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Weather App Went Low Level

4 hours ago 44.2K views 0 shares

When climate change gets so catastrophic that your weather app just gives up on human-readable formats and starts outputting raw binary. "Screw it, you figure it out," says the API. The temperature readings are literally 1° and 0° alternating like some kind of Boolean fever dream. It's not Celsius, it's not Fahrenheit—it's straight-up true and false weather. Your weather app just downgraded from a high-level API to assembly language because apparently the climate situation is now so dire it needs to be expressed in the most fundamental data type possible. Next update: weather forecasts delivered in machine code. "Partly cloudy" will be 0x4A3F2B .

Json Momoa

Programming Webdev Javascript Frontend Backend

1 day ago 119.8K views 0 shares

Someone just walked up to Jason Momoa and called him "json momoa" and honestly? The man looks like he's about to unleash the fury of a thousand misplaced commas. That death glare could parse your entire API and find every single syntax error in your soul. The absolute AUDACITY to reduce this majestic human to a data interchange format! Though let's be real, if Jason Momoa was actually JSON, he'd be perfectly formatted, properly indented, and would never throw a parsing error. Unlike the rest of us mortals who forget a closing bracket and watch our entire application burn.

Cookie Cutter For Empty Jsons

Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging Frontend

3 days ago 199.4K views 0 shares

Finally, a practical kitchen tool for when your API returns {} for the 47th time today. Just press it into your dough and boom—perfectly shaped emptiness, just like that response body you've been staring at for the past hour. The cookie cutter literally creates nothing but an outline, which is the most accurate representation of what you get when the backend "successfully" returns an empty object. Status 200, zero data, maximum confusion. At least now you can eat your frustration in cookie form. Pro tip: Pair these cookies with a nice cup of "why didn't they just return null" tea.

We Hired Wrong AI Team

AI Programming Backend

5 days ago 258.3K views 1 shares

When management thought they were hiring cutting-edge machine learning engineers to build sophisticated neural networks, but instead got developers who think "AI implementation" means wrapping OpenAI's API in a for-loop and calling it innovation. The real tragedy here is that half the "AI startups" out there are literally just doing this. They're not training models, they're not fine-tuning anything—they're just prompt engineers with a Stripe account. But hey, at least they remembered to add error handling... right? Right? Plot twist: This approach actually works 90% of the time, which is why VCs keep throwing money at it.

You Can Do Anything At Zombocom

Webdev Networking Security Javascript Programming

6 days ago 248.9K views 0 shares

The virgin API consumer is basically every developer's nightmare journey: drowning in OAuth flows, rate limits hitting like a 429 status code to the face, and having to verify everything short of their grandmother's maiden name just to GET some JSON. Meanwhile, they're shackled by tokens, quotas, and the constant fear that the API provider will yank their endpoint away like a rug. Then there's the chad third-party scraper who just... doesn't care. No OAuth? No problem. Rate limits? What rate limits? They're out here parsing HTML with regex (the forbidden technique that makes computer scientists weep), paying captcha farms pennies, and scraping so fast backends are having existential crises. They've got Selenium, curl, and the audacity of someone who's never read a Terms of Service. The best part? "Website thinks his user agent is a phone" and "doesn't care about changes in policies." While legitimate developers are stuck in OAuth hell, scrapers are just spoofing headers and living their best life. The title references Zombocom, that legendary early 2000s website where "you can do anything" – which is exactly how scrapers operate in the lawless wild west of web scraping. Fun fact: Companies spend millions building anti-scraping infrastructure, yet a determined developer with curl and a rotating proxy can still extract their entire database before lunch.

Suddenly People Care

AI Programming Debugging Backend Cloud

10 days ago 304.9K views 0 shares

For decades, error handling was that thing everyone nodded about in code reviews but secretly wrapped in a try-catch that just logged "oops" to console. Nobody wrote proper error messages, nobody validated inputs, and stack traces were treated like ancient hieroglyphics. Then AI showed up and suddenly everyone's an error handling expert. Why? Because when your LLM hallucinates or your API call to GPT-4 fails, you can't just shrug and refresh the page. Now you need graceful degradation, retry logic, fallback strategies, and detailed error context. The massive book represents all the error handling knowledge we should've been using all along. The tiny pamphlet is what we actually did before AI forced us to care. Nothing motivates proper engineering practices quite like burning through your OpenAI API credits because you didn't handle rate limits correctly.

Just Blame Each Other

Devops Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

12 days ago 283.2K views 0 shares

When a 500 error hits, it's like watching the Hunger Games of software development. Frontend swears the API call was perfect, Backend insists their code is flawless, and DevOps is just standing there like "my infrastructure is pristine, thank you very much." Nobody wants to be the one who broke production, so naturally everyone points fingers in a beautiful circle of denial. Spoiler alert: it's probably a missing environment variable that nobody documented because documentation is for people who have time, which is nobody.

Going To The Supermarket Be Like

Backend Webdev Programming

13 days ago 224.4K views 0 shares

When you've spent enough time dealing with HTTP status codes, you start seeing them everywhere. Slot 404 is empty? Of course it is—resource not found. Classic. The fact that 403 and 405 still have drinks just makes it funnier because your brain immediately goes "forbidden" and "method not allowed" instead of just thinking "oh, they're out of Sprite." You know you're too deep in the backend trenches when a missing soda bottle at the grocery store triggers your API debugging instincts. Normal people see an empty shelf. We see error codes. This is what happens when you've written too many REST APIs and not touched grass in a while.

There Is Also Some Div Centring

Backend Webdev Devops Javascript Programming

19 days ago 253.6K views 0 shares

You spend years learning design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and architectural paradigms. You master REST, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven systems. You debate tabs vs spaces with religious fervor. Then one day you realize your entire career boils down to: take data from point A, send it to point B via HTTP. That's it. That's the whole job. Just fancy plumbing with extra steps and a lot of YAML files. The "always has been" meme format hits different when you realize the astronaut with the gun represents your senior dev who's been trying to tell you this for years while you were busy overengineering everything with 47 microservices.

Sometimes

Networking Devops Debugging Backend Cloud

20 days ago 205.9K views 2 shares

When your production server is located in a data center on the other side of the planet and you're trying to debug why the API is timing out. That 999ms ping is basically the network equivalent of trying to have a conversation via carrier pigeon. At that point, you're not even debugging anymore—you're just sitting there watching the loading spinner while contemplating your life choices. The ramen slurping perfectly captures that "well, might as well eat lunch while I wait for this request to complete" energy. Pro tip: if your ping is approaching a full second, maybe consider switching from TCP to sending postcards.

Am I Late To The Party

AI Programming Cloud

21 days ago 278.3K views 0 shares

Someone just discovered AI and decided to use it for... checking if numbers are even. You know, that incredibly complex problem that's stumped humanity for centuries and definitely requires a large language model API call instead of a simple modulo operation. The first few rows show manual answers (No, Even, No, Yes) like a normal human would do it. Then row 8 hits and suddenly it's =GEMINI("Is this number even?",A8) all the way down. Someone's burning through their API quota to solve what could've been =MOD(A8,2)=0 . This is what happens when you have a hammer (AI) and everything looks like a nail. Next week they'll probably be using GPT-4 to add two numbers together. The cloud bills are gonna be *chef's kiss*.

I Am A Tea Pot

Backend Webdev Programming Frontend

21 days ago 190.7K views 0 shares

HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" was born as an April Fools' joke in 1998 and somehow made it into the official spec. It's literally the internet's way of saying "you're asking me to brew coffee but I'm a teapot, buddy." The joke is that this absurd status code—which should never exist in production—has become the web's most beloved meme response. It's like that one function in your codebase that was meant to be temporary but has been there for 6 years because everyone's too scared to remove it. The fact that some APIs actually implement it unironically is peak developer humor.

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