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Dark Mode: The Original Vintage Filter

8 days ago 62.2K views 0 shares

Microsoft invented dark mode before it was cool—they just called it "Windows 98." While the rest of us were squinting at blinding white interfaces, Windows veterans were bathing in that sweet gray-on-darker-gray aesthetic since the Clinton administration. Fast forward to Windows 11 with its sleek blues and rounded corners looking at 98 like "who's your daddy?" The real irony? We spent decades escaping that "dated" look only to circle back and call it "ergonomic" and "eye-friendly." Congrats hipsters, you've reinvented floppy disks and dial-up modems are probably next.

If It Was Written Today...

AI Programming Debugging

10 days ago 70.1K views 0 shares

The quill pen of yesterday becomes the AI assistant of today. In the original scene, Harry writes "My name is Harry Potter" and Tom Riddle's diary responds. Now it's ChatGPT introducing itself instead - completing the perfect metaphor for modern programming. Ten years ago we'd spend hours debugging regex. Now we just ask an AI to write it. Magic? Maybe. But like Tom Riddle's diary, I can't help wondering what part of our soul we're trading for this convenience. Remember when we had to actually understand how things worked? Those were dark times. Terrible, yes... but great.

Was Vibe Coding Before It Was Cool

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

15 days ago 105.3K views 0 shares

The evolution of "vibe coding" is hilariously captured here! The top shows modern vibe coding with trendy tools: starting with Astro (that sunburst logo), moving to Bun (the orange squares), and finally to Svelte (the sleek green wave). Meanwhile, the bottom panel shows the OG vibe coding: outsourcing to India with those global connection lines. Basically, your hipster friend bragging about their tech stack is just reinventing what companies figured out 20 years ago—except instead of "leveraging global talent," they're installing npm packages while sipping oat milk lattes. The circle of dev life continues!

Time Traveler's Guide To GPU Evolution

Hardware Gamedev Windows

16 days ago 58.3K views 0 shares

Going to prison in 2009: GTX 480 was cutting edge. Coming back in 2023: "DLSS? Ray tracing? 40-series? Is this even the same planet?" The hardware acceleration gap hits harder than prison food. At least in jail you expect to get stabbed - graphics card prices these days are the real crime.

The JavaScript Framework Apocalypse

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21 days ago 107.8K views 0 shares

The evolution of web development in four panels! Started with the innocent dream of "build the internet" - so pure, so simple. Then we added some HTML/CSS because, you know, websites should look pretty. But then... oh no... the JavaScript framework apocalypse struck! Now we're all frantically learning 17 new frameworks before breakfast just to stay employable. Remember when you could just FTP a single HTML file to a server and call it a day? Now you need 4GB of node_modules to display "Hello World". The modern web: where your simple todo app requires more computing power than NASA used to reach the moon.

The Heroic Evolution Of Saving The World

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23 days ago 60.3K views 0 shares

The Heroic Evolution Of Saving The World

Ah yes, the generational divide in heroism. Grandpa's out there in actual trenches with tanks, while we're fighting the good fight with print("Hello World") . Nothing says "saving humanity" quite like your first program that displays text on a screen. The bar has dropped so low you could trip over it, but hey – at least our debugging injuries are limited to carpal tunnel and eyestrain. War... war has changed. Now it's just us vs. syntax errors at 3 AM, heroically fueled by energy drinks and stackoverflow answers from 2011.

Why Apps Are 20 Times Bigger With Zero New Features

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1 month ago 76.0K views 0 shares

Why Apps Are 20 Times Bigger With Zero New Features

THE AUDACITY of modern apps! 😱 While society warns us not to ask women their age or men their salary, the REAL taboo question is asking developers why their precious app now requires 4GB when it used to fit on a floppy disk! 💾 Apparently, adding seventeen new frameworks, fourteen analytics libraries, and enough JavaScript to sink a battleship is TOTALLY necessary to display "Hello World" these days. But heaven forbid you get one extra button! That's scheduled for next year's bloatware update! 🙄

Web Development: Then Vs. Now

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1 month ago 116.6K views 0 shares

Remember when web development meant just grabbing your Laravel briefcase and heading out the door? Fast forward to today, and you're drowning in a sea of frameworks and libraries! SpongeBob perfectly captures the evolution from the simpler "Then" days with just Laravel to the chaotic "Now" where you're bombarded with Express.js, Next.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, multiple Node.js versions, and React with its infinity symbol (because the learning curve truly never ends). It's like going from carrying a single briefcase to juggling flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle. The thousand-yard stare in modern SpongeBob's eyes is the universal expression of every developer who just wanted to update a simple dependency and ended up rebuilding their entire tech stack.

Nah We Have Google Bard

AI Webdev Programming

1 month ago 91.5K views 0 shares

The evolution of developer excuses is a beautiful thing to witness. In 2000, power outages were the go-to alibi. By 2012, we blamed flaky internet connections. But 2024? We've reached peak dependency – "Sorry boss, ChatGPT is down so my coding abilities have mysteriously vanished." Let's be honest, how many of us have secretly copy-pasted AI-generated code directly into production? The uncomfortable truth is that modern development sometimes feels like being a professional prompt engineer with Stack Overflow as backup. And the title? "Nah We Have Google Bard" just confirms we always have a backup AI to blame our productivity on!

I Don't Want To Learn Rust

Rust Golang Programming

1 month ago 98.6K views 0 shares

The circle of tech life is complete. Remember judging your parents for saying "what's a browser?" Now here we are, staring at Rust's borrow checker like it's quantum physics written in hieroglyphics. After 15 years of coding, I've evolved from "I can learn any language!" to "Does this new framework spark joy? No? Then it's dead to me." The tech fatigue is real - we've all become the very technophobes we swore to replace.

Don't Know What's This Vibe Coding Thing Is

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1 month ago 88.8K views 0 shares

Don't Know What's This Vibe Coding Thing Is

The eternal struggle of tech evolution: that moment when a new framework/language drops and suddenly everyone's talking about it like it's been around forever. Meanwhile, you're sitting there wondering if "vibe coding" is some revolutionary paradigm that will make your code emit positive energy, or just another JavaScript library that'll be obsolete by Tuesday. The fear is real. Ask about it and expose yourself as a tech dinosaur? Or nod knowingly while frantically Googling under the table? We've all been there—silently adding it to the mountain of tech debt in our brains while hoping no one asks us to implement it in the next sprint.

Coding Before And After AI

AI Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

1 month ago 103.5K views 0 shares

The railroad tracks of progress have certainly gotten more complex! On the left, we have the traditional straight-line coding path—simple, predictable, and takes you 5 hours to reach a single destination. On the right, the AI-assisted coding multiverse with infinite possibilities, chaotic intersections, and enough track switches to give a train conductor an existential crisis. Sure, you'll build your app in 5 minutes with AI, but then spend the next 4 hours and 55 minutes figuring out which of the 47 different generated solutions actually works without summoning digital Cthulhu to your codebase. The real question: are we moving faster or just creating more impressive train wrecks?

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