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Highest Refresh Rate Monitor
Hardware Gamedev Programming
4 days ago 84.3K views 1 shares
Highest Refresh Rate Monitor
Ah yes, the window—nature's original 60Hz display. While everyone's dropping thousands on curved ultra-wide monitors with ridiculous refresh rates, this guy found the ultimate hack: staring at the real world while coding. The snow provides excellent contrast, and the frame rate is literally infinite. No driver updates required, though it does come with its own weather-based brightness settings that you can't control. Bonus feature: occasional NPC movements when neighbors do something weird.

The Art Of Looking Like You Know What You're Doing
Programming Devops Agile Git
12 days ago 57.8K views 0 shares
The Art Of Looking Like You Know What You're Doing
The secret sauce of looking like you know what you're doing in tech isn't the code—it's the performance art. Turn a monitor vertical, squint thoughtfully at some blue-themed IDE while occasionally muttering "scope issue" or "need to commit these changes," and suddenly you're the office wizard. The best part? The more confused you actually are, the more convincingly profound you appear. Seven years as a lead developer and I still do this during standup when I haven't made any progress since yesterday.

One Of The Biggest Lies!
Gamedev Hardware Programming
20 days ago 102.0K views 0 shares
One Of The Biggest Lies!
The eternal refresh rate paradox strikes again! That moment when hardware enthusiasts smugly claim "the human eye can't see beyond 60 FPS" while simultaneously dropping $800 on a 240Hz monitor. The cognitive dissonance is real—suddenly they can magically perceive every microsecond of buttery smoothness between frames. Fun fact: while the average person can detect differences up to about 150Hz, hardcore gamers and developers have trained their eyes like digital ninjas to spot those precious milliseconds that might give them the edge in competitive play. Next time someone pulls the "60 FPS limit" card, just point to their expensive monitor and watch their brain.exe crash.

The Curse Of High Refresh Rates
Gamedev Hardware Programming
21 days ago 91.0K views 0 shares
The Curse Of High Refresh Rates
The high-refresh-rate rabbit hole claims another victim. Once you've experienced the buttery smoothness of 144 FPS gaming, your standards get completely warped. Suddenly 60 FPS—which used to be the gold standard we all dreamed about—feels like watching a PowerPoint presentation. Your GPU is crying, your electricity bill is skyrocketing, but you refuse to compromise because "I just don't think at this age I'm meant to live an uncomfortable life." The gaming equivalent of refusing to drink anything but top-shelf liquor after that one time you splurged.

The Real Reason For Resolution Upgrades
Hardware Webdev Programming
27 days ago 64.0K views 0 shares
The Real Reason For Resolution Upgrades
The real reason developers upgrade their monitors isn't for code readability—it's for the, uh, "research material." This meme brilliantly illustrates the exponential relationship between resolution and... content quantity. Sure, you could tell your boss you need 8K for "seeing more code at once," but we all know what those 16 browser tabs are really for. The bandwidth bill is just collateral damage.