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Tech Is A Lawless Industry
Programming
17 hours ago 52.9K views 0 shares
Tech Is A Lawless Industry
Ah yes, the infamous barefoot programmer in his natural habitat. While other industries have dress codes, tech has decided that shoes are merely a suggestion. The guy walking barefoot through a professional office space perfectly captures why tech is truly lawless. When your code compiles on the first try, you too can transcend societal norms like footwear. After all, who needs shoes when you're walking on the cloud... computing platforms. Remember: socks are just containers for your feet, and sometimes containers need to be removed for optimal performance.

Teaching JavaScript: The Ultimate Humanitarian Crisis
Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend
2 days ago 49.9K views 0 shares
Teaching JavaScript: The Ultimate Humanitarian Crisis
Forcing refugees to learn JavaScript? I can't decide if that's humanitarian aid or a war crime. Nothing says "welcome to your new life" like explaining callback hell and prototype inheritance to people who just want clean water. The absolute confidence of thinking you're saving the world by unleashing more JavaScript developers upon it is peak Silicon Valley delusion. Next up: solving world hunger with blockchain and React hooks!

Disruption At Its Finest
Programming
5 days ago 60.9K views 0 shares
Disruption At Its Finest
Ah, startup innovation at its finest! The intern just solved Uber's profitability problem by eliminating their biggest expense—the actual cars. Just pay someone $7.50 to walk with you instead of $56.76 for a ride. Brilliant! The best part is the sketchy "1994 white kevin" who's supposedly arriving in 3 minutes. Nothing says safety and reliability like a mysterious Kevin from the 90s showing up as your walking companion. Silicon Valley VCs are probably throwing term sheets at this idea right now. "It's like Uber but with 100% profit margins and zero vehicle maintenance costs!" *chef's kiss*

No But Yes: The Unspoken Curriculum Of CS Degrees
Programming
10 days ago 63.3K views 0 shares
No But Yes: The Unspoken Curriculum Of CS Degrees
The career counselor never mentioned this path on the CS degree flowchart! Silicon Valley's dating scene has become its own bizarre ecosystem where tech stereotypes and cultural fetishization collide in a perfect storm of awkwardness. The real technical interview is explaining to your parents why you moved 3,000 miles away to become part of this strange sociological experiment. Meanwhile, the actual coding is just what happens between happy hours where everyone pretends to care about "disrupting" something.

I Usually Prefer Front Door On First Date
Security Networking Programming Linux
13 days ago 105.7K views 0 shares
I Usually Prefer Front Door On First Date
The meme starts with a fake news headline about Silicon Valley's favorite mattress company "Eight Sleep" having a backdoor that lets engineers SSH into beds. Then it delivers the punchline with the classic "we are not the same" format. For the uninitiated, SSH is a secure protocol used by developers to remotely access systems, while a "backdoor" is a security vulnerability (often intentional) that bypasses normal authentication. So this guy isn't smooth-talking his way into someone's bedroom—he's literally using command line access to break in. It's basically the difference between having game and having admin privileges. One requires social skills, the other just needs the right credentials. Hackers: 1, Pickup artists: 0.

The FAANG Salary Delusion
Programming Backend
18 days ago 61.4K views 0 shares
The FAANG Salary Delusion
The FAANG junior dev superiority complex is too real. While architects at normal companies are designing complex systems with years of experience, FAANG juniors are strutting around like they've solved P=NP because they earn six figures to maintain a button color in a microservice. Sure, they make 3x the salary, but they'll spend 5 years optimizing one function that decides if a notification dot should be red or slightly-less-red. The real flex isn't their technical prowess—it's their ability to convince recruiters that changing a CSS variable is worth $250k.

Just Give Us The Extension
AI Webdev Programming
20 days ago 83.2K views 0 shares
Just Give Us The Extension
The tech world's going wild about "agentic AI IDEs" promising revolutionary coding experiences. Marketing pitch: "Our next-gen IDE will transform your workflow!" Reality check: it's literally just VS Code with a single extension slapped on it. Companies repackaging existing tools with minimal AI features and selling them as groundbreaking innovations is peak Silicon Valley energy. The shocked cat face perfectly captures how developers feel when they peek behind the curtain and discover they've been hyped up about glorified VS Code plugins.

The AI Popularity Contest
AI Programming
21 days ago 84.0K views 0 shares
The AI Popularity Contest
The ABSOLUTE STATE of the AI industry right now! 💀 Everyone and their grandmother is lined up to worship at the altar of OpenAI and Gemini while that poor lonely soul with an actual AI startup and millions in funding sits there abandoned like the last potato chip at a party. The tech bros have spoken - if you're not backed by Silicon Valley royalty, you might as well be invisible! The crowd has made their choice and it's clearer than a syntax error on line 1. Fame trumps function, darling! That's not just capitalism, that's capitalism with ✨extra drama✨!

The Perfect Tech Revenge
AI Programming
26 days ago 70.7K views 0 shares
The Perfect Tech Revenge
Oh. My. GOD. The existential crisis of our generation in TWO FRAMES?! 💀 First he's like "I don't care if AI wins over programmers" acting all tough and unbothered. Then BOOM—the punchline hits: "I just need FAANG to lose." It's the tech industry's villain origin story! Doesn't care about the robot apocalypse as long as those Silicon Valley giants get taken down with us. The PETTINESS! The DRAMA! The absolute CHAOS of prioritizing corporate revenge over humanity's survival! We're not just coding anymore, we're picking sides in the tech civil war. And honestly? Mood.

The AI Prophet: No Knowledge Required
AI Programming
27 days ago 78.5K views 0 shares
The AI Prophet: No Knowledge Required
Behold, the tech prophet who ascended to startup glory without understanding a single line of code! The AI startup ecosystem in 2023 is basically just throwing bearded men in togas at venture capitalists. "What's your tech stack?" "Uhhh... vibes?" Meanwhile, actual engineers who've spent decades learning complex algorithms are watching these AI-whisperers raise millions while not knowing GPT from a hole in the ground. Silicon Valley's newest business model: look wise, say "disruption" occasionally, and let the funding rain down upon your magnificent beard. The ancient Greeks had oracles, we have AI founders who let the machines do all the thinking.

Ninety-Five Percent AI Generated
AI Programming
27 days ago 135.8K views 0 shares
Ninety-Five Percent AI Generated
Ah, the startup world's latest religion: AI-generated code. This guy wants engineers "maxing out Cursor requests" like they're collecting Pokemon cards. Because nothing says "innovative startup" like having machines write 95% of your codebase while engineers sit around becoming "vibe coders." Next week's LinkedIn post: "If your developers are still typing code manually, you might as well be using stone tablets and chisels." Meanwhile, the engineers who actually understand their systems are quietly updating their resumes.

Peak Programmer Career Trajectory
Microsoft Programming
27 days ago 94.5K views 0 shares
Peak Programmer Career Trajectory
After grinding for 22+ years at Microsoft, climbing from Software Engineer to Principal Performance Architect, this absolute legend said "enough" and embraced their true calling: goose farming . That resume reads like the most epic rage-quit in tech history. Spent two decades optimizing code only to optimize their happiness instead. The career progression we secretly all aspire to—escape the sprint planning meetings to sprint after geese. Bet those 2AM production outages don't seem so bad when your biggest emergency is a honking rebellion.