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I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me
Gamedev Programming Frontend
11 days ago 218.3K views 0 shares
I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me
Epic Games out here playing 4D chess with their launcher. They'll throw millions at free AAA games to get you hooked on their platform, but ask them to implement a shopping cart or cloud saves? Nah, that's too expensive apparently. It's the classic startup playbook: burn investor cash on user acquisition while the actual product experience stays in beta for years. Why fix the UX when you can just buy user loyalty with free copies of GTA V? Their launcher still feels like an Electron app someone built during a weekend hackathon, but hey, at least the free games library is chef's kiss. Product managers everywhere are taking notes: features that cost dev time and improve user experience? Hard pass. Throwing money at marketing stunts that bleed cash? Real stuff right there.

The Truth Nobody Talks About
Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend
13 days ago 247.5K views 0 shares
The Truth Nobody Talks About
Product managers hold endless meetings about button colors and microinteractions while developers are out here wrestling with legacy codebases held together by duct tape and prayers. Your IDE crashes every 20 minutes, the build pipeline takes longer than a feature film, and the documentation was last updated when PHP 5 was still cool. But sure, let's spend another sprint optimizing the hover animation on that CTA button. Because nothing says "developer experience" like having to restart your local environment three times before lunch while using a framework with 47 breaking changes per minor version. DX is the forgotten stepchild of software development. Everyone wants their app to feel like butter, but nobody wants to invest in tooling that doesn't make developers want to fake their own death.

Shots Fired
Frontend Webdev Gamedev Programming
25 days ago 247.6K views 0 shares
Shots Fired
Product managers and UX designers really thought they did something by adding that tutorial button, huh? Meanwhile, 99% of users are smashing "Yeah, Skip!" faster than they can say "I'll figure it out myself" and then immediately flooding Slack with "how do I..." questions. The real kicker? Your team spent three sprints building that gorgeous interactive tutorial with tooltips, animations, and progress tracking. Nobody watches it. Ever. But somehow it's the devs' fault when users can't find the export button that's been in the same spot for two years. We've all been on both sides of this. Skip the tutorial, break something, then complain the documentation sucks. It's the circle of tech life.

Feature Updates Gone Wrong
Programming Agile Frontend Backend
27 days ago 206.4K views 0 shares
Feature Updates Gone Wrong
You know that feeling when your codebase is running smooth, optimized, and beautiful? Then product management decides it needs "just one more feature" and suddenly you're introducing unnecessary complexity, bloat, and technical debt. The monkey with a stick represents that shiny new feature nobody asked for, aggressively poking at your pristine, battle-tested code that was perfectly content just lying there being efficient. The lion's resigned expression? That's your code after the 47th "quick enhancement" that somehow required refactoring three modules and adding two new dependencies. Sometimes the best feature is no feature at all, but try explaining that in a sprint planning meeting.

Never Stop Never Building
AI Agile Programming
1 month ago 245.4K views 0 shares
Never Stop Never Building
Conference attendee sitting at their desk surrounded by enough AI swag to start a small museum, staring at their screen with the weight of a thousand unfinished side projects. Behind them, the Product Manager and Engineering Director loom like disappointed parents. The walls are plastered with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Hugging Face posters—basically a shrine to procrastination disguised as "staying current." The brutal truth: they don't want to actually build anything. They just need to check out the new LLMs. Because nothing says "productive engineer" like spending your entire week testing which AI model gives you the most creative excuse for not shipping features. The hype cycle chart in the background isn't just decoration—it's a lifestyle. That "Prompt Engineer" mug really ties the whole thing together. Chef's kiss.

Simple Cube vs. Sci-Fi Concept Art
Programming Webdev Agile Gamedev Frontend
1 month ago 236.6K views 0 shares
Simple Cube vs. Sci-Fi Concept Art
The perfect visualization of how product managers describe features vs. how engineers implement them. Left: "Just a simple cube, how hard could it be?" Right: The same damn cube with one unnecessary line that took 8 meetings, 3 design revisions, and somehow doubled the development timeline. The sci-fi concept art is just corporate speak for "we added a groove that serves no purpose but looks techy." This is why I drink coffee by the gallon.

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When Does It Stop: The Corporate Buzzword Apocalypse
Windows AI Devops Microsoft Cloud
1 month ago 181.3K views 0 shares
When Does It Stop: The Corporate Buzzword Apocalypse
OH MY GOD, THE CORPORATE BUZZWORD APOCALYPSE HAS ARRIVED! 🔥 Windows isn't just an OS anymore—it's an "agentic" platform connecting devices, cloud, AI, and probably your toaster too! Meanwhile, users are LITERALLY CRYING TEARS OF BLOOD while product managers gleefully jam random shapes into holes, and developers? They're just peacefully accepting death with a gun to their head because WHAT CHOICE DO THEY HAVE? This is the circle of tech life, people! Users suffer, managers rebrand, developers code until they break, and Microsoft keeps "evolving" into whatever buzzword salad pays the bills this quarter. The innovation never stops... unfortunately neither does the pain.

Minus 10X Developers
Agile Devops Programming
2 months ago 258.8K views 0 shares
Minus 10X Developers
The tech industry's obsession with "10X developers" has spawned this beautiful hierarchy of coding reality. At the top, we have the mythical 10X developer - a shirtless keyboard warrior who apparently codes with the power of ten mortals. In the middle sits the humble 1X developer - just a normal person trying to get through the day without breaking production. And at the bottom? The "-10X developer" - an agile coach explaining what product managers do. Nothing says "actively harming productivity" like someone who doesn't code explaining how to manage code better. The real 10X move is avoiding meetings with either of these extremes.

Maybe We Can Add That In The Next Sprint
Agile Webdev Programming Debugging Testing
2 months ago 178.8K views 0 shares
Maybe We Can Add That In The Next Sprint
The classic software development hierarchy of attention! While developers lovingly cradle shiny new features like a precious baby, documentation and testing are barely kept afloat, gasping for air. Meanwhile, accessibility, internationalization, and localization? Those poor souls have been dead at the bottom of the ocean since the project kickoff meeting. Product managers be like: "We'll definitely prioritize i18n in the next sprint!" *Narrator voice*: They did not, in fact, prioritize it in the next sprint.

Roleplaying At Work
Agile Devops Programming
2 months ago 203.2K views 0 shares
Roleplaying At Work
Ah, the classic engineering manager to PM transformation. One day you're writing code and solving technical problems, the next you're wearing a ridiculous duck costume asking "can we just add one more feature before launch?" and "what if we pivot to blockchain?" The awkward smile says it all—they know they look absurd but they're committed to the bit. Just like how every engineer who temporarily takes on PM duties inevitably starts speaking in buzzwords and drawing product roadmaps on napkins. The costume change is just making the internal transformation external.

Developers Call It A Bug, Product Managers Call It A Feature
Programming Agile Debugging Testing
3 months ago 175.3K views 0 shares
Developers Call It A Bug, Product Managers Call It A Feature
Oh, the classic corporate rebranding strategy! Water shooting uncontrollably from a broken pipe? Developers frantically point: "That's a catastrophic leak that'll flood the server room!" Meanwhile, Product Managers are already updating the pitch deck: "Behold our new dynamic hydration distribution system with multi-directional water feature!" Same disaster, fancier name, higher price tag. The eternal dance of software development where today's critical failure is tomorrow's premium offering if you just squint hard enough and use enough buzzwords.

Developers Call It A Bug, Product Managers Call It A Feature
Programming Agile Debugging Testing
3 months ago 219.0K views 0 shares
Developers Call It A Bug, Product Managers Call It A Feature
Same water leak, two completely different interpretations! The developer sees a catastrophic pipe burst that's about to flood the entire codebase. Meanwhile, the product manager has slapped a fancy fountain decoration on it and added it to the roadmap presentation. "Our innovative hydration system provides dynamic moisture distribution across the platform!" The classic dev-PM reality distortion field in full effect.