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But It Does Run

But It Does Run
The eternal battle between code quality and functionality in one perfect Pirates of the Caribbean moment. Naval officer says your code is garbage, but Jack Sparrow hits back with the only metric that truly matters in crunch time - "but it does run." It's the digital equivalent of duct-taping a critical system together five minutes before the demo. Sure, it might be held together by Stack Overflow snippets and prayers, but if it compiles and doesn't immediately crash, that's practically a five-star review in desperate times.

APIs Vs Web Scrapers

APIs Vs Web Scrapers
The elegant waitstaff vs. the ragtag pirates perfectly captures the data access divide. APIs are like fancy servers bringing you data on a silver platter with proper documentation and rate limits. Meanwhile, web scrapers are the digital pirates who'll rip the data straight from the HTML's cold, dead hands when no API exists. After 15 years in the trenches, I've written both. The API is what you show the client. The scraper is what you build at 2 AM when the client's competitor suddenly becomes "very interesting" to them.

Backend Dev's CSS Nightmare

Backend Dev's CSS Nightmare
Backend developers looking at CSS like it's some cursed ancient artifact that might summon demons if handled incorrectly. The sheer disgust on that pirate's face says it all - he'd rather walk the plank than deal with margin collapsing or flexbox. Typical backend attitude: "I can build an entire microservice architecture, but don't ask me to center a div."