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Are You Sure About That Career Choice?
Programming Debugging
4 hours ago 44.7K views 0 shares
Are You Sure About That Career Choice?
Tell someone you want to be a doctor, and they'll throw you a party. Tell them you want to be a programmer, and they'll start planning your funeral. The coding life comes with its own special blend of caffeine addiction, existential Stack Overflow searches at 2AM, and the crushing realization that your entire career will be spent fixing problems that wouldn't exist without programmers in the first place. But hey, at least we get to wear the same hoodie five days in a row without judgment!

Senior Dev With No Idea
Programming Webdev Frontend Backend
7 days ago 57.3K views 0 shares
Senior Dev With No Idea
From "senior dev with 18 years experience" to "no idea" about actual coding skills in 7 minutes flat. Nothing captures the tech industry's impostor syndrome epidemic quite like this. The beautiful irony of someone who abandoned actual programming to become a "vibe coder" (whatever that is) and still can't assess their own abilities. It's the career equivalent of putting "proficient in Microsoft Word" on your resume but not knowing how to change the font.

Sunday: The Developer's Day Of Rest And Regret
Programming Webdev Devops
8 days ago 51.2K views 0 shares
Sunday: The Developer's Day Of Rest And Regret
Parents: "Study hard or you'll be a failure!" Meanwhile, software developers on Sunday: *sprawled on the ground with a beer* living their best life while making six figures. The kid's comeback is pure genius. Why stress about homework when you can stress about production deployments instead? At least the latter pays for your alcohol therapy.

Too Competitive: The Dev Job Market Emotional Rollercoaster
Programming Webdev Git
15 days ago 82.4K views 0 shares
Too Competitive: The Dev Job Market Emotional Rollercoaster
The dev job market in four emotional stages: 1. Mild confidence : "I know 6 languages? That's decent, right?" 2. Excited overconfidence : "30 GitHub projects?! I'm basically a 10x developer at this point!" 3. Nuclear meltdown mode : *Frantically scrolling LinkedIn* "Wait, they want 12 years experience in a 5-year-old framework?!" 4. Existential despair : *Staring into the void* "10,000 applicants... one position... my resume is probably being used as digital scratch paper." The tech hiring funnel: where your impostor syndrome gets validated by actual numbers.

Mom's Career Advice Paradox
Programming Webdev Frontend Backend
18 days ago 70.3K views 0 shares
Mom's Career Advice Paradox
The beautiful irony that parents never saw coming. While mom lectures about how computer time won't lead to employment, software engineers are silently making six figures by... *checks notes*... staying on computers all day. That awkward monkey puppet side-eye perfectly captures the internal dialogue: "Should I tell her that's literally my entire job description, or just nod and go back to my 'useless' coding?" The greatest generational plot twist since discovering avocado toast doesn't actually prevent homeownership.

Steps To Frontend Developer Despair
Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging
23 days ago 96.9K views 0 shares
Steps To Frontend Developer Despair
BEHOLD! The most accurate frontend development roadmap ever created! 🔥 First, you innocently learn some HTML thinking "how hard could this be?" Then BAM! Your forehead meets desk as you discover that centering a div is apparently rocket science. You crawl back to learn CSS, only to spiral into an existential crisis wondering why you didn't become a farmer instead. The JavaScript part? That's where your soul actually leaves your body. And the BEST part? This glorious cycle of head-slamming and life-questioning becomes your daily ritual! Frontend development isn't a career—it's a commitment to professional self-torture with pretty UI as the consolation prize!

Impostor Syndrome: The Unwanted Career Companion
Programming Webdev Debugging
27 days ago 64.4K views 0 shares
Impostor Syndrome: The Unwanted Career Companion
Five years of professional coding experience and still googling how to center a div? Completely normal. The eternal impostor syndrome hits different in tech—where yesterday's expert is today's confused newbie thanks to some random framework update. You could be architecting complex systems by day and questioning if you even belong in the industry by night. The cognitive dissonance is just part of the job description they conveniently left out of the offer letter.

You Have Lots Of Knowledge
Programming StackOverflow
1 month ago 69.0K views 0 shares
You Have Lots Of Knowledge
Four years of programming and suddenly you're an "expert." The cat's face says it all – that mix of panic and impostor syndrome when someone mistakes your Stack Overflow copy-paste skills for actual knowledge. Truth is, after four years you've just figured out how much you don't know. The real experts are too busy fixing production outages caused by junior devs who thought they knew everything after their bootcamp.

How People Will Remember Your Developer Legacy
Programming Devops Git Debugging Testing
1 month ago 95.8K views 0 shares
How People Will Remember Your Developer Legacy
The harsh truth of developer legacy! While you're grinding away with 80-hour weeks, stress migraines, and that fancy "Senior Architecture Solutions Engineer" title, the only thing your colleagues will actually remember is that one fateful git push -f that took down the payment system during Black Friday. Your technical brilliance? Forgotten. That time you debugged a race condition at 2AM? Nobody cares. But accidentally merge a single undefined variable to production, and suddenly you're immortalized in company folklore as "that person who cost us $2M in 15 minutes." The dev version of "you build a thousand bridges, but you **** ONE goat..."

Sounds Like Irony
Programming Webdev StackOverflow Debugging
2 months ago 122.5K views 0 shares
Sounds Like Irony
THE AUDACITY! This poor soul thought they were escaping the legal labyrinth only to land in the coding HELLSCAPE of Stack Overflow arguments, conflicting documentation, and StackOverflow answers from 2011 that somehow still work but nobody knows why! 💀 Traded one nightmare for another - avoiding legal jargon just to spend eternity debating whether tabs or spaces are superior while three different package managers fight to the death on your hard drive. The cosmic joke of career choices!