| 1 | Jul 31, '24 | My European mind can’t comprehend these salaries for a software engineer. | 51× | 4.2M | 16k | 583 | 2.4k |
| 2 | Jul 4, '24 | 10 rounds of interviews. Never seen something like this before. This is nuts! | 33.5× | 2.8M | 19k | 470 | 1.5k |
| 3 | Jul 6, '23 | Elon made a big mistake by open sourcing Twitter because Zuck did a “git clone”, changed a few things and deployed a competitor. 😆 See you there if you have an account. | 27× | 2.2M | 9.2k | 765 | 318 |
| 4 | Nov 21, '24 | Tech interviews in a nutshell. | 24.3× | 2M | 13k | 571 | 1.3k |
| 5 | Oct 20, '25 | Next generation of developers. | 17.5× | 1.4M | 47k | 3k | 2k |
| 6 | Aug 22, '23 | We buy laptops and use them as computers. | 17.5× | 1.4M | 18k | 1.8k | 356 |
| 7 | Jul 9, '23 | That says everything about tech interviews. 30+ years of experience, multiple recommendations and still being asked to live code *without* access to the internet. | 16.1× | 1.3M | 4.6k | 388 | 647 |
| 8 | Sep 8, '23 | Obvious red flags: - 7 rounds of interviews (especially for an entry-level job) - a week-long take-home assignment that involves building a whole tracking system - intense question | 15.7× | 1.3M | 5.4k | 394 | 649 |
| 9 | Sep 7, '23 | Improve your VS Code Explorer file tree structure. Add these settings in your configuration file for better visibility: ``` "workbench.tree.indent": 15, "workbench.tree.renderInden | 15.3× | 1.3M | 8.2k | 1k | 7.3k |
| 10 | Jul 8, '24 | Just use Postgres for everything. | 15.1× | 1.3M | 8.9k | 1k | 7.8k |
| 11 | Aug 10, '23 | Am I the only weirdo that can’t throw away the boxes of the devices they buy? | 15.1× | 1.3M | 13k | 573 | 354 |
| 12 | Sep 1, '23 | Social media in a nutshell. 🌰 | 12.7× | 1.1M | 6.6k | 703 | 372 |
| 13 | Oct 14, '23 | A friend I haven't met since last year told me today that he stopped learning how to code because of AI. He said he heard that AI can do the job of junior developers nowadays. So i | 12.7× | 1M | 2.5k | 193 | 331 |
| 14 | Aug 2, '23 | Got a job offer. Handed the 2 weeks notice at the current job. Initial company rescinded their offer. Now the person is jobless. I think that sometimes life mocks each one of us. A | 12.6× | 1M | 3.8k | 243 | 418 |
| 15 | Aug 29, '23 | For people that code 10+ hours daily, what’s your secret? Genuinely asking, as I wish to get to that level as well. | 12.1× | 1M | 3.2k | 213 | 709 |
| 16 | Aug 20, '23 | No. I have a life outside work. After 8 hours of work, I want to spend time with my family, relax, and do my hobbies. The only time I might build side projects, IS if I don’t have | 11.4× | 939k | 3.1k | 277 | 739 |
| 17 | Mar 4, '25 | I have a Computer Science degree and 6 years of experience, and random people who learnt about Cursor and Claude last week ship 100x more than me. | 11.2× | 929k | 9.5k | 366 | 2.7k |
| 18 | Aug 2, '23 | Welcome to tech 🫡 | 11.2× | 923k | 5.2k | 647 | 1k |
| 19 | Jul 23, '23 | Software development is one of the best professions with one of the worst interview processes. | 11.1× | 916k | 8.5k | 977 | 444 |
| 20 | Nov 7, '23 | That's called "progress" in software development! | 10.1× | 836k | 12k | 1.2k | 318 |
| 21 | Dec 19, '23 | You’re added as a reviewer in this PR. What are you doing? | 9.4× | 775k | 2.7k | 104 | 148 |
| 22 | Sep 23, '23 | Now I understand why WordPress is so popular for building websites. Someone asked me to re-do his website in WordPress. I was able to create a 5x better looking website in 2-3 hour | 9.2× | 765k | 3k | 230 | 869 |
| 23 | Jul 31, '23 | The question is not if you’ll break production, BUT when. If you fire developers that break production, you’ll eventually fire everyone. The fact that the junior developer broke pr | 9.1× | 755k | 3.5k | 354 | 412 |
| 24 | Nov 24, '23 | Damn. ChatGPT is savage! | 8.8× | 725k | 11k | 524 | 170 |
| 25 | Mar 3, '25 | Vibe coding is easy. Vibe debugging is the hard part. | 8.5× | 703k | 5.6k | 388 | 497 |
| 26 | Sep 19, '23 | Simple. Here's why: - No more commuting for 3 hours/day. That's 60 hours/month saved. - No more money spent on commuting. That's approx. £200/month saved. - Can work from anywhere. | 8.1× | 673k | 3.8k | 327 | 277 |
| 27 | Jul 24, '23 | Software engineering is fulfilling for me. But at the same time, it’s very mentally taxing. I don’t know if I’ll do it past my 40s professionally. Although I’ll aways code as a hob | 8.0× | 658k | 2.5k | 181 | 612 |
| 28 | Feb 27, '25 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet is worse than 3.5, and I'm happy to see it's not just me. It's over-confident. It ignores rules. It unnecessarily does more than it needs to do and therefore brea | 7.8× | 647k | 3.2k | 166 | 670 |
| 29 | Oct 12, '23 | At the beginning of your career, you only want to code code code code. Then, the more you code, the more you dream of that farm. | 7.7× | 639k | 4.6k | 760 | 369 |
| 30 | Jan 17, '25 | MacBook is the greatest machine for software development. Nothing beats it. | 7.4× | 611k | 7k | 350 | 498 |
| 31 | Aug 25, '23 | I’d only give up remote working for this. It’s the only Office I’d return to. | 7.3× | 607k | 4.3k | 292 | 117 |
| 32 | Aug 12, '23 | I am a software engineer. Not a Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/React/Node.js/{insert-technology} developer. | 7.0× | 583k | 4.6k | 412 | 285 |
| 33 | Nov 17, '24 | Someone found my GitHub profile and approached me for a dev job. However, they told me the interview process consists of coding challenges. Why? My GitHub contains all my work - my | 7.0× | 579k | 5.2k | 114 | 610 |
| 34 | Feb 8, '25 | For coding. | 6.8× | 560k | 5.1k | 273 | 1.9k |
| 35 | Nov 2, '25 | This is probably a senior dev on 500k/year using an IBM Thinkpad and maintaining the whole infrastructure at his company. | 6.7× | 557k | 5.7k | 116 | 475 |
| 36 | Sep 22, '25 | I don't understand why people need laptops with lots of storage. I can barely fill 1TB. What are you all storing on your machines? | 6.7× | 550k | 3.6k | 52 | 300 |
| 37 | Jul 25, '23 | If your employer does this, run fast and far. | 6.6× | 547k | 2.6k | 149 | 126 |
| 38 | Jul 6, '24 | Screw software development. A construction worker just quoted me €2300 for a day’s work of drilling holes into the walls. I know it’s very hard work, but damn. Construction here I | 6.5× | 538k | 3k | 83 | 276 |
| 39 | Oct 22, '25 | I hate the 14-inch MacBook. It's a pain to work on it. It's only good for travelling. The bigger screen on the 16-inch MacBook makes working so much more comfortable, since you hav | 6.5× | 535k | 4.1k | 81 | 530 |
| 40 | Jun 1, '23 | Honestly? I'm going through a rough patch regarding job hunting. I was so spoiled that in the last 3 years, I didn't even have to use a CV or apply for jobs. I simply received offe | 6.5× | 534k | 2.5k | 305 | 289 |
| 41 | Dec 31, '23 | AI will take developer jobs… because those who rely on it too much will lose their jobs. 😅 | 6.4× | 533k | 4k | 357 | 181 |
| 42 | Jan 26, '24 | I don’t understand why developers are so obsessed with this thing vim | 6.1× | 506k | 2.4k | 146 | 34 |
| 43 | Jun 25, '25 | I literally don’t understand how people use AI to build apps from scratch. I tried too and it failed badly. I created requirements, PRD, rules, and added context. The AI spinned so | 5.9× | 490k | 3.1k | 122 | 1.5k |
| 44 | Sep 12, '23 | Same. In the beginning, I was impressed by this type of "smart" code. I also tried to write code like that because I thought it looked cool, and that's how "smart" people do it. No | 5.8× | 481k | 2.2k | 201 | 443 |
| 45 | Aug 28, '23 | TailwindCSS is one of the !worst things that happened to CSS! | 5.7× | 470k | 2.3k | 168 | 99 |
| 46 | Aug 30, '23 | There’s something magic about waking up earlier. Whenever I wake up at 7 am or earlier, it feels like the day is 2x longer. I also achieve a lot more stuff. Try it. | 5.7× | 470k | 2.6k | 152 | 163 |
| 47 | Aug 21, '23 | This is how your GitHub contribution chart should look like in this tough job market. | 5.6× | 465k | 5.4k | 482 | 156 |
| 48 | Oct 3, '25 | I get an app idea. I start building it because I find it useful. I see other alternatives on the internet. I get demotivated and stop working on it. Never release it. Repeat with o | 5.5× | 456k | 5.4k | 247 | 1.5k |
| 49 | Jun 28, '22 | Software engineering at its finest. 😅 | 5.3× | 0 | 12k | 1.8k | 342 |
| 50 | Sep 12, '23 | I just don't understand how Fullstack Open is not more popular. It's a free online web development course by the University of Helsinki and Houston. It teaches you the following te | 5.2× | 430k | 2.4k | 533 | 3.5k |
| 51 | Sep 27, '23 | It's great to see dev salaries going up! 🔥 | 5.0× | 416k | 2.9k | 94 | 57 |
| 52 | Jan 17, '24 | If you think you’re done, think twice. | 4.9× | 409k | 5.8k | 760 | 545 |
| 53 | Mar 17, '25 | "Vibe" coding is fun until it isn't. People are slowly hit with the reality of deploying slop to production. I’m pro AI and pro any tool IF you actually know how to use it. If you | 4.9× | 403k | 2.8k | 251 | 868 |
| 54 | Jan 5, '23 | Coding for work Coding for fun | 4.9× | 403k | 7.6k | 970 | 144 |
| 55 | Feb 21, '25 | Never ever get a MacBook with less than 32GB RAM. | 4.9× | 401k | 3.2k | 99 | 290 |
| 56 | Aug 9, '23 | I’m quitting tech to become a UPS driver. Better salary than a dev and no DS & Algo interview. | 4.8× | 396k | 2.3k | 182 | 97 |
| 57 | Jun 23, '23 | Developers be like "I need to build a personal blog” Then they proceed to over-engineer it by using Terraform, AWS, Rust, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Docker, CI/CD, and Kubernetes | 4.8× | 396k | 3.4k | 317 | 182 |
| 58 | Sep 25, '25 | New social media platform for people who ship. | 4.7× | 386k | 7.3k | 349 | 979 |
| 59 | Oct 25, '22 | Whenever I feel sad, I do an internet speed test, remember that I pay ~9 USD/month for this, and I instantly feel better. | 4.6× | 0 | 8.6k | 852 | 343 |
| 60 | Jan 10, '23 | The best combo. If you know, you know. | 4.5× | 374k | 4.1k | 662 | 246 |
| 61 | Feb 29, '24 | Open source ratio. | 4.3× | 357k | 7.3k | 407 | 243 |
| 62 | Mar 12, '25 | I'm happy to see more and more open-source alternatives popping up. Calendly -> @calcom Auth0 -> @better_auth Google Analytics -> @PlausibleHQ DocuSign -> @documenso Bi | 4.2× | 351k | 4.1k | 463 | 7.6k |
| 63 | Apr 27, '22 | "In tech, interviews are harder than the actual jobs" This is a joke, but it can be true in many cases. Unfortunately. Check these 7 GitHub repositories that will help you prepare | 4.2× | 0 | 4.1k | 1k | 3.4k |
| 64 | Sep 1, '23 | Reading productivity books is a waste of time. They all say the same thing repackaged differently. Productivity is simple - write your tasks on a paper/notes app, put away your pho | 4.1× | 342k | 2.1k | 228 | 331 |
| 65 | May 8, '24 | Developers need to chill. | 4.1× | 341k | 3.3k | 239 | 241 |
| 66 | Jul 3, '24 | True | 4.1× | 340k | 5.1k | 269 | 274 |
| 67 | Feb 18, '24 | I wonder how the life of such a developer looks like. 😅 | 4.1× | 339k | 3.5k | 216 | 252 |
| 68 | Sep 3, '25 | The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again in your life. | 4.0× | 327k | 7.9k | 964 | 602 |
| 69 | Jun 13, '23 | The Pizza Hut website in 1994. Things were so simple - no frameworks, no deployment pipelines, no responsiveness for a zillion devices. | 3.9× | 326k | 3.1k | 411 | 112 |
| 70 | Jan 28, '22 | Tech might be the only place where the interview is harder than the actual job. | 3.9× | 0 | 8.3k | 1.4k | 200 |
| 71 | May 27, '23 | Software development is a cool, well-paid job. Can’t be an hypocrite and claim it isn’t. But it’s also not the fairy tale people claim it is. It’s a difficult job that takes a toll | 3.9× | 319k | 2.4k | 503 | 240 |
| 72 | Dec 21, '23 | I think I’ll stay at mid-level forever. 👀 | 3.7× | 304k | 3.9k | 294 | 131 |
| 73 | Dec 28, '22 | npm uninstall -g 2022 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 99% | 3.7× | 304k | 3.1k | 458 | 37 |
| 74 | Jul 19, '23 | Just ship it. | 3.5× | 292k | 3.6k | 419 | 174 |
| 75 | Oct 5, '23 | Always make sure to have screenshots! 😆 | 3.5× | 287k | 3.8k | 418 | 141 |
| 76 | Feb 25, '24 | I took the final decision of leaving tech and bought a country farm. If you want cherries, apples, eggs, milk and vegetables hit me up. | 3.4× | 284k | 3k | 250 | 121 |
| 77 | Jul 25, '24 | Am I the only one who has an irrational attachment to boxes and can't throw them out? | 3.4× | 284k | 4.9k | 121 | 146 |
| 78 | Apr 6, '25 | Now I really need a new laptop. | 3.4× | 279k | 2.2k | 32 | 80 |
| 79 | Feb 17, '23 | “I don’t need to document my solution. I’ll remember it” | 3.3× | 273k | 2.7k | 447 | 64 |
| 80 | Jan 10, '24 | Good morning to you too. 🌞 | 3.3× | 271k | 2k | 99 | 60 |
| 81 | Oct 27, '25 | Hetzner bad. And yes, I have apps running on the instance. | 3.2× | 266k | 2.4k | 15 | 295 |
| 82 | Apr 19, '24 | He went from stealing your data to stealing your date. 😅 | 3.2× | 262k | 2.4k | 121 | 105 |
| 83 | Jan 25, '23 | My brain when I try to work on my side projects after finishing a 8 hour work day. | 3.1× | 257k | 3.1k | 406 | 81 |
| 84 | Jun 29, '23 | I’m happy to announce that I’ll release a bundle of must-have books for every software engineer. | 3.1× | 254k | 2.1k | 431 | 456 |
| 85 | Jan 13, '24 | The senior developer knows that the change will require 10 meetings and 25 approvals. | 3.1× | 253k | 2.8k | 215 | 163 |
| 86 | Mar 3, '23 | |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Finish that side project |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_ | 2.9× | 236k | 3.2k | 422 | 82 |
| 87 | Feb 17, '25 | @randomrecruiter Cretins bragging online how they do 1 hour of work or no work at all and get paid by companies. They fumbled it for us all that actually work. | 2.6× | 211k | 3.8k | 49 | 39 |
| 88 | Oct 20, '22 | This will never get old. 😁 | 2.5× | 0 | 5.8k | 714 | 186 |
| 89 | Dec 31, '23 | rm -rf 2023 mkdir 2024 cd 2024 npm i npm run | 2.5× | 209k | 3k | 580 | 83 |
| 90 | Feb 8, '24 | I do have a feeling that this might be true in lots of cases. | 2.3× | 189k | 3.8k | 370 | 131 |
| 91 | Dec 10, '22 | Recruiter: - We offer a competitive salary Candidate: - How much? Recruiter: - Don't worry about it, it's competitive. Anyways, what skills do you have? Candidate: - Oh, I have ama | 2.3× | 0 | 5.1k | 770 | 131 |
| 92 | Jul 21, '25 | @pqoqubbw That’s why it’s a multi-billion-dollar company. Focuses on the important stuff. | 2.2× | 182k | 2.3k | 10 | 10 |
| 93 | Oct 6, '22 | The longer I work in tech, the more I realize that writing the code is rarely the hard part. | 2.1× | 0 | 5k | 471 | 176 |
| 94 | Jul 5, '24 | @randomrecruiter Soon you'll have to do 50 interviews, which will just be voluntary work at that point. | 1.8× | 147k | 2.9k | 11 | 10 |
| 95 | Aug 12, '25 | @grok @dctrpr @sama @elonmusk Grok's last day at the office. | 1.7× | 143k | 2.9k | 49 | 14 |
| 96 | Jul 13, '22 | I finally finished all the programming courses. I am ready to build apps. - Catalin, 72 years old | 1.5× | 0 | 3.7k | 276 | 56 |
| 97 | Apr 16, '24 | My next product is the first AI candidate so you can interview at 100x more companies in less time. | 1.4× | 114k | 4k | 252 | 68 |
| 98 | Mar 13, '25 | 2 hours of back-and-forth with AI can save you 15 minutes of thinking and solving the problem. | 1.2× | 101k | 2.3k | 221 | 124 |
| 99 | Sep 29, '22 | I am a problem solver, not a programmer. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.2k | 214 | 59 |
| 100 | Jan 8, '22 | I didn’t code for one month and a bit. I think I need to start from “hello world” again. | 0.9× | 0 | 2.1k | 206 | 31 |
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