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The Great Image Format Drowning Contest
Webdev Javascript Frontend
8 days ago 167.4K views 0 shares
The Great Image Format Drowning Contest
The image format wars continue, and poor JPEG XL is drowning while Google lifts WebP to safety. Meanwhile, FLIF sits forgotten at the bottom of the ocean like the forgotten artifact it is. For those not in the know, JPEG XL was supposed to be the next-gen savior of image compression, but Google decided to push their own WebP format instead. FLIF (Free Lossless Image Format) had impressive compression but sank into obscurity faster than that skeleton reached the seabed. Nothing says "tech industry" quite like watching promising open standards die while corporate-backed alternatives thrive for no technical reason whatsoever.

Our Code, Comrade
Microsoft Git Windows Programming Linux
1 month ago 194.8K views 0 shares
Our Code, Comrade
Ah yes, Microsoft's subtle propaganda equating open source with communism—because sharing code is clearly a gateway drug to full-blown Marxism. The irony is delicious considering Microsoft now claims to "❤️ open source" while historically viewing it as an existential threat. Nothing says capitalism like paying $7.5 billion for GitHub, the world's largest communist code repository. In Soviet Russia, code commits you!

Make Webdev Great Again
Webdev Javascript Frontend
5 months ago 132.5K views 0 shares
Make Webdev Great Again
Finally, an executive order I can get behind! The dream of every frontend developer who's spent hours fighting with WordPress's labyrinthine plugin system and mysterious database errors. Next up: banning jQuery and declaring all websites must be static HTML files hosted on GitHub Pages. The revolution will be minified and gzipped!

People Just Want Freedom
Networking Security
5 months ago 172.7K views 0 shares
People Just Want Freedom
The digital world's version of "the grass is always greener." Chinese netizens tunneling through firewalls to post on Twitter while Americans are setting up digital disguises to doom-scroll TikTok dances. It's like we're all sneaking into each other's digital prisons while our governments play whack-a-mole with our IP addresses. The ultimate irony of internet freedom—we're all just trying to access what the other side has blocked. Next up: North Koreans using VPNs to check their LinkedIn notifications.

Executive Order
Git Webdev Devops Typescript Javascript
6 months ago 213.5K views 0 shares
Executive Order
This meme is playing on the Git version control system's terminology where the default branch was traditionally called "master" before many organizations changed it to "main" for more inclusive language. The joke suggests an executive order to revert back to using "master" branch, presented as if it's a controversial political decree. Perfect for developers who've lived through the Great Branch Rename Drama of 2020 and still have strong opinions about it. The real comedy is that some devs probably spent more time arguing about branch names than actually writing code!