asynchronous Memes

Some Developers Just Want To Watch The World Burn

Some Developers Just Want To Watch The World Burn
Microservices architects watching their monolith burn while explaining message queues is peak chaotic energy. Just like the Joker, they don't care about your synchronous API calls—they just want to watch the system decouple in glorious asynchronous flames. The real punchline? When everything crashes because someone forgot to set up a dead letter queue. Some developers just want to watch the world burn... one RabbitMQ message at a time.

The Holy Trinity Of Confusion

The Holy Trinity Of Confusion
Ah, the diagram that makes even senior devs question their understanding of parallel computing. It's like trying to explain the difference between "your" and "you're" to someone who insists they're identical. This confusing web of "is" and "is not" relationships perfectly captures why technical interviews about concurrency make everyone sweat. You think you understand it until someone asks you to explain the difference, then suddenly you're drawing circles on a whiteboard while questioning your career choices. The best part? No matter how confidently you explain this to junior devs, they'll give you that blank stare that says "I'll just Google this again next week when I forget."

He Preferred Death To Explaining 'Promises'

He Preferred Death To Explaining 'Promises'
The absolute TRAUMA of having to explain JavaScript Promises to another human being! This poor developer would literally rather face a firing squad than attempt to articulate the hellscape of asynchronous programming. "Don't shoot! I am JS Developer" he pleads, but when asked to explain Promises? "SHOOT." The desperation! The drama! The absolute surrender to sweet, sweet death rather than explaining why your callback hell needed to be replaced with .then() chains that somehow became even MORE confusing! At least with death you only suffer once - explaining Promises is eternal suffering!

Async Is Contagious

Async Is Contagious
Start with a normal function handshake, end with the ENTIRE CODEBASE being infected with async/await! 😱 The moment you introduce ONE async function into your pristine synchronous paradise, it spreads faster than gossip in a developer Slack channel! Suddenly EVERYTHING needs to be async, your functions are covered in purple Teletubby suits, and your once-simple code is now a hellscape of Promises and .then() chains! The async plague has no cure - resistance is futile! Your beautiful sequential code? MURDERED in cold blood by the async mafia!

Sorting Algorithm For Your Next Coding Interview

Sorting Algorithm For Your Next Coding Interview
The infamous "sleep sort" algorithm—where your array gets sorted by setting timeouts based on each value. The smaller numbers wake up first, the bigger ones hit snooze longer. Technically it works (sort of), but try explaining this beauty in a coding interview and watch the interviewer's soul leave their body. "It's O(max(array)) time complexity, sir!" Absolute chaos masquerading as computer science. The perfect algorithm if your requirements include "must be completely unreliable" and "please never use in production."

Scary Turn It Off

Scary Turn It Off
Ah yes, the classic clickbait article about asynchronous operations where the numbers are completely out of order. Because that's the joke – asynchronous code doesn't execute in the sequence you wrote it. Your callback functions will return whenever they damn well please, just like these list items. The author didn't mess up the numbering; they're just demonstrating the chaotic reality of async programming where "3" finishes before "1" and your sanity slowly dissolves into a puddle of Promise.all() rejections.

Great Time To Be Anew Grad

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There are actually only two hard problems

There are actually only two hard problems | computer-memes, computer science-memes, errors-memes, validation-memes, asynchronous-memes, error-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content airstrike 0 minutes ago unvote root parent prev next - There are actually only two hard problems in computer science: 0) Cache invalidation 1) Naming things 5) Asynchronous callbacks 2) Off-by-one errors 3) Scope creep 6) Bounds checking

Anyone Else Get Tripped Up By This

anyoneElseGetTrippedUpByThis | asynchronous-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content ENGUSH PROFESSORS LEARNING THAT ASYNCHRONOUS MEANS THINGS CAN HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME

devs when they have to use an asynchronous library for the first time with no practice

devs when they have to use an asynchronous library for the first time with no practice | devs-memes, asynchronous-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content await await await await await await await

Choose your career carefully!

Choose your career carefully! | backend-memes, server-memes, frontend-memes, list-memes, asynchronous-memes, error-memes, bot-memes, sysadmin-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content BACK VOCALIST Gets a fraction of frontman's paycheck Can't take a break during work hours Drinks to forget old memories from work Has to work in synch with frontman Noone will probably notice your mistake BACKENDER Gets roughly the same pay as frontender Seems like he's always on a break drinking coffee Drinks with sysadmin to aquaire old memories from work Can work both synchronous and asynchronous 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

10 things you'll find shocking about asynchronous operations...

10 things you'll find shocking about asynchronous operations... | asynchronous-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content I Am Devloper iamdevloper 12 Dec 2016 10 Things You'll Find Shocking About Asynchronous Operations: 3. 2. 7 4. 6. 1 9. 10. 5. 8. 64 47 6.3K 8.3K