10 PMs are for that one massive PR that'll never get merged but you still believe in.

XYZ is not "overpowered compared to AWS/Firebase/flavour of the month service". You just can't (or won't) do 10 minutes of back of the envelope calculations.

How many Remote Agents does it take to change a window?

Yeah I Clean Code 😎 I delete whole swathes of it on the reg

Shaved off 1% of the binary size by rewriting ~50 lines (a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the total) of template code with no loss of functionality. Wondrous technology.

And we're making fun of NodeJS people... Yeah it's not an issue until you end up hulking around with several gigabytes of binaries

Induction has been a disaster for the programmer brain

Start your next project with the following mantra: no exceptions, no exceptions.

When someone offers to introduce random bits of Go, Rust, Java, and so on because "it's the right tool for the job" but in 5 years you'll have to track 10 toolchains instead of 1... You can just say No

> Look inside > Same broken piece of shit I am shook

fooLen = len + std::string(<string literal here>).length() I've seen things

Compiler-accurate error detection

Took me 15 years to realize the "c" in "cout" doesn't stand for "console"

If I see one more damn std::string that should have been an enum, I swear

Guys, we promised GDP line go up but GDP line no go up. We need results, and we need them yesterday. ... Got you, boss.

You wouldn't last the Saturday matinee in the asylum where they raised me