Error handling Memes

Just Doing What My Computer Is Telling Me To Do

2 days ago 67.3K views 0 shares

DARLING, the computer said "Tell a programmer to up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE" and I am LITERALLY just the messenger! 💅 What am I supposed to do? Learn C++? Sacrifice my firstborn to the GPU gods? The error message has SPOKEN, and who am I—a mere mortal user—to question its divine wisdom? The audacity of this game engine thinking I have ANY idea what a "dynamic vertex buffer" is! It might as well have asked me to explain quantum physics while juggling flaming chainsaws. I'm just trying to play my game with friends named "asbestosmuncher" and "Cock of the Block" like any normal person!

The Redundancy Department Of Redundancy

Debugging Csharp Typescript Javascript Programming

3 days ago 53.5K views 0 shares

First frame: Seeing a ternary operator with an empty string fallback. Second frame: Realizing they wrapped it in a try-catch block that does exactly the same thing if it fails. That face when you discover someone wrote defensive code against their defensive code. It's like wearing a life jacket while sitting inside a lifeboat... that's inside another lifeboat. The redundancy is so beautifully pointless it's almost art.

As God Intended

Networking Webdev Debugging Backend

5 days ago 86.2K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD! Someone's actually using the 400 status code instead of just slapping 500 on everything like a lazy barbarian! 💅 The sheer AUDACITY of this developer to actually use proper HTTP status codes! It's like watching a unicorn do calculus—RARE and BEAUTIFUL. The rest of us are over here throwing Internal Server Errors at our users like confetti while this absolute LEGEND is categorizing client errors with surgical precision. I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying! This level of API etiquette should be framed and hung in the Louvre!

Agree To Disagree With Your Compiler

Debugging C++ Programming Testing

6 days ago 54.8K views 0 shares

The eternal standoff between developers and compilers! Your precious code is like a rickety fort that you're convinced is architectural brilliance. Meanwhile, the compiler crawls in, sniffs around, and goes "something's definitely off in here." But who needs warnings anyway? Just slap on those -Wno-everything flags or @SuppressWarnings annotations and suddenly your code is flawless again! The compiler may detect 47 potential null pointer dereferences, but clearly it just doesn't understand your genius implementation of Schrodinger's variable that's simultaneously null and not-null until observed in production.

Internal Server Error

Backend Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

10 days ago 95.2K views 0 shares

Backend dev passes a note to Frontend dev in class. Frontend opens it to find just "500 Internal Server Error" written inside. Classic backend communication - technically accurate, completely unhelpful. The backend probably thinks they've provided all necessary information while the frontend is left wondering what the hell they're supposed to do with this. Just another day in the web development classroom of life.

HTTP Standards Committee Dropout's Revenge

Backend Webdev Networking Programming

12 days ago 82.6K views 0 shares

HTTP Standards Committee Dropout's Revenge

The developer who created this API documentation deserves a special place in HTTP hell. They've somehow managed to make status codes even more confusing by inventing their own bizarre numbering system. Standard HTTP has nice, clean codes like 200 (OK), 404 (Not Found), and 500 (Server Error). But this madlad decided "200 OR 1000" means success? And what's with all those 1000+ codes that read like someone's therapy session? "Room Rates field cannot be null or empty" isn't a status code—it's a passive-aggressive note from your micromanaging coworker. This is what happens when you let someone design an API after they've been rejected from the HTTP standards committee. Next they'll be telling us 418 (I'm a teapot) is too mainstream and replacing it with "2077: Brewing device self-identifies as kettle."

Inflation Is Taking Over

Programming Javascript Debugging Databases Backend

17 days ago 82.9K views 0 shares

Looks like someone forgot to handle their price exceptions in production. That electronic shelf label is just screaming "null null" where a price should be - the digital equivalent of a store clerk throwing their hands up and saying "I have no freaking idea what this costs anymore." Even the database is feeling the economic crisis. Can't afford to store actual values these days, just pointers to nothing. Somewhere a backend developer is getting a frantic call while pretending they didn't see the Slack notification.

Ignore All Problems, Focus On Slaying With Eyeliner

php Webdev Security Programming Debugging

17 days ago 87.1K views 1 shares

Ignore All Problems, Focus On Slaying With Eyeliner

OH. MY. GOD. This is literally the PHP developer's mantra in its purest form! While your codebase is LITERALLY ON FIRE with security vulnerabilities, deprecated functions, and spaghetti code that would make an Italian chef weep, you're just over here perfecting your eyeliner game! 💅 PHP devs have mastered the art of selective blindness - ignoring warnings, notices, and that one function that's been "temporarily" patched since PHP 5.3. Meanwhile, they're strutting around with their perfectly styled syntax, acting like they didn't just use a 15-year-old framework to build a modern web app! The gothic aesthetic is just *chef's kiss* perfect - because maintaining PHP in 2024 is basically a horror movie where you're both the victim AND the killer!

Are You A Good Developer ?

Programming Debugging Testing Frontend Backend

19 days ago 69.6K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the sacred developer survival instinct! Just like checking for cars on a one-way street despite the rules saying they only come from one direction, a real developer never trusts the documentation, API specs, or that "perfectly working" legacy code. Sure, the function says it returns a string—but is it really a string or some unholy string-like object waiting to explode your production server? Trust issues aren't a bug in our profession—they're a feature!

If Month Equals 12 Then

Programming Debugging Testing

24 days ago 92.2K views 0 shares

This elevator is living in the year 2025 with 13 months! Classic programmer oversight - when your date validation lets month=13 slip through. The elevator's showing "2025/13/01" because some poor dev forgot that arrays don't always start at 0. Now we're all stuck in the mythical 13th month riding to the 4th floor. This is what happens when you test in production and your error handling is just "meh, it compiles." The computer calendar apocalypse has begun, one elevator display at a time!

Google Should Hire Me

Javascript Programming Debugging

24 days ago 79.9K views 0 shares

This masterpiece of JavaScript absurdity is what happens when you code at 3 AM and think you're a genius. The nested "confirm" and "continue" statements lead to the profound instruction to "Touch class['grass']" – basically the code equivalent of telling someone to go outside and reconnect with reality. And if that fails? Just "throw this 'owo'" because nothing says "professional developer" like anime emoticons in your error handling. Google recruitment team, if you're reading this, clearly you've found your next senior architect.

Try Catch Print Hello World

Programming StackOverflow Debugging Testing

24 days ago 78.7K views 0 shares

The infamous O'Reilly parody book we all secretly need! "Error-Driven Development" perfectly captures that programming methodology where you just keep throwing code at the wall until the errors stop. It's basically how 90% of us actually code despite what we claim in job interviews. You know you've been there—frantically Googling error messages at 2 AM while questioning your career choices. This isn't a programming paradigm; it's a documentary of our daily lives. The orangutan's expression is all of us staring at the 57th cryptic exception message that makes absolutely no sense. Test-driven development? Please. We're just trying to survive until the next coffee break.

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