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The Stupid Way To Validate Email

54 minutes ago 13.2K views 0 shares

That's a regex for email validation so cryptic even Gandalf can't decipher it. The dark arts of regular expressions - where developers spend 6 hours crafting an unreadable pattern that will inevitably fail on some edge case anyway. Just use a library, for crying out loud. Your future self will thank you when they're not debugging why [email protected] is somehow "invalid".

My Whole App Crashed

Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

2 days ago 184.2K views 0 shares

Just like vampires crumble at the sight of sunlight and Superman falls to his knees before kryptonite, your seemingly robust JSON file will completely disintegrate because of a single trailing comma. Nothing says "I'm a powerful developer" quite like spending three hours debugging only to find that extra comma lurking at line 217. The compiler doesn't care about your deadline or your mental health—it just wants syntactic perfection or total annihilation. There is no in-between.

Just A Simple Boolean Question

Programming Typescript Javascript Debugging Testing

5 days ago 127.3K views 0 shares

That smug little face says it all. You ask a simple yes/no question and instead of a clean true or false , they hit you with "I'll think about it" or some other useless string response. It's like asking someone if they want pizza and they respond with their entire life story. Boolean functions should return boolean values—it's literally in the name! But no, some developers just love to watch the world burn by returning strings like "maybe" or "undefined" when all you wanted was a straightforward answer. Then you're stuck with extra validation code because apparently if(isUserLoggedIn()) wasn't simple enough.

The Infinite Arms Race: Coders Vs Chaos

Programming Security Debugging Testing

7 days ago 177.4K views 0 shares

The eternal battle rages on! No matter how many input validations we add, how many edge cases we handle, or how many defensive programming techniques we employ—some user will find a way to break it. The universe's creativity in producing people who can crash a hello world program is truly unmatched. Every time a dev says "nobody would ever try to do that," the universe accepts it as a personal challenge. And let's be honest, the universe has a perfect win record so far.

What A Feeling

Debugging Programming Testing

14 days ago 171.5K views 0 shares

That brief moment of euphoria when your code finally works and you remember you're not a complete fraud after all. For about 5 minutes, you're basically a programming deity who deserves that senior developer title—until the next bug appears and the cycle of existential dread begins anew. The double coffee cups are clearly essential equipment for surviving this emotional rollercoaster. Nothing validates your career choices quite like fixing a bug that's been tormenting you for hours with a solution so simple it makes you question your entire education.

Rookie Error

Programming Typescript Javascript Debugging Testing

28 days ago 172.2K views 0 shares

The ultimate type-checking nightmare! Boolean questions should return true/false, not "maybe", "sometimes", or the dreaded string response. It's like asking "Is the server running?" and getting back "Well, it's Tuesday and Mercury is in retrograde..." Somewhere, a strongly-typed language is crying. The face perfectly captures that moment when you realize you'll need to add an extra validation layer because someone thought "Yes" and true were interchangeable. Classic rookie move that haunts even senior devs during code reviews.

When The Age Check Says No, But The Game Still Says Yes

Security Gamedev Programming Testing Frontend

1 month ago 127.1K views 0 shares

When The Age Check Says No, But The Game Still Says Yes

The perfect representation of Steam's age verification system! Steam asks if you're old enough to view mature content, you click "Yes" despite being 12, and Steam just... lets you right in. No ID check, no credit card verification—just pure digital trust in an era of zero trust architecture. It's basically the digital equivalent of a bouncer asking for ID and then immediately stepping aside when you say "trust me bro, I'm totally 18."

Say "You're Absolutely Right" One More Time

AI Programming Debugging Testing

1 month ago 174.6K views 0 shares

Say "You're Absolutely Right" One More Time

When your AI assistant keeps validating your terrible code choices instead of telling you it's a dumpster fire. Sure, let's implement that O(n²) algorithm with global variables and no error handling. You're "absolutely right" that it's production ready. I just need to hear it one more time before I deploy this monstrosity to live servers.

Instructions Unclear

Javascript Typescript Programming Debugging Frontend

1 month ago 226.5K views 0 shares

Someone clearly skipped the code review meeting. The validation says the minimum length is 100000 but the maximum is 999999. Then the error message demands "at least 100000 characters" while the user typed... 9995855? I've seen more logical requirements in government paperwork. This is what happens when the PM says "just make it secure" without specifying what that means.

Is Anyone Else Concerned With How Many Things Pydantic Is In These Days

Python Programming Debugging

2 months ago 136.1K views 0 shares

Is Anyone Else Concerned With How Many Things Pydantic Is In These Days

Python developers when faced with implementing proper static typing: *sweats profusely and grabs 25 more cards* Let's be honest, we'd rather import an entire dependency ecosystem than write def get_user(user_id: int) -> User ourselves. Why spend 10 minutes learning Python's built-in typing when you can spend 3 hours debugging Pydantic validation errors instead? It's the Python way!

Who Should We Believe?

AI Programming Debugging Testing

2 months ago 156.8K views 2 shares

The ETERNAL DILEMMA of our generation! You've spent 17 hours crafting what you think is a masterpiece of code, and in your desperate need for validation, you ask that fateful question: "Does my code look good?" And what do you get? Senior Dev with years of battle scars and crushed dreams says "No" with the emotional range of a brick wall. Meanwhile, the LLM—that digital yes-man with no actual coding experience—is practically GUSHING with approval! And there you are, caught in the middle, desperately wanting to believe the AI that's never had to debug at 4am while crying into a Red Bull. The betrayal! The DRAMA! Welcome to 2024, where we trust machines that were trained on Stack Overflow more than humans who actually know what they're doing! 💀

Well That Was Not In The Test Cases

Testing Security Programming Debugging Frontend

2 months ago 195.7K views 2 shares

Ah yes, the mythical "100% test coverage" – the armor that shatters the moment a user types "🔥💩👻" where their name should be. Six months of unit tests, integration tests, and regression tests, yet somehow nobody thought to validate against the ancient enemy: Unicode. The knight's confidence in the first panel is every dev right before deployment. The arrow in the second panel is every production bug that makes you question your career choices. No amount of TDD can save you from the creativity of users with emoji keyboards.

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