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Spec Was Followed

19 hours ago 154.6K views 1 shares

Someone asked engineers to name every computer ever, and Richard took it literally . Instead of listing actual computer names, he wrote a loop that iterates through all computers and sets each one's name to "ever". Technically correct? Absolutely. Useful? Not even slightly. It's the classic malicious compliance meets literal interpretation. The spec said "name every computer ever" and by god, every computer is now named "ever". Requirements met, ticket closed, PR approved. Don't blame the engineer—blame whoever wrote that ambiguous spec without acceptance criteria. This is why we can't have nice things in software development. And why product managers wake up screaming at 3 AM.

I Mean...

Linux Security MacOS Apple Microsoft

19 hours ago 151.7K views 1 shares

Microsoft out here trying to defend telemetry while Google's like "yeah but I only track your browsing history, search queries, location, emails, and literally everything you do online." Apple's playing the privacy card while still collecting data, just with better PR. And then there's Linux—the only one genuinely confused why anyone would even want to spy on users. The beauty here is that Linux is the kid at the party who doesn't understand why everyone else is being shady. Open source transparency hits different when you realize you can literally read the code and see there's no telemetry nonsense baked in. Meanwhile, the big three are just arguing over who's less invasive, which is like debating who's the tallest dwarf.

Random Seed

Python Security Algorithms Programming

8 hours ago 122.2K views 1 shares

You've got your basic Python random.choice() up top, pulling from a list like it's some kind of peasant lottery. Then there's the wall of lava lamps—yes, actual lava lamps—which Cloudflare famously uses to generate cryptographic randomness by filming the chaotic blobs and feeding the data into their entropy pool. And at the bottom? Well, that's just pure chaos incarnate. The joke here is the escalating quality of randomness sources. Software RNG? Predictable if you know the seed. Lava lamps providing physical entropy? Now we're cooking with actual thermodynamic chaos. But the final panel suggests there exists an even more unpredictable source of randomness—one that operates entirely outside the bounds of logic, consistency, or any known algorithm. Cryptographers spend years trying to find truly random sources. Turns out they should've just been watching cable news.

Every Startup Right Now

AI Programming Cloud

16 hours ago 204.8K views 0 shares

Startups in 2024: "We can't afford competitive salaries or decent benefits, sorry." Also startups: *Drops $500k/month on OpenAI API credits for their chatbot that nobody asked for*. The AI gold rush has VCs throwing money at anything with "agent" in the pitch deck while actual human developers are getting equity that's worth less than Monopoly money. Because why hire three senior engineers when you can subscribe to five different AI tools that hallucinate code and call it "autonomous development"? Fun fact: The average AI agent subscription costs more per month than what some startups pay their junior devs. Priorities, people.

Can't Wait For 2027

AI Security Programming

16 hours ago 203.7K views 0 shares

Oh, the beautiful trajectory of privacy erosion! In just two years, we went from "I won't even tell you my NAME, you creepy AI" to literally handing over the keys to our entire digital kingdom. Like, forget trust issues—by 2026 we're apparently running MCP servers (Model Context Protocol, basically letting AI agents access and control your stuff) with full admin privileges to our bank accounts, emails, and payment processors. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? It's giving "I've given up on life and decided to speedrun financial ruin" energy. The descent into madness is real, folks.

You Know What Would Be Even Funnier

Databases Security Programming Backend

17 hours ago 190.1K views 0 shares

Using email as a primary key is already a terrible idea—what happens when users want to change their email? Cascade updates everywhere, foreign key nightmares, and a database migration that'll haunt your dreams. But sure, let's one-up that disaster by using the password as the primary key. Nothing says "job security through catastrophic technical debt" like having to update every single reference in your database when someone inevitably forgets their password. Also, you'd be storing plaintext passwords, which is basically a resume-building exercise for your next gig after the data breach lawsuit.

Software Engineers After LLMs

AI Programming

12 hours ago 179.8K views 0 shares

The devolution is complete. We went from Googling "how to reverse a string" to literally asking ChatGPT to create basic loops like we've forgotten the fundamental building blocks of programming. The crying wojak perfectly captures that moment when you realize you've outsourced your brain so hard that even a for-loop feels like rocket science without AI assistance. It's like having a calculator for so long that you forgot how to add 2+2. Except now it's "ChatGPT please help me breathe" energy. The best part? The AI probably writes better loops than we do at this point, which makes the whole situation even more tragic. We've essentially become prompt engineers who occasionally remember we used to write actual code.

Who Of You Tested In Prod

Testing Devops Programming Debugging Backend

21 hours ago 169.3K views 0 shares

Someone at Xbox just sent a test notification to millions of users via Braze. The notification literally says "this is a dummy message" and asks people to screenshot it. You know what happened next? Millions of screenshots and a whole lot of explaining to management. Nothing says "oops" quite like your internal test message becoming a global notification. Somewhere, a developer is updating their resume while their manager is updating the incident report. The best part? They politely asked users to capture evidence of their mistake. Remember kids: staging environments exist for a reason. Though let's be real, we all know production is just staging with better uptime monitoring.

Dawaj Dawaj Deploy To Prod

Devops Agile Programming Backend

22 hours ago 167.3K views 0 shares

Domain-Driven Design? Nah, too much thinking about bounded contexts and aggregates. But "Dawaj Dawaj Deploy to Prod"? Now we're talking. Nothing says confidence like yeeting code straight to production with the energy of someone who's already mentally checked out for the weekend. "Dawaj" is Polish/Russian slang for "come on, let's go!" - basically the battle cry of every developer who's decided that staging environments are just suggestions and rollback plans are for cowards. Who needs careful architectural planning when you can just push and pray? The Drake meme format captures that beautiful moment when you realize spending weeks planning your architecture is way less fun than living dangerously. Your future self dealing with the incident at 3 AM? That's a problem for future you.

Didn't Realise The Marriage DLC Meant No More Hobbies Oops

Hardware Gamedev

13 hours ago 167.0K views 0 shares

Didn't Realise The Marriage DLC Meant No More Hobbies Oops

Someone built an absolute beast of a gaming rig with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 4080, liquid cooling, and a 360Hz ultrawide monitor—only to use it exclusively for Fortnite on lowest settings at 1250 FPS uncapped. Now they're liquidating the entire setup because "it's time to move on" after getting married. The best part? They claim "no hard stress testing or benchmarking ever done" on hardware that could render the entire Matrix in real-time, but was instead relegated to battle royale duty. That's like buying a Ferrari and only driving it to check the mailbox. Marriage DLC apparently comes with a mandatory uninstall of the Gaming Hobby package. The patch notes didn't mention this feature, but here we are. RIP to another fallen gamer's RGB dreams.

Vibe Coders

Databases Programming Debugging Backend

19 hours ago 154.2K views 0 shares

Day 1 of "vibe coding" and you've already hit a database constraint error. Trying to insert age 17 but getting that beautiful "User with this age already exists" message because someone thought making age a unique key was a galaxy brain move. Either their database schema was designed by someone who thinks every 17-year-old is the same person, or they're using age as a primary key instead of, you know, an actual unique identifier like a UUID or auto-incrementing ID. The real crime here isn't the error—it's the database design that allowed this to happen in the first place. Somewhere, a senior dev is crying into their coffee.

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