We Can't Do It Either

Content Normal programmers Variables are variables var 'data'; Functions are functions pub fun (var) ret call (var) Classes Structs are that classstruct foo data; JS programmers Look me! All in one line! const myclass () Object.fromEntries Array. from ( length: 3 . () 'data', () 'data'1) ); Iteration easy to follow for (foo:bar) stuff ?

Every production codebase has that one mysterious artifact nobody dares to touch. The image shows a decade-old codebase represented as a precarious tower of blocks, with "some godforsaken png of a random turtle that serves no evident purpose" pointed out at the bottom. The truth is, we've all been there. That random image file buried in the assets folder that might be powering the entire authentication system for all we know. Remove it? Sure, if you want to watch the world burn. That turtle is probably holding up more technical debt than your entire DevOps team. Ten years of spaghetti code, legacy systems, and band-aid fixes, all potentially hinging on a turtle PNG that some intern added as a joke in 2013. It's not a bug at this point—it's a structural support beam.

The duality of tech content platforms in their natural habitat! On the left: "Stop Using React" with a modest 46 upvotes. On the right: "Just F***ing Use React" with a whopping 170 upvotes. Welcome to frontend development, where contradictory advice gets served up daily like it's a special at your local coffee shop. The algorithm knows what it's doing - feeding you completely opposite opinions so you can stay perpetually confused and keep coming back for more validation. The best part? Both articles probably make equally compelling arguments. Truly the Schrödinger's cat of web frameworks - React is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever created until you actually open the article.

Content Eddy Vinck JavaScript EddyVinckk Web developers in 2020: If we split our JavaScript into separate files and load them on demand we can make the initial request to the homepage 30Kb smaller Game developers in 2020: Here's a 110Gb download including files we're not even using anymore 7:37 PM Jul 13, 2020 Twitter for Android 1 View Tweet activity 29 Retweets 168 Likes

Content ess sucks Programming sucks UserInputSucks Folgen The thing we used to call "web development" is becoming "how we build all software". 08:13 - 8. Juni 2019 4 Retweets 28 Gefllt mir"-Angaben 17 4 28

SWEET MOTHER OF PERL! That regex is not validating emails—it's summoning a demon from the seventh circle of programming hell! 😱 Look at that monstrosity! It's like someone had a seizure on their keyboard while simultaneously trying to solve world hunger and decrypt alien transmissions. This is what happens when the regex author was clearly paid by the character and had a vendetta against future developers. And the error code? 32001? That's just code for "we've lost all hope and sanity in this codebase." Anyone who claims to understand this abomination is either lying or needs immediate psychiatric evaluation!