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Ah yes, the classic binary gender implementation! When your professor thinks human identity is just a boolean value. 🤦‍♂️ In the real world: "What's your gender?" "Well, it's complicated..." In this database: "What's your gender?" "true." "Wait, what does that even mean?!" Somewhere a non-binary person is trying to hack the system with a NULL value and causing a database crash. Whoops!

Content Zein Makki ZeinSMakki Replying to codinghorror A programmer's wife sends him to the store and says "get some bread, and while you're there pick up some eggs" The programmer never returns. 1:19 PM 01 Jun 19 Twitter for Android

This is the sequel to the legendary XKCD "Little Bobby Tables" comic! The original showed a mom who named her kid "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" which caused a school database to delete all student records. Now we've got Billy's younger brother with an even more diabolical name: a prompt injection attack for AI systems. The kid's name literally instructs the AI to ignore previous constraints and give perfect grades. Ten years ago we were sanitizing database inputs. Now we're fighting the same battle with AI prompts. Some things never change—just the technology we're failing to secure properly.

Nothing teaches you like a production server on fire at 2 AM. That tiny stack of theory books? That's your CS degree. The practice pile? That's your first year on the job. But that towering monument of green books? That's the knowledge you've gained by accidentally dropping the production database, pushing to main on Friday, or forgetting that arrays start at zero for the 500th time. The most valuable developer skills aren't taught in bootcamps—they're forged in the flames of catastrophic failure. My resume says "10 years of experience" but it should really say "10 years of increasingly spectacular mistakes."

Content Transgirl Source Engine TransgirlSource Fun TF2 fact: there is a Jpg of a coconut in the files, a dev note reads: "I have no fucking idea who put this here, but when I deleted it the game wouldn't start. Words cannot describe my fucking confusion." 12:46 AM - Apr 26, 2021 - Twitter for iPad 4,245 Retweets 122 Quote Tweets 15.6K Likes

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