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YouTube's Selective Enforcement Policy
Security Webdev Frontend
1 day ago 81.8K views 0 shares
YouTube's Selective Enforcement Policy
YouTube's bizarre priority system in action. Ignores the hellscape of AI misinformation, CP bots, and scam ads with a casual shrug. But spot an AdBlock user? Suddenly it's DEFCON 1 with spotlights and sirens. Classic corporate security theater - ignore the house fire but chase down the guy who didn't pay for the premium garden hose upgrade.

Life After You've Finally Built Your Dream PC
Hardware Programming
6 days ago 101.5K views 1 shares
Life After You've Finally Built Your Dream PC
Spent three months researching parts, another month waiting for GPU prices to drop, two weeks building and troubleshooting, and now you just... stare at it. The RGB looks nice I guess? Turns out the real dream was the obsessive parts comparison spreadsheets we made along the way. That moment when you realize you spent $3000 to do exactly what you were doing before: scrolling Reddit and occasionally opening VS Code to stare at that side project you'll "definitely finish someday."

The Audacity Of Non-Builders
AI Programming
7 days ago 135.3K views 0 shares
The Audacity Of Non-Builders
Classic Twitter thread where someone who's built absolutely nothing claims AI will replace programmers. First guy says a $200 ChatGPT subscription can replace $145k junior devs. Then a real developer steps in with the reality check: AI needs human supervision to prevent hallucinations and feature creep. When challenged to show what he's built, the AI doomsayer admits he hasn't actually created anything. That thumbs up at the end is just *chef's kiss* - nothing says "I'm qualified to predict the demise of your profession" like having zero experience in said profession.

Front End Vs Back End: The Eternal Tech Divide
Backend Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend
9 days ago 103.7K views 2 shares
Front End Vs Back End: The Eternal Tech Divide
Backend developers drawing their own crude solutions with a pen, while frontend devs ride in on majestic white horses looking like wizards from fantasy epics. The irony? Backend code powers everything but looks like it was scribbled by a toddler, while frontend is just there to make users go "ooooh pretty buttons" while secretly being held together with duct tape and Stack Overflow answers. Let's be honest though—both sides think the other has it easy. Meanwhile, full-stack developers are just over here trying to be both at once, probably looking like Gandalf riding a horse with a crayon in hand.

The Physical Manifestation Of Node_Modules
Hardware Webdev Javascript Programming
10 days ago 144.2K views 0 shares
The Physical Manifestation Of Node_Modules
When your code requires so many dependencies that even your power strip needs a power strip. This monstrosity with "66 AC outlets" is basically npm install visualized in hardware form. Perfect for that developer who thinks "yeah, I'll just add one more library" 47 times in a row. Your electricity bill will crash faster than an electron app with a memory leak.

Road To 8K Res
Hardware Gamedev Programming
20 days ago 114.2K views 0 shares
Road To 8K Res
The eternal struggle of chasing hardware upgrades! While everyone's hyping 8K resolution, some of us are still running the same potato hardware since the Clinton administration. It's like Moore's Law meets financial reality—your GPU budget is inversely proportional to your rent payments. That graphics card you're eyeing costs more than your first car, but hey, those extra pixels in Minecraft are totally worth it. Meanwhile your IDE still lags when you type too fast.

The Great Pyramid Of Overengineering
Programming AI Webdev Hardware Javascript
21 days ago 150.3K views 0 shares
The Great Pyramid Of Overengineering
Ancient Egyptians built massive pyramids with nothing but stone tools and manpower. Meanwhile, modern developers need sixteen JavaScript frameworks, three cloud subscriptions, and a $3000 MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM just to center a div. And they still complain about the Wi-Fi being slow.

Thanks To Zuck
Programming
23 days ago 134.3K views 0 shares
Thanks To Zuck
Startup founder: "We're disrupting healthcare! Join our mission!" Engineer: "I checked Crunchbase and my salary exceeds your entire funding round." The beautiful transparency of tech compensation data strikes again! Thanks to sites like Crunchbase (and indirectly to Zuckerberg's social networking revolution), engineers can now instantly verify if your "world-changing startup" can actually afford competitive compensation. No more trading actual money for equity in your "revolutionary" idea that's basically "Uber for bandaids." Pre-seed doesn't pay the bills, but FAANG salary certainly does!

Instant Developer Transformation
Programming Webdev MacOS
24 days ago 117.8K views 0 shares
Instant Developer Transformation
STOP EVERYTHING! The sacred texts have been revealed! 😱 Just buy an O'Reilly book called "Vibe Coding" and BOOM—instant developer transformation! No need for those pesky years of learning, debugging at 2AM, or crying over semicolons. Just own this magical tome with its wide-eyed cartoon character (who clearly hasn't experienced their first production bug yet), and you too can declare "I'm a Developer Now" with the confidence of someone who thinks HTML is a programming language! The audacity! The delusion! The absolute FANTASY of it all! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

New Title Same Paycheck
AI
1 month ago 76.5K views 0 shares
New Title Same Paycheck
Content You're the new tech lead nOW I'm getting paid like one too, right? @SeniorDeveloper I'm going to be paid like a tech lead too, right?

Even The Used Market Is Getting Expensive
Hardware MacOS Apple
1 month ago 210.4K views 0 shares
Even The Used Market Is Getting Expensive
A masterful historical burn. The meme references Marie Antoinette's infamous "let them eat cake" quote when told the peasants had no bread, showcasing her disconnection from reality. Similarly, suggesting Macs as an alternative to expensive GPUs is equally out of touch—like recommending a $2000+ computer known for mediocre gaming performance to someone who can't afford a graphics card. It's the tech equivalent of suggesting caviar to someone who can't afford ramen.

The Endless GPU Announcement Cycle
Hardware
1 month ago 155.4K views 0 shares
The Endless GPU Announcement Cycle
The GPU enthusiast cycle in its natural habitat. Top panel: Some guy excitedly showing off his NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti graphics card like it's the second coming of silicon Jesus. Bottom panel: His jaded friend, utterly exhausted from hearing about it for the 10th year running. Hardware forums are basically this on repeat. "Look at my new RX 7900! It's got 24GB VRAM!" Meanwhile, everyone else is thinking, "Great, another person who spent their life savings on a fancy rectangle that'll be obsolete in 18 months."