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When Default Sort() Gets Awkward
Javascript Algorithms Programming Debugging Frontend
3 days ago 63.0K views 0 shares
When Default Sort() Gets Awkward
Ah, JavaScript's default sorting—where even emoji faces aren't safe from algorithmic bias. The code innocently calls sort() on an array of diverse face emojis, but without a compare function, JS sorts by Unicode values. Somehow the browser decided to arrange them by skin tone from lightest to darkest. Not exactly what the developer intended, but a perfect example of why you should always specify your sorting criteria. Remember kids: computers don't understand social context—they just follow instructions, however problematic the results may be.

Parsing UTF-8 Isn't Unicode Support
Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming
5 days ago 68.6K views 0 shares
Parsing UTF-8 Isn't Unicode Support
The classic "we support Unicode" lie exposed in three painful acts. Sure, your app can parse UTF-8 and display emoji, but ask about combining characters or bidirectional text and suddenly everyone's looking at their shoes. It's like saying "I speak Spanish" because you can order a burrito. The true Unicode experience isn't just showing 💩 emoji – it's handling Arabic text flowing right-to-left while your English flows left-to-right without having an existential crisis. The silence after "what's that?" is the sound of technical debt being born.

Do I Need Professional Counselling
Testing Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging
15 days ago 67.2K views 0 shares
Do I Need Professional Counselling
The digital equivalent of psychological warfare! Using a broken image icon as your avatar and naming yourself "Jürgen [object Object]" is the QA tester's nuclear option. That special combination of Unicode characters, JavaScript object notation errors, and the universal broken image placeholder creates the perfect storm of edge cases. Somewhere, a frontend developer is staring at their screen, questioning their career choices and frantically adding input sanitization to their form validation. Pure chaotic evil in HTML form.

Hebrew Code
Python Programming Debugging
19 days ago 87.1K views 0 shares
Hebrew Code
The cosmic joke here is that someone's code got completely mangled—likely by a text encoding issue or font rendering problem—turning their Python code into what looks like hieroglyphics. Instead of seeing this as a technical glitch, they've hilariously interpreted it as "Hebrew code" and are genuinely asking how to translate it back! The punchline hits when they ask "THEY HAVE ENGLISH CODING???" as if programming in English is the exotic alternative. It's the coding equivalent of driving on the wrong side of the road and wondering why everyone else is doing it backward. Fun fact: This is actually a perfect example of mojibake—when text is decoded using the wrong character encoding. Somewhere between saving and viewing this code, UTF-8 got interpreted as something else entirely, creating this beautiful disaster.

Street Magic: JavaScript Edition
Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend
1 month ago 110.7K views 0 shares
Street Magic: JavaScript Edition
The real street magic here is using Unicode character references as object keys to confuse even "super senior JS developers." That code is pure evil - using those weird \u escape sequences to access object properties, then doing some arithmetic with them. The magician knew exactly what he was doing. Nothing makes frontend devs question their life choices faster than JavaScript's object property access quirks combined with Unicode escape sequences. And they fell right into his trap, going from "we can solve any expression" to "OMG" in 0.2 seconds flat. Classic JavaScript humiliation in the wild.

Recipe For Disaster
Javascript Typescript Programming Debugging
1 month ago 79.4K views 0 shares
Recipe For Disaster
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should . This code is the programming equivalent of naming your twins "Twin1" and "Twin2" then wondering why they need therapy. Using keywords as variable names, declaring const const , setting 5 = 4 , and claiming 2 + 2 === 5 is true? This isn't just cursed code—it's the kind of abomination that makes senior devs wake up in cold sweats. Future maintainers will hunt you down. Not to ask questions, but for revenge.

Encoding Not Supported
Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend
1 month ago 65.9K views 0 shares
Encoding Not Supported
THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY OF CHARACTER ENCODING! Someone tried to get "Happy Birthday" in Urdu on their cake, but the bakery's system had a COMPLETE MELTDOWN and just spewed question marks everywhere! This is the digital equivalent of asking your crush out and having them respond with "Error 404: Interest Not Found." Unicode support? Never heard of her! This cake is basically screaming "I TRIED TO BE MULTICULTURAL AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY STRING OF QUESTION MARKS." It's the perfect representation of every developer's nightmare when they forget to handle non-Latin characters and their app just FALLS APART in production!

Why Can I Overload ⚔️ As An Operator But Not 💗?
Programming Golang C++ Swift
1 month ago 101.4K views 1 shares
Why Can I Overload ⚔️ As An Operator But Not 💗?
Looks like the compiler is playing favorites with our emojis! 💔 The sword emoji ⚔️ gets to slice through code as an operator, but the heart emoji 💗 is friendzoned as an "identifier." Even in programming languages, love gets complicated! Guess we can fight in code but can't make love work... typical programmer problems! Next time I'll try to overload 🍕 and see if the compiler is hungry enough to accept it!

Well, he's not wrong...
Javascript Java Frontend Backend
3 months ago 32.8K views 0 shares
Well, he's not wrong... | javascript-memes, code-memes, java-memes, image-memes, unicode-memes, ide-memes, bot-memes, graph-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content 7 39 Whats the unicode Character code of that f symbol? (Image by WHATWG. I suppose it's the tallest Unicode character there is. Is it? top of bounding box sop of em square middle Alphaberc bareline ideographic baseline bottom of em square The tallest Unicode character in the current standard (Unicode 6.1) is A . U1F5FB MOUNT FUJI, which is 3776 meters tall. share improve this answer edited Sep 22 '12 at 22:54 javascript unicode canvas utf-8 fonts answered Mar 17 '12 at 3:26

Mr. Worldwide
Programming
5 months ago 15.0K views 0 shares
Mr. Worldwide | coding-memes, code-memes, unicode-memes, ide-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content When you use Encoding.Unicode instead of Encoding.ASCII Mr. Worldwide

What Atime To Be Alive
Testing
5 months ago 9.5K views 0 shares
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Content Introducing UTF-Random- Making Unicode Fair UTF-RANDOM UTF-8 for a connected world. Geneva, Switzerland - Unicode revolutionized the written word, but it has one downside: It favors Roman languages by making the byte string representation of other scripts (Cyrillic, Greek, Asian scripts) longer than necessary. To address this issue, a team of linguists and computer scientists has developed UTF-Random. The key innovation is the use of a probabilistic algorithm ( devrandom ) that assigns a bit field to every newly created text file. Early tests have shown promising results. For example, a Cyrillic character that previously required three bytes in UTF- 8 encoding can now be represented with fewer bytes 33.33 of the time (repeating, of course).

def F(a,b): return a/b (xkcd)
Frontend
7 months ago 9.6K views 0 shares
def F(a,b): return a/b (xkcd) | code-memes, engineer-memes, unicode-memes, div-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content DIVISION NOTATION 73 SCHOOLCHILD AB SOFTWARE ENGINEER NORMAL PERSON OR UNICODE ENTHUSIAST A SCIENTIST B AB' FANCY SCIENTIST F(A,B) SUCHTHAT OH NO, RUN