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Man That Debugging Session Was Not Fun
Linux Devops Programming Debugging
2 days ago 139.4K views 0 shares
Man That Debugging Session Was Not Fun
Installing VSCode via Snap on Linux is like choosing to debug in production on a Friday afternoon—technically possible, but you'll regret every second of it. The performance is sluggish, the integration is janky, and suddenly your editor takes 10 seconds to open a file. It's the kind of mistake that haunts you during every coding session afterward. Snap packages are containerized apps that sound great in theory but often deliver a subpar experience compared to native installations. VSCode via Snap is notorious for being slower, having clipboard issues, and generally feeling like you're coding through molasses. Veterans know: always grab the .deb package or use the official Microsoft repo. The debugging session reference? That's the painful 4-hour journey of uninstalling Snap VSCode, cleaning up the mess it left behind, and reinstalling it properly while your deadline looms closer.

I Love It
Linux Windows
8 days ago 216.5K views 0 shares
I Love It
Windows will happily install software from the Reagan administration without batting an eye, maintaining backward compatibility like it's a sacred duty. Meanwhile, Linux is out here with that smug "already installed" energy because half your system came pre-packaged from 1999. The duality of operating systems: one hoards legacy support like a digital museum, the other ships with everything including the kitchen sink. Both approaches are equally chaotic in their own special way, and somehow we've all just accepted this as normal.

I Fucking Hate Python
Python Microsoft Windows Programming StackOverflow
24 days ago 325.1K views 0 shares
I Fucking Hate Python
Python dependency hell in its purest form. Started with a simple goal: backup an Android ROM. Ended up in a 4chan greentext speedrun of uninstalling Python versions, googling errors, upgrading pip, discovering you need Microsoft Build Tools (because Windows), realizing you need openssl 1.1.1 specifically (not the latest, obviously), finding it via wayback machine like some digital archaeologist, and finally getting the program to run... only for it to not work. The "you fucking moron" and "you absolute fucking retard" from the dependency errors really captures that special relationship between Python developers and their toolchain. Nothing says "beginner-friendly language" quite like needing to time-travel through the wayback machine to find deprecated SSL versions. Fun fact: This is why Docker exists. Someone looked at this exact scenario and said "there has to be a better way." There wasn't, so they containerized the suffering instead.

I Fucking Hate Python
Python Programming Debugging
1 month ago 252.4K views 1 shares
I Fucking Hate Python
Picture this: you just want to backup your Android ROM using some random Python script. Simple task, right? WRONG. Welcome to dependency hell, population: YOU. It starts innocently enough—clone a repo, run pip install. But then Python decides to play the world's most sadistic game of whack-a-mole with your sanity. Wrong Python version? Uninstall, reinstall. Pip needs upgrading? Sure, why not. Oh, you need Microsoft Build Tools now? For a PYTHON project? Make it make sense. And just when you think you've conquered Mount Dependency, the final boss appears: you need OpenSSL 1.1.1 specifically—not the latest version, because that would be TOO CONVENIENT. Time to fire up the wayback machine and archaeologically excavate ancient software versions like you're Indiana Jones hunting for deprecated libraries. After approximately 47 error messages, 23 Google searches, and one existential crisis later, the program finally installs. You run it with trembling hands and... it doesn't work. Chef's kiss. Python dependency management is basically a choose-your-own-adventure book where every path leads to suffering.

That's Some Other Dev's Problem
Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend
1 month ago 256.0K views 0 shares
That's Some Other Dev's Problem
Year 1: Everything is a crisis. Every bug is existential. You're debugging CSS at 2 AM wondering if you're cut out for this career while your tears blur the screen. Year not 1: npm install confetti and call it a day. Someone else will maintain it. Someone else will debug it. Someone else will cry about it. The circle of life continues. Experience teaches you the most valuable skill in software development: strategic apathy. Why reinvent the wheel when there's a package for that? Why stress about implementation details when Google exists and Stack Overflow has already solved your problem 47 times? You've evolved from "I must understand everything" to "does it work? ship it." The real wisdom is knowing that future you is technically "some other dev" too.

I Love Living On The Edge
Javascript Webdev Security Devops React
1 month ago 344.5K views 0 shares
I Love Living On The Edge
The ultimate developer crossroads: take the left path and risk your entire codebase exploding from ancient vulnerabilities in packages you haven't touched since 2019, or take the right path and watch your build fail spectacularly because some genius decided to push breaking changes in a minor version update. The left side gives you React2Shell vibes—probably running on dependencies so old they remember when jQuery was cool. The right side? Shai-Hulud, the giant sandworm from Dune, representing the chaos that emerges when you run npm update and suddenly 47 things break in production. Both paths lead to pain. Pick your poison: security nightmares or spending your Friday evening debugging why your app suddenly can't find module 'left-pad'.

Roll Safer: NPM Edition
Javascript Security Devops Programming
2 months ago 217.3K views 0 shares
Roll Safer: NPM Edition
Ah, the classic JavaScript ecosystem paranoia. For the uninitiated, Shai Hulud 3 is referencing the giant sandworms from Dune that devour everything in their path—much like how npm packages sometimes go rogue and wreak havoc on your system. When your trust in the npm ecosystem has been shattered by one too many packages trying to mine crypto on your machine or accidentally nuking your files, you start getting creative with your defensive strategies. Creating a fake package with automation tokens is basically putting a scarecrow in your code garden—technically unnecessary but oddly comforting. It's the digital equivalent of putting a "Beware of Dog" sign when you don't even own a goldfish. Pure survival instinct after seven years of JavaScript framework PTSD.

Library Users Vs. Library Creators
Programming Webdev Javascript Python Debugging
2 months ago 385.2K views 0 shares
Library Users Vs. Library Creators
The great divide of coding culture in one perfect image. At the top, we have the polished, well-rested library users - looking like they actually shower and maintain healthy relationships. Meanwhile, down below lurk the library creators - sleep-deprived monsters surviving purely on caffeine and spite, with the thousand-yard stare of someone who's debugged pointer arithmetic at 4 AM for the fifth night in a row. It's the coding ecosystem's dirty secret: we're all standing on the shoulders of giants who haven't slept in three years. Next time you casually import a package, pour one out for the energy-drink-fueled gremlin who made it possible.

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The Dependency Apocalypse
Programming Webdev Devops Javascript
2 months ago 330.5K views 0 shares
The Dependency Apocalypse
Cooking is predictable. Dependencies are not. You're happily chopping veggies for your code soup when BAM! Your package manager throws a tantrum because apparently some library maintainer decided carrots aren't cool anymore. The pure existential dread of running npm update only to watch your entire project implode because someone decided to make a "minor improvement" that breaks your entire architecture is the stuff of developer nightmares. And don't get me started on those cryptic deprecation warnings that basically translate to "this will work today but might spontaneously combust tomorrow, good luck!"

Hollywood's Idea Of Hacking Makes Programmers Scream
Programming Security Debugging
2 months ago 315.3K views 0 shares
Hollywood's Idea Of Hacking Makes Programmers Scream
THE AUDACITY! Hollywood thinks updating packages and mashing random keys is "hacking"?! I'm sitting there, drink in hand, SCREAMING internally as they break into the Pentagon with a single command line. PLEASE! Real hacking is 8 hours of Stack Overflow research followed by crying in the bathroom when your exploit fails because you forgot a semicolon. But sure, show me another montage of green text on black screens while I die inside! 💀

Node Big Modules
Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend Backend
2 months ago 264.1K views 0 shares
Node Big Modules
SWEET MOTHER OF DISK SPACE! Node modules are not just big—they're the black hole of your hard drive! One tiny project and suddenly you've got 500MB of dependencies because apparently you need 47 packages just to check if a string is empty! 💀 Your poor SSD is literally SCREAMING as node_modules consumes more space than your entire operating system. Meanwhile, you're sitting there wondering if you really needed that left-pad package or if you could have just written those 3 lines of code yourself. But who has time for that when you've got deadlines?!

Circular Dependencies
Javascript Webdev Devops Programming Frontend
2 months ago 318.5K views 0 shares
Circular Dependencies
The perfect visual representation of modern software development. The comic shows a recursive nightmare where dependencies contain dependencies that contain... you guessed it, more dependencies! Just like that time I pulled in a simple date formatting library and somehow ended up importing half the internet. The recursive image within itself is chef's kiss irony – the meme about dependency hell is itself caught in an infinite dependency loop. Next sprint I'm just gonna write everything in C like it's 1972.