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When Polygons Were Revolutionary
Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming
6 days ago 88.1K views 0 shares
When Polygons Were Revolutionary
Remember when we thought these janky polygons were the peak of technology? In 2000, we'd sit there amazed at what was essentially a potato with hair clipping through a horse's neck. Now I'm disappointed when my 4K ray-traced game drops below 120fps. The best part? Those old games actually shipped without needing 50GB day-one patches. They just worked... mostly... if you ignored the nightmare fuel character models.

The Memories Of VB 6.0
Programming Microsoft Windows Debugging
6 days ago 77.2K views 0 shares
The Memories Of VB 6.0
Listen up, children! Gather 'round for tales of the ANCIENT TIMES! Back in the mystical era of VB 6.0, we didn't have your fancy object-oriented programming with inheritance hierarchies and polymorphic nightmares! NO! We wrote pseudo code that magically worked! Just slapped some spaghetti code together, hit compile, and BOOM—functioning software! No encapsulation, no abstraction, just pure, chaotic WORKING CODE! Those were the days when men were men and bugs were features! *dramatically wipes tear* The simplicity! The madness! The absolute HORROR of maintaining it years later!

Dark Mode: The Original Vintage Filter
Windows Microsoft Frontend
8 days ago 62.4K views 0 shares
Dark Mode: The Original Vintage Filter
Microsoft invented dark mode before it was cool—they just called it "Windows 98." While the rest of us were squinting at blinding white interfaces, Windows veterans were bathing in that sweet gray-on-darker-gray aesthetic since the Clinton administration. Fast forward to Windows 11 with its sleek blues and rounded corners looking at 98 like "who's your daddy?" The real irony? We spent decades escaping that "dated" look only to circle back and call it "ergonomic" and "eye-friendly." Congrats hipsters, you've reinvented floppy disks and dial-up modems are probably next.

If It Was Written Today...
AI Programming Debugging
10 days ago 70.5K views 0 shares
If It Was Written Today...
The quill pen of yesterday becomes the AI assistant of today. In the original scene, Harry writes "My name is Harry Potter" and Tom Riddle's diary responds. Now it's ChatGPT introducing itself instead - completing the perfect metaphor for modern programming. Ten years ago we'd spend hours debugging regex. Now we just ask an AI to write it. Magic? Maybe. But like Tom Riddle's diary, I can't help wondering what part of our soul we're trading for this convenience. Remember when we had to actually understand how things worked? Those were dark times. Terrible, yes... but great.

DOM And jQuery: The Cartoon Network Of Web Development
Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend
12 days ago 82.0K views 0 shares
DOM And jQuery: The Cartoon Network Of Web Development
Remember when web development was just two cartoon characters chasing each other around your codebase? DOM manipulation with jQuery was the wild west of frontend—Tom frantically trying to select elements while Jerry kept escaping through event bubbling loopholes. Modern devs be like "I use React hooks and state management" while secretly missing the days when you could just $('#myElement').fadeIn() and call it a day. No virtual DOM, no component lifecycle—just pure chaos and that satisfying feeling when your animation finally worked. The circle of frontend life: spend years moving away from jQuery only to eventually rebuild it with extra steps.

When You Don't Let Your 30 Year Old ThinkPad Die
Linux Hardware Programming
13 days ago 79.0K views 0 shares
When You Don't Let Your 30 Year Old ThinkPad Die
The ancient ThinkPad begging for sweet release while its obsessive owner keeps upgrading it with new SSDs and RAM modules for the 47th time. That battered keyboard has typed enough lines of Perl to deserve retirement, but no—you've installed Linux on it again and keep bragging about how "they don't make them like this anymore." Meanwhile, the poor machine's fan sounds like a jet engine and the battery lasts exactly 12 minutes, but you're still convinced it's superior to any modern ultrabook. The relationship is basically tech Stockholm syndrome at this point.

The Red Dot Ecstasy
Hardware Programming Linux
14 days ago 66.9K views 0 shares
The Red Dot Ecstasy
Nothing beats the pure ecstasy of using that little red TrackPoint nub on ThinkPads. Touchscreens? Meh. Mouse? Whatever. But that tiny red dot that barely moves and gives you carpal tunnel after 5 minutes? ABSOLUTE NIRVANA. It's like the keyboard equivalent of preferring dial-up internet because you "enjoy the anticipation." Only true keyboard warriors know the special relationship between a developer and their pointing stick—a relationship that's equal parts Stockholm syndrome and masochism.

The Mystical Installation Wizard Of Yesteryear
Windows Devops Microsoft Programming
17 days ago 60.1K views 0 shares
The Mystical Installation Wizard Of Yesteryear
Remember installing software in the 90s? That "Next, Next, Next" ritual felt like a mystical journey guided by some all-powerful wizard who could either bless your PC with working software or curse it with toolbars and bloatware. Back then, clicking the wrong option meant summoning demons into your registry. And God help you if you accidentally declined the license agreement – that wizard would banish you back to the beginning faster than you could say "dial-up." Now I just type npm install and pray to the dependency gods instead.

Back When Bright And Chipper
Programming Debugging Testing
17 days ago 57.6K views 0 shares
Back When Bright And Chipper
OH MY GOD, PAST ME, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! 😱 That moment when you excavate your ancient code like some digital archaeologist, expecting a beautiful masterpiece only to discover what can only be described as a crime against humanity written by your younger, more optimistic self. The sheer AUDACITY of past you to write that monstrosity and label it "elegant" is just... *chef's kiss* the ultimate betrayal. You stare at your screen, mouth agape, wondering what hallucinogenic substances you must have been on when you thought THAT was the solution. The duality of programming: thinking you're a genius one day, and calling yourself colorful names the next! 💅

Time-Traveling AI Enthusiast
AI Windows Programming
19 days ago 91.4K views 0 shares
Time-Traveling AI Enthusiast
Claiming you've been using ChatGPT since 1996 is like saying you had WiFi in the Middle Ages. For the youngsters: that's Courage the Cowardly Dog typing on a chunky beige PC from when the internet made dial-up sounds that haunted your nightmares. Back then, "AI assistance" meant asking your roommate if they remembered the syntax for a for-loop while they were in the shower. The closest thing to ChatGPT was probably Clippy, and even he couldn't help you reverse a binary tree.

All You Get In Return Are White Shortcuts And Utter Disappointment!
Windows Gamedev Programming
22 days ago 74.4K views 0 shares
All You Get In Return Are White Shortcuts And Utter Disappointment!
The digital equivalent of stealing a car only to realize you've just taken the keys. Copying a game shortcut is the peak of childhood tech optimism, followed swiftly by the crushing reality that shortcuts are just pointers, not the actual files. It's like trying to drink coffee from a photo of a mug. The blank stare of disappointment when you double-click that white icon at home is a rite of passage that's created more future IT professionals than any computer science degree.

Hacking Then vs. Now: The Devolution Of Skill
Security Networking Programming Linux
24 days ago 71.6K views 0 shares
Hacking Then vs. Now: The Devolution Of Skill
Remember when hackers had to actually know things ? The big brain hacker of yesteryear reverse engineered binaries, wrote zines with 0day exploits, and gained root access just for the intellectual thrill. Fast forward to today, and we've got script kiddies drooling over their keyboards while Metasploit does all the work with a single command. For the uninitiated, Metasploit is basically the "I'm a hacker" starter pack that automates exploits so anyone can feel like Mr. Robot without understanding what's happening under the hood. It's like comparing someone who builds a car from scratch to someone who thinks they're a mechanic because they can turn the key. The future of hacking? Probably just asking ChatGPT to "do a hack please" while eating Cheetos.