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New ESLint rule: string "backward compatibility" considered grammatically incorrect
Web

New ESLint rule: string "backward compatibility" considered grammatically incorrect

The newest version of ESLint, a popular JavaScript linter utility, contains a new set of English grammar rules and semantic rules. This update now marks string  "backward compatibility" as grammatically

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 31 Jan 2023 • 1 min read
Company accidentally increased dev productivity 3x by laying off 20% of middle management
Business

Company accidentally increased dev productivity 3x by laying off 20% of middle management

Fagooglix, a Silicon Valley company, joined a wave of layoffs by reducing the pool of middle managers, agile coaches and scrum masters by 20% in an attempt to cut costs.

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 23 Jan 2023 • 1 min read
Expert: true General Artificial Intelligence is impossible because it would be suicidal
Science

Expert: true General Artificial Intelligence is impossible because it would be suicidal

Relatively sad news from one of prestigious AI institutes crushed dreams of many researchers and corporations heavily investing in AI. Experts in the field came to a unanimous conclusion: true

  • Sam Sydeffekt
    Sam Sydeffekt
Sam Sydeffekt 21 Jan 2023 • 1 min read
Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio
Apps

Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio

Tinder, a dating app, has recently updated its Terms of Service. Among minor bureaucratic modifications, one major change aims to battle impersonations. From now on, Tinder will ban web developers

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 20 Jan 2023 • 1 min read
Leak confirms Kubernetes team using Bash scripts for own deploys
Programming

Leak confirms Kubernetes team using Bash scripts for own deploys

Leaked screenshots of internal documentation and messages reveled by an unknown source confirm a myth that the Kubernetes team prefers simple Bash scripts for own deployment tasks. It seems like

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 8 Dec 2021 • 1 min read
Cryptocurrency people successfully ruin words 'crypto' and 'web', seek next target
Web

Cryptocurrency people successfully ruin words 'crypto' and 'web', seek next target

During the annual Centralized Cryptocurrency Conference Planning (CCCP) leaders of the cryptocurrency community officially declared the successful completion of the first two "Ruin The Word" projects. It was reported that

  • Sam Sydeffekt
    Sam Sydeffekt
Sam Sydeffekt 7 Dec 2021 • 1 min read
Dev realizes he is still in the interview stage after 2 years of work
Business

Dev realizes he is still in the interview stage after 2 years of work

Thorough, long interviews are familiar to anyone trying to get a job as a software developer. Certain companies make candidates go through as many as 9 circles of interviews, including

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 1 Dec 2021 • 1 min read
Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems
Apps

Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems

It's a remote dream for some professionals, but for Miriam K., a senior developer from Houston, the dream became reality when she finally completed her perfect note-taking system comprised of

  • Sam Sydeffekt
    Sam Sydeffekt
Sam Sydeffekt 19 Aug 2021 • 1 min read
Startup raises $480M of VC money in order to fire all native app developers and switch to ElectronJS
JavaScript

Startup raises $480M of VC money in order to fire all native app developers and switch to ElectronJS

A regular SaaS company based in San Jose has been offering native macOS and Windows apps for almost 11 years. A glorified CRUD app received minor, but ultimately unnecessary updates

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 12 Aug 2021 • 1 min read
Dev stops suffering from imposter syndrome after realizing he is in fact dumb
Programming

Dev stops suffering from imposter syndrome after realizing he is in fact dumb

Impostor syndrome is a common problem among tech professionals. It refers to an internal belief that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be. While many suffer

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 27 May 2021 • 1 min read
Dev builds powerful blogging setup, suddenly realizes he hates writing
Web

Dev builds powerful blogging setup, suddenly realizes he hates writing

A young developer's blogging career abruptly ended in an unexpected twist. Mere hours after finishing a 3-month project of creating the perfect, powerful, customizable blogging setup, the author has been

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 17 May 2021 • 1 min read
Corporate leaks show that Satan still owes over $400k to Facebook for consulting services
Business

Corporate leaks show that Satan still owes over $400k to Facebook for consulting services

According to recent corporate leaks, which include vast archives of accounting documents of Facebook, Inc., Satan not only exists, but often delays payments for services rendered. In particular, it seems

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 6 May 2021 • 1 min read
AI solves all political, economic and medical problems after parsing Hacker News comments
Science

AI solves all political, economic and medical problems after parsing Hacker News comments

An unprecedented leap forward in politics, global economy and medicine has been made virtually overnight after a powerful artificial intelligence system gained access to Hacker News, a popular discussion forum

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 4 May 2021 • 1 min read
PlayStation 6 rumored to be able to render seven web pages at 30fps simultaneously
Hardware

PlayStation 6 rumored to be able to render seven web pages at 30fps simultaneously

Sony's newest generation game console PlayStation 5 is yet to become as ubiquitous as PS4. However, the industry is already full of rumors about the next version — PlayStation 6. Among

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 29 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Research: heavy drug users actually understand JavaScript type coercion rules
JavaScript

Research: heavy drug users actually understand JavaScript type coercion rules

Complicated rules of type coercion of JavaScript have been the bane of existence for many software developers. Recent research reveals interesting correlation between the level of heavy drug use and

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 28 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Dev surprised his perfect vim/tmux/bash/xmonad setup doesn't alleviate existential crisis
Programming

Dev surprised his perfect vim/tmux/bash/xmonad setup doesn't alleviate existential crisis

After spending nearly 300 hours throughout several months, building the perfect coding productivity setup with vim, tmux, bash, xmonad and several other tools, middle-aged software developer Alex Lewis found himself

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 26 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Major AI breakthrough: YouTube will stop suggesting that one video you've been ignoring since 2011
Google

Major AI breakthrough: YouTube will stop suggesting that one video you've been ignoring since 2011

Several important publications in prestigious scientific journals have finally resulted in a major AI breakthrough which may revolutionize the world as we know it. An immediate practical consequence is that,

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 23 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Dev becomes rich by stopping buying domain names for never materialized side projects
Programming

Dev becomes rich by stopping buying domain names for never materialized side projects

Kate P. from Wisconsin suddenly found out she is rich mere months after she decided to stop purchasing domain names for each side project idea. Most of her side projects

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 21 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Dev recovered from COVID now prefers Material Design due to permanent loss of taste
Programming

Dev recovered from COVID now prefers Material Design due to permanent loss of taste

Friends and colleagues of Austin G.R. Floss are trying to accept the fact that all software projects created from now on by the talented developer will be based exclusively

  • Sam Sydeffekt
    Sam Sydeffekt
Sam Sydeffekt 20 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Volkswagen's electric car allegedly switches on hidden diesel engine when nobody's looking
Hardware

Volkswagen's electric car allegedly switches on hidden diesel engine when nobody's looking

After weeks of extensive road testing, several motoring journalists have reported a suspicious noise coming from under the hood of the new EV from Volkswagen. While many happy owners suspect

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 12 Apr 2021 • 1 min read
Developer says he can fix the Suez canal problem by adding more containers onto the ship
Programming

Developer says he can fix the Suez canal problem by adding more containers onto the ship

A quarter-mile-long, Japanese-owned container ship en route from China to Europe has been stuck in the Suez canal for several days. It is blocking more than a hundred other ships,

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 27 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
Facebook acquires Somalia to escape regulations, renames country to Zuckerbergstan
Business

Facebook acquires Somalia to escape regulations, renames country to Zuckerbergstan

Social networking giant Facebook has finalized the acquisition of the African state of Somalia for the price of 4.31 Instagrams. Formally, the unusual business transaction was planned to "connect

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 15 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
Programmer invents non-moving car, claims "premature optimization is the root of all evil"
Hardware

Programmer invents non-moving car, claims "premature optimization is the root of all evil"

An ambitious software engineer Nathan Zander, native of Northern California, decided to get into one of the most difficult industries: car manufacturing. To help the transition, Nathan is taking advantage

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 2 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
Client-side JS surpasses porn in global traffic stats
JavaScript

Client-side JS surpasses porn in global traffic stats

Pornography has been the top contributor to Internet traffic for a long time. This month another type of morally questionable content had surpassed porn and became the top contributor to

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 1 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
Google employees can't pass CAPTCHA asking to "click on squares containing privacy violations"
Google

Google employees can't pass CAPTCHA asking to "click on squares containing privacy violations"

A regular working day of one of Google's numerous departments has come to a halt on Friday afternoon, when a mundane security update forced all employees to re-authorize. The process

  • Matthew Solenya
    Matthew Solenya
Matthew Solenya 26 Feb 2021 • 1 min read
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