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Overtime Is Not Optional
Programming Devops Agile
3 hours ago 59.0K views 0 shares
Overtime Is Not Optional
Enterprise companies approach programming like a well-organized Roman legion: structured, methodical, with proper formations and standardized processes. You've got your sprint planning ceremonies, your code reviews, your compliance meetings, and everyone marching in sync to the quarterly roadmap. Startups? Pure chaos. It's like Mad Max meets Vikings on motorcycles in a burning hellscape. No processes, no structure—just raw survival mode where everyone's doing everything at once. Frontend dev suddenly becomes DevOps engineer at 2 AM because the production server is on fire. The PM is writing SQL queries. The designer is debugging backend code. And yes, overtime isn't just expected—it's basically your default state of existence. The organized army gets defeated by the scrappy raiders every time in tech history. Turns out moving fast and breaking things (including your sleep schedule) sometimes wins the war.

No Matter The Situation Never Forget To Push The Code
Git Devops Programming
2 days ago 196.0K views 0 shares
No Matter The Situation Never Forget To Push The Code
Someone actually printed out fire evacuation instructions for developers, and honestly? This should be OSHA-mandated at every tech company. The priorities are crystal clear: SAVE YOUR CODE (with helpful keyboard shortcuts because who has time to use the mouse during an inferno?), commit with "WIP before fire", push to origin master—because production on a Friday is one thing, but production during a literal emergency is peak developer dedication—and THEN, only after your precious code is safely in the cloud, you may consider leaving the burning building. The fact that "Leave building immediately" is step 4 really captures the developer mindset. Your code is immortal; you are replaceable. The building might be engulfed in flames, but losing those uncommitted changes? That's the real tragedy. Plus, imagine explaining to your team lead why you didn't push before evacuating. "Sorry, I was too busy not dying" isn't gonna cut it in the sprint retrospective.

Yes, Of Course
Agile Programming
4 days ago 253.9K views 0 shares
Yes, Of Course
Project manager: "Are you playing your backlog?" Developer, sweating profusely while hiding seventeen Steam tabs: "YES, absolutely! I'm VERY dedicated to clearing that backlog!" Plot twist: The backlog in question is not Jira tickets but the 247 unplayed games sitting in their Steam library collecting digital dust. Yesterday's "research" budget went straight to the Summer Sale, and now they're strategically planning which indie roguelike to ignore next while pretending to work on sprint goals. The duality of developer existence—one backlog brings shame and standups, the other brings joy and crippling choice paralysis. Both remain eternally unfinished.

Within Each Programmer
Programming Webdev
5 days ago 180.5K views 1 shares
Within Each Programmer
Every single developer is locked in an EPIC internal battle between the responsible wolf who whispers "steady paycheck, health insurance, retirement plan" and the absolutely FERAL entrepreneurial wolf screaming "BUILD THAT TODO APP WITH BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION THAT WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE THE WORLD THIS TIME!" Spoiler alert: the second wolf has a GitHub graveyard of 47 unfinished projects and still thinks THIS one will be different. The first wolf is tired. So, so tired. But hey, at least it pays the bills while you dream about your SaaS empire during standup meetings.

Me Watching My Manager Commit My Next Three Weekends
Programming Agile Debugging Backend
7 days ago 288.9K views 0 shares
Me Watching My Manager Commit My Next Three Weekends
Ah yes, the classic dance of technical debt meeting client promises. Your manager's out here selling "quick fixes" like they're on QVC, while you're sitting there doing the mental math on how many architectural sins you'll have to atone for. The thing is, they're not wrong that it's a "simple" bug fix—if you ignore the spaghetti code, the lack of tests, the deprecated dependencies, and the fact that touching one line somehow breaks three unrelated features. Sure, slap a band-aid on it and call it done, or spend your weekends untangling the Gordian knot that is your codebase. Your choice! (Narrator: It wasn't a choice.) Nothing says "healthy work-life balance" quite like refactoring legacy code on a Saturday because someone promised the client a miracle by Monday. Time to update that LinkedIn profile.

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Work Life Balance
Programming Webdev
7 days ago 295.0K views 0 shares
Work Life Balance
The classic freelancer paradox: you escape the corporate grind thinking you'll finally have time for hobbies, friends, and maybe even touching grass. Plot twist—you're now your own boss, project manager, accountant, sales team, and support department all rolled into one. That 9-5 you hated? Turns out it had boundaries. Now you're debugging at breakfast, client calls during lunch, and deploying hotfixes at midnight because "just one more feature" turned into a complete architecture overhaul. The work-life balance you sought? It's perfectly balanced—100% work, 0% life. At least you can work in pajamas, right?

Guys What Do We Say About This
Programming
12 days ago 257.7K views 0 shares
Guys What Do We Say About This
So Tom Cruise is out here hanging off planes at 60 while programmers at 30 look like they've been hit by a bus full of merge conflicts. Sitting is the new smoking, they said. But nobody warned us that debugging legacy code while hunched over a laptop for 12 hours would turn our spines into pretzels and our backs into a symphony of chronic pain. Meanwhile, Tom's doing his own stunts and we can't even stand up from our Herman Miller chairs without sounding like a bowl of Rice Krispies. The occupational hazard of choosing a career where "getting physical" means aggressively typing on a mechanical keyboard. At least we have good health insurance... oh wait, we need it.

Guys What Do We Say About This
Programming
12 days ago 218.4K views 1 shares
Guys What Do We Say About This
We say it's accurate and we don't like it. Tom Cruise doing his own stunts at 60 while programmers are out here with the spine of a question mark and the posture of a shrimp emoji. Sitting in that Herman Miller chair you convinced yourself would fix everything, hunched over dual monitors debugging someone else's regex at 2 PM on a Tuesday. Your back gave out before your career did. Meanwhile Tom's hanging off planes and sprinting through explosions like his joints aren't held together by prayers and spite. The real kicker? We're supposedly the "knowledge workers" with the cushy jobs, but our bodies are paying the price like we've been mining coal for decades. Standing desks, yoga ball chairs, ergonomic keyboards—we've tried it all. Still end up looking like Gollum by 35. Fun fact: Studies show that sitting for more than 8 hours a day increases your risk of early death by 15%. But hey, at least we can work from home in our back braces.

Talk About Highly Motivated
Programming Agile
16 days ago 375.5K views 0 shares
Talk About Highly Motivated
Dude is literally in a hospital bed, hooked up to monitors, probably being told by nurses to rest, and he's still grinding on his laptop. Nothing says "sprint deadline" quite like coding through an IV drip. This is the developer equivalent of "I'll just push this hotfix real quick" except the only thing that needs fixing is his health. Production is down? So is his blood pressure. Critical bug? Critical condition. Same energy. The laptop stand rigged up with what looks like medical equipment is honestly peak engineering. Man turned his hospital bed into a standing desk. Or lying desk. Whatever. The hustle never stops, even when your body literally does.

We Don't Deploy On Friday
Devops Programming Debugging Backend Cloud
16 days ago 303.8K views 0 shares
We Don't Deploy On Friday
Friday deployments are the forbidden fruit of software development, and this developer just took a big ol' bite. Cruising along smoothly on a regular day? No problem! But the SECOND you decide to push that "deploy" button on a Friday afternoon, you've basically signed a blood oath to sacrifice your entire weekend to the bug gods. What could possibly go wrong, right? EVERYTHING. Everything can go wrong. Now instead of enjoying your Saturday brunch and Sunday Netflix binge, you're frantically SSH-ing into production servers at 2 AM in your pajamas, wondering why you didn't just wait until Monday like literally every senior dev warned you. The golden rule exists for a reason, folks—your weekend plans are NOT worth testing in production when nobody's around to help you clean up the mess.

Quick Tangent
Frontend Webdev Agile Programming
22 days ago 203.3K views 0 shares
Quick Tangent
Designer gets all excited about their shiny new feature. Tech lead takes one look at the design doc, immediately clocks out because they know what's coming. Meanwhile, the junior engineer is already spiraling into an existential nightmare trying to figure out how to actually implement this thing. That creepy SpongeBob wandering through the horror hallway? That's the junior dev's mental state after realizing the "simple" design requires refactoring half the codebase, learning three new frameworks, and probably sacrificing a rubber duck to the coding gods. The designer's enthusiasm is inversely proportional to the engineer's sanity. The tech lead already knows this dance. They've seen it a thousand times. That's why they're going home.

Diving Into New Projects Like...
Programming Git
1 month ago 205.2K views 0 shares
Diving Into New Projects Like...
Nothing says "I have my life together" quite like enthusiastically grabbing a shiny new project while standing on a mountain of abandoned repos. The excited kid reaching for the new project while literally drowning in unfinished work? That's not a meme, that's a documentary. You know what's wild? We convince ourselves this time will be different. This new framework, this side project, this rewrite—it's gonna be THE ONE. Meanwhile, your GitHub is a graveyard of "TODO: Add tests" commits from 2019. But hey, that new JavaScript framework that just dropped looks really promising, right? The real skill isn't finishing projects—it's justifying why starting another one is actually a strategic career move. "I'm learning the ecosystem," you say, as your 47th tutorial project joins the others in the void.