Software bloat Memes

What Else Programming Related Can Convert You Into Believer

8 days ago 228.4K views 0 shares

What Else Programming Related Can Convert You Into Believer

Imagine RAM getting so scarce and pricey that devs actually have to *gasp* optimize their code and think about memory management. No more spinning up 47 Chrome tabs with 8GB each. No more Electron apps eating RAM like it's an all-you-can-eat buffet. Suddenly everyone's writing efficient code, profiling memory leaks, and actually caring about performance. The idea that a hardware shortage could force an entire generation of developers to rediscover what "resource constraints" means is so absurdly dystopian yet plausible that it might actually restore faith in divine intervention. Because let's be real—nothing short of a biblical RAM apocalypse is getting modern devs to stop treating memory like it's infinite.

Hell Yeah!!

Hardware Programming Frontend

10 days ago 240.8K views 0 shares

8GB of RAM: the gift that keeps on giving. In 2005, you were basically running a supercomputer. By 2015, you were... still doing fine, honestly. Fast forward to 2025 and your machine is wheezing like it just climbed five flights of stairs while Chrome is open. But wait—2026 rolls around and suddenly 8GB is back to being acceptable again because everyone finally realized Electron apps were a mistake and went back to native development. Just kidding, we're all doomed. Your IDE alone needs 12GB now.

My Least Favorite Youtube Videos

Hardware Programming Frontend

15 days ago 171.8K views 0 shares

You know those tech nostalgia videos where they boot up a Windows Vista machine running Electron apps and act shocked it takes 45 minutes to open Slack? Yeah, we get it, computers used to be slower. Turns out when you run bloated modern software on ancient hardware, it doesn't perform well. Groundbreaking observation. Meanwhile, that same old PC could probably run DOS or lightweight Linux distros just fine. But no, let's install Chrome with 47 extensions and wonder why the CPU is crying. It's not the hardware that aged poorly—it's the software that got fat and lazy.

Bloat Is Goat

Programming Webdev Microsoft Javascript Frontend

3 months ago 261.6K views 0 shares

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

Every Time After Right-Clicking On A Local File

Windows Hardware Microsoft Programming

3 months ago 211.7K views 0 shares

Every Time After Right-Clicking On A Local File

Your computer is basically a supercomputer by 1990s standards - 32 cores, 32GB RAM, 2TB NVMe drive that could store the entire Library of Congress. Yet somehow Windows Explorer still takes 5 seconds to show you a right-click menu on a text file. The machine that could theoretically simulate nuclear explosions is brought to its knees by a context menu. The ultimate reminder that no matter how far technology advances, software will always find a way to waste every last resource you throw at it.

Enshittification Of Software

Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend

4 months ago 208.4K views 0 shares

A pig wallowing in mud with "O,RLY?" at the top is the perfect metaphor for modern software development. What starts as elegant code inevitably turns into bloated, subscription-based garbage swimming in a sea of dark patterns and unnecessary features. Remember when apps were just... apps? Now they're "experiences" that demand your firstborn child and lifetime data rights. The "O,RLY?" is that perfect sarcastic response when some PM tells you "users want this" while shoving another analytics package into your once-beautiful codebase. The circle of software life: useful → profitable → ruined. Tale as old as time.

They Are Multiplying

Microsoft Windows

4 months ago 229.7K views 0 shares

Microsoft's solution to email clients is apparently to keep creating new versions without ever retiring the old ones. At this point, choosing which Outlook to use is harder than fixing a race condition. Classic version for nostalgia, PWA for those who enjoy living dangerously, and regular Outlook for masochists who enjoy random feature removals with each update. Pretty soon we'll have "Outlook (Quantum)" that both works and doesn't work until you observe it.

Bloatware At Its Best

Windows Programming Debugging

4 months ago 176.0K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of those cleaning apps! 💀 Here I am, a sophisticated developer who's been RELIGIOUSLY deleting every cleaning app that dares to appear on my system because they're just resource-hogging PARASITES that do NOTHING but give you the illusion of optimization while secretly plotting to steal your RAM! And now you're telling me some people actually USE them?! The BETRAYAL! The SCANDAL! It's like finding out people still use Internet Explorer BY CHOICE! Next thing you'll tell me is that someone actually reads those Terms of Service agreements! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

The 51-Year Development Delay

Microsoft Windows Programming Debugging

4 months ago 330.6K views 0 shares

Accidentally launching full Visual Studio instead of VS Code is like embarking on an interstellar journey when you just wanted to go to the corner store. The meme perfectly captures that moment of existential dread when you realize your computer's RAM is about to be consumed by a software behemoth that takes longer to load than continental drift. By the time Visual Studio finishes initializing, your deadline will have passed, your coffee will be cold, and humanity will have colonized Mars. The difference between these two IDEs is basically the difference between bringing a nuclear warhead or a pocket knife to slice an apple.

Different Times: When Game Developers Evolved Backwards

Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming

5 months ago 232.6K views 0 shares

Different Times: When Game Developers Evolved Backwards

Remember when game devs were literal coding demigods who could squeeze a full RollerCoaster Tycoon into Assembly language and fit shooters into kilobytes? Now we've got bearded dudes stealing breast milk while shipping 500GB games that still need a "day one patch" bigger than entire operating systems from the 90s. Modern AAA game development has truly evolved from "how can we optimize this to run on a potato?" to "just buy a new PC, peasant." And don't forget the always-online single player games because heaven forbid you enjoy content you paid for without a constant internet connection. The industry went from "first few levels free as shareware" to "that'll be $70 plus $20 for the season pass, $15 for the cosmetic DLC, and $10 for the soundtrack we removed from the base game."

Put It Back Now

Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend

6 months ago 165.6K views 0 shares

THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of Opera GX thinking they could just REMOVE a sacred fried egg image from their code! 💅 First they're like "we saved a WHOLE 18kb" as if that's something to brag about in our terabyte era. Then the ENTIRE INTERNET collectively loses its mind and demands justice for the egg that's been secretly lurking in their files since 2019! The fact that a browser had to publicly apologize to an EGG and then ceremoniously restore it to its rightful place is peak software development drama. This is why we can't have nice things... or smaller file sizes apparently!

Java: Making Things Suck Since 1995

Java Programming Backend

6 months ago 137.6K views 0 shares

The Java logo has become the universal symbol for "this will make anything unnecessarily complex and resource-hungry, but somehow still work." Slap that bad boy on a broken appliance, and suddenly it's not just a vacuum—it's an enterprise-grade dust acquisition system with 16GB memory requirements and three dependency injection frameworks. The only thing missing is the vacuum asking if you want to update it every 3 minutes while you're trying to clean.

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