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Many years ago in a story I just made up, I was architecting some highly scalable infrastructure when a staff engineer walked into my cubicle and said
Hey, buddy.
That's a cute Versus code theme you've got there.
Oh, thanks.
It's, uh, Synthwave with power mode enabled.
Before I could explain more though, he cut me off and said You
see that bug on mine 234, Right?
I said, no.
That's impossible, sir.
We have a 100% test coverage on this code.
Well, I'm
gonna pull it up in Neovim on my Arch desktop and, uh, I'll send you a PR for that.
5 minutes later, I get a notification in Slack that the PR came through, all tests are passing, with 469 lines of code removed and just one commit message that read,
Optimized suboptimal code.
I then looked out the window and saw him driving away in his Tesla.
It was at that moment that I realized I had been flexed upon.
If you're a programmer who's feeling down, One of the best ways to boost your ego is to flex on other developers.
For programmers, there's only 2 states of being, imposter syndrome or superiority complex.
In today's video, you'll learn how to become the best programmer the world has ever seen in your own mind by looking at 10 practical ways to flex on your friends and Colleagues.
First up, we've got the complexity flex.
The world's greatest programmer once said, an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.
Luckily, most people are not geniuses.
Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are stupider than that.
So what you can do is take something simple like a perfectly functional Java script function, then add TypeScript to it while preaching the virtues of end to end type safety.
From there, refactor it into an abstract factory singleton adapter decorator proxy, and when nobody understands that, Just tell them they've never seen clean code before and should have read the Gang of 4 book, making them think you're some kind of programming god.
The CTO who doesn't know how to code will be so impressed that you'll get a huge raise.
And that brings us As to the money flex, the amount of money you make is exactly tied to the amount of value that you bring to the world.
The level 1 money flex is the junior developer making 50 k a year who shows off to his old colleagues at Arby's who are only making 45 k a year.
The dude in the cubicle next to him though did a better job negotiating a salary and makes 225 k a year.
That dude's got a cousin though who works at Netflix who flexes on him for making 900 k a year.
That dude's landlord though was one of the first engineers at Uber who has a net Worth of 25 mil, who now flexes on social media about being a genius technology investor, but then he gets flexed on by the billionaire crypto bro, who made all his money by rug pulling All the level one flexors.
The circle of life is truly beautiful.
If you subscribe to the link in this post, I may get a commission.
I'm not quite a billionaire yet, so the way I like to flex is by owning YouTube Premium.
As a lazy developer, I'm obsessed with optimizing my time, and by owning premium, I don't have to watch ads on any YouTube videos, and I can download all the JavaScript tutorials I want to watch offline when I travel.
On top of that, it provides access to YouTube Music, so I can listen to Huey Lewis and the News on repeat while I code, which actually saves me money because I don't need Pay for other music streaming services.
What's really awesome though is that YouTube has allowed me to offer you 1 month of YouTube premium for free.
I've actually been paying for it itself for years, and it's well worth it if you value your time.
But another great way to demonstrate your superior value is with the Vim Flex.
When you use Vim, it elevates you to a higher plane of consciousness where you can look down upon the poor lost souls using tools like Versus Code, IntelliJ, and Emax.
If you're the real deal, you won't even have a mouse at your cuter.
Now normally, this is the point where I should make a joke about not being able to exit Vim, but I've never really understood those jokes because I don't even know how to exit Versus Code.
But an even More potent flex is your operating system.
If you wanna tell people you're rich, go with a Macintosh, and combine it with the Apple Vision Pro to also tell people that you're clown.
Real developers though use Linux.
You can impress most people by simply using Ubuntu, but if you really want to impress people, you should pay a bunch of money to IBM to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
That's pretty bowler, but eventually you'll find yourself alone at a urinal.
A man will walk in.
He'll turn his head and look at you, then say these three words.
I use Arch, by the way.
You'll immediately feel Smaller.
Like your distro is just not as well endowed as you thought.
Not to worry though, you're just getting flexed on by someone who doesn't have a life who can spend countless hours configuring their OS.
Everybody knows that But he knows that the ultimate distro is Windows because that tells people that you actually have a life and maybe even a girlfriend outside of programming, but nothing says I don't have a life better than the GitHub flex.
If you don't have a GitHub commit history that looks like this, then you're not a real programmer, and you don't care about open source, and your profile should have enough awards and badges on it to make you look like a North Korean general.
You can achieve these badges by flexing on other open source projects.
The chainsawprflex is a great way to show the world that you're the top g of JavaScript.
Rat.
What you wanna do is find new small projects from young enthusiastic developers, then fork their code and remove every line possible, while making sure that all the tests still pass, then send a vague pull request explaining how you cleaned up the code to use best practices.
If you did it properly, the project will soon be abandoned because no programmer can face that amount of flexing.
We're losing him.
We're losing him.
He's dying.
Now that one is kind of hard to pull off if you're a terrible programmer, but that shouldn't hold you back from flexing anyway.
There's an old saying that goes something like, those who can't code become influencers.
But what you do is pay your $8 to post on x, formerly known as Twitter, then make outrageous hot takes that nobody could Possibly agree with.
If you give advice that's so egregiously bad, you might even get a reply from Elon Musk himself, which you can then flex about on your YouTube channel.
And yes, that is a real tweet.
Elon and I are pretty much best friends at this point.
Now, you should never take technical advice from someone on Twitter or YouTube, but instead only take advice from people who flex their past experience.
If you've ever worked at a FAANG company, it gives Gives you the privilege to start every sentence with, as an ex Facebook engineer, I recommend that you make x bad decision.
Working at a fang company is like being in a special club that everyone wants to get into, even though some people say they don't want to because their moral compass is too well calibrated.
But in reality, they're just hating because they didn't grind on Leetcode enough.
If I ever got a job at FAANG, I would tattoo it on my forehead.
If you're not in the club though, another way to flex as a web developer is with your domains.
My GoDaddy account is more valuable than my Robinhood account.
Domains aren't just for failed side projects, they're investments that you'll one hand down to your grandkids.
Like best dash seo dash backlink dash tool dot net is a valuable asset that any developer would love to get their hands on.
The ultimate flex a programmer Do though is learn to farm.
The programmer who blows up his computer and joins the Amish is invincible to all the flexes we've looked at throughout this video.
As he milks his cow and tends To his crops, his identity is no longer tied to these superficial things, like code quality, GitHub stars, likes, followers, and even money.
As he Looks at the spider web reflecting the sun, it reminds him of a silicon chip.
He recognizes the inherent intelligence that permeates all of nature.
Its beauty is so overwhelming that he Begins to cry.
In that moment, he's connected to all the people that lived and died before him.
Soon enough, he'll be dead and forgotten just like them.
The complete insignificance of his own existence is both Verifying and liberating, and it was at that moment that he realized that the spider was just flexing on him.

Speaker 0: Many years ago in a story I just made up, I was architecting some highly scalable infrastructure when a staff engineer walked into my cubicle and said

Speaker 1: Hey, buddy. That's a cute Versus code theme you've got there.

Speaker 0: Oh, thanks. It's, uh, Synthwave with power mode enabled. Before I could explain more though, he cut me off and said You

Speaker 1: see that bug on mine 234, Right?

Speaker 0: I said, no. That's impossible, sir. We have a 100% test coverage on this code. Well, I'm

Speaker 1: gonna pull it up in Neovim on my Arch desktop and, uh, I'll send you a PR for that.

Speaker 0: 5 minutes later, I get a notification in Slack that the PR came through, all tests are passing, with 469 lines of code removed and just one commit message that read,

Speaker 1: Optimized suboptimal code.

Speaker 0: I then looked out the window and saw him driving away in his Tesla. It was at that moment that I realized I had been flexed upon. If you're a programmer who's feeling down, One of the best ways to boost your ego is to flex on other developers. For programmers, there's only 2 states of being, imposter syndrome or superiority complex. In today's video, you'll learn how to become the best programmer the world has ever seen in your own mind by looking at 10 practical ways to flex on your friends and Colleagues.

First up, we've got the complexity flex. The world's greatest programmer once said, an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. Luckily, most people are not geniuses.

Speaker 1: Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are stupider than that.

Speaker 0: So what you can do is take something simple like a perfectly functional Java script function, then add TypeScript to it while preaching the virtues of end to end type safety. From there, refactor it into an abstract factory singleton adapter decorator proxy, and when nobody understands that, Just tell them they've never seen clean code before and should have read the Gang of 4 book, making them think you're some kind of programming god. The CTO who doesn't know how to code will be so impressed that you'll get a huge raise. And that brings us As to the money flex, the amount of money you make is exactly tied to the amount of value that you bring to the world. The level 1 money flex is the junior developer making 50 k a year who shows off to his old colleagues at Arby's who are only making 45 k a year.

The dude in the cubicle next to him though did a better job negotiating a salary and makes 225 k a year. That dude's got a cousin though who works at Netflix who flexes on him for making 900 k a year. That dude's landlord though was one of the first engineers at Uber who has a net Worth of 25 mil, who now flexes on social media about being a genius technology investor, but then he gets flexed on by the billionaire crypto bro, who made all his money by rug pulling All the level one flexors. The circle of life is truly beautiful. If you subscribe to the link in this post, I may get a commission.

I'm not quite a billionaire yet, so the way I like to flex is by owning YouTube Premium. As a lazy developer, I'm obsessed with optimizing my time, and by owning premium, I don't have to watch ads on any YouTube videos, and I can download all the JavaScript tutorials I want to watch offline when I travel. On top of that, it provides access to YouTube Music, so I can listen to Huey Lewis and the News on repeat while I code, which actually saves me money because I don't need Pay for other music streaming services. What's really awesome though is that YouTube has allowed me to offer you 1 month of YouTube premium for free. I've actually been paying for it itself for years, and it's well worth it if you value your time.

But another great way to demonstrate your superior value is with the Vim Flex. When you use Vim, it elevates you to a higher plane of consciousness where you can look down upon the poor lost souls using tools like Versus Code, IntelliJ, and Emax. If you're the real deal, you won't even have a mouse at your cuter. Now normally, this is the point where I should make a joke about not being able to exit Vim, but I've never really understood those jokes because I don't even know how to exit Versus Code. But an even More potent flex is your operating system.

If you wanna tell people you're rich, go with a Macintosh, and combine it with the Apple Vision Pro to also tell people that you're clown. Real developers though use Linux. You can impress most people by simply using Ubuntu, but if you really want to impress people, you should pay a bunch of money to IBM to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's pretty bowler, but eventually you'll find yourself alone at a urinal. A man will walk in.

He'll turn his head and look at you, then say these three words. I use Arch, by the way. You'll immediately feel Smaller. Like your distro is just not as well endowed as you thought. Not to worry though, you're just getting flexed on by someone who doesn't have a life who can spend countless hours configuring their OS.

Everybody knows that But he knows that the ultimate distro is Windows because that tells people that you actually have a life and maybe even a girlfriend outside of programming, but nothing says I don't have a life better than the GitHub flex. If you don't have a GitHub commit history that looks like this, then you're not a real programmer, and you don't care about open source, and your profile should have enough awards and badges on it to make you look like a North Korean general. You can achieve these badges by flexing on other open source projects. The chainsawprflex is a great way to show the world that you're the top g of JavaScript. Rat.

What you wanna do is find new small projects from young enthusiastic developers, then fork their code and remove every line possible, while making sure that all the tests still pass, then send a vague pull request explaining how you cleaned up the code to use best practices. If you did it properly, the project will soon be abandoned because no programmer can face that amount of flexing.

Speaker 1: We're losing him. We're losing him. He's dying.

Speaker 0: Now that one is kind of hard to pull off if you're a terrible programmer, but that shouldn't hold you back from flexing anyway. There's an old saying that goes something like, those who can't code become influencers. But what you do is pay your $8 to post on x, formerly known as Twitter, then make outrageous hot takes that nobody could Possibly agree with. If you give advice that's so egregiously bad, you might even get a reply from Elon Musk himself, which you can then flex about on your YouTube channel. And yes, that is a real tweet.

Elon and I are pretty much best friends at this point. Now, you should never take technical advice from someone on Twitter or YouTube, but instead only take advice from people who flex their past experience. If you've ever worked at a FAANG company, it gives Gives you the privilege to start every sentence with, as an ex Facebook engineer, I recommend that you make x bad decision. Working at a fang company is like being in a special club that everyone wants to get into, even though some people say they don't want to because their moral compass is too well calibrated. But in reality, they're just hating because they didn't grind on Leetcode enough.

If I ever got a job at FAANG, I would tattoo it on my forehead. If you're not in the club though, another way to flex as a web developer is with your domains. My GoDaddy account is more valuable than my Robinhood account. Domains aren't just for failed side projects, they're investments that you'll one hand down to your grandkids. Like best dash seo dash backlink dash tool dot net is a valuable asset that any developer would love to get their hands on.

The ultimate flex a programmer Do though is learn to farm. The programmer who blows up his computer and joins the Amish is invincible to all the flexes we've looked at throughout this video. As he milks his cow and tends To his crops, his identity is no longer tied to these superficial things, like code quality, GitHub stars, likes, followers, and even money. As he Looks at the spider web reflecting the sun, it reminds him of a silicon chip. He recognizes the inherent intelligence that permeates all of nature.

Its beauty is so overwhelming that he Begins to cry. In that moment, he's connected to all the people that lived and died before him. Soon enough, he'll be dead and forgotten just like them. The complete insignificance of his own existence is both Verifying and liberating, and it was at that moment that he realized that the spider was just flexing on him.
Many years ago in a story I just made up, I was architecting some highly scalable infrastructure when a staff engineer walked into my cubicle and said Hey, buddy. That's a cute Versus code theme you've got there. Oh, thanks. It's, uh, Synthwave with power mode enabled. Before I could explain more though, he cut me off and said You see that bug on mine 234, Right? I said, no. That's impossible, sir. We have a 100% test coverage on this code. Well, I'm gonna pull it up in Neovim on my Arch desktop and, uh, I'll send you a PR for that. 5 minutes later, I get a notification in Slack that the PR came through, all tests are passing, with 469 lines of code removed and just one commit message that read, Optimized suboptimal code. I then looked out the window and saw him driving away in his Tesla. It was at that moment that I realized I had been flexed upon. If you're a programmer who's feeling down, One of the best ways to boost your ego is to flex on other developers. For programmers, there's only 2 states of being, imposter syndrome or superiority complex. In today's video, you'll learn how to become the best programmer the world has ever seen in your own mind by looking at 10 practical ways to flex on your friends and Colleagues.
First up, we've got the complexity flex. The world's greatest programmer once said, an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. Luckily, most people are not geniuses. Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are stupider than that. So what you can do is take something simple like a perfectly functional Java script function, then add TypeScript to it while preaching the virtues of end to end type safety.
logic
From there, refactor it into an abstract factory singleton adapter decorator proxy, and when nobody understands that, Just tell them they've never seen clean code before and should have read the Gang of 4 book, making them think you're some kind of programming god.
The CTO who doesn't know how to code will be so impressed that you'll get a huge raise. And that brings us As to the money flex, the amount of money you make is exactly tied to the amount of value that you bring to the world. The level 1 money flex is the junior developer making 50 k a year who shows off to his old colleagues at Arby's who are only making 45 k a year. The dude in the cubicle next to him though did a better job negotiating a salary and makes 225 k a year.
earnings
finance
That dude's got a cousin though who works at Netflix who flexes on him for making 900 k a year. That dude's landlord though was one of the first engineers at Uber who has a net Worth of 25 mil, who now flexes on social media about being a genius technology investor, but then he gets flexed on by the billionaire crypto bro, who made all his money by rug pulling All the level one flexors.
The circle of life is truly beautiful. If you subscribe to the link in this post, I may get a commission. I'm not quite a billionaire yet, so the way I like to flex is by owning YouTube Premium. As a lazy developer, I'm obsessed with optimizing my time, and by owning premium, I don't have to watch ads on any YouTube videos, and I can download all the JavaScript tutorials I want to watch offline when I travel. On top of that, it provides access to YouTube Music, so I can listen to Huey Lewis and the News on repeat while I code, which actually saves me money because I don't need Pay for other music streaming services. What's really awesome though is that YouTube has allowed me to offer you 1 month of YouTube premium for free. I've actually been paying for it itself for years, and it's well worth it if you value your time. But another great way to demonstrate your superior value is with the Vim Flex.
youtube
streaming
video gaming
When you use Vim, it elevates you to a higher plane of consciousness where you can look down upon the poor lost souls using tools like Versus Code, IntelliJ, and Emax. If you're the real deal, you won't even have a mouse at your cuter. Now normally, this is the point where I should make a joke about not being able to exit Vim, but I've never really understood those jokes because I don't even know how to exit Versus Code.
But an even More potent flex is your operating system. If you wanna tell people you're rich, go with a Macintosh, and combine it with the Apple Vision Pro to also tell people that you're clown. Real developers though use Linux. You can impress most people by simply using Ubuntu, but if you really want to impress people, you should pay a bunch of money to IBM to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's pretty bowler, but eventually you'll find yourself alone at a urinal. A man will walk in.
ibm
He'll turn his head and look at you, then say these three words. I use Arch, by the way. You'll immediately feel Smaller. Like your distro is just not as well endowed as you thought. Not to worry though, you're just getting flexed on by someone who doesn't have a life who can spend countless hours configuring their OS. Everybody knows that But he knows that the ultimate distro is Windows because that tells people that you actually have a life and maybe even a girlfriend outside of programming, but nothing says I don't have a life better than the GitHub flex. If you don't have a GitHub commit history that looks like this, then you're not a real programmer, and you don't care about open source, and your profile should have enough awards and badges on it to make you look like a North Korean general. You can achieve these badges by flexing on other open source projects. The chainsawprflex is a great way to show the world that you're the top g of JavaScript.
Rat. What you wanna do is find new small projects from young enthusiastic developers, then fork their code and remove every line possible, while making sure that all the tests still pass, then send a vague pull request explaining how you cleaned up the code to use best practices. If you did it properly, the project will soon be abandoned because no programmer can face that amount of flexing.
software development
software
We're losing him. We're losing him. He's dying. Now that one is kind of hard to pull off if you're a terrible programmer, but that shouldn't hold you back from flexing anyway.
There's an old saying that goes something like, those who can't code become influencers. But what you do is pay your $8 to post on x, formerly known as Twitter, then make outrageous hot takes that nobody could Possibly agree with. If you give advice that's so egregiously bad, you might even get a reply from Elon Musk himself, which you can then flex about on your YouTube channel.
twitter
And yes, that is a real tweet. Elon and I are pretty much best friends at this point. Now, you should never take technical advice from someone on Twitter or YouTube, but instead only take advice from people who flex their past experience. If you've ever worked at a FAANG company, it gives Gives you the privilege to start every sentence with, as an ex Facebook engineer, I recommend that you make x bad decision.
twitter
Working at a fang company is like being in a special club that everyone wants to get into, even though some people say they don't want to because their moral compass is too well calibrated. But in reality, they're just hating because they didn't grind on Leetcode enough. If I ever got a job at FAANG, I would tattoo it on my forehead.
If you're not in the club though, another way to flex as a web developer is with your domains. My GoDaddy account is more valuable than my Robinhood account. Domains aren't just for failed side projects, they're investments that you'll one hand down to your grandkids. Like best dash seo dash backlink dash tool dot net is a valuable asset that any developer would love to get their hands on. The ultimate flex a programmer Do though is learn to farm.
intellectual property
google
The programmer who blows up his computer and joins the Amish is invincible to all the flexes we've looked at throughout this video. As he milks his cow and tends To his crops, his identity is no longer tied to these superficial things, like code quality, GitHub stars, likes, followers, and even money. As he Looks at the spider web reflecting the sun, it reminds him of a silicon chip. He recognizes the inherent intelligence that permeates all of nature.
Its beauty is so overwhelming that he Begins to cry. In that moment, he's connected to all the people that lived and died before him. Soon enough, he'll be dead and forgotten just like them. The complete insignificance of his own existence is both Verifying and liberating, and it was at that moment that he realized that the spider was just flexing on him.
death
Many years ago in a story I just made up, I was architecting some highly scalable infrastructure when a staff engineer walked into my cubicle and said Hey, buddy. That's a cute Versus code theme you've got there. Oh, thanks. It's, uh, Synthwave with power mode enabled. Before I could explain more though, he cut me off and said You see that bug on mine 234, Right? I said, no. That's impossible, sir. We have a 100% test coverage on this code. Well, I'm gonna pull it up in Neovim on my Arch desktop and, uh, I'll send you a PR for that. 5 minutes later, I get a notification in Slack that the PR came through, all tests are passing, with 469 lines of code removed and just one commit message that read, Optimized suboptimal code. I then looked out the window and saw him driving away in his Tesla. It was at that moment that I realized I had been flexed upon. If you're a programmer who's feeling down, One of the best ways to boost your ego is to flex on other developers. For programmers, there's only 2 states of being, imposter syndrome or superiority complex. In today's video, you'll learn how to become the best programmer the world has ever seen in your own mind by looking at 10 practical ways to flex on your friends and Colleagues. First up, we've got the complexity flex. The world's greatest programmer once said, an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. Luckily, most people are not geniuses. Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are stupider than that. So what you can do is take something simple like a perfectly functional Java script function, then add TypeScript to it while preaching the virtues of end to end type safety. From there, refactor it into an abstract factory singleton adapter decorator proxy, and when nobody understands that, Just tell them they've never seen clean code before and should have read the Gang of 4 book, making them think you're some kind of programming god. The CTO who doesn't know how to code will be so impressed that you'll get a huge raise. And that brings us As to the money flex, the amount of money you make is exactly tied to the amount of value that you bring to the world. The level 1 money flex is the junior developer making 50 k a year who shows off to his old colleagues at Arby's who are only making 45 k a year. The dude in the cubicle next to him though did a better job negotiating a salary and makes 225 k a year. That dude's got a cousin though who works at Netflix who flexes on him for making 900 k a year. That dude's landlord though was one of the first engineers at Uber who has a net Worth of 25 mil, who now flexes on social media about being a genius technology investor, but then he gets flexed on by the billionaire crypto bro, who made all his money by rug pulling All the level one flexors. The circle of life is truly beautiful. If you subscribe to the link in this post, I may get a commission. I'm not quite a billionaire yet, so the way I like to flex is by owning YouTube Premium. As a lazy developer, I'm obsessed with optimizing my time, and by owning premium, I don't have to watch ads on any YouTube videos, and I can download all the JavaScript tutorials I want to watch offline when I travel. On top of that, it provides access to YouTube Music, so I can listen to Huey Lewis and the News on repeat while I code, which actually saves me money because I don't need Pay for other music streaming services. What's really awesome though is that YouTube has allowed me to offer you 1 month of YouTube premium for free. I've actually been paying for it itself for years, and it's well worth it if you value your time. But another great way to demonstrate your superior value is with the Vim Flex. When you use Vim, it elevates you to a higher plane of consciousness where you can look down upon the poor lost souls using tools like Versus Code, IntelliJ, and Emax. If you're the real deal, you won't even have a mouse at your cuter. Now normally, this is the point where I should make a joke about not being able to exit Vim, but I've never really understood those jokes because I don't even know how to exit Versus Code. But an even More potent flex is your operating system. If you wanna tell people you're rich, go with a Macintosh, and combine it with the Apple Vision Pro to also tell people that you're clown. Real developers though use Linux. You can impress most people by simply using Ubuntu, but if you really want to impress people, you should pay a bunch of money to IBM to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's pretty bowler, but eventually you'll find yourself alone at a urinal. A man will walk in. He'll turn his head and look at you, then say these three words. I use Arch, by the way. You'll immediately feel Smaller. Like your distro is just not as well endowed as you thought. Not to worry though, you're just getting flexed on by someone who doesn't have a life who can spend countless hours configuring their OS. Everybody knows that But he knows that the ultimate distro is Windows because that tells people that you actually have a life and maybe even a girlfriend outside of programming, but nothing says I don't have a life better than the GitHub flex. If you don't have a GitHub commit history that looks like this, then you're not a real programmer, and you don't care about open source, and your profile should have enough awards and badges on it to make you look like a North Korean general. You can achieve these badges by flexing on other open source projects. The chainsawprflex is a great way to show the world that you're the top g of JavaScript. Rat. What you wanna do is find new small projects from young enthusiastic developers, then fork their code and remove every line possible, while making sure that all the tests still pass, then send a vague pull request explaining how you cleaned up the code to use best practices. If you did it properly, the project will soon be abandoned because no programmer can face that amount of flexing. We're losing him. We're losing him. He's dying. Now that one is kind of hard to pull off if you're a terrible programmer, but that shouldn't hold you back from flexing anyway. There's an old saying that goes something like, those who can't code become influencers. But what you do is pay your $8 to post on x, formerly known as Twitter, then make outrageous hot takes that nobody could Possibly agree with. If you give advice that's so egregiously bad, you might even get a reply from Elon Musk himself, which you can then flex about on your YouTube channel. And yes, that is a real tweet. Elon and I are pretty much best friends at this point. Now, you should never take technical advice from someone on Twitter or YouTube, but instead only take advice from people who flex their past experience. If you've ever worked at a FAANG company, it gives Gives you the privilege to start every sentence with, as an ex Facebook engineer, I recommend that you make x bad decision. Working at a fang company is like being in a special club that everyone wants to get into, even though some people say they don't want to because their moral compass is too well calibrated. But in reality, they're just hating because they didn't grind on Leetcode enough. If I ever got a job at FAANG, I would tattoo it on my forehead. If you're not in the club though, another way to flex as a web developer is with your domains. My GoDaddy account is more valuable than my Robinhood account. Domains aren't just for failed side projects, they're investments that you'll one hand down to your grandkids. Like best dash seo dash backlink dash tool dot net is a valuable asset that any developer would love to get their hands on. The ultimate flex a programmer Do though is learn to farm. The programmer who blows up his computer and joins the Amish is invincible to all the flexes we've looked at throughout this video. As he milks his cow and tends To his crops, his identity is no longer tied to these superficial things, like code quality, GitHub stars, likes, followers, and even money. As he Looks at the spider web reflecting the sun, it reminds him of a silicon chip. He recognizes the inherent intelligence that permeates all of nature. Its beauty is so overwhelming that he Begins to cry. In that moment, he's connected to all the people that lived and died before him. Soon enough, he'll be dead and forgotten just like them. The complete insignificance of his own existence is both Verifying and liberating, and it was at that moment that he realized that the spider was just flexing on him.
Many
many
years
years
ago
ago
in
in
a
a
story
story
I
i
just
just
made
made
up,
up
I
i
was
was
architecting
architecting
some
some
highly
highly
scalable
scalable
infrastructure
infrastructure
when
when
a
a
staff
staff
engineer
engineer
walked
walked
into
into
my
my
cubicle
cubicle
and
and
said
said
Hey,
hey
buddy.
buddy
That's
that's
a
a
cute
cute
Versus
versus
code
code
theme
theme
you've
you've
got
got
there.
there
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oh
thanks.
thanks
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it's
uh,
uh
Synthwave
synthwave
with
with
power
power
mode
mode
enabled.
enabled
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before
I
i
could
could
explain
explain
more
more
though,
though
he
he
cut
cut
me
me
off
off
and
and
said
said
You
you
see
see
that
that
bug
bug
on
on
mine
mine
234,
234
Right?
right
I
i
said,
said
no.
no
That's
that's
impossible,
impossible
sir.
sir
We
we
have
have
a
a
100%
100%
test
test
coverage
coverage
on
on
this
this
code.
code
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well
I'm
i'm
gonna
gonna
pull
pull
it
it
up
up
in
in
Neovim
neovim
on
on
my
my
Arch
arch
desktop
desktop
and,
and
uh,
uh
I'll
i'll
send
send
you
you
a
a
PR
pr
for
for
that.
that
5
5
minutes
minutes
later,
later
I
i
get
get
a
a
notification
notification
in
in
Slack
slack
that
that
the
the
PR
pr
came
came
through,
through
all
all
tests
tests
are
are
passing,
passing
with
with
469
469
lines
lines
of
of
code
code
removed
removed
and
and
just
just
one
one
commit
commit
message
message
that
that
read,
read
Optimized
optimized
suboptimal
suboptimal
code.
code
I
i
then
then
looked
looked
out
out
the
the
window
window
and
and
saw
saw
him
him
driving
driving
away
away
in
in
his
his
Tesla.
tesla
It
it
was
was
at
at
that
that
moment
moment
that
that
I
i
realized
realized
I
i
had
had
been
been
flexed
flexed
upon.
upon
If
if
you're
you're
a
a
programmer
programmer
who's
who's
feeling
feeling
down,
down
One
one
of
of
the
the
best
best
ways
ways
to
to
boost
boost
your
your
ego
ego
is
is
to
to
flex
flex
on
on
other
other
developers.
developers
For
for
programmers,
programmers
there's
there's
only
only
2
2
states
states
of
of
being,
being
imposter
imposter
syndrome
syndrome
or
or
superiority
superiority
complex.
complex
In
in
today's
today's
video,
video
you'll
you'll
learn
learn
how
how
to
to
become
become
the
the
best
best
programmer
programmer
the
the
world
world
has
has
ever
ever
seen
seen
in
in
your
your
own
own
mind
mind
by
by
looking
looking
at
at
10
10
practical
practical
ways
ways
to
to
flex
flex
on
on
your
your
friends
friends
and
and
Colleagues.
colleagues
First
first
up,
up
we've
we've
got
got
the
the
complexity
complexity
flex.
flex
The
the
world's
world's
greatest
greatest
programmer
programmer
once
once
said,
said
an
an
idiot
idiot
admires
admires
complexity,
complexity
a
a
genius
genius
admires
admires
simplicity.
simplicity
Luckily,
luckily
most
most
people
people
are
are
not
not
geniuses.
geniuses
Think
think
of
of
how
how
stupid
stupid
the
the
average
average
person
person
is
is
and
and
then
then
realize
realize
half
half
of
of
them
them
are
are
stupider
stupider
than
than
that.
that
So
so
what
what
you
you
can
can
do
do
is
is
take
take
something
something
simple
simple
like
like
a
a
perfectly
perfectly
functional
functional
Java
java
script
script
function,
function
then
then
add
add
TypeScript
typescript
to
to
it
it
while
while
preaching
preaching
the
the
virtues
virtues
of
of
end
end
to
to
end
end
type
type
safety.
safety
From
from
there,
there
refactor
refactor
it
it
into
into
an
an
abstract
abstract
factory
factory
singleton
singleton
adapter
adapter
decorator
decorator
proxy,
proxy
and
and
when
when
nobody
nobody
understands
understands
that,
that
Just
just
tell
tell
them
them
they've
they've
never
never
seen
seen
clean
clean
code
code
before
before
and
and
should
should
have
have
read
read
the
the
Gang
gang
of
of
4
4
book,
book
making
making
them
them
think
think
you're
you're
some
some
kind
kind
of
of
programming
programming
god.
god
The
the
CTO
cto
who
who
doesn't
doesn't
know
know
how
how
to
to
code
code
will
will
be
be
so
so
impressed
impressed
that
that
you'll
you'll
get
get
a
a
huge
huge
raise.
raise
And
and
that
that
brings
brings
us
us
As
as
to
to
the
the
money
money
flex,
flex
the
the
amount
amount
of
of
money
money
you
you
make
make
is
is
exactly
exactly
tied
tied
to
to
the
the
amount
amount
of
of
value
value
that
that
you
you
bring
bring
to
to
the
the
world.
world
The
the
level
level
1
1
money
money
flex
flex
is
is
the
the
junior
junior
developer
developer
making
making
50
50
k
k
a
a
year
year
who
who
shows
shows
off
off
to
to
his
his
old
old
colleagues
colleagues
at
at
Arby's
arby's
who
who
are
are
only
only
making
making
45
45
k
k
a
a
year.
year
The
the
dude
dude
in
in
the
the
cubicle
cubicle
next
next
to
to
him
him
though
though
did
did
a
a
better
better
job
job
negotiating
negotiating
a
a
salary
salary
and
and
makes
makes
225
225
k
k
a
a
year.
year
That
that
dude's
dude's
got
got
a
a
cousin
cousin
though
though
who
who
works
works
at
at
Netflix
netflix
who
who
flexes
flexes
on
on
him
him
for
for
making
making
900
900
k
k
a
a
year.
year
That
that
dude's
dude's
landlord
landlord
though
though
was
was
one
one
of
of
the
the
first
first
engineers
engineers
at
at
Uber
uber
who
who
has
has
a
a
net
net
Worth
worth
of
of
25
25
mil,
mil
who
who
now
now
flexes
flexes
on
on
social
social
media
media
about
about
being
being
a
a
genius
genius
technology
technology
investor,
investor
but
but
then
then
he
he
gets
gets
flexed
flexed
on
on
by
by
the
the
billionaire
billionaire
crypto
crypto
bro,
bro
who
who
made
made
all
all
his
his
money
money
by
by
rug
rug
pulling
pulling
All
all
the
the
level
level
one
one
flexors.
flexors
The
the
circle
circle
of
of
life
life
is
is
truly
truly
beautiful.
beautiful
If
if
you
you
subscribe
subscribe
to
to
the
the
link
link
in
in
this
this
post,
post
I
i
may
may
get
get
a
a
commission.
commission
I'm
i'm
not
not
quite
quite
a
a
billionaire
billionaire
yet,
yet
so
so
the
the
way
way
I
i
like
like
to
to
flex
flex
is
is
by
by
owning
owning
YouTube
youtube
Premium.
premium
As
as
a
a
lazy
lazy
developer,
developer
I'm
i'm
obsessed
obsessed
with
with
optimizing
optimizing
my
my
time,
time
and
and
by
by
owning
owning
premium,
premium
I
i
don't
don't
have
have
to
to
watch
watch
ads
ads
on
on
any
any
YouTube
youtube
videos,
videos
and
and
I
i
can
can
download
download
all
all
the
the
JavaScript
javascript
tutorials
tutorials
I
i
want
want
to
to
watch
watch
offline
offline
when
when
I
i
travel.
travel
On
on
top
top
of
of
that,
that
it
it
provides
provides
access
access
to
to
YouTube
youtube
Music,
music
so
so
I
i
can
can
listen
listen
to
to
Huey
huey
Lewis
lewis
and
and
the
the
News
news
on
on
repeat
repeat
while
while
I
i
code,
code
which
which
actually
actually
saves
saves
me
me
money
money
because
because
I
i
don't
don't
need
need
Pay
pay
for
for
other
other
music
music
streaming
streaming
services.
services
What's
what's
really
really
awesome
awesome
though
though
is
is
that
that
YouTube
youtube
has
has
allowed
allowed
me
me
to
to
offer
offer
you
you
1
1
month
month
of
of
YouTube
youtube
premium
premium
for
for
free.
free
I've
i've
actually
actually
been
been
paying
paying
for
for
it
it
itself
itself
for
for
years,
years
and
and
it's
it's
well
well
worth
worth
it
it
if
if
you
you
value
value
your
your
time.
time
But
but
another
another
great
great
way
way
to
to
demonstrate
demonstrate
your
your
superior
superior
value
value
is
is
with
with
the
the
Vim
vim
Flex.
flex
When
when
you
you
use
use
Vim,
vim
it
it
elevates
elevates
you
you
to
to
a
a
higher
higher
plane
plane
of
of
consciousness
consciousness
where
where
you
you
can
can
look
look
down
down
upon
upon
the
the
poor
poor
lost
lost
souls
souls
using
using
tools
tools
like
like
Versus
versus
Code,
code
IntelliJ,
intellij
and
and
Emax.
emax
If
if
you're
you're
the
the
real
real
deal,
deal
you
you
won't
won't
even
even
have
have
a
a
mouse
mouse
at
at
your
your
cuter.
cuter
Now
now
normally,
normally
this
this
is
is
the
the
point
point
where
where
I
i
should
should
make
make
a
a
joke
joke
about
about
not
not
being
being
able
able
to
to
exit
exit
Vim,
vim
but
but
I've
i've
never
never
really
really
understood
understood
those
those
jokes
jokes
because
because
I
i
don't
don't
even
even
know
know
how
how
to
to
exit
exit
Versus
versus
Code.
code
But
but
an
an
even
even
More
more
potent
potent
flex
flex
is
is
your
your
operating
operating
system.
system
If
if
you
you
wanna
wanna
tell
tell
people
people
you're
you're
rich,
rich
go
go
with
with
a
a
Macintosh,
macintosh
and
and
combine
combine
it
it
with
with
the
the
Apple
apple
Vision
vision
Pro
pro
to
to
also
also
tell
tell
people
people
that
that
you're
you're
clown.
clown
Real
real
developers
developers
though
though
use
use
Linux.
linux
You
you
can
can
impress
impress
most
most
people
people
by
by
simply
simply
using
using
Ubuntu,
ubuntu
but
but
if
if
you
you
really
really
want
want
to
to
impress
impress
people,
people
you
you
should
should
pay
pay
a
a
bunch
bunch
of
of
money
money
to
to
IBM
ibm
to
to
use
use
Red
red
Hat
hat
Enterprise
enterprise
Linux.
linux
That's
that's
pretty
pretty
bowler,
bowler
but
but
eventually
eventually
you'll
you'll
find
find
yourself
yourself
alone
alone
at
at
a
a
urinal.
urinal
A
a
man
man
will
will
walk
walk
in.
in
He'll
he'll
turn
turn
his
his
head
head
and
and
look
look
at
at
you,
you
then
then
say
say
these
these
three
three
words.
words
I
i
use
use
Arch,
arch
by
by
the
the
way.
way
You'll
you'll
immediately
immediately
feel
feel
Smaller.
smaller
Like
like
your
your
distro
distro
is
is
just
just
not
not
as
as
well
well
endowed
endowed
as
as
you
you
thought.
thought
Not
not
to
to
worry
worry
though,
though
you're
you're
just
just
getting
getting
flexed
flexed
on
on
by
by
someone
someone
who
who
doesn't
doesn't
have
have
a
a
life
life
who
who
can
can
spend
spend
countless
countless
hours
hours
configuring
configuring
their
their
OS.
os
Everybody
everybody
knows
knows
that
that
But
but
he
he
knows
knows
that
that
the
the
ultimate
ultimate
distro
distro
is
is
Windows
windows
because
because
that
that
tells
tells
people
people
that
that
you
you
actually
actually
have
have
a
a
life
life
and
and
maybe
maybe
even
even
a
a
girlfriend
girlfriend
outside
outside
of
of
programming,
programming
but
but
nothing
nothing
says
says
I
i
don't
don't
have
have
a
a
life
life
better
better
than
than
the
the
GitHub
github
flex.
flex
If
if
you
you
don't
don't
have
have
a
a
GitHub
github
commit
commit
history
history
that
that
looks
looks
like
like
this,
this
then
then
you're
you're
not
not
a
a
real
real
programmer,
programmer
and
and
you
you
don't
don't
care
care
about
about
open
open
source,
source
and
and
your
your
profile
profile
should
should
have
have
enough
enough
awards
awards
and
and
badges
badges
on
on
it
it
to
to
make
make
you
you
look
look
like
like
a
a
North
north
Korean
korean
general.
general
You
you
can
can
achieve
achieve
these
these
badges
badges
by
by
flexing
flexing
on
on
other
other
open
open
source
source
projects.
projects
The
the
chainsawprflex
chainsawprflex
is
is
a
a
great
great
way
way
to
to
show
show
the
the
world
world
that
that
you're
you're
the
the
top
top
g
g
of
of
JavaScript.
javascript
Rat.
rat
What
what
you
you
wanna
wanna
do
do
is
is
find
find
new
new
small
small
projects
projects
from
from
young
young
enthusiastic
enthusiastic
developers,
developers
then
then
fork
fork
their
their
code
code
and
and
remove
remove
every
every
line
line
possible,
possible
while
while
making
making
sure
sure
that
that
all
all
the
the
tests
tests
still
still
pass,
pass
then
then
send
send
a
a
vague
vague
pull
pull
request
request
explaining
explaining
how
how
you
you
cleaned
cleaned
up
up
the
the
code
code
to
to
use
use
best
best
practices.
practices
If
if
you
you
did
did
it
it
properly,
properly
the
the
project
project
will
will
soon
soon
be
be
abandoned
abandoned
because
because
no
no
programmer
programmer
can
can
face
face
that
that
amount
amount
of
of
flexing.
flexing
We're
we're
losing
losing
him.
him
We're
we're
losing
losing
him.
him
He's
he's
dying.
dying
Now
now
that
that
one
one
is
is
kind
kind
of
of
hard
hard
to
to
pull
pull
off
off
if
if
you're
you're
a
a
terrible
terrible
programmer,
programmer
but
but
that
that
shouldn't
shouldn't
hold
hold
you
you
back
back
from
from
flexing
flexing
anyway.
anyway
There's
there's
an
an
old
old
saying
saying
that
that
goes
goes
something
something
like,
like
those
those
who
who
can't
can't
code
code
become
become
influencers.
influencers
But
but
what
what
you
you
do
do
is
is
pay
pay
your
your
$8
$8
to
to
post
post
on
on
x,
x
formerly
formerly
known
known
as
as
Twitter,
twitter
then
then
make
make
outrageous
outrageous
hot
hot
takes
takes
that
that
nobody
nobody
could
could
Possibly
possibly
agree
agree
with.
with
If
if
you
you
give
give
advice
advice
that's
that's
so
so
egregiously
egregiously
bad,
bad
you
you
might
might
even
even
get
get
a
a
reply
reply
from
from
Elon
elon
Musk
musk
himself,
himself
which
which
you
you
can
can
then
then
flex
flex
about
about
on
on
your
your
YouTube
youtube
channel.
channel
And
and
yes,
yes
that
that
is
is
a
a
real
real
tweet.
tweet
Elon
elon
and
and
I
i
are
are
pretty
pretty
much
much
best
best
friends
friends
at
at
this
this
point.
point
Now,
now
you
you
should
should
never
never
take
take
technical
technical
advice
advice
from
from
someone
someone
on
on
Twitter
twitter
or
or
YouTube,
youtube
but
but
instead
instead
only
only
take
take
advice
advice
from
from
people
people
who
who
flex
flex
their
their
past
past
experience.
experience
If
if
you've
you've
ever
ever
worked
worked
at
at
a
a
FAANG
faang
company,
company
it
it
gives
gives
Gives
gives
you
you
the
the
privilege
privilege
to
to
start
start
every
every
sentence
sentence
with,
with
as
as
an
an
ex
ex
Facebook
facebook
engineer,
engineer
I
i
recommend
recommend
that
that
you
you
make
make
x
x
bad
bad
decision.
decision
Working
working
at
at
a
a
fang
fang
company
company
is
is
like
like
being
being
in
in
a
a
special
special
club
club
that
that
everyone
everyone
wants
wants
to
to
get
get
into,
into
even
even
though
though
some
some
people
people
say
say
they
they
don't
don't
want
want
to
to
because
because
their
their
moral
moral
compass
compass
is
is
too
too
well
well
calibrated.
calibrated
But
but
in
in
reality,
reality
they're
they're
just
just
hating
hating
because
because
they
they
didn't
didn't
grind
grind
on
on
Leetcode
leetcode
enough.
enough
If
if
I
i
ever
ever
got
got
a
a
job
job
at
at
FAANG,
faang
I
i
would
would
tattoo
tattoo
it
it
on
on
my
my
forehead.
forehead
If
if
you're
you're
not
not
in
in
the
the
club
club
though,
though
another
another
way
way
to
to
flex
flex
as
as
a
a
web
web
developer
developer
is
is
with
with
your
your
domains.
domains
My
my
GoDaddy
godaddy
account
account
is
is
more
more
valuable
valuable
than
than
my
my
Robinhood
robinhood
account.
account
Domains
domains
aren't
aren't
just
just
for
for
failed
failed
side
side
projects,
projects
they're
they're
investments
investments
that
that
you'll
you'll
one
one
hand
hand
down
down
to
to
your
your
grandkids.
grandkids
Like
like
best
best
dash
dash
seo
seo
dash
dash
backlink
backlink
dash
dash
tool
tool
dot
dot
net
net
is
is
a
a
valuable
valuable
asset
asset
that
that
any
any
developer
developer
would
would
love
love
to
to
get
get
their
their
hands
hands
on.
on
The
the
ultimate
ultimate
flex
flex
a
a
programmer
programmer
Do
do
though
though
is
is
learn
learn
to
to
farm.
farm
The
the
programmer
programmer
who
who
blows
blows
up
up
his
his
computer
computer
and
and
joins
joins
the
the
Amish
amish
is
is
invincible
invincible
to
to
all
all
the
the
flexes
flexes
we've
we've
looked
looked
at
at
throughout
throughout
this
this
video.
video
As
as
he
he
milks
milks
his
his
cow
cow
and
and
tends
tends
To
to
his
his
crops,
crops
his
his
identity
identity
is
is
no
no
longer
longer
tied
tied
to
to
these
these
superficial
superficial
things,
things
like
like
code
code
quality,
quality
GitHub
github
stars,
stars
likes,
likes
followers,
followers
and
and
even
even
money.
money
As
as
he
he
Looks
looks
at
at
the
the
spider
spider
web
web
reflecting
reflecting
the
the
sun,
sun
it
it
reminds
reminds
him
him
of
of
a
a
silicon
silicon
chip.
chip
He
he
recognizes
recognizes
the
the
inherent
inherent
intelligence
intelligence
that
that
permeates
permeates
all
all
of
of
nature.
nature
Its
its
beauty
beauty
is
is
so
so
overwhelming
overwhelming
that
that
he
he
Begins
begins
to
to
cry.
cry
In
in
that
that
moment,
moment
he's
he's
connected
connected
to
to
all
all
the
the
people
people
that
that
lived
lived
and
and
died
died
before
before
him.
him
Soon
soon
enough,
enough
he'll
he'll
be
be
dead
dead
and
and
forgotten
forgotten
just
just
like
like
them.
them
The
the
complete
complete
insignificance
insignificance
of
of
his
his
own
own
existence
existence
is
is
both
both
Verifying
verifying
and
and
liberating,
liberating
and
and
it
it
was
was
at
at
that
that
moment
moment
that
that
he
he
realized
realized
that
that
the
the
spider
spider
was
was
just
just
flexing
flexing
on
on
him.
him
success
The speakers discuss practical ways to flex on friends and colleagues, including becoming a programmer and flexing on other developers. They also offer a one month free trial and suggest using YouTube premium to elevate one's consciousness. The conversation covers various types of flex, including junior developers making $50K a year, level 1 money flexing developers making $40K a year, and a billionaire crypto business founder making $650K a year. The speakers emphasize the benefits of YouTube premium and offer a free month of YouTube premium for developers. They also recommend avoiding technical advice from Twitter or YouTube and offer advice on creating a Twitter or YouTube account.
How programmers flex on each other
Many years ago in a story I just made up, I was architecting some highly scalable infrastructure when a staff engineer walked into my cubicle and said Hey, buddy. That's a cute Versus code theme you've got there. Oh, thanks. It's, uh, Synthwave with power mode enabled. Before I could explain more though, he cut me off and said You see that bug on mine 234, Right? I said, no. That's impossible, sir. We have a 100% test coverage on this code. Well, I'm gonna pull it up in Neovim on my Arch desktop and, uh, I'll send you a PR for that. 5 minutes later, I get a notification in Slack that the PR came through, all tests are passing, with 469 lines of code removed and just one commit message that read, Optimized suboptimal code. I then looked out the window and saw him driving away in his Tesla. It was at that moment that I realized I had been flexed upon. If you're a programmer who's feeling down, One of the best ways to boost your ego is to flex on other developers. For programmers, there's only 2 states of being, imposter syndrome or superiority complex. In today's video, you'll learn how to become the best programmer the world has ever seen in your own mind by looking at 10 practical ways to flex on your friends and Colleagues. First up, we've got the complexity flex. The world's greatest programmer once said, an idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. Luckily, most people are not geniuses. Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are stupider than that. So what you can do is take something simple like a perfectly functional Java script function, then add TypeScript to it while preaching the virtues of end to end type safety. From there, refactor it into an abstract factory singleton adapter decorator proxy, and when nobody understands that, Just tell them they've never seen clean code before and should have read the Gang of 4 book, making them think you're some kind of programming god. The CTO who doesn't know how to code will be so impressed that you'll get a huge raise. And that brings us As to the money flex, the amount of money you make is exactly tied to the amount of value that you bring to the world. The level 1 money flex is the junior developer making 50 k a year who shows off to his old colleagues at Arby's who are only making 45 k a year. The dude in the cubicle next to him though did a better job negotiating a salary and makes 225 k a year. That dude's got a cousin though who works at Netflix who flexes on him for making 900 k a year. That dude's landlord though was one of the first engineers at Uber who has a net Worth of 25 mil, who now flexes on social media about being a genius technology investor, but then he gets flexed on by the billionaire crypto bro, who made all his money by rug pulling All the level one flexors. The circle of life is truly beautiful. If you subscribe to the link in this post, I may get a commission. I'm not quite a billionaire yet, so the way I like to flex is by owning YouTube Premium. As a lazy developer, I'm obsessed with optimizing my time, and by owning premium, I don't have to watch ads on any YouTube videos, and I can download all the JavaScript tutorials I want to watch offline when I travel. On top of that, it provides access to YouTube Music, so I can listen to Huey Lewis and the News on repeat while I code, which actually saves me money because I don't need Pay for other music streaming services. What's really awesome though is that YouTube has allowed me to offer you 1 month of YouTube premium for free. I've actually been paying for it itself for years, and it's well worth it if you value your time. But another great way to demonstrate your superior value is with the Vim Flex. When you use Vim, it elevates you to a higher plane of consciousness where you can look down upon the poor lost souls using tools like Versus Code, IntelliJ, and Emax. If you're the real deal, you won't even have a mouse at your cuter. Now normally, this is the point where I should make a joke about not being able to exit Vim, but I've never really understood those jokes because I don't even know how to exit Versus Code. But an even More potent flex is your operating system. If you wanna tell people you're rich, go with a Macintosh, and combine it with the Apple Vision Pro to also tell people that you're clown. Real developers though use Linux. You can impress most people by simply using Ubuntu, but if you really want to impress people, you should pay a bunch of money to IBM to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's pretty bowler, but eventually you'll find yourself alone at a urinal. A man will walk in. He'll turn his head and look at you, then say these three words. I use Arch, by the way. You'll immediately feel Smaller. Like your distro is just not as well endowed as you thought. Not to worry though, you're just getting flexed on by someone who doesn't have a life who can spend countless hours configuring their OS. Everybody knows that But he knows that the ultimate distro is Windows because that tells people that you actually have a life and maybe even a girlfriend outside of programming, but nothing says I don't have a life better than the GitHub flex. If you don't have a GitHub commit history that looks like this, then you're not a real programmer, and you don't care about open source, and your profile should have enough awards and badges on it to make you look like a North Korean general. You can achieve these badges by flexing on other open source projects. The chainsawprflex is a great way to show the world that you're the top g of JavaScript. Rat. What you wanna do is find new small projects from young enthusiastic developers, then fork their code and remove every line possible, while making sure that all the tests still pass, then send a vague pull request explaining how you cleaned up the code to use best practices. If you did it properly, the project will soon be abandoned because no programmer can face that amount of flexing. We're losing him. We're losing him. He's dying. Now that one is kind of hard to pull off if you're a terrible programmer, but that shouldn't hold you back from flexing anyway. There's an old saying that goes something like, those who can't code become influencers. But what you do is pay your $8 to post on x, formerly known as Twitter, then make outrageous hot takes that nobody could Possibly agree with. If you give advice that's so egregiously bad, you might even get a reply from Elon Musk himself, which you can then flex about on your YouTube channel. And yes, that is a real tweet. Elon and I are pretty much best friends at this point. Now, you should never take technical advice from someone on Twitter or YouTube, but instead only take advice from people who flex their past experience. If you've ever worked at a FAANG company, it gives Gives you the privilege to start every sentence with, as an ex Facebook engineer, I recommend that you make x bad decision. Working at a fang company is like being in a special club that everyone wants to get into, even though some people say they don't want to because their moral compass is too well calibrated. But in reality, they're just hating because they didn't grind on Leetcode enough. If I ever got a job at FAANG, I would tattoo it on my forehead. If you're not in the club though, another way to flex as a web developer is with your domains. My GoDaddy account is more valuable than my Robinhood account. Domains aren't just for failed side projects, they're investments that you'll one hand down to your grandkids. Like best dash seo dash backlink dash tool dot net is a valuable asset that any developer would love to get their hands on. The ultimate flex a programmer Do though is learn to farm. The programmer who blows up his computer and joins the Amish is invincible to all the flexes we've looked at throughout this video. As he milks his cow and tends To his crops, his identity is no longer tied to these superficial things, like code quality, GitHub stars, likes, followers, and even money. As he Looks at the spider web reflecting the sun, it reminds him of a silicon chip. He recognizes the inherent intelligence that permeates all of nature. Its beauty is so overwhelming that he Begins to cry. In that moment, he's connected to all the people that lived and died before him. Soon enough, he'll be dead and forgotten just like them. The complete insignificance of his own existence is both Verifying and liberating, and it was at that moment that he realized that the spider was just flexing on him.
The speakers discuss practical ways to flex on friends and colleagues, including becoming a programmer and flexing on other developers. They also offer a one month free trial and suggest using YouTube premium to elevate one's consciousness. The conversation covers various types of flex, including junior developers making $50K a year, level 1 money flexing developers making $40K a year, and a billionaire crypto business founder making $650K a year. The speakers emphasize the benefits of YouTube premium and offer a free month of YouTube premium for developers. They also recommend avoiding technical advice from Twitter or YouTube and offer advice on creating a Twitter or YouTube account.