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Tis The Season For Boolean Scares
Programming Typescript Javascript Debugging Testing
11 days ago 76.8K views 0 shares
Tis The Season For Boolean Scares
The skull remains calm at "boolean" because it's just a normal data type that can be true or false. But when "boo" appears alone? FULL PANIC MODE. It's October in the codebase and someone's pushing string literals without type checking. The kind of horror that makes senior devs wake up in cold sweats. Bonus spook points if it's in a production environment.

Type Script Safety
Typescript Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging
1 month ago 100.8K views 0 shares
Type Script Safety
TypeScript promises type safety but then gives us the any type - basically a backdoor that lets you smuggle in whatever garbage you want. The cat's horrified expression is every senior dev watching junior devs slap any on everything to make TypeScript errors go away. "TypeScript: JS with syntax for types" *looks inside* "any" - congratulations, you've defeated the entire purpose of using TypeScript in the first place!

It Won’T Get Any More Compact.
Python Algorithms Programming Debugging Testing
1 month ago 113.4K views 0 shares
It Won’T Get Any More Compact.
Oh my goodness, this is peak programmer laziness at its finest! 😂 Instead of writing a proper validation function that checks if a number is an integer, some poor soul decided to hardcode EVERY POSSIBLE DECIMAL VALUE around 17 and 18 with error messages! The only value that returns True is exactly 18 (no decimals). The irony is that writing a simple isinstance(x, int) would be like 1000x more compact than this monstrosity. This is what happens when you code at 3am after your fifth energy drink! The "It Won't Get Any More Compact" title is just *chef's kiss* sarcastic perfection!