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Real Programming Must Be Painful
Python Math Programming
7 days ago 59.3K views 0 shares
Real Programming Must Be Painful
Ah, the eternal Python vs "real programming" debate! The stick figure is lamenting that Python doesn't make you "cool like a real programmer" while his friends completely ignore him—one's jamming on a guitar, another's coding import numpy as np , and the third is actually building something useful. This perfectly skewers the gatekeeping mindset that equates programming difficulty with value. Meanwhile, the Python user is quietly being productive with scientific computing libraries while the purist is stuck complaining about language superiority. The irony is delicious—the person claiming others aren't "real programmers" is the only one not creating anything!

The Eternal Burden Of Clarifying Your Ideas
Programming Algorithms Debugging
8 days ago 79.1K views 0 shares
The Eternal Burden Of Clarifying Your Ideas
Oh. My. GOD. The eternal programmer's nightmare captured in stick figure form! 😭 Left panel: "Science may discover immortality, but it won't happen in the next eighty years." Translation: We're all going to die before getting the good stuff. TYPICAL. Right panel: "You'll never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas." With the desperate plea "BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!" Honey, no programming language will EVER read your mind! The computer is just sitting there like "I literally cannot understand your vague gesturing and emotional sighs." The AUDACITY of having to explain yourself clearly! The HORROR of precise thinking! 💅

My Feelings Exactly
Git Devops Bash Programming
27 days ago 90.6K views 0 shares
My Feelings Exactly
Ah, Git. The tool we all praise in public and curse in private. The first panel is that classic tech presentation where someone's overselling Git with buzzwords like "distributed graph theory tree model" – as if that helps anyone understand it. Then comes the brutal truth bomb: nobody actually understands Git. We just memorize arcane incantations, pray they work, and when they inevitably fail, we resort to the time-honored tradition of nuking the repo and starting fresh. Twenty years in the industry and I still sometimes find myself thinking "git add, git commit, git push" and if that doesn't work... well, there's always rm -rf and clone again. Some tools you use; Git uses you.

Worth It
Programming Devops Bash Python
1 month ago 81.8K views 0 shares
Worth It
The galaxy brain moment when you convince yourself that spending 48 hours automating a task that takes 20 minutes is somehow "efficient." But let's be real—we're not doing it to save time. We're doing it because manually repeating the same task feels like psychological torture, and writing that script gives us the same dopamine hit as solving a puzzle. Sure, we'll never recoup those hours, but our fragile programmer ego can't handle the thought of doing something "the easy way." It's not laziness, it's... "future-proofing."