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Based On True Events

Programming

2 hours ago 21.5K views 0 shares

Based On True Events

Oh. My. GOD. The eternal love triangle of every developer's existence! Your code is LITERALLY collecting dust while you're busy watching cat videos and reorganizing your desk for the fifth time today. Meanwhile, actual programming is standing there, UTTERLY BETRAYED, wondering what it did to deserve this level of neglect! The audacity of us to call ourselves "pro" anything when we're professional avoiders of the very thing we're supposed to be doing! The relationship status between a developer and their actual work? It's complicated, honey. VERY complicated. 💅

One Video Then I Code

Programming Webdev

3 months ago 100.8K views 0 shares

One Video Then I Code

Started the day with a simple choice between coding and gaming. "Man what an easy choice," I thought, wiping my brow dramatically. But then YouTube entered the chat and suddenly I'm 47 videos deep into "Why Assembly Language Is Actually Beautiful" at 2AM with zero lines of code written. The productivity killer isn't the obvious distraction—it's the one that tricks you into thinking you're being productive while stealing your entire evening.

The Programmer's Emotional Rollercoaster

Programming Webdev Debugging

3 months ago 101.6K views 0 shares

The Programmer's Emotional Rollercoaster

The duality of a programmer's existence in one perfect meme. Scrolling through programming jokes? Pure joy. Actually sitting down to fix that bug that's been haunting you for days? Soul-crushing despair. Nothing captures the programmer experience quite like procrastinating by looking at memes about how hard programming is... instead of actually programming. The irony is not lost on me as I write this instead of fixing my own broken code.

When Management Forces You To Use AI

Programming Debugging

4 months ago 93.5K views 0 shares

When Management Forces You To Use AI

The modern developer's ultimate get-out-of-work card! When your manager catches you sword fighting with a coworker instead of fixing that critical production bug, just say your "code's vibing" and watch them back away slowly. It's the perfect excuse – vague enough to sound like you're doing something innovative, yet technical enough that no one wants to ask follow-up questions. Bonus points if you add "it's in a flow state" or "the algorithm is self-optimizing" while maintaining intense eye contact.

When The PR Says ASAP

Agile Devops Git Programming Testing

4 months ago 140.9K views 0 shares

When The PR Says ASAP

The eternal duality of developer urgency! Your product manager frantically messages: "Need this PR merged ASAP!!!" But what they don't realize is you've mastered the art of interpreting "ASAP" as "As Slow As Possible." Like Skeletor here, you'll confidently declare your alternative interpretation before quietly slipping away into the shadows. That urgent feature request? It'll be ready when it's ready... which coincidentally aligns perfectly with your existing plans to refactor that completely unrelated module first. The best part? When they finally catch up with you three sprints later, you can just blame it on "unexpected technical complexities" and "proper testing protocols." Checkmate, management.

Get Me That Report

Programming Agile

4 months ago 103.0K views 0 shares

Get Me That Report

Top panel: The face of pure dread when looking at actual development tasks. Bottom panel: Suddenly perking up with interest when someone asks for a TPS report or some other administrative nonsense. It's the universal law of developer productivity - code feels like a chore until someone interrupts with something worse. Then miraculously, that refactoring task you've been avoiding for weeks looks like a sanctuary.

Divide And Ignore Algorithm

Agile Programming

4 months ago 96.3K views 0 shares

Divide And Ignore Algorithm

The classic developer approach to project management: break down that intimidating monolith into bite-sized chunks, then promptly ignore all of them. It's like refactoring your procrastination for maximum efficiency. The beauty is that now you can feel accomplished about organizing your avoidance rather than just avoiding one big thing. Task parallelization at its finest - distributing the guilt across multiple cores.

The Localhost Escape Hatch

Frontend Webdev Programming Python Debugging

5 months ago 154.7K views 0 shares

The Localhost Escape Hatch

The classic developer-client relationship in its natural habitat! Person A desperately asks "how can we fix this?" about some UI issue. Person B, clearly the developer, responds with a technical solution about rotating text 90 degrees vertical. Then comes the inevitable "Can you show that cell of code?" request because clients never trust that something might actually be complicated. And what happens? The developer goes silent, fires up Jupyter notebook on localhost, and dives into their actual interesting work instead. Nothing says "I'm done with this conversation" like sharing a localhost URL that nobody else can possibly access. Pure passive-aggressive developer poetry.