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CSS: The Prestigious Degree No University Offers
Webdev Programming Frontend
20 days ago 87.2K views 0 shares
CSS: The Prestigious Degree No University Offers
The eternal struggle between tech-savvy developers and clueless relatives who think CSS is an actual degree. Nothing quite like your uncle bragging about his nephew's "CSS degree" while the poor kid probably just watched a 3-hour YouTube tutorial on flexbox. The look of silent disappointment in that last panel is the same face developers make when someone asks them to "just make a quick website" for free because "it's just typing, right?"

He Is The Hacker
Linux Security Bash Programming
1 month ago 83.3K views 0 shares
He Is The Hacker
THE ABSOLUTE DRAMA of opening a terminal in public! 💀 One second you're innocently checking a server status, and suddenly you're the main character in "CSI: Cyber" to everyone around you! The sheer AUDACITY of these non-tech mortals to think that black screens with colorful text equals "hacking the mainframe" or whatever they think we do! Meanwhile you're just desperately trying to explain that running ls -la is NOT the same as breaking into the Pentagon's secret files! The biblical mob scene at the bottom is SENDING ME! Nothing says "modern tech literacy" like being one command prompt away from the villagers showing up with torches and pitchforks! 🔥

Solomon Didn't Know About UUIDs
Programming Webdev Databases Backend
1 month ago 73.9K views 0 shares
Solomon Didn't Know About UUIDs
Biblical Solomon may have claimed "nothing new under the sun," but he clearly never witnessed the existential crisis of showing someone a UUID for the first time. That string of random characters might as well be ancient hieroglyphics to non-technical folks. Meanwhile, developers know it's just a universally unique identifier doing its job—ensuring your database doesn't implode when two users create accounts at the exact same millisecond. The shocked face perfectly captures that moment when you realize the gulf between "it's just a UUID" and "WHAT IS THIS CRYPTIC SORCERY?!" after casually mentioning it in a meeting with marketing.

I Am Not A Hacker
Linux Bash Programming
1 month ago 102.7K views 0 shares
I Am Not A Hacker
Nothing screams "elite hacker" to non-tech folks like a black terminal with white text. I've literally had people back away nervously when I'm just checking disk space with df -h . It's like showing a calculator to someone in the 1600s—instant witchcraft trial. Ten years writing enterprise software and people still think I'm breaking into the Pentagon when I'm actually just trying to remember the syntax for tar for the 500th time.

The Accidental Cyber Terrorist
Linux Security Bash Programming
1 month ago 141.1K views 0 shares
The Accidental Cyber Terrorist
Ah, the classic terminal persecution complex! Nothing says "I'm just trying to check my disk space" like opening a black screen with colorful text in public and suddenly becoming the neighborhood cyber-terrorist. The moment you fire up that bash prompt, everyone within eyesight transforms into a medieval mob ready to burn the witch. You could literally be typing ls -la to check your files, but Karen from accounting is already dialing the FBI because she's convinced you're hacking the Pentagon. Hollywood has a lot to answer for. Twenty years of hackers portrayed as hoodie-wearing villains typing at lightning speed on green-on-black screens has turned us all into suspects. Meanwhile, the real cybercriminals are probably using slick GUIs with beautiful dashboards.

The Programmer's Public Nightmare
Programming Security
1 month ago 81.6K views 0 shares
The Programmer's Public Nightmare
The ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE of being a programmer in public! One second you're innocently sliding down the playground, and BOOM—suddenly you're bombarded with tech support requests, million-dollar app ideas, and casual requests to commit federal crimes! 💀 The audacity of people thinking "programmer" means "free IT department, startup incubator, and hacker-for-hire" all rolled into one! Next time someone asks you to "just hack Facebook real quick," remember that prison orange is NOT your color, sweetie!

So I Am Not The Only One!
AI Programming
1 month ago 103.6K views 0 shares
So I Am Not The Only One!
The eternal struggle of being the tech person at a social gathering. There you are, trying to enjoy dinner with your spouse when suddenly their friends ambush you with questions about some obscure tech they heard about on a podcast. DeepSeek-R1 is actually a large language model (like ChatGPT's cousin), but to non-tech people, it might as well be alien technology. Meanwhile, your spouse has seen this movie before and knows exactly how the next hour of conversation will go—you reluctantly explaining machine learning concepts while your food gets cold. Ten years in the industry and I'm still the default tech support/explainer at every gathering. The dog represents my inner self—just wanting to be petted and fed treats instead of discussing transformer architectures over appetizers.