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Thinking Ahead: Modern Developer Edition
Hardware Gamedev Programming
1 month ago 161.5K views 0 shares
Thinking Ahead: Modern Developer Edition
Previous generation at 23: "Let's buy a house and plan for our growing family!" Developers at 33: "If I save $100 a month, I might afford that GPU that'll be obsolete before I finish typing this sentence." Nothing says "I've made it" quite like calculating how many Cup Noodles you need to skip to afford hardware that'll run your poorly optimized code slightly faster. Financial planning at its finest!

Just One More Year I Can Feel It
Webdev Programming Frontend Backend
2 months ago 177.8K views 0 shares
Just One More Year I Can Feel It
Ah, the annual domain renewal dilemma! That moment when you're faced with two buttons: admit your side project is as dead as a COBOL mainframe, or fork over another $12 to keep the dream on life support. We've all got that dusty GitHub repo with three commits from 2019 that was going to "revolutionize" something, but instead just revolutionized our domain registrar's profit margins. The sweating intensifies as you think, "This is definitely the year I'll finish my revolutionary URL shortener that somehow also mines cryptocurrency!" *clicks renewal button*

My Computer Costs More Than My Flat
Hardware Webdev Programming StackOverflow
2 months ago 120.4K views 0 shares
My Computer Costs More Than My Flat
Priorities, people! A $1500 multi-monitor setup with a gaming chair that costs more than the mattress you sleep on? That's just good financial planning. Nothing says "professional developer" like sleeping on what appears to be a $20 floor mattress while your gaming throne costs $50. And let's not even talk about the glorious tech setup that probably costs more than three months' rent. Who needs food or a proper bed when you can have three monitors to display your Stack Overflow tabs, compiler errors, and that one terminal window where you pretend to understand what's happening?