It's All Boxes? Always Has Been.

Content STOP making fun of different programming languages C is FAST Java is POPULAR Ruby is COOL Python is BEAUTIFUL Javascript Haskell is INTRIGUING

The classic "age is just a number" platitude gets a perfect programmer's twist. In JavaScript and many other languages, what looks like a number is often silently converted to a string when you least expect it. That smug face in the third panel is every backend dev who's spent hours debugging why 18 + 1 = 181 instead of 19 . Type coercion: ruining perfectly good calculations since 1995.

Asking for coding help on Twitter/X is like being a house cat who wants to hunt mice while surrounded by apex predators. The newbie asks an innocent question, and suddenly senior devs swoop in with increasingly complex alternatives that have nothing to do with the original problem. Junior: "How do I center a div?" 10x Engineer: "Nobody uses CSS anymore. Try this React component with styled-components." Staff Engineer: "Just migrate to Svelte." CTO: "We're rewriting everything in Rust and WebAssembly."

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Content Blerds Online BlerdsOnline Shout out to Tom from MySpace. Homie cashed his check, and bounced. He never tried to influence elections, be an advocate for "free speech," purchase competitors, sell our information or any of that. Just taught us all some basic HTML and rolled out.

Content I'm pretty convinced that CSS was one of many curses unleashed on mankind when Pandora opened that damn box! 03:45 28082021 Twitter for iPhone