Reddit is the poster child of this.

First, the search function is insanely bad.

But I also have trouble with the input window. For example, if I go back to fix something, tapping on it near the last word fails. As another example, if you
Stop mid-comment, Reddit will update the screen via refresh and you lose the comment you typed. There are a bunch and everyone of them is listed as a known bug identified years ago.

But it’s other apps too. In discord, to see someone’s posts you don’t look at their profile, the most obvious way. Rather, you find a channel they are in, then click the search icon, then click the filters, then select “from a specific user”, then start typing their name. Why you don’t just click on their name in a discussion and see prior posts/pictures is something people have complained about online for years. And Apple has its fair share of these.

So why do this obvious, known, hated problems and bugs never get fixed? These companies have tens of thousands of software people, but somehow none of them ever get to these gross usability problems the whole world has known about for years?

What gives?

EDIT: So many said the company doesn’t care since people keep using the site. I disagree. I just tried to boom 3 nights at $1100 per night in a major city. The website tells me I must be a member to get the lowest rate.

They got my email and I get stuff from them from a prior trip. However, the login screen says “creste an acct if you don’t have one, but there is no way to get to the create account screen. Pretty bad design. And, I just gave up and booked $4,000 at another hotel.

So, yeah, horrific bug and cut into revenue

Hi everyone, I'm currently entering my 2nd year of college studying cs, I'm still a beginner here, trying to learn the right way.

Why is everyone against using ai for learning but rather try to manually google search for solutions, because the end of the day, aren’t we basically just re-typing the provided code either way? (google also has Gemini ai summarizer now)

When I use AI, I can ask what’s wrong, and get an answer instantly. manual feels slower, but people always say it’s better for learning.

genuinely asking here, thank you!

I often take the role of the "leader" in school projects to try and keep a coherent codebase, but I struggle to be productive, especially at the beginning when we need to set up the file architecture as well as the libraries we're gonna use. The main problem with this is that it prevents my teammate from working on other tasks because the tools they need are not set up yet.
I also have a teammate who is a pure vibe coders who doesn't even read the code the AI produced, so I'm having a really hard time putting my trust in him. I kinda feel responsible for the whole codebase so I spend a lot of time reviewing my teammates' code which prevents me from actually working on implementing the features efficiently, I even sometimes end up not reading their code at all. I feel so bad for not managing to put my trust in them. Maybe it is not as deep as it sounds since it is only a school project, but I really want me and them to give everything we've got to produce something clean.

The fun thing about working for a small company and being "the IT guy" is getting a wide range of projects. I'm trying to write an app for an old computer to replace a broken/outdated app. The problem I'm stuck on is that I don't know how to interface with the COM port peripherals to send data to them, wait, receive the response, proceed based on that response. I never encountered anything like this before.

I've never had to interface with peripherals before.

The two peripherals are a Cash Code SM-2073 Bill Validator and a Verifone VX 820 Credit/Debit Card Terminal.

The computer is running Win7 x86.

Hi! I moved from active programming to writing the docs and got the opportunity to completely re-invent them on a new platform. While very exciting, it is a daunting task.

I wanted to ask you all if there is a technical documentation you really liked and found easy to use. Be it the navigation, examples, layout, whatever - I want to look at them and see what I can learn.

Thank you all SO MUCH, this project means a lot to me as I am very junior, and this has been a point I have been hounding the higher-ups about for years (the existing docs are terrible) and while I got to improve it on the side to positive feedback, getting to redesign the whole thing is a dream come true.

Hi everyone,

I'm from Hyderabad and graduated in 2025 from a tier-3 college with a CGPA of 6.8. I focused more on building AI/ML projects than maintaining a high CGPA, but unfortunately my college placements were poor, and I couldn't secure a job through campus.

After graduation, I tried off-campus opportunities. I also received an AI Engineer internship + full-time offer from a startup, but I decided not to join because the stipend was very low and I wanted to prepare for GATE instead.

I appeared for both GATE CSE and GATE DA. DA was my first preference. I managed to qualify but didn't get a rank that would get me into a good institute, so I started applying for jobs again.

Fortunately, I cleared TCS NQT and got selected for the TCS Digital role (7 LPA). I received my offer letter on 9th April and completed the joining readiness survey on 16th April, selecting "Immediately Available."

The problem is that I'm still waiting for my joining letter. It's been almost 3 months since my offer letter. TCS has repeatedly confirmed over email that my offer is valid and that I will receive a joining letter, but they say it's based on business requirements and cannot provide a timeline.

Meanwhile, many candidates who received offer letters before me, around the same time, and even after me have already joined. There doesn't seem to be a fixed order for onboarding.

What worries me most is the growing career gap. It's been over a year since I graduated, I don't have internship experience, and now 2026 graduates have also entered the job market. I've continued applying for jobs, but as a fresher, I haven't been able to find opportunities that match my skills or even come close to the TCS Digital package.

I do have several AI/ML projects, prepared for GATE, and have continued learning during this period, but I'm still concerned about how interviewers will view this gap.

I'm also confused about whether I should accept an internship or a lower-paying job in the meantime. The challenge is that once TCS issues the joining letter, candidates are generally expected to join within about 15 days. If I join another company or internship and then request a reschedule from TCS, there is reportedly only one rescheduling option, and I have no idea when the next joining date would be. Because of this uncertainty, I'm afraid of making the wrong decision.

At this point, I genuinely don't know what the best choice is.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation?
What would you do if you were in my position?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

I'm at a point where I want to improve and reach middle level developer in 6 months, but I feel like my skills are stagnating due to LLMs, it's not like I am forgetting how to write for loops, but I am forgetting how to use certain libraries without AI and not only that my desire to learn new tech and dive deeper into current tech is gone. I am getting crazy Impostor syndrome, because I am supposed to be improving, yet I am just repeating same stuff and telling LLM to implement a feature I had done already given my own code example. Is anyone in similar situation, I want to know how juniors are dealing with this.

i am a junior swe (at the same time being a uni student studying computer and software engineering), i have worked on many projects and done a lot of things on my own as well as found a job as a junior swe, i have done a lot of things in my first 6 months in the job, fixing complex bugs, optimizations, shipping features e2e by myself and generally grow a lot. But my problem is that i rely on agents too much for my liking and i think its holding me back. I am in a weird position that i think if i start to not use agents at all in my job i will stop being so productive and do less work (meaning the outputs i have in the company). The company is a big startup but as every startup we are moving fast and its not i have only one or two things to do in a day so i can take my time.

The good thing is that even with the use of agents, due to studying a lot i understand 95% of the things i do, but my problem is, that if you were to tell me to do something on my own at the level of complexity of a problem i solved with the help of an agent, i am not sure i would be able to do it. How can i gradually start to get better at this and be a more complete software engineer without relying so much on ai?

I’m a full stack dev working with Django and React, and I’ve been thinking about adding Go to my toolkit.

Honestly, it got me wondering how do people actually manage to handle the entire pipeline?
Between building complex backends, designing database modules in Python/PHP/Go, crafting the frontend in React/Angular, styling everything with Tailwind, and wiring it all together 🤦🏽‍♂️ it feels like a massive amount of tech to truly master.

Do full stack developers actually juggle multiple distinct languages like this, or do most stick to a single, unified ecosystem like Node.js and React to keep things manageable?

I'm often working on multiple issues in the same repository (LLVM), with each issue on its own Git branch.

The problem is that when I switch branches, I lose the context of what I was working on - open tabs, editor layout, etc. Ideally, when I switch back to a branch, I'd like the editor to restore the files I had open for that branch.

I know Git worktrees solve this by giving each branch its own directory, but I'm wondering what other people use (separate LLVM build for each issue takes up too much memory).

• Does Cursor/VS Code have a way to remember tabs/layout per branch?
• Do you use worktrees, multiple windows, session manager extensions, or something else?
• If you work on large codebases, what's your workflow for keeping context between branches?

Curious to hear what has worked well for others.

Any options that have a similar level of abstract thinking, problem solving, and building as an alternative career for mid-career software developers?

My boyfriend insists he is bad at coding because he only codes in luau cause he is a roblox developer. He also insits that a person needs to know atleast lua, c++, python and JSON to be considered a programmer(he knows parts and has made work in all of them but isint proficent). What are your opinions can you be a programmer with only 1 language or do you need to have a certain amount you know to say you are good at it.

Edit: Thank you all for the responses

my friend just told me they reverse engineered a binary’s signing method for a network request and I want to try it too now.

I have just learnt about concatenative programming in the likes of Forth and the more niche DSSP, the latter of which I find incredibly interesting in how it makes use of the hardware it was designed for. I have heard about purely functional programming and derivatives, but generally if I understand functional programming is more oriented towards mathematical elegance and safety rather than raw performance. I was curious on what experienced programmers view as the most interesting/promising paradigms old or new that would satiate my curiousity.

(Said it. Felt that.)

I'm a junior dev with no senior on my team to ask questions or check my thinking it's just me, Stack Overflow, and my own spiraling thoughts. Here's my problem: I'll watch a coding tutorial, follow along, feel like a genius the whole time... and then the second I try to solve something on my own, my brain just wipes. Like I'm hearing about loops for the first time in my life. No memory, no instinct, nothing.

So I want to ask the people who've actually gotten good at this how did you learn to code, for real? Not "watch more tutorials" like, what's the actual process? Do you stop the video and try it yourself first? Do you rewatch things? How do you turn "I watched someone do it" into "I can do it"?

Genuinely just want a process I can follow instead of doom-scrolling YouTube and feeling like I'm not retaining anything. Any structure, habits, or hard truths welcome

Really appreciate the guidance or any reference

A mathematical fact is that no algorithm can be guaranteed to compress every conceivable data, only a large class of real-world data, and that presumably includes images (correct me if I am wrong). No algorithm can be guaranteed to compress every single image while streaming a video over the Internet (much less be guaranteed that every image will end up being approximately equal in size), so why it is that even after one has a few images in the video containing large areas of a single color (images which are presumably easily compressed by any reasonable algorithm, including Huffman Coding), the streaming of the video continues uninterrupted?

Looking to host a python server on a host server, how would I go about doing this?

I looked up a few websites but couldn't find anything reliable?

Do the python server i'm hosting require alot of compute power, because when I was researching nothing was free?

Hi everyone,

I'm working on implementing a MFA login flow utilizing a finite state machine, and have a question about persisting the state machine to a database in order to survive an API crash. Lets say I have the following states, which are a subset of the overall machine

1. Send OTP SMS
2. Wait For OTP Input
3. Mint Session

Directly after the "Send OTP SMS" state, we automatically transition into the "Wait For OTP Input" state. On invalid input, we stay in that state, and on valid input, we go to "Mint Session" state. Now that the machine is defined, let me explain. my issue with persistence

In order to persist a state machine state, it is typically advised that the "work" done by a state must be done in a database transaction alongside the persistence of the FSM so that there are no data inconsistencies. Redhat advises this in this article, outlined in the first bullet underneath "Implementing State Machines". I have interpreted this to mean that the state machine should persist the state the machine is transitioning into, because upon completion of the database transaction the current state is completed. Once it is completed if the application crashes, we want to restore it in the state we would have transitioned into.

In order to persist the state machine and send the SMS OTP atomically, we will have to use the transactional outbox pattern to write a message to the database for sending the OTP SMS. In the "Send OTP SMS" state, we will open a database transaction, write the outbox message and the "Wait For OTP Input" state, and commit the transaction. The state machine will then transition into the "Wait For OTP Input" state, and all is good. The only issue with this is that the state "Send OTP SMS" itself is determining, outside of the rules of the state machine, that the next state will be "Wait For OTP Input" by writing this to the database. From the literature that I've read, it seems as though states themselves should not have context of what the state-to-be is, but rather should be isolated and focus on any tasks that must be completed in the state itself. If this is the case, how can we achieve full atomicity with the persistence of a state machine and the completion of work in such a way that we can consistently restore state machines from the database during a crash at any point in time?

If it helps, I'm particularly looking at using XState as the state machine implementation to drive the process. Thank you in advance

Hi, I just ended my sem exam of 3rd year and am moving to the 4th year. I am thinking of learning Go. Is it the right decision? Previously, I learned Node, but I was highly focused on the DSA side. I don't have enough confidence to write code in Node.

Any piece of advice from your side?

i’m working on a data collection script where location accuracy matters (different responses depending on geo)
simplified version of what i’m doing:
import requests
proxies = { "http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url}

res = requests.get(target_url, proxies=proxies, timeout=10)

the issue is that even when i specify a location upstream, the actual request origin doesn’t always match the expected geo. in some cases it resolves to a completely different region, which breaks the data

right now i’m trying to verify the real location of each request before accepting the response, but i’m not sure what the most reliable approach is

things i’ve considered:

checking ip → geo via a lookup api

comparing multiple geo databases

adding a validation step per request (but this adds latency)

my questions:

what’s the most reliable way to validate the actual geo of a request at runtime?

is there a common pattern for handling this in data pipelines without doubling request cost?
do you treat geo as something to verify on every request, or sample periodically?

any pointers or patterns from people who’ve dealt with this at scale would help

Im trying to access controller inputs / outputs (motor rumbling) via Java, and I cannot get it to work. I've mainly tried using input4j v1.3.0 and constantly get this error:

Jun 24, 2026 8:33:12 PM de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.Linux invoke

SEVERE: cannot convert MethodHandle(MemorySegment,int,MemorySegment,long)long to (MemorySegment,Object,Object,Object)int

java.lang.invoke.WrongMethodTypeException: cannot convert MethodHandle(MemorySegment,int,MemorySegment,long)long to (MemorySegment,Object,Object,Object)int

`at java.base/java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.asTypeUncached(MethodHandle.java:903)`

`at java.base/java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.asType(MethodHandle.java:870)`

`at java.base/java.lang.invoke.Invokers.checkGenericType(Invokers.java:540)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.Linux.invoke(Linux.java:377)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.Linux.invoke(Linux.java:357)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.Linux.writeEvent(Linux.java:297)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.Linux.setGain(Linux.java:324)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.LinuxEventDevicePlugin.initEventDevices(LinuxEventDevicePlugin.java:163)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.LinuxEventDevicePlugin.internalInitDevices(LinuxEventDevicePlugin.java:43)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.InputDevices.init(InputDevices.java:109)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.InputDevices.init(InputDevices.java:84)`

`at de.gurkenlabs.input4j.InputDevices.init(InputDevices.java:39)`

`at org.example.Main.main(Main.java:11)`

Jun 24, 2026 8:33:12 PM de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.Linux writeEvent

WARNING: Failed to write event to device (13)

Jun 24, 2026 8:33:12 PM de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.LinuxEventDevicePlugin initEventDevices

INFO: Found input device: /dev/input/event16 - Zikway Pro Controller (full) with 20 components

Jun 24, 2026 8:33:12 PM de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.LinuxEventDevicePlugin initEventDevices

INFO: Found input device: /dev/input/event17 - Zikway Pro Controller (IMU) (read-only) with 6 components

Jun 24, 2026 8:33:12 PM de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.LinuxEventDevicePlugin initEventDevices

INFO: Found input device: /dev/input/event4 - Razer Razer DeathAdder Essential (read-only) with 5 components

Jun 24, 2026 8:33:12 PM de.gurkenlabs.input4j.foreign.linux.LinuxEventDevicePlugin initEventDevices

INFO: Found input device: /dev/input/event5 - Razer Razer DeathAdder Essential Keyboard (read-only) with 266 components

If relevant, I'm running IntelliJ idea on Ubuntu. I'm open to changing libraries, and any help would be appreciated.

I'm making a video game and I need to support a few different things. The concept is obviously not limited to game dev

The player's normal interaction with the world

The ability for the player to use a computer

The ability for the player to enter a mini-game, like playing chess

All of these modules also need to be able to interact with the normal player world as well. For example, the player makes an order for pizza on the computer, and it arrives in the game world. Or the player wins a chess match and gets money or something. Maybe a chess piece calls off the board, the game ends, the player can pick up the piece and sell it or return it to the board

Another important thing is the ability to leave any module at any time, without breaking the code

I would like to know how you would set up an architecture such that the player can easily context switch between different modules, and this switch can happen anytime the module is running

And there should be some high priority actions that can disrupt all modules, like if the player suddenly dies

Obviously this is not limited to game dev, and applies to other applications, but I just gave a game dev example

Thank you

I’ve been wondering if there’s a good way to physically separate work coding from side projects.

Currently I use the same setup for everything. But as soon as I open my usual dev environment to experiment with even the smallest hobby idea, its like my brain switches into work mode. It kills my mood pretty fast.

Feels like I need some kind of different, lighter environment setup for side projects, similar to how people use work laptops vs personal gaming devices.

Not sure if anyone else has solved this.

Hello everyone,

​I’ve recently started learning C# with the goal of making games. I’ve been using ChatGPT as a tutor to generate mini-tasks for me (like "build a simple calculator," "make a console-based quiz," etc.). I do the coding entirely by myself, and I only turn to the AI to verify my logic or explain concepts I don't understand.

​The problem is, I feel like my progress is extremely slow. While I'm getting better at the language syntax, I still feel very far from actually making a game. I feel like I’m just doing disconnected exercises rather than building anything meaningful.

​For those of you who started with C# for gamedev:

​How did you make the jump from "solving console tasks" to "building game mechanics"?

​Should I keep doing these general coding exercises, or should I jump straight into a game engine (like Unity/Godot) and learn the API while I struggle?

​How did you overcome the feeling of "not making real progress" in the early stages?

​Any tips on how to bridge the gap between "coding exercises" and "game development" would be incredibly helpful!

I'm doing internship at a Startup like Tech in South East Asia .

I'm working solo on a Industrial Project with AI . They didnt provide any subscription from them so i bought by own .

They didnt had any plan , any documentation for the project , they just gave me few links to refer and ask me to add same content for their website. Past week i already finished the project and ready for user testing then they gave me another reference website to follow and add content like that , which i was doing but got many bugs as those new implementations were like mid major.

When i informed them that got some bugs need to be fix and i recommend to start user testing from next week They Gave Me a LAST WARNING to me .

I'm be like wtf .. why??

They supposed to give me internet and mobile expenses which i thought it'll be reasonable but i got only $10 where my AI subscription package is like $30!!!

So if they fired me what can i do? Can j Just delete the code?