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Realizing dev offices share the same 'farts and sadness' aroma as porn sets
CorporateCulture DeveloperExperience DX DeveloperProductivity

Realizing dev offices share the same 'farts and sadness' aroma as porn sets

DeveloperHumor Workplace
Sad, Stinky Workplace
When Debugging All Night Ends in Total Existential Computer Regret
Debugging Troubleshooting Bugs

When Debugging All Night Ends in Total Existential Computer Regret

DebuggingFrustration DebuggingFatigue
When Toys Betray
When another person Googles painfully slowly, every efficiency-obsessed developer silently panics
DeveloperExperience DX DeveloperProductivity Learning

When another person Googles painfully slowly, every efficiency-obsessed developer silently panics

DeveloperHumor DeveloperFrustration
Just Give Me the Keyboard
Recruiter meme shows full-stack dev expected to fill every tech role
Career HR CorporateCulture

Recruiter meme shows full-stack dev expected to fill every tech role

FullStackDevelopment DeveloperHumor
One-Person Band
2004 Skype Flexes on 2022 Discord Over Free File Transfers
Communication DeveloperExperience DX

2004 Skype Flexes on 2022 Discord Over Free File Transfers

SkypeCalls DiscordServers
Big Box vs Little Box
Developer desperation for PR approvals illustrated by cowboy meme with dubious negotiations
CodeReviews DeveloperExperience DX

Developer desperation for PR approvals illustrated by cowboy meme with dubious negotiations

DeveloperHumor CodeReviewPainPoints
Sleep Sort: The World's Most Inefficient Sorting Algorithm
CS Fundamentals Performance Languages

Sleep Sort: The World's Most Inefficient Sorting Algorithm

Agile DeveloperHumor
When the Code Works and You Have No Idea Why
Bugs Debugging Troubleshooting DeveloperExperience DX

When the Code Works and You Have No Idea Why

DeveloperHumor TechHumor
Magic by Believing
Skipping endless meetings so developers can finally code and hit the looming deadline
Meetings DeveloperProductivity Deadlines

Skipping endless meetings so developers can finally code and hit the looming deadline

Meetings MeetingOverload
Stop Talking, Start Doing
The agony of checking out dev before your pull-request is merged
VersionControl CodeReviews DeveloperExperience DX

The agony of checking out dev before your pull-request is merged

Git GitBranching
Programmers confronted with their contingency-planning failures react with offended agreement
CodeQuality DevOps SRE Debugging Troubleshooting

Programmers confronted with their contingency-planning failures react with offended agreement

DeveloperHumor CodingHumor
The Truth Hurts
Galaxy-brain escalation of project versioning: from Git to 30-letter “final” folders
VersionControl DeveloperExperience DX

Galaxy-brain escalation of project versioning: from Git to 30-letter “final” folders

Git VersionControl
Never Truly Final
Developers panic as GitHub Copilot turns paid in Spider-Man meme
AI ML DeveloperExperience DX

Developers panic as GitHub Copilot turns paid in Spider-Man meme

Github AIAssistants
Without Training Wheels
When you skip the README and invent your own API semantics
Documentation CodeQuality DeveloperExperience DX

When you skip the README and invent your own API semantics

Documentation DocumentationAversion
Use the Tool Right
One-Liner Code Change, Massive Test Suite Failure
Testing Bugs Refactoring

One-Liner Code Change, Massive Test Suite Failure

FlutterFramework Apple
Apple’s House Rules
The Duality of a Programmer: God Complex and Imposter Syndrome
MentalHealth DevCommunities Juniors

The Duality of a Programmer: God Complex and Imposter Syndrome

DataLoss BackupAndRecovery
All Eggs in One Basket
When GitHub sees your //TODO comment and silently looks away
CodeQuality TechDebt DeveloperExperience DX

When GitHub sees your //TODO comment and silently looks away

CodeComments DeveloperHumor
I’ll Do It Later
From structured YY/MM/DD logic to ‘just use epoch seconds’ timestamp pyramid meme
DataFormats CS Fundamentals

From structured YY/MM/DD logic to ‘just use epoch seconds’ timestamp pyramid meme

DataFormats TimeZonesAreHard
Stacking Time Blocks
When a production bug arises, dev, reviewer, and QA play Spider-Man blame
CodeReviews QA Bugs

When a production bug arises, dev, reviewer, and QA play Spider-Man blame

PullRequest CodeReview
Pointing Fingers
When you try reading pull-request code on a phone screen and regret it
DeveloperExperience DX DeveloperProductivity

When you try reading pull-request code on a phone screen and regret it

DeveloperHumor DeveloperFrustration
Tiny Screen, Big Struggle
First programming rule: if it works, ignore the obvious leaks
TechDebt Refactoring CodeQuality

First programming rule: if it works, ignore the obvious leaks

TechnicalDebt LegacyCode
If It’s Not Sinking…
Every code optimization ever: shaving milliseconds until you’re a skeleton
Performance DeveloperProductivity

Every code optimization ever: shaving milliseconds until you’re a skeleton

PerformanceOptimization PrematureOptimization
Never-Ending Race
When you’re the only dev and holidays depend on new hires
CorporateCulture DeveloperProductivity OnCall ProductionIssues

When you’re the only dev and holidays depend on new hires

DeveloperHumor DeveloperPainPoints
Alone at the Shop
Senior Devs Joining Junior Devs in Shared Despair
Juniors Career HR MentalHealth

Senior Devs Joining Junior Devs in Shared Despair

DeveloperHumor SeniorVsJuniorDevelopers
Even Grown-ups Cry
Friday's Confidence vs. Monday's Code Amnesia
MentalHealth DeveloperProductivity CorporateCulture

Friday's Confidence vs. Monday's Code Amnesia

DeveloperHumor ContextSwitching
Where Was I?
Drake chooses the life of a “Suffer Engineer” over “Software Engineer”
DeveloperExperience DX MentalHealth DeveloperProductivity

Drake chooses the life of a “Suffer Engineer” over “Software Engineer”

DeveloperHumor DeveloperPainPoints
The Struggle is Real
When a Designer's SVG is a PNG in a Trench Coat
Frontend UX UI WebDev

When a Designer's SVG is a PNG in a Trench Coat

Frontend CodingFrustration
Not What It Seems
The Persistent Bug That Haunts Your Weekend
Bugs OnCall ProductionIssues MentalHealth

The Persistent Bug That Haunts Your Weekend

OnCall OncallLife
Can’t Catch a Break
The Traumatic Life of a Developer's CTRL and S Keys
DeveloperProductivity IDEs Editors MentalHealth

The Traumatic Life of a Developer's CTRL and S Keys

DeveloperHumor CodingHumor
Game Save Panic
When your first pull request spawns a small novel of review feedback
CodeReviews Juniors DeveloperExperience DX

When your first pull request spawns a small novel of review feedback

PullRequest CodeReviewPainPoints
So Many Comments