE IS DOWN!!" Then the sheepish confession from the newbie who pushed straight to prod. The poor soul apologizes profusely, thinking they've committed the ultimate sin... only to discover it's basically a rite of passage. The veterans aren't mad—they're celebrating . "FINALLY! WELCOME TO THE CLUB!" Because no CI/CD pipeline, code review, or stern warning has ever stopped a determined developer from accidentally nuking production. It's not a matter of if, but when. The only difference between junior and senior devs? Seniors have a better poker face when it happens again.

When You Click VS Studio Instead Of VS Code

Microsoft Webdev Windows Programming

3 months ago 104.1K views 0 shares

When You Click VS Studio Instead Of VS Code

Congratulations on your accidental journey to the dark side of Microsoft development! Clicking Visual Studio instead of VS Code is like ordering a tank when you just needed a bicycle. One's a lightweight code editor that opens in seconds, the other is a 10GB industrial-strength IDE that takes so long to load you could literally grow a beard while waiting. The astronaut's grim realization that his "little maneuver" will cost "51 years" perfectly captures that moment of dread when you see that loading bar crawl across your screen at glacial speed. Your quick edit just turned into a commitment longer than most marriages.

Wrong Database, Right Disaster

Databases Devops Programming Debugging

3 months ago 166.0K views 1 shares

That moment when you connect to production instead of staging and run your DELETE query without a WHERE clause. First comes panic, then comes the twisted acceptance that you've just created tomorrow's emergency meeting. Eight million rows gone and somehow you're sitting there with a smile because hey – at least the query was efficient! Nothing quite says "senior developer" like the calm that comes after realizing you've achieved catastrophic success.

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