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Just In Case Anyone Needs It
Networking Security Bash Windows
2 days ago 65.7K views 0 shares
Just In Case Anyone Needs It
The "fatherly advice" nobody asked for but everyone needs. Your browser's incognito mode is about as private as a glass bathroom stall. That DNS cache is keeping receipts of every site you visit, viewable with a simple ipconfig /displaydns command. For those who don't know, DNS (Domain Name System) resolves those human-readable URLs into IP addresses, and your computer helpfully stores this mapping locally. So while you think you're covering your tracks with incognito, your computer is still writing everything down like an overzealous secretary. Remember kids, ipconfig /flushdns is your friend. Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything...

The Newbie Asking For Help On X
StackOverflow Programming Debugging
13 days ago 64.9K views 0 shares
The Newbie Asking For Help On X
Asking for coding help on social media is like walking into a jungle full of predators. The cat (newbie) innocently asks about hunting mice (solving a simple problem), but gets bombarded with increasingly dangerous suggestions from the "experts." First the leopard dismisses the original approach entirely, then the tiger suggests deer (a completely different framework), and finally the lion recommends buffalos (an enterprise-level solution to a beginner problem). This is exactly what happens when you ask how to center a div and someone tells you to rewrite your entire app in Rust with a microservices architecture. The escalation is both hilarious and painfully accurate.

The Newbie Asking For Help On X
Programming Webdev React Javascript StackOverflow
14 days ago 95.7K views 0 shares
The Newbie Asking For Help On X
Asking for coding help on Twitter/X is like being a house cat who wants to hunt mice while surrounded by apex predators. The newbie asks an innocent question, and suddenly senior devs swoop in with increasingly complex alternatives that have nothing to do with the original problem. Junior: "How do I center a div?" 10x Engineer: "Nobody uses CSS anymore. Try this React component with styled-components." Staff Engineer: "Just migrate to Svelte." CTO: "We're rewriting everything in Rust and WebAssembly."

Senior Engineers Be Like
Programming Devops Agile Debugging
24 days ago 85.9K views 0 shares
Senior Engineers Be Like
Ask a senior engineer any technical question and watch the conditional answers flow like wine at a tech conference afterparty. "Should we use microservices?" It depends. "Is Redux overkill?" This depends. "Should we refactor now?" That depends. "What's the best programming language?" EVERYTHING DEPENDS. The universal truth of software engineering isn't some elegant algorithm or design pattern—it's the cosmic awareness that context is king and absolutes are for junior devs who haven't been burned enough yet.

Wow, Thanks For The Advice!
Security Windows StackOverflow Linux
1 month ago 79.0K views 0 shares
Wow, Thanks For The Advice!
The classic "just use Linux" response in its purest form. Someone desperately reaches out for antivirus recommendations, and the tech community's solution? "Common sense is the best antivirus" – right before watching them drown in malware. It's like telling someone who can't swim that "not drowning is the best swimming technique." Thanks for the life-changing wisdom, Reddit security experts! I'm sure that advice will come in handy when grandma clicks on that Nigerian prince email.

You Never Know When This Could Save Your Life
Windows Microsoft Programming Debugging
1 month ago 86.4K views 0 shares
You Never Know When This Could Save Your Life
The true wisdom of the ages isn't passed down in ancient texts—it's shared through keyboard shortcuts. Nothing says "I care about your future" like teaching someone to access their clipboard history with Win+V. That moment when you realize your entire programming career could've been saved from countless "where did I copy that snippet from?" panic attacks. The real parental guidance we needed wasn't about life choices or financial planning, but about how to recover that perfect code snippet you copied 5 items ago. The clipboard history feature might just be the most underutilized lifesaver in Windows—right up there with actually reading error messages.