Finally Finding Your Stupidity After Hours Of Debugging

The classic "walks into a bar" joke format gets a brilliant CSS twist! When you use position: absolute in CSS, elements completely ignore the normal document flow and position themselves wherever they want—often causing total layout chaos. Just like how these CSS classes walked into one bar while somehow managing to knock over furniture in a completely different establishment. Frontend developers know this pain all too well—one misplaced absolute positioning and suddenly your navbar is floating in the middle of your contact form and your footer is somewhere in the stratosphere.

The modern tech company hierarchy in one perfect image. Junior dev happily letting AI do the heavy lifting while the senior dev is stuck reviewing 500 lines of algorithmic word vomit. Meanwhile, the project manager is just pointing a gun at everyone's back screaming about deadlines. And there sits the CEO, blissfully unaware in his ivory pew, dreaming about firing the entire dev team because ChatGPT told him it could do their jobs. Ten years of experience just to babysit robot output – exactly what we all went to college for!

The pinnacle of technical specifications right here! Nothing says "master prompter" like the incredibly detailed bug report: "the whole app is buggy. Please fix everything." Developers absolutely LOVE these vague instructions that give them zero actionable information. It's like telling a doctor "my body hurts, cure me" and expecting a precise diagnosis. The TypeScript file extension (.tsx) makes it even better - someone's React component is apparently having issues, but good luck figuring out what they are! This is the digital equivalent of pointing at a car and saying "it's broken" without mentioning that it's out of gas.

That thousand-yard stare when you've just spent hours debugging someone's ChatGPT-generated WordPress PHP abomination. The code technically "works" but violates every coding standard known to mankind. You've fixed it, but at what cost? Your soul? Your sanity? Both? This is the face of a developer who just discovered 17 nested if statements and a function named "do_the_thing_please_work()" with 300 lines of uncommented spaghetti code. The war flashbacks are real.

Content jenkinsnotleeroy 14h Interestingly, I've found that computer people, especially those that can write code are usually pretty good at most things due to a solid understanding of processes (algorithms) and debugging. It kind of scares me when I go to the doctor or a mechanic for my car and it quickly becomes apparent that though they are knowledgeable about their field their debuggingdiagnostic skills are not great. "Well, everything seems to be ok. We don't know why you fainted. You should be glad!" "Yes, I'm glad you found me to be in good health, but this also means you didn't find the bug in my biological system, so it's still there and not fixed." Reply 4 126 Aenir Oh God How Did This Get Here? 11h "Well I'm not sure what's wrong; let's try stopping your heart and turning it back on again and see if that fixes it. Reply 4 88 ProdrammerHumor.io

Content Me after finding that NaN is actually a number after 2h of debugging internal screaming