The Duality Of Developer Life

Content JohnONolan commented on Aug 19, 2016 9 Dunicate of 336 Fixed when caniuse.enabled: false is also set. Still think this a valid bug, though. 5 2 JonnoNolan commented an hour ago edited y Oh god I'm back 2 years later from a Google search which ended in rediscovering this issue which aoparentv wrote mysel Lord have mercy on my soul. lonnoNolan commented an hour asc Dear future John, what is the year 2020 like? Do they have chairs? I'm writing you this message from the year 2018, and properly documenting the fix for this, which I wish I had written down way back in 2016. You probably got a new Mac recently. You probably installed emmet, went to write some CSS, and found emmet scevang nonsensica browser vendor cretixes evervwhere. You probably thovant to yourself "fuck, not this again and spent the last 30 mins furiously googling how to unset this ridiculous oreterence. Acain. Well tuture Jonn. it is. past Jonn. who shall be vour saviour. Here's what to do Open Acom orererences Packages emmet Change the Extensions Path to your project dir, like Sitesemmet inside Sites emret create a new preferences.1son Inside that tile olace the rollowing "ess auto inser VendorPrefixes": rasse, canise. enabled a false Save, and restart Atom Leave a comment on this issue to iterate the number of times this has fucked you over by: 1 Past gonn (a) 10

Student innocently posts a command to read a test file, professor immediately sees through the scheme. Classic cat-and-mouse game between students trying to peek at test cases and professors trying to maintain academic integrity. The command would display the hidden test file that the autograder uses to evaluate submissions. Nice try, kid - you weren't the first CS student to think of this hack, and you won't be the last. The professor's deadpan response is giving me flashbacks to every time I thought I was being clever in college.

Ah yes, the classic "let's handle years with a switch statement" approach. Some poor developer back in 1999 was like: switch(year) {   case 2020: // pandemic mode   case 2021: // still pandemic   case 2022: // recovery mode   case 2023: // normal-ish   case 2024: // election chaos   // TODO: add more years later   default: trainControl.panic(); } And then they quit, got promoted, or died before anyone remembered to add 2025. Twenty-five years after Y2K and we're still writing software like time is a finite concept. This is why we can't have nice things... or functioning trains, apparently.

The psychological evolution of a developer facing bugs across environments: Bug in dev? Mildly concerned . It's your sandbox—fix it whenever. Bug in staging? Slightly panicked . The demo is tomorrow and your manager keeps asking for "just a quick update." Bug in production? Inexplicable euphoria . That warm, twisted feeling when chaos reigns and it's officially Someone Else's Problem™ now. Nothing quite matches the serenity of watching Rome burn while holding the fiddle you definitely didn't use.

When you let AI write your entire website and confidently brag about it, only for someone to immediately discover it's serving up a 403 Forbidden error. The "Blowing-Smoke-Up-Ass-Machine" delivered exactly what was promised: smoke. Nothing says "super smart engineer" quite like directing people to a website that doesn't work while simultaneously admitting it's not done yet. The AI completed the task in 3 hours, which is technically true—it just forgot the part where the website needs to, you know, actually load. Peak vibe coding energy: maximum confidence, zero testing, 100% faith in the machine. The psychosis part is thinking Charter West Bank would appreciate the free publicity.

Content BE README.rst StackOverflow Importer Do you ever feel like all you're doing is copypasting from Stack Overflow? Let's take it one step further. from stackoverflow import quicksort will go through the search results of python quick sort looking for the largest code block that doesn't syntax error in the highest voted answer from the highest voted question and return it as a module. If that answer doesn't have any valid python code, it checks the next highest voted answer for code blocks. from stackoverflow import quicksort, splitintochunks print(quicksort.sort(1, 3, 2, 5, 4)) 1, 2, 3, 4, 51 print(list(splitintochunks .chunk("very good chunk func"))) 'very ', 'good " func'7 ProdrammeHumor to