The Dark Art Of Centering A Div

css html web development Coding struggles Ui design Divs Centering

Frontend Javascript Programming Webdev React

5 months ago 185,555 views 0 shares

The Dark Art Of Centering A Div

css-memes, frontend-memes, webdev-memes, html-memes, divs-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

The eternal irony of web development—we can send rovers to Mars, build AI that beats humans at chess, and create virtual worlds... but centering a div? That's where humanity draws the line. The meme perfectly captures the absurdity that something seemingly so simple has remained one of frontend's most notorious headaches. Even with flex, grid, and countless Stack Overflow answers, we still circle that code button in frustration wondering why our perfectly crafted CSS betrays us. It's like needing a PhD just to put something in the middle of the screen.

More Like This

Tried it on 2 different accounts, gave 2 different prompts, got 2 identical front-end designs...

Frontend Python

1 year ago 44.5K views 1 shares

Tried it on 2 different accounts, gave 2 different prompts, got 2 identical front-end designs... | html-memes, code-memes, design-memes, IT-memes, ide-memes, ML-memes, front-end-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content My experience with chatgpt: Why tf did you generate the same html code. I gave you a different prompt Sorry my bad proceeds to use the same template

The Full End Of Your Sanity

Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging Backend

3 months ago 272.4K views 1 shares

The Full End Of Your Sanity

The evolution of a developer's facial hair directly correlates with their technical depth. Frontend devs keep it clean and polished (just like their UIs), backend devs grow that rugged beard (like their undocumented code), but full-stack? That's when you've completely given up on grooming AND sleep. The thousand-yard stare of someone who's just fixed a CSS bug only to break the database connection for the fifth time today. The face of a person who knows too much and can no longer find joy in anything except successfully deploying on a Friday.

Windows Start Menu Is A Webpage

Frontend React Microsoft Windows Javascript

5 months ago 348.0K views 7 shares

Windows Start Menu Is A Webpage

When a React developer proudly announces they built Windows 11's start menu and someone simply asks "why," you know you're witnessing peak software development philosophy. The cherry on top is the performance question being dismissed with "I try not to let such considerations get in the way of doing great work." Translation: "Who cares if it takes 8GB of RAM to show a menu? I used my favorite framework!" And that, friends, is why your PC freezes for 3 seconds when you click the Windows button. But hey, at least some React dev got to pad their resume!

The Lion Does Not Concern Himself With This Bullshit CSS

Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging

5 months ago 220.0K views 0 shares

The Lion Does Not Concern Himself With This Bullshit CSS

The duality of frontend developers! One minute we're roaring like majestic kings of the digital jungle, spouting philosophical nonsense about how we're above petty concerns... and the VERY NEXT SECOND we're having an existential meltdown because our div won't center! DISPLAY: FLEX! JUSTIFY-CONTENT: CENTER! ALIGN-ITEMS: CENTER! WHY WON'T YOU OBEY ME?! The universe has exactly two states: feeling like a coding god and being utterly defeated by 3 lines of CSS. There is no in-between.

Null Pointer Exception

Frontend

1 year ago 49.6K views 0 shares

nullPointerException | web-memes, exception-memes, framework-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content WHY EMBEDDED ISN'T FULL DE FRAMEWORKS LIKE WEBDEV PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF POINTERS

The Great Image Format Drowning Contest

Frontend Webdev Javascript

1 month ago 203.0K views 0 shares

The Great Image Format Drowning Contest

The image format wars continue, and poor JPEG XL is drowning while Google lifts WebP to safety. Meanwhile, FLIF sits forgotten at the bottom of the ocean like the forgotten artifact it is. For those not in the know, JPEG XL was supposed to be the next-gen savior of image compression, but Google decided to push their own WebP format instead. FLIF (Free Lossless Image Format) had impressive compression but sank into obscurity faster than that skeleton reached the seabed. Nothing says "tech industry" quite like watching promising open standards die while corporate-backed alternatives thrive for no technical reason whatsoever.