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Is Anyone Else Concerned With How Many Things Pydantic Is In These Days
Python Programming Debugging
3 hours ago 31.5K 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
4 days ago 81.3K views 2 shares
Who Should We Believe?
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
9 days ago 101.1K views 2 shares
Well That Was Not In The Test Cases
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
17 days ago 119.4K views 0 shares
Actually Quite Great Strong Password
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
24 days ago 113.7K 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
1 month ago 133.5K views 0 shares
How Do I Migrate TypeScript Types
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 142.9K views 0 shares
Do You Find Regex Hard?
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 99.1K views 0 shares
Calm Down Satan
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 120.4K views 0 shares
Name Not Unique
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 118.6K views 1 shares
At Least They Gave A Date Picker
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 126.5K 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 164.4K views 0 shares
Definitely Not All Cases
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.