Finally Finding Your Stupidity After Hours Of Debugging

Content Having a bug and thinking it's just a semicolon that's missing The code is 100 correct and there must be an error in the programming language It's probably the compiler It isn't the compiler and the error must be in the ALU of the CPU The CPU is fine and the error must be inside logic of basic set theory itself Seems like I just found an error in the fabric of the universe It was a missing semicolon all time long

Content Me with Computer Science degree Relatives asking me to fix their printer

Content 1000 JUST BECAUSE IM A SOFT ARE ENGINEER DOESNT MEANICANA COMPUTERS I MEAN 4 CO CO SIS ALS BUT NOT BECAUSE ICAM FIX COMPUTERS IM A SOFTWARE ENGINEER

JavaScript's type conversion is like that friend who's confident but wrong about everything. Empty string? That's clearly 0! "07foo"? Obviously 7! And my personal favorite: a tiny decimal like 0.0000005 somehow becomes 5, because who needs those pesky zeros anyway? The best part is how parseInt() and Number() can't even agree with each other. One sees scientific notation, the other just sees numbers to ignore. It's like watching two drunk mathematicians argue about how to split the bill. This is why JavaScript developers drink.

The four horsemen of code review: showing someone your code, them laughing at it, you defending it with a serious face, and then the horrifying realization it's already in production. That moment when your colleague points out your nested ternary operators and you're like "Yeah but it works" only to realize later your monstrosity is handling financial transactions for 2 million users. Whoops.

Prison scene: two inmates chatting. The smaller one confesses, "I wrote a regex without Googling." The muscular inmate's reaction? Pure shock: "DUDE. WTF?!" Writing regex from memory is basically the developer equivalent of claiming you can disarm a nuclear bomb blindfolded. Even senior devs with 20 years of experience still copy-paste that email validation pattern. The confidence required to manually craft those cryptic `/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/` monstrosities without Stack Overflow backup? Absolutely terrifying.