The Semicolon That Stole My Sanity

Content Sheldon Chang sysop408sfba.social This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS. Unbelievable. It's amateur hour. TwitterDown MastodonMigration DDOS TwitterFail SelfDDOS GIF tom GIF Jul 01, 2023, 10:03 Edited Jul 01, 12:02 0 17 137 10 ProgrammeHumor io

The age-old developer dilemma: someone's drowning and desperately needs help, but you're too busy debating which file format to use for the rescue. It's like watching a code review where the repo is on fire, but you're fixated on whether they used tabs or spaces. The person below is literally yelling "SAVE ME!" while the helper is paralyzed by the classic web dev analysis paralysis: "Hmm, JPG loses quality with each save, PNG maintains transparency but file size is larger, and PDF... who even sends a PDF in an emergency?!" Meanwhile, the correct answer is obviously GIF because the situation clearly requires animation.

Kid: "Can we stop and get some C++?" Mom: "We have C++ at home." The C++ at home? Rust with its infamous borrow checker slapping you with unsafe fn main() warnings every time you try to do literally anything fun with memory. It's like asking for a sports car and getting a tank with 47 seatbelts and a breathalyzer. Sure, it'll get you there... after you fill out the proper paperwork in triplicate and promise not to touch anything shiny.

Content when you google an issue you're having and find a thread with the exact same error, context and environment that you're on

That GLORIOUS moment when you realize the bug that's been haunting your existence for SEVEN STRAIGHT HOURS was just a missing semicolon! Your bloodshot eyes, your trembling hands, your deteriorating sanity—all because you couldn't be bothered to type ONE. TINY. CHARACTER. The absolute AUDACITY of your brain to overlook something so microscopic while you rewrote entire functions and questioned your career choices! And the worst part? The sheer ECSTASY you feel when you find it, like you've solved the mysteries of the universe, when really you've just proven you're exactly the disaster everyone suspected!

Content F YOU WANT TO BE SURE WHAT LINE THE ERROR IS ON Openins Mon Tue-Thu WRITE ALL YOUR CODE ON ONE LINE