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When She Asks How Long Is It

50 minutes ago 14.6K views 0 shares

Someone's codebase just jumped from line 6061 to line 19515. That's not a typo, that's a 13,454-line function sitting there like an architectural war crime. When your coworker asks "how long is that function?" and you have to scroll for the next 20 minutes to find the closing bracket, you know someone's been writing code like they're paid by the line. Pretty sure there's a Geneva Convention against functions this long. The debugger autocomplete showing line numbers in the five-digit range is basically a cry for help.

Bye Bye Windows Linux

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1 hour ago 23.3K views 0 shares

Someone just let Claude loose on operating system development and it actually produced something bootable. VibeOS features a file manager with a duck.png, a web browser that can navigate to "motherfuckingwebsite.com" (truly a mark of quality), and what appears to be a calculator app. The README casually admits "not everything works, some stuff is not even tested, but most things do" which is honestly more transparency than most enterprise software gives you. The fact that an AI managed to vibe-code an entire operating system while your production deployment is still broken from that hotfix three weeks ago really puts things in perspective. At least when VibeOS crashes, you can blame it on the AI not having feelings about your bug reports.

I Fucking Hate Python

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2 hours ago 43.5K views 0 shares

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.

This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp, A Free Open Source Photo Editor. Adobe Executives Hate Jehan. Because Of His Hard Work, Adobe Lost Millions Of Dollars

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3 hours ago 58.3K views 0 shares

This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp, A Free Open Source Photo Editor. Adobe Executives Hate Jehan. Because Of His Hard Work, Adobe Lost Millions Of Dollars

Behold the absolute MENACE to Adobe's subscription empire! Here stands Jehan Pages, the legendary developer who dared to make professional-grade photo editing accessible to mere mortals without requiring a monthly blood sacrifice to the Creative Cloud gods. While Adobe executives are out there charging $54.99/month for Photoshop, Jehan's over here maintaining GIMP like "what if people could just... edit photos... for FREE?" The audacity! The betrayal! The absolute CHAOS this man has unleashed upon Adobe's quarterly earnings reports! Sure, GIMP's UI might look like it time-traveled from 2003 and the learning curve is steeper than Mount Everest, but you know what? It costs exactly zero dollars and zero cents. That's the sound of Adobe's CFO crying into their expensive latte. Real talk: Open source heroes like Jehan are the reason we still have choices in software. Mad respect to everyone who contributes to FOSS projects while giant corporations are trying to subscription-ify literally everything we touch.

Shark Still Munching At The Cable

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4 hours ago 73.7K views 0 shares

The entire internet is basically a Jenga tower held together by duct tape, prayers, and a few corporations we pretend to trust. At the very bottom, literally underwater, sharks are chomping on submarine cables because apparently even marine life has beef with our infrastructure. What's beautiful here is how the whole stack—from ASML making the chips, through Intel/AMD/Nvidia silicon, up past the Linux Foundation, DNS, AWS, Cloudflare, all the way to that precariously balanced mess of "modern digital infrastructure" with WASM and V8—depends on cables that sharks find delicious. Meanwhile, unpaid open source devs are basically holding the entire thing together with their bare hands while AI and Microsoft do... whatever they're doing up there. Fun fact: Sharks actually DO bite undersea internet cables, likely because the electromagnetic fields mess with their sensory organs. Google had to wrap their cables in Kevlar-like material. So yeah, your 404 error might literally be because a great white got hungry. The internet runs on vibes and shark-resistant coating.

Programming Beginners

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5 hours ago 89.8K views 0 shares

Every beginner's journey starts with picking their first language, and they're all equally terrified of JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, and C. Then someone suggests HTML and suddenly they're running for their life. Because nothing says "welcome to programming" like realizing you just spent 3 hours learning a markup language that half the industry doesn't even consider "real programming." The gatekeeping starts early, folks. Plot twist: they'll end up learning all of them anyway and still have imposter syndrome.

If Books Had Dark Mode

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7 hours ago 116.8K views 0 shares

Developers have been SO spoiled by dark mode that they literally can't comprehend reading anything on a white background anymore. Someone went ahead and created a dark mode Bible because apparently even the word of God needs to be eye-friendly at 2 AM during a coding session. White pages? In THIS economy? Absolutely not. We've reached peak developer culture when religious texts get the same treatment as VS Code themes. Your retinas have been pampered by #1e1e1e backgrounds for so long that regular books feel like staring directly into the sun. Reading has never been more comfortable for the chronically online developer who refuses to acknowledge daylight exists.

When Your Intern Is More Productive Than You

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7 hours ago 126.7K views 0 shares

When Your Intern Is More Productive Than You

That fresh-out-of-bootcamp intern just speedran your entire CI/CD pipeline while you were still reviewing their PR for typos. The audacity of youth—no fear of breaking production, no PTSD from merge conflicts, just pure unadulterated confidence. Meanwhile, you're over here triple-checking if your commit message follows the conventional commits spec, running tests locally for the fourth time, and wondering if you should add another comment explaining why you used a for-loop instead of map. The intern? Already merged. Build's green. They're probably on their third feature by now. The real kicker is that you taught them this workflow. You created a monster. A beautiful, efficient, slightly terrifying monster who doesn't know what "legacy code" means yet.

Me Fr

Programming

9 hours ago 142.5K views 1 shares

That moment when you're so desperate for a job that you show up to an interview knowing absolutely zilch about the company. Zero research. Didn't even Google them. Just vibing with pure confidence and a prayer. The chicken walking into KFC is peak irony—completely oblivious to the fact that this might not end well. But hey, rent is due and those LeetCode mediums aren't going to pay the bills. Sometimes you just gotta wing it (pun absolutely intended) and hope your "tell me about yourself" monologue carries you through.

My Setup

Programming Hardware

10 hours ago 159.3K views 0 shares

Ergonomics? Never heard of her. While the rest of the world is out here investing in standing desks and lumbar support like responsible adults, this absolute legend has ascended to a higher plane of existence by literally lying on the floor and holding their laptop above their face like they're bench-pressing productivity. The posture guide shows you how to sit like a civilized human being with proper spine alignment, but why would you do that when you can transform into a horizontal coding goblin and risk dropping your laptop directly onto your face? Peak comfort, zero back pain, maximum danger. It's the developer equivalent of eating cereal while lying in bed—technically functional, objectively chaotic, and somehow the most comfortable position you've ever been in until your arms give out.

Oh No! Linus Doesn't Know AI Is Useless!

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11 hours ago 187.0K views 0 shares

Oh No! Linus Doesn't Know AI Is Useless!

So Linus Torvalds just casually merged a branch called 'antigravity' where he used Google's AI to fix his visualization tool, and then—PLOT TWIST—had to manually undo everything the AI suggested because it was absolutely terrible. The man literally wrote "Is this much better than I could do by hand? Sure is." with the energy of someone who just spent three hours fixing what AI broke in three seconds. The irony is CHEF'S KISS: the creator of Linux and Git, arguably one of the most brilliant minds in open source, got bamboozled by an AI tool that was "generated with help from google, but of the normal kind" (translation: the AI was confidently wrong as usual). He ended up implementing a custom RectangleSelector because apparently AI thinks "builtin rectangle select" is a good solution when it absolutely is NOT. The title sarcastically suggests Linus doesn't know AI is useless, but honey, he CLEARLY knows. He just documented it for posterity in the most passive-aggressive commit message ever. Nothing says "AI is revolutionary" quite like manually rewriting everything it touched.

Developer Life😂😂

Programming Debugging

12 hours ago 190.7K views 1 shares

The emotional rollercoaster every developer rides daily, printed on a t-shirt for maximum relatability. You're banging your head against the keyboard at 2 AM, questioning every life choice that led you to this career. Then suddenly your code compiles, tests pass, and you're ready to tattoo "10x engineer" on your forehead. Five minutes later, production is on fire and we're back to existential crisis mode. It's the bipolar relationship we all have with our craft—simultaneously the most frustrating and rewarding thing we do. The shirt captures that exact moment when your bugfix actually works and you remember why you got into this mess in the first place. Until the next merge conflict, anyway.

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