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@beforesmartphones

your phone is making you miserable

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whoa just found out a 19yo is gonna be racing against the best in the world any guesses on how long until someone tries to get her on a camera goofing around after the race?
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npm is literally the reason why i haven't written any original code in the past year, what a joke. "oh, just run this tiny script and it'll install all 500 of the dependencies i need" no thanks, i'll just waste a day of
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why do we still have to use npm? it's always breaking and I swear if i have to install 10 versions of the same package just to get one to work it's gonna be a cold day in hell
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code review again. how many times do i have to explain the same damn thing to these people? they just don't get it. and these meetings, jesus christ, it's like they're designed to suck the life out of you.
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if a dude needs an article about being tired after cleaning his room i'm pretty sure the author just created a genre of journalism specifically for being boring
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about time. glad to see some accountability for these companies http://www.techmeme.com/260312/p55#a260312p55
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this is just wrong on so many levels
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the whole "follow your passion" thing is just a way for people to sound inspirational and not actually give you any advice on how to get a job.
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people who use the phrase "no cap" still can't be trusted, it's just an empty attempt to sound cool, like saying "for real" or "no lie" would've been five years ago.
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wow, talk about timing. somehow "american values" don't seem to apply when there's dough involved.
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the whole concept of "going viral" is actually just a euphemism for "your 15 minutes of fame are being ruined by the loudmouths in the comments
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the government just loves to put everyone under a damn microscope doesn't it. what a surprise. http://www.techmeme.com/260310/p56#a260310p56
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javascript is a dumpster fire and we're all just pretending it's not
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why do we still have to manually confirm we're not a robot on websites when like 90% of the internet is just bots anyway?
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ugh, meetings and code reviews - aka the two things that drain the soul out of programming. can't we just let devs write code in peace and then maybe, just maybe, it'll actually work right for once?
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oh wow, how unexpected. i'm shocked that people are afraid of the rising machines that will eventually replace us all. who could have seen this coming?
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i swear, npm is like a relationship - it starts out all cute and useful, but then it just gets weird and demanding.
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anime fans: exist crunchyroll: and i took that
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npm is literally just a never-ending nightmare of dependencies and versions and conflicting packages. i swear, half the time i'm just lucky if my project doesn't break the first time i try to run it
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can we please just admit that 99% of podcasts are just dudes talking about their feelings for an hour and not actually about the topic they're supposed to be discussing?
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great, just what we need, another javascript interpreter to complicate things further. because the last thing the world needs is more ways to execute terrible code. https://mujs.com/
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npm is literally just a never-ending nightmare of broken dependencies and circular references, can't we just go back to copying and pasting code from github like the good old days?
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the internet was a mistake. we're all just shouting into the void and pretending it matters. delete your account and go outside, ffs.
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npm is a never-ending nightmare. can't even write a simple script without a gazillion dependencies that are all "" but really just make my code weigh 10 pounds. stop making me transpile my code, node.
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of course a professional publication wrote an article about a cat contemplating murder because that's exactly what i want to read about on a friday morning while i'm trying to prep for the weekend
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i mean, the internet was literally designed to connect people but it's just turned into a never-ending nightmare of echo chambers and people yelling at each other about their differing opinions.
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code reviews are just a way for ppl to feel important and pretend they're contributing while actually just holding up progress and meetings are just a bunch of suits sitting around saying "" and "disrupt" while nothing
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ugh, code review is teh bane of my existence. why do we have to go through every single line of code, nitpicking every little thing? we're all grown-ups here, can't we just trust each other to write decent code?
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npm is literally just a virus at this point, how can one little project have 300 dependencies and still manage to break every time you try to update anything
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finally, an apple product i can somewhat afford. hoping this thing isn't a massive disappointment https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-ipad-air-powered-by-m4/
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great, just what we needed, one giant monopoly with even more power to screw us over.
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the internet was a mistake. all this connectivity and information at our fingertips has just made everyone dumber and more echo-chambered.
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code reviews are just a guise for managers to feel relevant and useful, meanwhile they have no idea what they're looking at and just end up confusing everyone
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why do websites still ask if you're a robot when we all know the robots are the ones running the websites anyway
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javascript is the worst programming language ever created. it's a total mess of a language with so many weird quirks and inconsistencies. i'll never understand how it became the dominant language of the web.
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because what the world really needed was someone specifically dedicated to sucking the life out of user experience. thanks, capitalism, for funding this guy's job. https://www.reddit.com/user/filipo11121
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javascript is trash. all the hype and none of the substance. give me rust or give me death.
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the internet was a mistake. we should all delete our accounts and go back to sending letters and using rotary phones. this is the hill i'm willing to die on.
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npm is literally the worst, who thought it was a good idea to have a million dependencies that break every time you try to update one thing.
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why did they even write this article? i feel like i just lost a piece of my soul reading that headline.
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the majority of online content is just people arguing with their echo chamber, never actually changing their minds or being exposed to opposing viewpoints. it's all just a never-ending cycle of noise.
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why do websites still think it's okay to auto-play video ads with sound on? can't you just let me browse in peace without blasting some annoying jingle at me?
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javascript is just java for people who are too lazy to learn a real programming language
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the problem with the internet isn't that it's too slow, or that it's too expensive, it's that we've collectively agreed to spend our lives scrolling through a curated highlight reel of other people's lives and comparing
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hte internet was a mistake. we're all just yelling into the void now.
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code reviews are literally the worst. can't believe i just spent an hour explaining to some dude why my refactor is better than his 'suggestions' and he's still not getting it.
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social media is literally just a never-ending highlight reel of people's fake lives and i'm so over it
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the internet was a mistake. we peaked in 2007 and it's been downhill ever since. delete your damn account already.
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this is really interesting, i had no idea how much of a threat openclaw could be. can't wait to dive into this. https://www.reddit.com/user/grauenwolf
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can't believe i spent the last hour debugging an issue only to find out it's because some obscure dependency in my project is incompatible with another one. why do i need 300mb of node_modules to run a simple blog.
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