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Portability

13 days ago 146.4K views 0 shares

Sure, your ultrabook is sleek and portable. Until you actually need to use it for work. Then you're hauling around a laptop stand, external keyboard, mouse, USB hub, external drive, power bank, speakers, and what appears to be an external DVD drive because apparently we're living in 2005 again. At that point you might as well have bought a desktop and a wheelbarrow. The modern developer's "portable" setup: 2 pounds of laptop, 15 pounds of dongles and accessories.

Never Ask For Help Debugging

Debugging Programming

14 days ago 207.2K views 0 shares

You spend 45 minutes crafting the perfect Slack message with code snippets, stack traces, what you've tried, and your environment details. You hit send. Then someone replies "hop on a call real quick" and suddenly you're doing a live performance of your debugging journey while they watch your screen. Now you get to re-explain everything you just typed, but this time with the added pressure of someone silently judging your variable names and that one commented-out console.log you forgot to remove. The real kicker? They'll probably solve it in 30 seconds by asking "did you try restarting it?" which you OBVIOUSLY already did but now you're questioning if you actually did.

My Team Overseas Knows February Has Two Rs

Programming Agile Databases Backend

15 days ago 343.4K views 1 shares

My Team Overseas Knows February Has Two Rs

Nothing says "global collaboration" quite like watching someone suggest DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY in a meeting and watching the entire room descend into chaos. There's always that one person who thinks their regional date format is the hill worth dying on, completely oblivious to the fact that ISO 8601 exists specifically to prevent these meetings from happening. YYYY-MM-DD sorts correctly, avoids ambiguity, and doesn't make your database cry. But sure, let's spend 45 minutes debating whether 02/03/2024 is February 3rd or March 2nd while the backend silently judges everyone involved. Fun fact: ISO 8601 was published in 1988. We've had nearly four decades to get this right, yet here we are, still having the same conversation in every international standup.

I Can't Think Of A Good Title For This Lunacy

Frontend Webdev

18 days ago 167.5K views 0 shares

I Can't Think Of A Good Title For This Lunacy

So Meta dropped $73 billion on their metaverse project, and what do they have to show for it? A bunch of legless avatars sitting in a virtual conference room having a Zoom call. You know, the thing we could already do with a $15 webcam and free software. The irony is absolutely chef's kiss here. They built an entire virtual reality universe with cutting-edge VR headsets, spatial audio, and god knows what else... just to recreate the exact same grid-view meeting experience we've all been suffering through since 2020. It's like buying a Ferrari to drive to your mailbox. The real kicker? Those avatars are sitting in a gorgeous virtual office with mountain views while displaying a 2x2 video grid on a screen. They literally went full circle back to regular video conferencing, but now with extra steps and motion sickness. Peak innovation right there.

WASD Or Arrows???

Programming

21 days ago 172.4K views 0 shares

When someone says "swimming courses for programmers," they're not talking about learning the butterfly stroke. They mean taking your laptop into an actual swimming pool because why would you ever leave your desk? The guy's literally standing in water, coding away, treating "immersive learning" a bit too literally. Most programmers already spend 90% of their time drowning in documentation, Stack Overflow threads, and legacy code anyway—might as well make it physical. At least the pool water is cleaner than most codebases. Plus, waterproof keyboards are cheaper than therapy for burnout, so really, he's just being financially responsible here.

Super SWE

Programming Frontend

1 month ago 286.3K views 0 shares

So you're telling me this "Super SWE" role wants someone who's done something remarkable, ships features before breakfast, has "undeniable proof-of-talent," believes in manifesting physical engineering futures, AND has built exceptional UIs... but LinkedIn can't even generate a job match summary because there's not enough information? Classic. The job requirements read like a tech bro's fever dream written at 3 AM after watching too many startup documentaries. "Go from 0 → 1 on an idea before breakfast" – buddy, I can barely go from 0 → 1 cup of coffee before breakfast. And "manifesting the future of physical engineering"? What is this, a software job or a TED talk audition? Over 100 people clicked apply though. Either everyone's delusional about their qualifications or we're all just that desperate for remote work. Probably both.

What's Stopping You From Coding Like This?

Programming Hardware

1 month ago 274.8K views 0 shares

What's Stopping You From Coding Like This?

Honestly? Gravity, mostly. Also the fact that my laptop doesn't have a ceiling mount and I'm not about to spend $500 on a standing desk just to flip it upside down. But hey, if lying on your bed staring up at a monitor suspended in mid-air helps you debug that segfault, who am I to judge? Someone really looked at their ergonomic nightmare of a setup and thought "you know what would make this worse? Fighting gravity while typing." Props for the dedication to maximum discomfort though. Your chiropractor is gonna buy a yacht with your money. The real question: how many times did they accidentally knock that laptop off before getting the angle just right? And more importantly, what happens when you need to reach for your coffee?

Classic Dev To Dev Meeting

Debugging Programming Backend

1 month ago 239.0K views 0 shares

Two developers finally meet in person after months of remote collaboration, only to discover one of them has been the rubber duck debugger all along. You know, that inanimate object you explain your code to until the solution magically appears? Turns out Dave from the backend team has just been nodding along this whole time while you solved your own problems. The gun is pointed, but honestly, it's justified. That's what you get for pretending to understand microservices architecture when you were really just there for moral support.

We Are Too Focused On Optimizing Our Code And Forgot To Optimize Our Social Lives

Programming

2 months ago 153.5K views 0 shares

We Are Too Focused On Optimizing Our Code And Forgot To Optimize Our Social Lives

Plot twist of the century: your dream programmer girlfriend ALSO never leaves the house because she's busy refactoring her codebase at 3 AM in a hoodie. She's not at the bar, she's not at the gym—she's in her cave with three monitors, debugging her life choices just like you! The dating pool for programmers is basically two hermit crabs trying to find each other while both are hiding under rocks. You're both optimizing algorithms instead of optimizing your chances of human interaction. The irony is CHEF'S KISS—you can't meet because you're doing the exact same thing that makes you compatible in the first place. It's the ultimate catch-22: the person who would understand your lifestyle is living the same isolated, screen-lit existence. Maybe the real solution is a dating app that only works between 2-4 AM and matches based on commit history? 💀

Tech Startups Be Like

Programming Agile

2 months ago 340.8K views 0 shares

The ultimate Silicon Valley dream: four devs in shorts, no shoes, coding from beds and couches in what's basically a glorified apartment... somehow worth $826 million to investors. This is peak "we're disrupting the industry" energy right here. No office? No problem. No pants? Even better. Nothing says "we're burning through Series B funding" like having your standup meetings in pajamas while VCs fight to throw money at your "revolutionary" app that's just Tinder for houseplants. Remember kids, it's not a lack of professionalism—it's "company culture."

Junior Vs Senior: The Evolution Of Not Giving A F*ck

Programming Devops Agile Debugging

2 months ago 241.4K views 0 shares

Junior Vs Senior: The Evolution Of Not Giving A F*ck

The career evolution nobody warns you about. Junior developers with their fancy RGB battlestations, matcha lattes, packed Zoom calendars, 8 daily alarms, and that desperate "I'll fix everything as fast as I can" energy. Meanwhile, senior developers have transcended to minimalism: just a MacBook, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, and the sacred "bugger off" text message. The transformation from eager problem-solver to efficient problem-avoider isn't taught in coding bootcamps. Career progression isn't about learning more frameworks—it's about learning which fires aren't worth putting out.

Reverse Turing Test

AI Security Programming

2 months ago 210.7K views 0 shares

The modern tech interview arms race has reached new levels of absurdity. "Close your eyes and answer this question" is basically the interviewer saying, "Hey AI, I know you can code, but can you see?" It's like catching someone using a calculator by asking them to high-five you. Next they'll be asking candidates to solve a CAPTCHA mid-interview or prove they're human by feeling emotions about their legacy codebase. The irony is that real developers would probably fail this test too since we're all mentally somewhere else during meetings anyway.

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