Overcomplicated Memes

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It Is What It Is

Programming

13 days ago 153.7K views 0 shares

It Is What It Is

The meme is a beautiful meta-commentary on the r/ProgrammerHumor subreddit itself. The entire image is structured like a massive, convoluted codebase - overcomplicated and needlessly complex - just to deliver a simple message. It's basically saying "you're smirking at this meme format" while using that exact format. It's the recursive function of comedy - a meme about memes that criticizes itself while you consume it. Just like how we write 200 lines of code to accomplish what could be done in 20, but hey, at least we documented our inefficiency!

Take This With A Grain Of Salt

Backend Webdev Networking Javascript Programming

4 months ago 377.5K views 1 shares

Take This With A Grain Of Salt

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRAUMA of modern API choices! 😭 On the far ends of the bell curve, we have the blissfully ignorant REST users just vibing with their simple GET requests, completely unaware of the existential crisis happening in the middle. Meanwhile, the poor souls at the peak of the intelligence distribution are DROWNING in HATEOAS, gRPC, GraphQL, and WebSockets! It's the classic tech paradox - be too dumb to know better or too smart for your own good. The REST crowd is having a picnic while the galaxy brains are sobbing through their glasses because they've overcomplicated EVERYTHING. This is why we can't have nice things in web development!