Your Typical Node Project

The eternal struggle of modern developers - being seduced by shiny new IDEs while Vim sits there wondering what happened to loyalty. The person labeled "Me" is turning away from Vim (the OG text editor) to ogle at all the fancy modern development tools like VSCode, IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm. It's the coding equivalent of dumping your reliable high school sweetheart for the cool transfer students with their fancy features and auto-completions. Sure, those IDEs might have debugging tools that actually work and don't require 47 keyboard shortcuts to save a file, but Vim has... um... bragging rights at developer meetups?

Python OOP: Happy-go-lucky, barely trying, gets the job done. JavaScript OOP: Confused, worried, wondering why prototypes and 'this' keep changing on them. Java OOP: Final boss mode. Unnecessarily jacked with AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean muscles nobody asked for. Probably took 5 minutes to compile this meme.

Content Evan You Just had a company asking me to complete an 82-question security questionnaire so that they can use Vue Devtools, for free. Ironically the compliance questionnaire service they are using is built with Vue a 12:21 PM 17 Feb 23 12.5k Views 15 Retweets 1 Ouote 268 Likes 17

Content Is it time to bring CARS and GUNS into JavaScript? JavaScript has gone from a cute little scripting language to an unstoppable behemoth. But is it doing enough to attract the male audience? The marketing materials out there are all targeting women. Look at React's cute and curvy logo or Vue's pastel colors. And don't even get me started on Github's "octopus cat" logo. Clearly, something needs to be done to attract men. And what do men love? Cars and guns. But first, let's take a step back. Are men really better programmers? To put it bluntly, yes. There's a lot of debate on this topic, but the scientific evidence is

The forbidden love story between a programmer and their trusty variable declaration. That tiny little "var" holds the weight of our entire codebase, and we treat it like a precious pet that somehow magically knows what type it should be. "Oh look at my adorable little var! It started as a string, became a number, and now it's an undefined object causing production to crash! Isn't it cute how it grows up so fast?" JavaScript developers nodding nervously while TypeScript devs watch in horror from a safe distance.

Ah, the eternal JavaScript nightmare: NaN (Not a Number) - which ironically is a number type that doesn't equal itself. Because that makes perfect sense! The IEEE 754 floating-point standard really outdid itself here. "Let's create a special value that represents calculation errors but make it behave in the most counterintuitive ways possible!" My favorite part is JavaScript trying to be helpful: "You want to convert 'hello' to a number? Sure thing! Here's a NaN for your trouble. No errors thrown, just silent mathematical chaos." And then we wonder why our date calculations suddenly think it's the year NaN. The hex(983061) at the bottom is the cherry on top - it's 0xF00D61, or "FOOD A1". Even the hexadecimal is trolling us.