Elmo Memes

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True Developer Experience

Programming StackOverflow Debugging Testing

1 month ago 118.2K views 0 shares

True Developer Experience

The classic Elmo meme perfectly encapsulates how most developers approach problem-solving. Top panel: Elmo calmly contemplating reading documentation like a responsible adult. Bottom panel: Elmo face-planted into oblivion after choosing the "fuck it we ball" approach of hacking together a solution through trial and error until something works. Let's be honest—we've all closed that 47-tab documentation binge in favor of just trying random stuff until the error messages change. It's not elegant, but damn if it isn't effective sometimes.

Let He Who Is Without Sin

Debugging Javascript Programming Testing

2 months ago 104.6K views 0 shares

Let He Who Is Without Sin

The perfect representation of code review karma. First you're all high and mighty, pointing out bugs in someone's date converter. Then you see their conditional statement with zero-indexed months and suddenly you're face-down in shame because your code has the exact same off-by-one errors. The universe has a way of humbling developers right after they get cocky about someone else's bugs. That condition if(MONTH==0&&DAY==0){MONTH=11;DAY=31}; is exactly why we can't have nice things in programming. And also why we drink.