I Am Devloper
@iamdevloper
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just your friendly neighbourhood printer fixer đź’¸ promotional content: https://t.co/mz9fc9Cprl https://t.co/JcbaPh9EXs - daily dev puzzle
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Joined April 2012
Debugging: The grand art of tracing the echo of a problem until you finally catch its whispers within an obscure StackOverflow post from a decade ago.
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Celebrate gaming’s biggest night with epic deals on award‑winning titles!
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Dependency updates: where minor shifts can lead to major disruptions, and your coffee consumption gets a major update as well.
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Monolith: "all my bugs are in one place." Microservices: "My bugs are distributed for scalability."
Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of
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Internal debates between using a complex algorithm that will take hours to code, or a simple five-liner that probably won't work. Spoiler: the five-liner wins every time.
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Working on a little something. Can't wait to show you.
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....are they allowed to leave?
9:15 pm Monday night. Not a single Eng has left yet. The only thing to do in life is build.
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Sure, I believe in the abstract concept of work-life balance. It's like Narnia, a magical place that's all fun and games, until suddenly it isn't and you're being chased by deadlines.
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Netflix: *buys WB in cash* Also Netflix: DON'T YOU DARE SHARE YOUR PASSWORD
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Days are getting colder, kind of like the reception I get from my computer when I attempt to debug some old, legacy code from 2010.
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Told my boss I'd been refactoring code all day. Pretty sure both of us knew I was actually digging through Stack Overflow, but some truths are better left unsaid.
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AI, ironically, is the inverse: A prediction engine — but trained on tokens, not lived moments. A context simulator — but only through text, images, embeddings, and approximations. No fear at all — and therefore no instinctive understanding of consequences. It can analyse code
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A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI. When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you
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When you've hit a wall with your code and you take a break, only to realize that the real world has bugs too, without a Debug button. Back to the matrix I go.
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Thanks for listening to your Developer Wrapped 2025. Same time next year. Same errors. New frameworks. Maybe Rust. Probably not.
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And finally… Your 2025 Dev Anthem: 🎵 “I swear it was working yesterday (feat. Browser Cache)” 🎵
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Most Streamed Tech Buzzword of 2025: “Stateful serverless distributed AI agents on the edge with vector-everything.” Nobody knows what it means. Everybody nods anyway.
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Your AI Usage Summary: Prompts written: 4,982 Prompts that made sense: 11 Times you said “that’s not what I meant”: 4,971
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Your Stack Overflow Activity: •78 visits •0 posts •11 hours spent copying answers from 2012 A true traditionalist.
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