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French Is Not Needed
Linux Security Devops Programming
16 hours ago 64.2K views 0 shares
French Is Not Needed
Oh sweet summer child... that command sudo rm -fr /* has nothing to do with French language packs. It's the nuclear option - recursively force-removing everything from your root directory. Left guy thinks it's a harmless Linux tip. Right guy knows he's about to witness digital seppuku. After 20 years in tech, I've seen at least three junior devs run similar commands because "the internet said so." Pro tip: never run commands you don't understand, especially ones with sudo, rm, and wildcards in the same breath. That's like mixing tequila, decisions, and your ex's phone number at 2am.

How Do You Do, Fellow PowerShell Programmers
Windows Bash Microsoft Programming
19 hours ago 60.2K views 1 shares
How Do You Do, Fellow PowerShell Programmers
When you've copy-pasted enough Stack Overflow solutions to make PowerShell bend to your will, but have absolutely no idea what any of those $_ variables or pipe operators actually do. You're just one Get-Help command away from being exposed as a complete fraud, but hey, as long as the script runs without crashing the production server, you're technically a "PowerShell programmer"... right? Right?!

Still A Dream After All These Years
Linux Devops Bash Programming Debugging
23 hours ago 51.1K views 0 shares
Still A Dream After All These Years
Twelve years and counting, and Linux installations remain the tech equivalent of playing Russian roulette with your sanity. Nothing quite matches the spiritual journey of watching a terminal spew 47 cryptic error messages because you dared to install a PDF reader. The dream of a seamless Linux installation continues to be just that—a dream. Meanwhile, dependency hell has become our permanent address and "it works on my machine" remains the most devastating lie in computing.

The Three Unforgivable Commands
Databases Security Devops Git Programming
3 days ago 53.8K views 0 shares
The Three Unforgivable Commands
Ah, the unholy trinity of developer nightmares presented as dark magic symbols! These three commands represent career-ending mistakes that haunt the dreams of tech professionals: DROP DATABASE - The database equivalent of a tactical nuke. One second your data exists, the next second your resume is being updated. rm -rf /* - The Linux command that says "I'd like everything on this system deleted, please and thank you." Hope you enjoyed having files! git push --force - The team collaboration destroyer. Nothing says "my code is more important than everyone else's work" quite like overwriting the shared repository history. Execute any of these in production without a backup, and you might as well start practicing the phrase "Would you like fries with that?"

Work Needs To Be Done
Devops Networking Linux Debugging Cloud
10 days ago 74.5K views 0 shares
Work Needs To Be Done
Oh look, it's the miracle of modern IT support! While normal humans with ChatGPT are diligently writing things down or having professional meetings, the random IT guy at 3am is out in the digital cotton fields, violently beating the servers with a stick while his colleagues bend over in submission. This is the untold reality of system administration - when everything crashes at ungodly hours, there's no elegant solution. Just three sleep-deprived techs in a field of crashed servers, one wielding the sacred Stick of Rebooting while the others present their backends to the gods of uptime. And they say programming is all about elegant algorithms and clean code. Ha! Sometimes it's just percussive maintenance and prayer.