What People Think vs What Programmers Actually Do

The evolutionary timeline of every software developer's soul, as told by SpongeBob characters. First comes Patrick—blissfully ignorant, writing spaghetti code and thinking "it works on my machine" is a valid defense. Then SpongeBob—bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, reading documentation, following best practices, and believing deadlines are realistic concepts. Finally, Squidward—the battle-hardened veteran who's seen too many legacy codebases, survived too many midnight deployments, and realized that every elegant solution today becomes tomorrow's technical debt. The transformation isn't a question of if, but when. Your optimism has an expiration date, and it's probably your next sprint planning meeting.

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That rusted, half-dead computer case is apparently all you need to run Linux. While Windows demands 16GB RAM and a quantum processor just to open a text file, Linux will happily boot on whatever archaeological artifact you've dug up from behind the shed. I've seen production servers running on hardware that belongs in the Smithsonian. That box probably outperforms half the cloud instances people are paying $50/month for. Just slap some Debian on it, SSH in from another continent, and watch it run for 7 years without rebooting.

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