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Well That Was Not In The Test Cases

3 hours ago 30.1K views 1 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.

Actually Quite Great Strong Password

Security Webdev Programming Frontend

8 days ago 105.2K views 0 shares

Behold, the ultimate security hack – using HTML tags as your actual password. Google says "mix letters, numbers, and symbols" and this genius just went full markup language. Technically, it does have all three requirements. The best part? Any decent security scanner would have an existential crisis trying to figure out if this is a password or just really aggressive formatting. Ten bucks says some poor backend developer is frantically patching this exploit as we speak.

Should I Tell Them I Built A Hacker's Paradise?

Security Webdev Javascript Frontend Backend

15 days ago 105.8K views 0 shares

Should I Tell Them I Built A Hacker's Paradise?

Ah, the classic "I've created a security nightmare but should I mention it?" dilemma. This developer is basically building a financial exploit disguised as a checkout system. By skipping backend price validation, they've created the digital equivalent of a self-checkout where customers can type in whatever price they want. "That Ferrari? Oh, it's $4.99 today." Hackers aren't even needed when the developers themselves are creating the vulnerabilities. The real question isn't "Should I tell them?" but rather "How fast can I update my resume before someone notices?"

How Do I Migrate TypeScript Types

Databases Typescript Javascript Programming Backend

28 days ago 121.8K views 0 shares

Trading one form of suffering for another is the developer way! First, you're sold the dream of MongoDB—a schema-less paradise where you can escape the rigid tyranny of SQL table management. "Freedom!" they promised. But then reality hits. Without schemas, your data becomes a wild west of inconsistency. So you turn to TypeScript for salvation, creating elaborate type definitions and validators that are basically... wait for it... schemas with extra steps! Congratulations, you've successfully transformed your database problem into a TypeScript problem. Different pain, same screaming.

Do You Find Regex Hard?

Programming Webdev Javascript Python Java

1 month ago 129.2K views 0 shares

Asking regex to be normal is like asking a cat to fetch your mail. The screaming response of incomprehensible symbols is exactly what happens when you're desperately trying to validate an email address at 2AM while your deadline looms. That chaotic string of brackets, backslashes, and special characters isn't just regex being difficult—it's regex being its authentic self. And honestly, would we even recognize it if it made sense? The true developer rite of passage is writing a regex pattern, forgetting what it does, then being too afraid to modify it when it somehow works.

Calm Down Satan

Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

1 month ago 88.3K views 0 shares

The digital equivalent of arson. Submitting [object Object] into forms is basically declaring war on backend devs. While you're smugly watching the world burn from a safe distance, some poor soul is staring at a stack trace wondering what sins they committed in a past life. It's like leaving a glitter bomb in the code - technically not illegal, but definitely grounds for being blacklisted from the company holiday party.

Name Not Unique

Databases Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

1 month ago 111.4K views 0 shares

When your parents named you "John" and now you can't even sign up for a developer account. Somewhere out there, a database administrator is smugly enforcing uniqueness constraints on first names like they're primary keys. Next thing you know, they'll be telling you your birthday has a foreign key violation because someone else already claimed December 25th.

At Least They Gave A Date Picker

Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming

1 month ago 110.1K views 1 shares

The form literally says "enter in YYYY/MM/DD format only" while providing a field that's pre-formatted as m/d/yyyy and a date picker button right next to it. It's like asking someone to write an essay in Spanish but giving them a French keyboard. This is the digital equivalent of those passive-aggressive sticky notes your coworker leaves on the break room fridge. Frontend developers probably saw this and felt their souls leave their bodies.

When Your Feature Creeping Habit Finally Pays Off

Gamedev Programming Frontend

1 month ago 113.8K views 0 shares

When Your Feature Creeping Habit Finally Pays Off

OMG VINDICATION AT LAST! That moment when your incessant "wouldn't it be nice if..." suggestions ACTUALLY EXISTED THE WHOLE TIME! 😱 Game developers secretly validating your feature creep addiction while your friends roll their eyes at your "unnecessary" requests. The sheer DRAMA of discovering that notepad function was hiding there all along! It's like finding out your ex actually WAS the problem! Sweet, sweet validation for your feature-demanding soul! And the best part? You didn't even have to file a single GitHub issue! 💅

Definitely Not All Cases

Programming Javascript Python Java StackOverflow

1 month ago 155.6K views 0 shares

The moment someone claims their regex handles "all edge cases perfectly" is when experienced developers reach for the doubt button faster than they reach for coffee on Monday morning. That innocent little pattern is probably hiding six different ways to break your production server when someone inputs an emoji, a null byte, or—heaven forbid—actual human language with accents. The confidence of regex authors is inversely proportional to the number of Stack Overflow tabs they'll need open tomorrow.

It's Just A Little Thing

Programming

1 month ago 71.8K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD! The sheer, unbridled ECSTASY of getting validation for that pathetic little "Hello World" program you spent 4 minutes on! 😭 The dopamine explosion is ASTRONOMICAL! Suddenly your 5-line code feels like you've single-handedly revolutionized computer science! That little dog's face is LITERALLY every programmer who's ever been praised for the most basic accomplishment and is now planning their acceptance speech for the Turing Award. The validation-to-effort ratio is CRIMINALLY high and we're all guilty of basking in it!

Well That Was Not In Test Cases