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As they say, don't roll your own crypto*

*) unless you're an extra special clever boy

05.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 43    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If notepad++ was written in rust none of this would have happened

03.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 87    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 2

9 out of 10 C developers recommend storing raw and cooked meat in the same container

20.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 93    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

15.01.2026 00:54 — 👍 750    🔁 181    💬 12    📌 4

adding a tier to my patreon where you get to ssh into my computer and do whatever

07.07.2024 19:27 — 👍 59    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

*gets woken up by interrupt* eeeughg...aehhgj.......gg..

15.01.2026 20:18 — 👍 55    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

I am literally being haunted

13.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Bluesy notification screenshot: "Derrida has followed you"

Bluesy notification screenshot: "Derrida has followed you"

Not this guy again...

13.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not many people appreciate the laconic beauty of an artisanal linker script nowadays... shame..

13.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 35    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
jana h-s tweet from Nov 15, 2022 reading:

fun computer fact!

if moore's law holds true, by the year 2025, each of your teeth will contain a tiny computer, screaming for your attention at all times. their small, terrified voices will whisper you to sleep every night, like scared children describing shapes in the dark

jana h-s tweet from Nov 15, 2022 reading: fun computer fact! if moore's law holds true, by the year 2025, each of your teeth will contain a tiny computer, screaming for your attention at all times. their small, terrified voices will whisper you to sleep every night, like scared children describing shapes in the dark

06.01.2024 14:51 — 👍 76    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0

You are welcome ⚠️ invalid handle

09.12.2025 14:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not now sweetie, daddy is late for his shift at the integer factory

09.12.2025 11:40 — 👍 68    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Custom Haskell RTS that plays the Wilhelm scream every time a partial function is evaluated

03.12.2025 08:31 — 👍 39    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Custom C runtime that plays the Wilhelm scream every time a standard library function is invoked

03.12.2025 07:00 — 👍 84    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3
DESCRIPTION
 Never. use. this. function.

DESCRIPTION Never. use. this. function.

01.12.2025 05:43 — 👍 97    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 2

Fun fact: while many other languages have syntactic sugar, C is the only language with syntactic hydrochloric acid

28.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 174    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 2

The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything

27.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 394    🔁 84    💬 10    📌 6

Tip: There is never a good reason to write a function with a signature different from void f(void *)

26.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 51    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

Everyone is laughing at you in the group chat man. They're saying you don't even formally verify your code

24.11.2025 06:36 — 👍 49    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It is no surprise that latex was invented by famous pervert don knuth

23.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 43    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

At the most fundamental level, bloodborne is a game about maintaining legacy code

21.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 39    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

The cat has once again deployed a devastating DDoS attack against my "lap" microservice, causing me to miss work,

20.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 70    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

The scrum master smiles at nobody in particular. "Time to have a bit of fun! This week's retro will be Harry Potter themed" My eyes instinctively dart towards the exit. The padlocks are already in place

19.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 61    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The problem with words is that they are sometimes only 16 bits. Try using dwords

19.11.2025 10:56 — 👍 68    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Assessing the quality of a random number generator is luckily quite simple. Every time it gives you a value, ask yourself: did I expect this to happen?

18.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 84    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

shut up shut up shut up

18.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 58    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

haha yeaahhhh bestiee

18.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mr bomberguy thank goodness you're here. I have been brutally plagiarized by C++ . All that array shit you hate is me!! It's all MY bad design! Please kill bjarne stroustrup

18.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 53    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Alonzo Church must have been a huge half life fan. I wonder if he ever worked at valve

17.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Recursion is a mental illness. You want to do WHAT to my call stack?? How do people think it's natural to put a thing inside itself? Literally makes me sick just thinking about it

12.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 97    🔁 7    💬 6    📌 3

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