Love When Someone With A Business Degree Tells Me How To Do My Job

The AUDACITY of someone asking if you're coding while you're in the TRENCHES preparing for the apocalypse that is RTO! Like, excuse me?! I've got five monitors set up, seventeen contingency plans for when my VPN inevitably fails, and I'm practicing looking productive on camera while secretly updating my resume. Return to office isn't a policy—it's a HOSTAGE SITUATION. The only code I'm writing is the one that calculates how many sick days I can take before HR notices. The WFH paradise is crumbling and you want me to debug your function? THE HORROR!

When you join a project mid-development and everyone keeps referencing some "Blackbeard" library that's not in the documentation, codebase, or even on Google. Is it a framework? An inside joke? A developer who quit? By week three, you've built your entire understanding around this mysterious entity, and now it's way too late to admit you have no clue what they're talking about. Just smile and nod while frantically searching Stack Overflow at 2 AM.

When you need to reverse a number's sign but decide to take the scenic route through Absurdistan... This function is the programming equivalent of using a nuclear submarine to cross a puddle. The code checks if d is negative, then uses Abs() to make it positive (reasonable). But if it's positive? It subtracts d*2 from itself—a galaxy-brain approach to multiplication by -1. What makes this truly horrifying is that this overcomplicated monstrosity was part of the UK Post Office's Horizon system that led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of postal workers. Real people went to jail because someone couldn't write d = -d . The tragic irony? The comment literally shows the correct solution right above the function. It's like putting "just use stairs" in the elevator manual, then designing a catapult instead.

Content Can you write good commit messages? Every developer can. Not all devs can, Laxman!

The developer equivalent of "Sorry, I wrote this code on a Friday at 4:55 PM." Instead of implementing responsive design (you know, that thing we've been doing for over a decade), this brave soul just slapped a "Go to desktop" message with the most honest excuse in web development history. Somewhere, a UI/UX designer is having heart palpitations while a product manager frantically adds "mobile responsiveness" to next sprint's backlog. Revolutionary approach to work-life balance though!

Content 2FEED Can't fall asleep, huh? No, not really. What if it's because the sleep servers are full right now? And when you fall asleep, it's because someone else woke up from their sleep? ProgrammerHumor.