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Modern Computing Priorities
Microsoft Hardware Windows Programming Debugging
14 days ago 76.4K views 0 shares
Modern Computing Priorities
In 1973, NASA sent humans to the literal moon with just 4KB of RAM. Fast forward to 2019, and your beastly machine with 16GB RAM and maxed-out CPU is brought to its knees by... an Excel dialog box lurking in the background. Nothing captures modern software bloat quite like this perfect comparison. We've gone from accomplishing humanity's greatest feats with minimal resources to having our supercomputers paralyzed by spreadsheet popups. Progress?

Why Apps Are 20 Times Bigger With Zero New Features
Programming Webdev React Javascript Frontend
29 days ago 75.6K views 0 shares
Why Apps Are 20 Times Bigger With Zero New Features
THE AUDACITY of modern apps! 😱 While society warns us not to ask women their age or men their salary, the REAL taboo question is asking developers why their precious app now requires 4GB when it used to fit on a floppy disk! 💾 Apparently, adding seventeen new frameworks, fourteen analytics libraries, and enough JavaScript to sink a battleship is TOTALLY necessary to display "Hello World" these days. But heaven forbid you get one extra button! That's scheduled for next year's bloatware update! 🙄

Small Fixes, 100 GB Patch
Gamedev Devops Programming Debugging
29 days ago 69.5K views 0 shares
Small Fixes, 100 GB Patch
The absurdity of modern software bloat in one perfect screenshot! A 10KB JPEG requires 152.77GB of space? That's like needing an aircraft carrier to deliver a postcard. Game developers be like: "We fixed a typo in the credits. Download size: 87GB." Meanwhile, entire operating systems from the 90s fit on a floppy disk. The driveway analogy is brilliant—having storage space doesn't justify developers treating your SSD like their personal dumping ground. No, I don't want to sacrifice 1/4 of my hard drive because you couldn't be bothered to implement delta patching.

Help Us Gordon Moore, You're Our Only Hope
Hardware Programming Frontend Backend
1 month ago 123.1K views 0 shares
Help Us Gordon Moore, You're Our Only Hope
Ah, the ultimate developer excuse dictionary entry! The meme brilliantly redefines Moore's Law, which originally stated that transistor count doubles roughly every two years, into our favorite scapegoat for inefficient code. It's that unspoken agreement between hardware and software folks: "We'll keep writing memory-leaking, CPU-melting spaghetti code because Intel and AMD will just make faster chips anyway!" The perfect symbiotic relationship where one side does all the actual optimization work. Next time your React app consumes 2GB of RAM to display "Hello World," just shrug and say "Moore's Law!" while the hardware engineers silently weep in the corner.

Total Bloatware Death
Programming Webdev Hardware Gamedev Debugging
1 month ago 85.3K views 0 shares
Total Bloatware Death
The ultimate bloatware assassin: hire one dev with a potato laptop and rural internet as your team's performance gatekeeper! 🥔💻 Imagine trying to explain why your fancy ray-tracing feature won't load on their ancient 2GB RAM machine while they're legally permitted to roast you into oblivion. "But it works on MY machine" won't save you from their dial-up-powered wrath! It's like having a performance budget enforcer with actual consequences. Add unnecessary bloat? Face the ancient laptop tribunal and pray for mercy. The dream solution for a world drowning in electron apps that somehow need 16GB RAM to display "Hello World"!

And Its Getting Worse
Gamedev Hardware Unity Algorithms Programming
1 month ago 115.2K views 0 shares
And Its Getting Worse
Ah, the evolution of game development—from heroic optimization wizards to corporate dumpster fires. Remember when devs were literal coding gods who could fit entire games in kilobytes and make them run on a potato? Now we've got these "Triple A" clowns shipping 50GB broken messes, requiring NASA computers, and forcing you to be online just to play a single-player game. The best part is the "optimization" advice. "Just buy a better PC, bro" is the game dev equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" except it costs you $2000. And let's not even address whatever the hell is happening with that breast milk situation. Modern gaming, everyone! 👏

Perhaps This Is Too Much Software
Iot Agile Programming
1 month ago 56.3K views 0 shares
Perhaps This Is Too Much Software
Oh look, someone installed Microsoft Teams on their car dashboard! Because nothing says "I'm totally paying attention to the road" like getting pinged about that 4PM standup while doing 70mph on the highway! 🚗💨 The eternal struggle of tech: just because we can put work apps in our cars doesn't mean we should . Next update: Jira tickets on your toaster and Git commits from your shower head! Remember kids, the only notifications you need while driving are "turn left" and "you're almost out of gas" - not "Dave has added you to 17 channels"!