CSS In The Wild

Content Carla Notarobot CarlaNotarobot Boss: Where did you get this code? Me: Stack Overflow Boss: From the questions or the answers? 12:48 PM 123020 Twitter Web App 48 Retweets 8 Quote Tweets 483 Likes

First day or tenth year, we're all still Googling regex patterns for email validation. That fancy CS degree and decade of experience? Worthless when faced with the eldritch horror of ^[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$ . Nobody memorizes that nightmare fuel. The only difference between junior and senior devs is seniors have the confidence to copy-paste without pretending they wrote it themselves.

Content Microsoft: VSCode is open source! Also Microsoft: Puts everything important into proprietary binary with license that bans usage outside of their own VSCode build.

Content Nader Dabit dabit3 If you could end Covid-19 by sacrificing a JavaScript framework, which one would you choose and why Angular? 10:46 PM Apr 18, 2020 Twitter for iPhone 339 Retweets 1.8K Likes

Look at that beautiful network log from the official US government goldcard site. Nothing says "we spent millions on this website" quite like loading 30+ separate animation files sequentially instead of using a single sprite sheet or modern animation format. Some poor frontend dev probably tried to explain why this was a terrible idea but got overruled by a committee of people who think "The Cloud" is just where rain comes from. And now we get to watch as each tiny piece of animation gets its own HTTP request like it's 1999 all over again. Your tax dollars at work, folks! Keeping the network tab spicy since whenever this monstrosity launched.

When you're so committed to social engineering that you add a malicious link in the "Report Phishing" button itself. That's like putting a bear trap inside the bear trap warning sign. The perfect crime until some security engineer actually checks the code during their quarterly audit that was supposed to happen last year.