The Worst She Can Say Is No

LinkedIn tells you that you appeared in 367 searches this week, but somehow those 367 recruiters all ghosted you. The job market in a nutshell - companies desperately "searching" for talent while developers desperately search for companies that actually respond to applications. It's like a dating app where everyone swipes right but nobody messages first.

The eternal battle between Big-Endian (BE) and Little-Endian (LE) processors, illustrated perfectly by... people walking upside down? For the uninitiated: endianness determines how bytes are ordered in memory. Big-endian puts the most significant byte first (like reading a number left-to-right), while little-endian puts the least significant byte first (reading right-to-left). The comic shows a BE person trying to communicate with an LE person who's literally upside down, speaking in reverse syntax: "Processor? Central the to way the me tell you could lost. I'm" and "Much! Very you thank." After 15 years in systems programming, I still have nightmares about debugging network protocols between different architectures. Nothing like spending three days tracking down a bug only to discover it's a byte-order issue. Endianness: the original "works on my machine" problem.

Ah, the sacred art of commit messages. The sign demands "Commit messages must contain actual information" while the developer mutters "If those kids could read they'd be very upset." Nothing quite captures the essence of developer rebellion like pushing code with messages like "fixed stuff," "it works now," and the ever-popular "some bug fixes." Sure, future-you will have absolutely no idea what changes were made or why, but present-you saved a whole 15 seconds not documenting properly. Brilliant strategy!

Content When you are a computer science student and everyone keeps giving you ideas for apps but you have to be nice them My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that ?

The circle of tech life in two panels. First, you cram quicksort implementations to pass coding interviews. Then years later, you're on the other side of the table torturing fresh grads with the same algorithms you've never used since your last interview. The true purpose of learning data structures isn't to use them—it's to gatekeep the industry with the same hazing ritual we all suffered through. The only sorting algorithm most of us use in real jobs is array.sort() anyway.

The four stages of developer grief: euphoria when your code finally works, the misguided confidence to "improve" it, the soul-crushing realization that you've unleashed 258 bugs, and finally the existential void where your will to code once lived. That moment between "it works!" and "let me refactor it" is the shortest-lived happiness in programming. It's like finding a $100 bill and immediately using it to buy lottery tickets. Pure self-sabotage, but we never learn.