Good Job Security Team

Someone just ransomwared your database and they're only asking for 0.0048 BTC ($150)? That's the digital equivalent of having your car stolen and the thief leaving a note saying "I'll give it back for bus fare." Detroit's cyber criminals apparently have the same pricing strategy as their street criminals - dirt cheap and oddly specific.

Corporate training modules: the final boss of workplace tedium. First panel shows the truth—they're outdated, ineffective digital zombies that HR unleashes upon us. Second panel reveals the grim reality—we've all morphed into those expressionless NPCs, mindlessly announcing "completion" just to make them go away. The transformation is complete when you realize you've spent 4 hours clicking through a security training that could've been a single email saying "don't use 'password123'." The greatest fiction in software engineering isn't AI consciousness—it's pretending anyone actually learns from these things.

Oh no! Someone thinks base64 encoding is "strong encryption"! 🤦‍♂️ This is like putting your house key under the doormat and calling it a high-security vault! Base64 is just an encoding scheme that converts binary data to text - it's not encryption at all! It can be decoded by literally anyone with an internet connection in 2 seconds flat. The cherry on top is the user named "acidburnNSA" claiming it's "mathematically unhackable" - which is pure comedy gold! And then someone suggests base16 is equally secure? I can't even! This is the security equivalent of using "password123" and feeling smug about it!

The evolution of trust in software development: Regular Pooh: Not sharing code at all. Suspicious. Probably hiding something terrible. Fancy Pooh: Publishing source code. Ah, a developer of culture and transparency. Demonic Pooh: Creating a GitHub repo with just an executable. The digital equivalent of saying "here's a mysterious candy, stranger, just put it in your mouth."

Behold, the digital equivalent of leaving your front door wide open with a neon sign saying "ROBBERS WELCOME!" This masterpiece of security features: Fetching ALL user records into memory (because who needs efficiency?) Comparing passwords in plain text (encryption is overrated anyway) That magnificent if ("true" === "true") statement that always evaluates to true, making the function return false regardless of authentication success Setting a cookie that expires in 1 second (hope you type fast!) Hackers don't even need to try with this one. They can just wait for the inevitable security breach to happen on its own. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, except the car is your entire user database.

The eternal cycle of side project enthusiasm. Top panel: Day 1, euphoric excitement, telling everyone how revolutionary your idea is and how you'll finish it in a weekend. Bottom panel: Day 3, staring blankly at your terminal as you realize you've created an unholy abomination of dependencies that would make Cthulhu weep. That API key commit to main branch? Chef's kiss of despair. The only thing growing faster than your git commit messages is your collection of Stack Overflow tabs.