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Solo Dev In A Trench Coat
Programming Webdev Devops Debugging Frontend
13 days ago 181.6K views 0 shares
Solo Dev In A Trench Coat
The raccoon in a trench coat perfectly captures that moment when your startup can't afford a proper dev team, so you're frantically switching between frontend, backend, DevOps, and UI/UX roles while pretending to investors you have an actual engineering department. Let's be honest—we've all been that raccoon, frantically cobbling together Stack Overflow answers at 3AM while wearing different hats and hoping nobody notices we're just one sleep-deprived developer running on caffeine and desperation. The trench coat isn't fooling anyone, but neither is your "we'll scale that feature in the next sprint" promise.

Life In A Startup: The Endless Pivot Nightmare
Agile Devops Programming
1 month ago 92.8K views 0 shares
Life In A Startup: The Endless Pivot Nightmare
Oh sweet mother of all that is holy in tech! 😩 The CEO beaver is having another "visionary moment" while the developer beaver is just BEGGING for stability! The absolute TRAUMA of hearing "I have big plans" for the 47th time this quarter! Meanwhile, the developer's soul is actively leaving their body as they contemplate how they'll rewrite the ENTIRE codebase AGAIN because someone read a Medium article about microservices over breakfast! The eternal startup cycle of build, pivot, cry, repeat!

We All Been There
Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend
2 months ago 111.0K views 0 shares
We All Been There
Ah, the classic "build it and they will come" fallacy in its purest form! Some bearded tech wizard with fancy headphones coding away in complete isolation, creating what he thinks users want without bothering to ask a single one. The ultimate developer fantasy - no pesky user feedback to ruin your perfect vision! Sure, the product will be a spectacular failure that solves problems nobody has, but at least the architecture is technically brilliant . Who needs market research when you have caffeine and confidence?

Part Of The Ship, Part Of The Crew
Devops Programming Debugging Databases Frontend
3 months ago 107.5K views 0 shares
Part Of The Ship, Part Of The Crew
Startup life in a nutshell! You sign up thinking you'll be one cog in a well-oiled machine, but three weeks in you're suddenly the entire engineering department, DevOps team, and occasional office plant waterer. Nothing says "career growth" like frantically Googling how to configure AWS while simultaneously fixing production bugs and pitching to investors. The classic startup journey: from "I'm not in the team" to "I AM the team" faster than you can say "we're pivoting our business model." The only thing missing from this meme is the haunted look in your eyes when someone asks "who's handling the database migration?"

The Life Of A Startup Programmer
Cloud Devops Docker Programming Frontend
3 months ago 144.4K views 0 shares
The Life Of A Startup Programmer
Ah, the classic startup life where your job description is "everything." Big companies have entire departments managing cloud infrastructure, but at startups? You're not just wearing multiple hats—you're the entire hat factory. Nothing says "we're disrupting the industry" quite like one sleep-deprived developer frantically Googling "how to AWS" at 3 AM while simultaneously being the backend team, frontend team, DevOps engineer, and the guy who fixes the coffee machine. Your LinkedIn says "Full Stack Developer" but your reality is "Full Panic Mode." Bonus points if you've ever uttered the phrase "it works on my machine" to yourself because there's literally no one else to say it to.