Reading Code I Wrote Years Ago

Content THE WORLD IF PEOPLE TAUGHT POINTERS AS SIMPLY JUST AN ADDRESS IN MEMORY

Nothing says "I am a god among mortals" quite like watching your colleague's code take 5 minutes to compile while yours finishes in 30 seconds. The hierarchy of power isn't determined by your job title or salary—it's measured in how many Chrome tabs you can have open without your computer begging for mercy. That smug feeling when someone complains about lag and you just nod sympathetically while silently flexing your 12-core processor is the true currency of the developer world.

Content People learning JavaScript: "I'll use array.sort) to sort this list of numbers!" JavaScript: 1, 100000, 21, 30, 4

A tragic love story between standard output and /dev/null. One streams data with emotional attachment, the other is literally designed to discard everything it receives without a trace. In Unix systems, redirecting to /dev/null is basically sending your output into a digital black hole. It's the relationship equivalent of talking to someone who's permanently on mute with their camera off during a Zoom call.

Content Does this page use Cookies? No, it doesn't. I just needed a place to rant about the European Cookie law. I mean, come on, did the politicians even understand how Cookies work? I hope they feel ashamed of how they introduced Cookie-popups to every single website, just when we figured out how to block ad popups. So, no, there are no Cookies on there.oughta.be - I just wanted to write that text above. What do you say? The privacy policy is exactly the one text nobody ever reads, so this rant is absolutely misplaced? Well, YOU are reading it right now, aren't you...

Content BirdSong 6 57m Java "Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption" 5