Have You Tried Turning Them On And Off Again?

When someone asks why a button doesn't work and gets told to "lick it" - turns out there's literally an onclick="lick" event handler! The perfect blend of terrible tech support and actual code. Next time your app breaks, just remember: maybe the developer really did expect you to lick your screen. Tastes like debugging tears.

Ah, the browser engine family portrait! Two fierce, intimidating dragons (Chromium and Gecko) looking ready to burn your CPU to ashes, and then there's Apple's WebKit... the derpy cousin with its tongue hanging out who still can't figure out how to implement basic web standards from 2015. Frontend developers have nightmares about Safari the same way they used to about IE. "But it works in EVERY browser!" *tests in Safari* "...except that one." Nothing says "I hate web developers" quite like forcing your proprietary browser engine on the entire iOS ecosystem while it struggles with features Chrome and Firefox implemented during the Obama administration. The circle of life: Internet Explorer dies, Safari steps up to become the new browser that makes developers question their career choices.

The trillion-dollar company that makes privacy its selling point just handed out their source code like it's free candy at a tech conference. Source maps in production is the digital equivalent of leaving your house keys under the doormat with a neon sign pointing to them. Some developer is getting a strongly worded Slack message right about now. For the uninitiated: source maps are files that link minified/compiled code back to the original source, meant for debugging but absolutely not for showing your competitors how your app works. It's like publishing your diary but forgetting to tear out the pages where you wrote down all your secrets.

C++ and Python walk into a bar. The bartender asks for their names. C++ launches into a 20-line segmentation fault with memory addresses and stack traces just to introduce itself. Meanwhile, Python just says "Python!" and gets on with its life. It's the perfect encapsulation of why some devs choose Python despite C++ being "a bit faster." Sure, your program might execute 0.002 seconds quicker, but you'll spend 3 days debugging why it crashed when you tried to say hello. Worth it? Debatable.

Content Me taking one last look before merging a buggy code and leave the office at Friday

The duality of code optimization in its natural habitat! Your average developer writes 500 lines of functional-but-not-fancy code and gets a perfectly adequate little house that does the job. Meanwhile, some YouTube tutorial guru accomplishes the same task in 50 lines and creates an architectural masterpiece that makes your code look like it was drawn with crayons. It's that special feeling when you watch a 10-minute tutorial and suddenly realize your entire codebase is the programming equivalent of a child's stick figure drawing. Nothing quite boosts your impostor syndrome like watching someone solve your week-long problem with a one-liner while casually mentioning "this is just a simple solution."