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Within Each Programmer
Programming Webdev
8 hours ago 107.6K views 1 shares
Within Each Programmer
Every single developer is locked in an EPIC internal battle between the responsible wolf who whispers "steady paycheck, health insurance, retirement plan" and the absolutely FERAL entrepreneurial wolf screaming "BUILD THAT TODO APP WITH BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION THAT WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE THE WORLD THIS TIME!" Spoiler alert: the second wolf has a GitHub graveyard of 47 unfinished projects and still thinks THIS one will be different. The first wolf is tired. So, so tired. But hey, at least it pays the bills while you dream about your SaaS empire during standup meetings.

Do You Guys Not Finish Games?!
Gamedev Programming
19 hours ago 182.9K views 0 shares
Do You Guys Not Finish Games?!
You know that feeling when you buy a game on sale, play it for 2 hours, get distracted by another sale, and suddenly you've got 247 games with a 12% completion rate? Yeah, that's every programmer's Steam library. We're collectors, not finishers. The kid taking one bite out of each apple and moving on is the perfect metaphor. "I'll come back to finish Witcher 3 after I try this new indie roguelike that's 80% off." Narrator: They never came back. It's the same energy as having 47 side projects in various states of abandonment. We're excellent at starting things, terrible at finishing them. The Steam library is just our GitHub repos but with better graphics.

Still Adding One More Feature
Programming Agile Debugging
8 days ago 203.0K views 0 shares
Still Adding One More Feature
You know that moment when you get hit with a brilliant new project idea and your brain goes "this is simple, I'll knock it out in 2 days max"? Fast forward one month and your codebase looks like someone threw a box of cables into a blender. That's because you couldn't help yourself—just one more feature, just one more "quick improvement," just one more "while I'm at it" moment. The real tragedy? You're probably still not done, and that tangled mess of dependencies, edge cases, and "temporary" solutions has become your new reality. The 2-day project is now your magnum opus of technical debt. But hey, at least it has that one feature literally nobody asked for but you knew would be cool.

Still Adding One More Feature
Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend
8 days ago 185.7K views 0 shares
Still Adding One More Feature
You know that side project you started with pure intentions and a clean architecture? Yeah, that one. You told yourself it'd take 2 days max—just a simple MVP to validate the idea. Fast forward one month and your codebase looks like someone tried to untangle headphones in a tornado. Each "small feature" brought three dependencies, two refactors, and one existential crisis about whether you should've just used a monorepo. The real tragedy? You're still not done. There's always just one more feature before you can ship. Authentication can wait, but dark mode? Absolutely critical. The cycle continues until your "weekend project" becomes a legacy system you're too emotionally invested to abandon. Pro tip: That tangled mess of cables is actually a more organized system than your project's dependency graph at this point.

It Never Ends For The Enthusiasts...
Hardware Iot Linux
13 days ago 232.9K views 0 shares
It Never Ends For The Enthusiasts...
Raspberry Pi enthusiasts buying their "first" Pi is like a gateway drug. You tell yourself it's just one board for that cool project you've been thinking about. Fast forward six months and you've got a drawer full of Pi Zeros, Pi 4s, and a few Pi 3s you forgot existed. Meanwhile, PC builders? They've been in the hardware addiction cycle since the 90s. "Just gonna upgrade my GPU" turns into a new motherboard, RAM, CPU cooler, RGB fans, and somehow a second monitor. The veteran PC builder looks at the Raspberry Pi newbie with that weathered expression that says "welcome to the never-ending upgrade spiral, kid." Both groups share the same curse: convincing yourself you need another one for a project that'll definitely happen this time. Spoiler: it won't.

Cloud Bill Debt
Cloud Devops AWS Programming Backend
14 days ago 217.3K views 0 shares
Cloud Bill Debt
The classic developer pipeline: passion project → side hustle → AWS hostage situation. Started coding because you loved building things, now you're building things because AWS won't stop sending invoices. Nothing quite like watching your hobby transform into a financial obligation faster than your S3 bucket can rack up egress charges. The real tragedy? Your app probably has like 12 users, but somehow you're spending enough on cloud infrastructure to fund a small coffee addiction. Welcome to the modern developer experience where "serverless" just means you don't see the server that's bankrupting you.

Whatever Just Let Me Build My Useless Garbage
Security AI Webdev Devops Programming
16 days ago 245.6K views 0 shares
Whatever Just Let Me Build My Useless Garbage
You just want to spin up a quick todo app for the 47th time, but some AI-powered dev tool is asking for permissions that would make the NSA blush. Full access to your filesystem? Sure. Screen recording 24/7? Why not. Your calendar, contacts, and "the whole fucking shebang"? Absolutely necessary for... improving your developer experience, apparently. But here's the thing—you're so desperate to avoid actually configuring your environment manually that you'll just slam that "GRANTED AS FUCK" button without a second thought. Who cares if it can see your browser history of Stack Overflow tabs and that embarrassing Google search for "how to center a div"? You've got a half-baked side project to abandon in two weeks, and you need it NOW. The modern developer's dilemma: trading your entire digital soul for the convenience of not reading documentation. Worth it? Probably not. Gonna do it anyway? Absolutely.

Open Source Revenge Arc
Programming Webdev Git
21 days ago 264.8K views 0 shares
Open Source Revenge Arc
Nothing says "I'm totally over it" quite like spending 6 months of your life building a competing product out of pure spite. Got ghosted by your dream company? No problem! Just casually architect an entire open-source alternative that threatens their market share. The ultimate power move: turning rejection into a GitHub repo with 50k stars while they're stuck maintaining their legacy codebase. Who needs therapy when you can channel all that emotional damage into disrupting an entire industry? The villain origin story we all secretly fantasize about.

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Diving Into New Projects Like...
Programming Git
28 days ago 198.8K views 0 shares
Diving Into New Projects Like...
Nothing says "I have my life together" quite like enthusiastically grabbing a shiny new project while standing on a mountain of abandoned repos. The excited kid reaching for the new project while literally drowning in unfinished work? That's not a meme, that's a documentary. You know what's wild? We convince ourselves this time will be different. This new framework, this side project, this rewrite—it's gonna be THE ONE. Meanwhile, your GitHub is a graveyard of "TODO: Add tests" commits from 2019. But hey, that new JavaScript framework that just dropped looks really promising, right? The real skill isn't finishing projects—it's justifying why starting another one is actually a strategic career move. "I'm learning the ecosystem," you say, as your 47th tutorial project joins the others in the void.

How Can We Actually Prevent This From Happening
Programming
29 days ago 164.6K views 0 shares
How Can We Actually Prevent This From Happening
Learning a new language or framework is that satisfying climb up the stairs—steady progress, dopamine hits with each concept mastered, Stack Overflow bookmarks multiplying. Then you take a two-week vacation, switch projects, or just look at production fires for a month straight. Suddenly you're staring at your own code like it's written in ancient Sumerian. The forgetting curve is real and it's exponential. The only prevention? Build useless side projects you'll never finish. It's not procrastination, it's spaced repetition.

Foss
Programming Devops Git Backend
1 month ago 241.4K views 0 shares
Foss
Every open-source developer's existential crisis in three panels. You start thinking you're building something neat, maybe a fun little utility or a clever library. Then reality slaps you with the uncomfortable truth: someone's entire production stack will depend on this in 24 months, and you'll be maintaining it for free while they make millions. The FOSS lifecycle: "Cool side project" → "Wait, 50,000 downloads?" → "Oh god, I'm now responsible for global infrastructure and my only compensation is GitHub stars." Welcome to the beautiful nightmare where your weekend hobby becomes critical infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies who won't even sponsor your coffee fund.

The Urge To Work On Projects Increases A Lot When Exams Come
Programming
1 month ago 262.7K views 1 shares
The Urge To Work On Projects Increases A Lot When Exams Come
Procrastination's final form: suddenly your half-baked side project becomes the most important thing in the universe when you've got a midterm in 48 hours. That TODO app you abandoned three months ago? Now it's calling your name louder than your Data Structures textbook ever could. Your brain will do Olympic-level mental gymnastics to avoid studying. "But I NEED to refactor this component right now" or "This bug has been bothering me for weeks" (it hasn't). Suddenly you're debugging at 2 AM, telling yourself it's still productive work, just... not the work you're supposed to be doing. The side project knows exactly when you're vulnerable. It's been sitting there dormant, but the moment academic pressure hits, it transforms into this irresistible siren song of TypeScript and Docker configs. Tale as old as time.