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They Took Our Job

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GASP! The TRAGEDY of the 60s programmer! Back when coding meant manually punching holes into cards like some kind of deranged confetti artist! Those poor souls had to PHYSICALLY REPRESENT EACH BIT with their own precious fingers! 💅 Then compilers swooped in like the technological homewreckers they are, translating high-level languages into machine code and STEALING THE LIVELIHOOD of all those punch card artisans! The AUDACITY! The BETRAYAL! Meanwhile, modern devs are crying about having to write a semicolon. HONEY, your ancestors were MANUALLY PUNCHING ASSEMBLY CODE into cards and praying they didn't sneeze mid-sequence!

The Last Blissful Moments Before JavaScript

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5 days ago 141.4K views 0 shares

The Last Blissful Moments Before JavaScript

The LAST BLISSFUL MOMENTS of humanity before everything went to hell! Look at these sweet summer children partying like there's no tomorrow—because there literally wasn't a JavaScript tomorrow! They're dancing, they're celebrating, COMPLETELY UNAWARE that in just a few months, their lives would be forever cursed with callback hell, undefined is not a function, and the eternal question "why doesn't this work in IE?!" These poor souls had no idea they were living in the golden age. The last generation that knew peace before npm install consumed our lives!

Pick Your Poison

Programming Javascript Debugging

14 days ago 139.0K views 0 shares

Ah, the eternal dilemma of legacy maintenance. Do you want to decipher cryptic Fortran from the moon landing era or try to understand whatever framework-of-the-month some junior dev installed because they saw it on a YouTube tutorial? The cold sweat is real. Ancient code at least has the excuse of being written when computers had less memory than your coffee maker. Modern "vibe code" was written yesterday by someone who named all their variables after their favorite anime characters. Either way, you're the poor soul who has to maintain it until retirement or sweet release, whichever comes first.

Stop Trying To Kill Me

C++ Rust Programming

14 days ago 119.7K views 0 shares

The funeral for C/C++ has been announced prematurely for decades now. Every few years, some shiny new language comes along and declares itself the "C++ killer" while C++ just smirks from its grave and continues powering literally everything from operating systems to game engines. Meanwhile, C/C++ developers are just chilling next to their own tombstone like "Oh no... anyway" while counting the performance gains their manual memory management provides. The language might be older than most developers using it, but it refuses to die with the stubbornness of that one legacy codebase no one wants to refactor.

Hail To The King

Programming Devops C++ Backend Cloud

17 days ago 171.0K views 0 shares

The entire tech industry is just a skyscraper of abstractions built on C. Modern developers happily live in their fancy penthouses of JavaScript frameworks and cloud services, blissfully unaware that some grumpy 70-year-old's pointer arithmetic from 1972 is keeping the lights on. One memory leak in that legacy C code and your Docker container orchestration falls faster than my will to live during a production outage.

PHP: The Undying Language

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1 month ago 156.6K views 1 shares

The eternal zombie apocalypse that is PHP development. Since 1995, developers have been declaring PHP dead while recommending the hot new framework—ColdFusion, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, Django, NextJS—only for PHP to keep shambling along, refusing to die. By 2025, we'll be celebrating its 30th birthday while still writing those same

The Forgotten Heir To The C++ Throne

C++ Rust Golang Programming

1 month ago 229.4K views 0 shares

The programming language family drama continues! Here we have D (the forgotten language with the red logo) watching as the cool kids C, Go, and Rust hang out at the programming party. Poor D is literally wearing a party hat but nobody remembers it was supposed to be C++'s successor before all these trendy new languages showed up. D actually had garbage collection and modern features before it was cool, but now it's like that uncle who keeps saying "I invented that!" while everyone awkwardly sips their coffee. Meanwhile, Go is getting all the cloud jobs, Rust is being crowned for memory safety, and C just keeps trucking along like the immortal language it is.

I Love Binary

Programming Hardware Algorithms

1 month ago 152.3K views 1 shares

Ah yes, the dark ages of computing. Before FORTRAN showed up in 1956, programmers were just keyboard warriors in the most literal sense - manually toggling 0s and 1s like prehistoric savages. Nothing says "I'm having a productive day at work" like frantically flipping physical switches for eight hours straight while your coworkers wonder if you're having a seizure or actually programming something. The best part? Debugging meant checking if your finger slipped on switch #4,271. Good times.

The Immortal PHP: Web Development's Greatest Zombie

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1 month ago 167.5K views 1 shares

The Immortal PHP: Web Development's Greatest Zombie

THE ETERNAL ZOMBIE LANGUAGE THAT REFUSES TO DIE! 💀 For THREE DECADES developers have been screaming "PHP is dead!" while frantically pushing the next hot framework. ColdFusion! ASP.NET! Ruby on Rails! Django! NextJS! Each one supposedly hammering the final nail in PHP's coffin. Meanwhile, PHP is just sitting there, powering like 78% of the internet, sipping tea and planning its 30th birthday party. The ultimate comeback story! The cockroach of programming languages that survives every nuclear framework bomb dropped on it! And the irony? We're still typing

When Compilers Stole My Punch Card Career

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1 month ago 105.7K views 0 shares

When Compilers Stole My Punch Card Career

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth (aka the 1960s), programmers had to manually punch holes in cards to represent binary code. One wrong punch and your entire program crashed spectacularly. Then compilers came along and suddenly you could write human-readable code instead of managing thousands of punch cards like some deranged librarian. The person in this image is dramatically lamenting the loss of their painstaking punch card skills—as if anyone would actually miss spending 8 hours debugging because they sneezed while punching card #4,721.

Don't Bring Up C 99 C 11

Programming C++ Java Debugging

1 month ago 137.9K views 0 shares

The C language sitting there unchanged since 1970 while every other technology evolves is peak programmer Stockholm syndrome. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" taken to the extreme. Meanwhile, C++ and Java developers are having emotional breakdowns trying to keep up with new features and paradigms. C programmers just smugly sipping coffee with their pointers and memory leaks, completely unbothered by modern conveniences like garbage collection or user-friendly syntax. Why fix perfection? *coughs in buffer overflow*

Everything Is Just An App Now

Programming

2 months ago 125.5K views 0 shares

Remember when we had distinct, meaningful names for different software components? Now everything's just an "app" – because why bother with precision when we can dumb it all down! The marketing department won that battle years ago, and now we're stuck in this linguistic wasteland where your critical enterprise daemon and that stupid bird-flinging game on your phone share the same technical classification. Progress, folks! Next up: we'll just call all code "stuff that makes computer go brrr."

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