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Swiss Army Knife Of HTML

15 hours ago 181.5K views 0 shares

Right-click, "View Source," and boom—an endless army of <div> tags staring back at you like Agent Smith clones. Semantic HTML? Never heard of her. Why use <section> , <article> , <nav> , or <header> when you can just slap a <div> on everything and call it a day? It's the duct tape of web development—works for everything, means nothing, and your screen reader is crying in the corner. Accessibility engineers everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force.

Throw It For The 2026

Debugging Csharp Javascript Programming Python

2 days ago 204.8K views 0 shares

Someone asked for the worst tech advice and honestly, this is peak developer wisdom right here. Just wrap everything in a try-catch block and throw it into the void. Error handling? Never heard of her. Stack traces? Who needs 'em when you can just silently fail and pretend nothing happened. This is basically the programming equivalent of sweeping dirt under the rug and calling it cleaning. Your app crashes? Try-catch. Database connection fails? Try-catch. Existential crisis at 2 AM? Believe it or not, also try-catch. The catch block stays empty though—because acknowledging problems is for people who have time for proper error handling. Production bugs will love you for this approach. Future you will definitely not be cursing past you while debugging why the application just... stops working with zero logs or error messages. Ship it!

Fully Recreated Python In Python

Python Security Programming

3 days ago 161.8K views 0 shares

Congratulations, you've just built an entire programming language in 5 lines. Someone spent years architecting Python's interpreter, and you just speedran it with eval() . This is basically a REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) that takes user input, evaluates it as Python code, and prints the result. In an infinite loop. You know, exactly what the Python interpreter does. Except this one has the security posture of leaving your front door wide open with a sign that says "free stuff inside." The beauty here is that eval() does all the heavy lifting. Want to execute arbitrary code? Done. Want to potentially destroy your system? Also done. It's like reinventing the wheel, except the wheel is already attached to your car and you're just adding a second, more dangerous wheel. Pro tip: Never, ever use eval() on user input in production unless you enjoy surprise job openings on your team.

Courage Driven Coding

Git Devops Programming Debugging Backend

7 days ago 246.6K views 0 shares

When you skip the entire compilation step and push straight to production, you're not just living dangerously—you're basically proposing marriage on the first date. The sheer audacity of committing to master without even checking if your code compiles is the kind of confidence that either makes you a legend or gets you fired. Probably both, in that order. Some call it reckless. Others call it a war crime against DevOps. But hey, who needs CI/CD pipelines when you've got pure, unfiltered bravery? The compiler warnings were just suggestions anyway, right? Right?!

Based On A True Story

Security AI Programming Debugging Backend

8 days ago 203.6K views 0 shares

When your coworker admits they've been yeeting API keys and environment variables straight into ChatGPT to debug auth issues, and suddenly everything works. The awkward silence that follows is the sound of every security best practice dying simultaneously. Sure, the bug is fixed, but at what cost? Those credentials are now immortalized in OpenAI's training data, probably sitting next to someone's Social Security number and a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Time to rotate every single key, update the docs, and pretend this conversation never happened. The best part? It actually worked. ChatGPT probably spotted a typo in the environment variable name or suggested using Bearer token format instead of just raw-dogging the API key in the header. But now you're stuck between being grateful for the fix and having an existential crisis about your company's security posture.

Excel As A Database? Straight To Jail

Databases Programming Backend

10 days ago 192.2K views 0 shares

Using Excel as a database is the tech equivalent of wearing socks with sandals - technically functional, but everyone who sees it will judge you. The moment you admit to storing production data in .xlsx files, you've earned yourself a one-way ticket to developer prison. No trial, no jury, just straight to jail. Sure, it starts innocently enough. "It's just a small project," you say. "We only have 50 rows," you promise. Fast forward six months and you're dealing with VLOOKUP nightmares, circular references, and that one guy who keeps saving it as .xls instead of .xlsx. Meanwhile, actual databases are sitting right there, crying in PostgreSQL. The prison guard's reaction is completely justified. This is a crime against data integrity, ACID compliance, and everything our ancestors fought for when they invented relational databases in the 1970s.

Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket

Devops Linux Databases Backend Cloud

11 days ago 214.1K views 0 shares

The classic single point of failure scenario. Server goes down, and naturally the backup is stored on... the same server. It's like keeping your spare tire inside the car that just drove off a cliff. Some say redundancy is expensive, but you know what's more expensive? Explaining to management why the last 6 months of data just evaporated because someone thought "the server is pretty reliable though" was a solid disaster recovery plan. Pro tip: your backup strategy shouldn't require a séance to recover data.

Should I Just Update The Mock Data With His Details And Reply That We Have Fixed It

Security Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

12 days ago 226.8K views 0 shares

Should I Just Update The Mock Data With His Details And Reply That We Have Fixed It

When someone reports a CRITICAL security vulnerability where they got auto-logged into Miles Morales' account without authentication, and your first instinct is "hmm, maybe I should just update the mock data with the reporter's name so it LOOKS like it's working correctly?" 💀 Imagine the absolute AUDACITY of this solution. "Oh no, our authentication is completely broken and people can access random accounts? Quick! Let's just make sure when THEY access it, it shows THEIR name! Problem solved!" It's like putting a "Wet Floor" sign on the Titanic while it's sinking. The developer really said "security vulnerability? more like security opportunity to demonstrate my creative problem-solving skills" and honestly? That's the kind of chaotic energy that keeps QA teams employed forever.

Overflow X Hidden

Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging

15 days ago 136.8K views 0 shares

Got a tiny horizontal scroll bar ruining your perfectly aligned layout? Just slap overflow-x: hidden on it and call it a day. Problem solved, right? Wrong. Sure, the scroll bar disappears, but so does half your content when users resize their browser. That dropdown menu you spent 3 hours positioning? Gone. The mobile nav that slides in from the side? Clipped into oblivion. But hey, at least there's no horizontal scroll anymore. The !important flag really seals the deal here—because why fix the root cause when you can just nuke it from orbit and make it impossible for anyone else to override later? Future you will definitely thank present you for this one. This is the CSS equivalent of duct taping your check engine light instead of taking your car to a mechanic.

I Would Like To Have A Word With You

Linux Devops Programming Debugging

18 days ago 187.9K views 0 shares

Listen, if you're storing binary data in your home directory config files, you've earned yourself a one-way ticket to the deepest, darkest corner of developer purgatory. Like, what possessed you to think "hmm, yes, let me just casually dump some compiled executables or image files into my ~/.config directory"? Config files are supposed to be TEXT. Human-readable TEXT. The kind you can open with vim at 3 AM when everything's on fire and actually UNDERSTAND what's happening. But no, you decided to play chaos agent and now nobody can debug your cursed setup without a hex editor and a prayer. Even the villain from Inglourious Basterds is judging you, and that's saying something.

My Code Is Self Documented

Programming Debugging Frontend Backend

18 days ago 196.0K views 0 shares

You know that developer who swears their code is "self-documenting" because they used variable names like x , data2 , and doStuff() ? Yeah, reading their code is basically archaeology. You're standing there like Indiana Jones trying to decipher ancient hieroglyphics, except instead of unlocking the secrets of a lost civilization, you're just trying to figure out why they nested seven ternary operators inside a forEach loop. "Self-documenting" is code for "I was too lazy to write comments and now you're going to suffer." Spoiler alert: your clever one-liner that saves three lines of code isn't clever when it takes 30 minutes to understand. Write the damn comments.

More Code = More Better

Programming Algorithms Debugging

22 days ago 248.8K views 0 shares

Behold, the evolution of a developer's brain slowly melting into absolute chaos! We start with the innocent x = 10 and somehow end up at a do-while loop that generates random numbers until the universe accidentally spits out 10. Because why use one line when you can gamble with the RNG gods and potentially loop until the heat death of the universe? The "Better" version adding ten ones together is giving strong "I get paid by lines of code" energy. The "Good" version with a backwards for loop that decrements from 0 is just... *chef's kiss* of unnecessary complexity. But the "Pro" move? That's weaponized inefficiency right there. Nothing screams senior developer quite like turning a constant assignment into a probability problem that could theoretically run forever. Your CPU will LOVE you!

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