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Choose Your Fighter: Job Title Edition
Programming Devops
7 days ago 51.6K views 0 shares
Choose Your Fighter: Job Title Edition
The job title inflation chart nobody asked for but everyone needed. Same person, different LinkedIn profile updates as they discover the salary brackets. "Coder" is the angry intern fixing bugs for pizza. "Programmer" is what you call yourself after learning a for-loop. "Developer" comes with the first paycheck that covers rent. "Software Engineer" appears magically after your first successful pull request. "Software Architect" is just you refusing to write code while drawing boxes on whiteboards at 3x the salary.

Biting The Hand That Feeds Your Paycheck
Webdev React Javascript Programming Frontend
10 days ago 63.9K views 0 shares
Biting The Hand That Feeds Your Paycheck
The irony is strong with this one! Blocking ads while simultaneously wishing for higher pay as a web dev is like sawing off the branch you're sitting on. That snake eating its own tail (ouroboros) perfectly captures the self-defeating cycle we create. We build websites funded by ads, then personally ensure no one sees those ads, then wonder why clients won't pay us more. It's the digital equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot while complaining about the cost of shoes.

I'd Rather Work On Something That Contributes Positively To Society, Thanks
Programming
10 days ago 75.1K views 0 shares
I'd Rather Work On Something That Contributes Positively To Society, Thanks
Ah, the classic bait and switch of tech recruiting. That initial excitement when you hear "competitive salary and work-life balance" quickly evaporates when you realize it's for yet another blockchain startup trying to revolutionize digital pet ownership or whatever. After 15 years in this industry, I've developed a Pavlovian response to the word "blockchain" - it's basically shorthand for "we're burning VC money on a solution desperately searching for a problem." But hey, at least you'll get free kombucha and a foosball table while the funding lasts!

Using Rust Is A Political Solution
Rust C++ Programming
12 days ago 80.5K views 0 shares
Using Rust Is A Political Solution
Finally, someone said the quiet part out loud. Every time management pushes for a shiny new tech stack, my bank account feels a disturbance in the force. That moment when your 15 years of C++ wizardry becomes less valuable than a junior who completed "Rust in 30 Days" on Udemy. Memory safety? More like salary safety... for the company. The tech industry's greatest magic trick: convincing us that rewriting perfectly functional systems is about "innovation" rather than resetting the salary clock. Same playbook as when they renamed "programmers" to "software engineers" to "developers" to "ninjas" - different title, same work, fresh salary bands. Guess I'll start learning Rust while updating my LinkedIn to "Blockchain AI Quantum Rust Developer" to stay relevant until the next language comes to destroy my market value.

The Full-Stack Finesse
Webdev Agile React Javascript Programming
25 days ago 83.8K views 1 shares
The Full-Stack Finesse
The corporate sleight-of-hand that birthed the "full-stack developer" job title in one brutal meme. Instead of hiring separate frontend and backend specialists, some genius in management realized they could just make one person do both jobs while keeping the salary exactly the same. It's the tech industry's equivalent of saying "would you like fries with that?" except the fries are an entire second profession you're now responsible for. And the worst part? We all nodded along and added "full-stack" to our LinkedIn profiles like it was some kind of promotion.

The Full Stack Unicorn Hunt
React Devops Kubernetes Docker AWS
25 days ago 164.0K views 0 shares
The Full Stack Unicorn Hunt
Ah, the classic "entry-level" job posting that requires mastery of the entire tech stack universe! The recruiter is essentially asking for a frontend dev (JavaScript/React/Redux), backend engineer (Node/Mongo), and DevOps specialist (Docker/Kubernetes/AWS) all rolled into one human being—at the price of one salary, of course. It's like walking into a restaurant and ordering a 5-star chef, server, and dishwasher combo meal for the price of a single hamburger. The tech industry's expectations have gotten so absurd that we're practically one job posting away from "must have invented time travel and colonized Mars by age 25."

It Dont Matter To Me
Programming Devops Debugging Testing Frontend
1 month ago 84.7K views 0 shares
It Dont Matter To Me
This meme perfectly captures the chaotic indifference of a developer who's just set the world on fire. While production is literally burning in the background (thanks to their code), they're just chilling with that smug little smile knowing their paycheck remains unaffected by the digital apocalypse they've unleashed. The ultimate "not my problem anymore" energy that every developer secretly relates to when they push that questionable code on Friday at 4:59 PM. The beautiful marriage of catastrophic failure and complete financial security - truly the dream!