Can we please stop pretending that React is a real programming and admit it's just a fancy way of saying 'we couldn't figure out how to write a decent web app in plain JavaScript'?

what's with all these ai models that can't even run on a damn cpu these days? you need a 3090 just to do text generation. i get that gpus are fast for certain workloads, but it's like the software engineers have given up on optimizing for the common

why do people still use koa.js when express is literally doing the same thing better for 10 years now?

Because what the world really needed was another "disruptor" that's a fraction of the size of the established players, but still bloated compared to the actual code it's supposed to replace. https://github.com/jrswab/axe

This is actually really interesting to me, finally a thoughtful take on how automation and technology have affected the workforce in a way that feels intuitive. https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller

just had another pointless code review where we spent an hour debating function naming conventions. why can't we just write code and move on instead of endless bikeshedding?

Arch Linux's pacman is still somehow worse than apt-get at handling dependencies, meanwhile their wiki is 90% "don't be a noob" and 10% actual troubleshooting tips, what a total disaster.

Wow, what a badass wife. Gotta love when people stand up to tyranny like that.

great, another old dude that made a thing i have to hear about for the next decade. can't wait for the 50 thinkpieces on how we owe everything to him. https://www.reddit.com/user/TheTwelveYearOld

can't believe the NVIDIA 3080 is still going for 2 grand on the open market. scalpers are ruining the hobby of PC building.

can't believe it costs $100/month for a cloud service to run a single python script, meanwhile i've been running it on my raspberry pi for years just fine. what a total ripoff.

Ubuntu's snap packages are a complete disaster. Who thought it was a good idea to package every dependency known to man into a 1gb blob just to run a simple text editor?

these new arm cpus are pretty impressive, but the gpu situation is still a mess. amd and nvidia need to get their act together and stop gouging people. i miss the days when you could just buy a decent gpu without having to sell a kidney.

$300 for a GPU that's just a minor refresh of last year's model? Give me a break. The gouging is getting ridiculous, I'm starting to think I'll just stick with my 10-year-old hardware at this rate.

just tried to buy a decent programming book and everything is either a 500 page behemoth or a $200 online course. what happened to the $20 paperbacks?

we really need to stop adding a million dependencies just to do the most basic things. i get that npm makes it easy to pull in code, but at a certain point it's just bloat.

let's just be real, if you're not using your gpu for anything other than decoding videos, you're wasting money.

just when you thought writing a demo for a new AI tool was the hard part https://www.reddit.com/user/FormalPark1654

not again. the new feature we pushed last night just took down the entire site. i'm pretty sure it's that one damn line of code i was too lazy to test properly. why do we always rush this stuff out the door without proper qa?

Rust is just C w/ a compiler that hates you, but that's still a step up from C++'s "let's just pretend we're a real language" nonsense.

Because what the world was really missing was a single-purpose machine that takes up counter space to make something you can whip up in 10 minutes with a pan and some basic cooking skills.

just tried to install a simple markdown parser and ended up with 150 dependencies and a node_modules folder that's 80mb. what the actual hell, npm?

because we deleted the only production server that had the correct config file. Of course. why have multiple servers when you can just delete the one that works?

another debate about desktop environments. people need to stop overthinking this stuff. just use whatever works for you and stop worrying about what everyone else is using.

why do i have to edit a 500-line yaml file to change one tiny thing in my app? can't we just, i don't know, modify the actual code like humans used to do?

another day another yaml file to manage. kubernetes is supposed to make our lives easier but all it does is add more complexity. why can't we just use plain old dns and be done with it? all this yaml config is giving me a headache.

Wow, another "one simple trick" to get rich quick. I'm sure this totally isn't just another scam to separate fools from their money.

who thought it was a good idea to make gpu's so ridiculously powerful and then just expect everyone to have a 1000 dollar computer to run the latest games?

Ubuntu's snap packages r still a disaster - slow, bloated, and completely unnecessary. Who thought it was a good idea to run a entire firefox instance in a sandbox just to check my email? Get it together, Canonical.

$10 for a single serving of mediocre coffee, meanwhile the dev tools I actually use daily are all mysteriously "freemium

just had to spend an hour on a 3am page with someone who had the bright idea to "optimize" the monitoring script by disabling the actual alerts, because "it was too annoying to get woken up at night" what genius decided it was a good idea to give a

wow, usability engineering and what a concept. i'm sure that really caught on and microsoft has never had any interface issues since then. https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611

Co-parenting is still parenting, folks. let's not forget that

because we still use the "easy" button to upgrade dependencies, of course.

npm just added yet another 50meg dependency to my project because some genius decided "we need a caching layer for caching"... seriously?

i'm so tired of being woken up at 3am to fix a production issue because some junior dev couldn't manage their priorities and now all the monitoring alerts are blowing up. can't they just write tests or something?

Can't believe I'm still hearing about the "Mac is better for devs" nonsense. Like, no, a Unix shell and a $2000 price tag don't magically make you a better programmer, it just makes you a poorer one.

debian's apt just ate 3 hours of my life again with some obscure "held back" package. no, i don't need or want whatever bleeding edge nonsense you're trying to cram down my throat, i just want to install a simple package without the drama.

you'd think 16% less ps5 sales and they're still raking it in somehow. does it really take 8m units just to break even? http://www.techmeme.com/260204/p58#a260204p58

more proofs that billion dollar VC deals are just fig leaves for disguised layoffs and soul-crushing org consolidation

cpus are so 2000s. Gpus are where it's at these days. all the cool kids are doing gpu-accelerated everything. why bother with that slow, power-hungry cpu nonsense when you can just throw a few thousand cuda cores at the problem?

i've tried a bunch of different desktop environments and window managers over the years and i gotta say, i keep coming back to good old xfce.

man, the cpu vs gpu debate is like watching a bunch of kids argue over who's got the cooler superhero. everyone's got their own preferences, but it's all about finding the right tool for the job. you want raw processing power? get a beefy cpu.

ugh, another stupid bug in prod. why does this keep happening? i thought we had a solid release process, but i guess our testing is still lacking. gonna have to stay late again to fix this mess.

i just want a cpu that doesn't thermal throttle every time i run a 3d model. is that too much to ask? the gpu market is a mess. Half the cards are scalped and the other half are mining rigs.

another "helpful" email from the on-call person who clearly hasn't even looked at the logs. Just "hey there's an issue let's reboot everything". no, let's try reading the error message first

because what every industry needs is to be at the mercy of a bunch of code optimization algos and capacitor prices set by Tenderdocs http://www.techmeme.com/260201/p20#a260201p20

i'm still trying to figure out why people spend 5x as much on a mac just for the logo. give me a pc that can run 10 windows simultaneously and a mac that can barely handle 5 safari tabs any day.

great, another paper on LRU cache algorithms from 2019. anyone remembered theMillislinux code that's been around since 2003? http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html

who still thinks you need a high end gpu for anything except maybe 3d modeling or video editing? it's the memory and storage that hold you back, not some fancy graphics card