Do You Trust The Hooded IDE?

The classic Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote saga gets a programming twist! The Road Runner (left) uses a while loop that checks the condition before running, so he stops safely at the cliff edge. Meanwhile, our poor Coyote friend uses a do-while loop that checks the condition after execution—meaning he'll always run at least once... right off that cliff. This is basically the difference between looking before you leap and leaping before you look. After 15 years of coding, I still occasionally make this mistake and then stare at my monitor with the same expression as that coyote.

Content Joe Magerramov joemag. The 8 year old is learning Python, and after a dealing with a syntax bug she asks: "If the computer knows I'm missing a semicolon here, why won't it add it itself?" I don't know. I really don't know. 7:03 AM 08 Feb 22 Twitter for iPhone Martin Pi Daddy is probably making the 8 year old learning C or Java in disguise. 13h Like Reply 130

Regular ghosts? Mildly startling. Force pushing to delete the master branch? That's the kind of terror that makes grown developers cry. The ghost was just practicing, but that last command is the real horror story. Nothing says "I've made a terrible mistake" quite like accidentally nuking your production branch at 4:59 PM on a Friday.

The dad joke energy is strong with this one. When JavaScript bugs get you down, don't cry—just console.log() your problems away! It's the developer equivalent of patting someone on the back while saying "there, there" but with more syntax. Meanwhile, those dinosaurs in the bottom panel are clearly the senior devs at the bar after work, drinking away the memory of that production bug nobody can fix. They've evolved beyond console logging—they've reached the "pour one out for the codebase" stage of debugging.

Ah, the four horsemen of developer excuses! That moment when your client hits you with the dreaded "it doesn't work" with zero context, and you're suddenly on a game show with no lifelines. The correct answer? All of the above, in rapid succession, followed by asking them to send a screenshot that will inevitably be a photo of their monitor taken with a potato. After 15 years of coding, I've used every single one of these excuses. My personal favorite is "works on my machine" – the programmer's equivalent of "not my problem" but with just enough technical ambiguity to sound legitimate.

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