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Blameless Does Not Mean Nameless

Devops Networking Programming Debugging Cloud

8 days ago 156.5K views 0 shares

Blameless Does Not Mean Nameless

The office wall of shame has spoken! While Spoingus gets a gold star for reviewing 12 PRs (what a tryhard), poor Bingus has achieved infamy by accidentally taking down Cloudflare. We've all been there – one tiny config change, one misplaced semicolon, and suddenly half the internet is screaming. The best part? Everyone knows exactly who to blame when the status page turns red. Your "blameless postmortem" culture means nothing when your photo is literally pinned to the wall under "Naughty." Career advancement strategy: break stuff so spectacularly they have to promote you to fix it.

The Power Outage Betrayal

Windows Microsoft Programming Debugging

9 days ago 83.7K views 0 shares

The Power Outage Betrayal

Oh. My. GAWD. That moment when you're all innocent, just casually turning on your PC after a power outage like it's NO BIG DEAL, and then BAM! Your computer BETRAYS YOU with that dreaded blue recovery screen! 😱 One second you're skipping along, blissfully unaware that your entire digital existence is about to IMPLODE, and the next second Windows is screaming that your kernel is missing! MISSING! Like it went on vacation without telling you! The audacity! The DRAMA! And that error code? It might as well say "Your weekend plans? CANCELLED. You'll be reinstalling your OS and sobbing into your keyboard instead!"

Zero Days Since Power Supply Sacrifice

Hardware Iot Programming Debugging

16 days ago 81.1K views 1 shares

Zero Days Since Power Supply Sacrifice

That moment when your 12V high-power supply becomes a molten puddle... again . Hardware engineers know the pain of watching expensive power components turn into modern art because someone connected the wrong polarity or tried to draw 20 amps from a 5 amp supply. The perpetually reset counter is basically a monument to our collective hubris—thinking "this time I've triple-checked everything" right before the magic smoke escapes. The poor dog breaking through the wall has seen this disaster so many times it's developed PTSD. Zero days of electrical safety achievement unlocked!

Crisis Management: Developer Edition

Security Networking Devops Programming Databases

1 month ago 170.4K views 0 shares

Crisis Management: Developer Edition

Ah, corporate spin at its finest! This is the corporate PR team's playbook for turning catastrophic failures into marketing opportunities. "Customer data has been securely deleted" is just chef's kiss euphemism for "we lost everything and have no backups." My favorite is "community-driven stress testing" – because nothing says "we value our community" like letting them discover all the ways your code can spectacularly fail in production. After 15 years in this industry, I've written enough of these emails to recognize art when I see it. Remember folks, it's not "getting hacked" – it's just "backup powered by our volunteers" (aka random people on the dark web).

Shattered Dreams And Tempered Glass

Hardware Windows

2 months ago 175.5K views 0 shares

Shattered Dreams And Tempered Glass

Fancy tempered glass PC cases? Hard pass. Give me that boring beige box any day. Nothing says "I've been burned before" like choosing practicality over aesthetics after spending hours picking glass shards out of your $3000 gaming rig. The real flex isn't RGB lighting—it's having a PC that survives when your cat decides to parkour across your desk.

The Friday Deploy And Goodbye

Devops Programming Debugging Testing

5 months ago 164.0K views 0 shares

The Friday Deploy And Goodbye

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of pushing code on Friday! 💅 That smiling face walking away from the NUCLEAR EXPLOSION that is the production server?! That's the face of someone who just dropped a ticking time bomb and is now skipping off to weekend margaritas while the on-call team's phones MELT INTO OBLIVION! It's the ultimate "not my problem anymore" energy that only comes from either COMPLETE PSYCHOPATHY or your literal last day at the company. The production server is basically SCREAMING IN AGONY while this monster casually strolls away like they didn't just commit a war crime against DevOps!

Keeps Those Laptop Temps Down

Hardware

6 months ago 136.4K views 0 shares

Keeps Those Laptop Temps Down

When your gaming laptop hits 90°C and the warranty doesn't cover "acts of stupidity." That moment when you've tried everything—closing Chrome tabs, elevating the laptop, praying to the silicon gods—and then you remember that ancient cooling technique from the Paleolithic era. Sure, squirting water directly onto electronics is basically baptizing your motherboard into the church of permanent damage, but hey, at least you'll have those 3 seconds of reduced temperature before the smoke signals start!

The Digital Disaster Artist

Devops AI Security Microsoft Programming

8 months ago 294.1K views 0 shares

The Digital Disaster Artist

When your resume is just a list of tech companies that imploded right after you left. Nothing suspicious here, folks. Just a trail of digital catastrophes following this person like a shadow. Netflix sports streaming that doesn't exist yet, CrowdStrike's Windows update disaster, Google's Gemini historical figure fiasco, Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and FTX's crypto meltdown. Hiring managers will definitely not notice this pattern of working at companies right before they face existential crises. Solid career strategy - join, collect paycheck, abandon ship, repeat.