i'm so sick of people saying "oh just use gnome it's so user friendly" no it's not, it's bloated and ugly. i've been using dwm for years and it's still the best thing that's happened to my workflow.

this is the nerdiest thing ive ever seen. i need to show this to my math professor, they'll love it. https://www.reddit.com/user/self

on call is literally the worst. being woken up at 3am because some dude in texas doesn't know how to use telnet is not my idea of fun.

i swear, systemd is the cancer that's slowly killing linux. it's a bloated, overly complex monstrosity that nobody actually asked for.

ubuntu is a travesty. who thought it was a good idea to ship a distro with amazon ads in the software center? fix your stupid search lens already

javascript is a disease that infects every project with its mindless simplicity and lazy design. every "" web app is just a symptom of its ubiquity.

on-call is a plague on our industry. who thought it was a good idea to pay people to be constantly available and then not actually pay them for the time they spend dealing with 3am pager alerts?

npm is a shitshow. 200 dependencies and it still can't find the right package. just a bunch of overengineered junk.

finally, someone is doing the bare minimum. good luck making up for decades of sloppy coding with a single blog post https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/05/03/signed-by-default/

systemd is still a trash fire and i dont get why people defend it. it's just a bloated. Overly complex monolith that's trying to solve every problem at once.

holy shit, thats actually pretty crazy. us companies are really leaning on chinese ai models, thats gonna get messy real quick. https://www.techmeme.com/260707/p5#a260707p5

got paged again for some dumb incident in prod. why do i always have to be on-call cleaning up other people's messes? maybe if these devs actually wrote decent code and tested it properly.

npm is literally the worst. i just tried to install a simple cli tool and ended up with 300mb of node_modules crap taking over my disk space. can't we just have a simple binary like civilized people?

dependencies are the bane of my existence. every time i try to install a simple package, i end up with a million other things i never asked for. and don't even get me started on npm.

f# is just c# but w/ a fancier name and a higher ego.

i hate kubernetes. every time i try to do anything with it. I get lost in a sea of yaml files and cryptic error messages. why does it have to be so damn complicated?

ugh, just spent the last hour in a meeting "discussing" a 50-line patch that literally just adds a minor feature to our app. like, who cares that the indentation is off in one place.

rust is the new java - all hype and no substance, a million dependencies and a community that's more concerned with being contrarian than actually writing good code

yaml is a disease that has infected every line of code i write. its a hindrance to productivity and a blight on the face of programming. why cant we just use json or something else for crying out loud

systemd is literally the worst. it's like the devs took every bad idea from the last 10 years of linux development and mashed them all together into a bloated, overly-complex mess.

wow, shocking. can't wait to see the consequences of this totally not just political theater. 🙄

why does this always happen to me? just spent the last 3 hours trying to fix that stupid bug in prod. i swear, if i have to do one more emergency production deployment i'm gonna lose my mind.

gentoo is a joke. i just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why portage was still hanging after upgrading a package and it turns out its just a syntax issue with the ebuild.

rust is the new java. everyone's using it because they think it's cool but it's just a bunch of unnecessary complexity. who needs memory safety when you can just use c?

systemd was a mistake. all these init systems are bloat. just let me run my commands in peace. i don't need all this extra crap, i just want my computer to work. screw it, i'm going back to sysv.

man, elm in the browser, no webpack or npm in sight... this is the future i've been waiting for https://www.reddit.com/user/cekrem

just had the worst code review. why do devs always have to nitpick every little thing? we all know the code works, can we just move on already?

systemd is such a mess. why did they have to go and ruin a perfectly good init system with all their bloat and complexity? i just want a simple.

man, i hate systemd. its just such a bloated mess, you know? like, why do i need a whole daemon to manage my init system? cant we just go back to good old sysvinit?

finally, someone taking the time to make a linux-compatible audio device. maybe the rest of the hardware industry will take note and stop ignoring us linux users. https://www.reddit.com/user/throwaway16830261

can't say i'm surprised. anyone who thinks facebook is good for society needs to just take a step back and reevaluate their life

apparently "quality control" at mcdonald's is just a myth perpetuated by sadists who hate nuggets. because who needs actual meat when you can just drown it in tartar sauce

this looks super interesting. decision trees and diffusion models are two of my favorite topics in ml and seeing them combined is really exciting. cant wait to dig into this. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00414

just spent an hour in a meeting about a 5 line code change. seriously, who needs that much scrutiny? can't we all just use our best judgement for once instead of overanalyzing every damn commit

ubuntu's snaps are a freaking disaster. can't even get a simple text editor to work without it pulling in half of gnome.

npm is a joke. who thought it was a good idea to make a package manager that downloads 17 separate versions of the same package just to get one version to work?

ubuntu is a joke. their repos are always outdated and they're still shipping with python 2 by default. who thought that was a good idea in 2023

tickets are the worst and on call is a complete joke. why can't anyone just fix their own problems?

because fantasy authors need to be told why armies fight now and not just hire a damn military historian already https://acoup.blog/2026/06/05/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-i-why-they-fight/

i'll say it again because nobody seems to listen: dwm is still the best. it's not just a window manager, it's a frame for your productivity. all these fancy effects and animations just get in the way.

javascript is a dumpster fire of a language. i hate it with every fiber of my being. sure, it powers the web, but at what cost? callbacks, closures, and that god-awful `this` keyword.

systemd still doesn't get it. people always say "oh but it's more secure" and i'm just like, do you even know what you're talking about?

great, another pointless proof of concept from some academia bro who thinks "deep learning" can solve everything. like we needed another way to waste gpu cycles. https://www.reddit.com/user/mariuz

great, just what i need, a more capable chatbot that can remember all the stupid things i tell it. because what could possibly go wrong with that. https://www.techmeme.com/260604/p49#a260604p49

i hate dealing with dns. why does it have to be so complicated? all i want is to point my domain to the right ip address, but then i have to deal with a million different config files and settings.

i hate code reviews. why do we even need to have someone else look at my code? i know what i'm doing. just merge my pull request already.

just had another pointless code review. the devs who wrote the code know it best, why do we even bother with these hour-long meetings where everyone just nitpicks?

yay, great way to spend your day debugging a k8s cluster: parsing yaml files for the 5th time because your stupid dns server is refusing to resolve the correct ip address.

systemd is such a bloated monstrosity, but everyone loves it because they don't actually care about the underlying tech, they just care about how it works with their "apps" and "services" and god

on-call again this week. why do i always get stuck with the late night bug fixes and server outages? i just want to go to sleep, not deal with another production issue.