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Cookie Cutter For Empty Jsons

Cookie Cutter For Empty Jsons
Finally, a practical kitchen tool for when your API returns {} for the 47th time today. Just press it into your dough and boom—perfectly shaped emptiness, just like that response body you've been staring at for the past hour. The cookie cutter literally creates nothing but an outline, which is the most accurate representation of what you get when the backend "successfully" returns an empty object. Status 200, zero data, maximum confusion. At least now you can eat your frustration in cookie form. Pro tip: Pair these cookies with a nice cup of "why didn't they just return null" tea.

It's Not Our Fault It's Cloudflare's

It's Not Our Fault It's Cloudflare's
Someone just created the ultimate scapegoat generator and honestly? It's GENIUS. Break production at 3 AM? Just whip up a professional-looking Cloudflare error page and watch your boss's anger evaporate faster than your motivation on a Monday morning. The tool literally lets you customize every detail—error codes, timestamps, status messages—so you can craft the perfect "it wasn't me, it was the CDN" alibi. Your browser? Working. Cloudflare? Error. Your website? Also working (allegedly). The perfect crime doesn't exi— The best part? It looks SO legitimate that even your senior dev might believe you. Finally, a tool that understands the developer's most important skill isn't coding—it's creative blame distribution.

A Brief History Of Web Development

A Brief History Of Web Development
PHP sitting there like the cockroach that survived the nuclear apocalypse while everyone keeps throwing funeral arrangements at it. For THREE DECADES people have been writing PHP's obituary, and yet here we are in 2025 celebrating its 30th birthday like it's some kind of immortal deity that feeds on developer hatred. ColdFusion? Dead. ASP.NET's glory days? Faded. NextJS being the "PHP killer"? PHP literally laughed and ate another slice of birthday cake. The cycle is HILARIOUS: new framework drops → "PHP is dead!" → PHP continues powering like 77% of the web → confused pikachu face → repeat. Meanwhile Ruby on Rails and Django got their little moment of fame in the timeline like supporting characters in PHP's never-ending sitcom. The real plot twist? That

Time Traveler Spotted

Time Traveler Spotted
Someone's trying to communicate with their computer like it's 2045 and AI has taken over web development. They're literally asking their machine to build a responsive website with big pictures, custom fonts, fancy menus with "whooosh" animations, and fast load times—all in plain English. Then signs off with "Thanks, Human" like they're the robot giving orders. The "PS no bugs :)" is chef's kiss. Yeah buddy, just tell the computer "no bugs" and they'll magically disappear. If only it worked that way. We've been trying that with our code reviews for decades. Either this person is from the future where AI does everything, or they're a client who thinks programming works like ordering at a drive-thru. Spoiler: it's probably the latter.

Still Learning Tho

Still Learning Tho
CSS: the only language where you can have 15 years of experience and still Google "how to center a div" every single time. The emotional journey here is accurate—starts with optimism, brief moment of false confidence when something actually works, then back to questioning your entire career choice when padding decides to behave differently in Chrome vs Firefox. Some say there are senior CSS developers out there. I've never met one. We're all just pretending and hoping flexbox doesn't betray us today.

How To Center A Div

How To Center A Div
Someone who can center a div both vertically AND horizontally without Googling it is basically a mythical creature. Frontend devs have been battling this since the dawn of CSS, cycling through margin auto, flexbox, grid, absolute positioning with transforms, and probably a blood sacrifice or two. The fact that it requires clarification of both axes just adds insult to injury. Flexbox finally made this trivial, but the trauma runs deep. We all still whisper about the dark days of table layouts and vertical-align: middle that never worked.

Frontend Vs Backend

Frontend Vs Backend
Frontend devs out here living their best life in a meadow of sunshine and rainbows, getting lifted up and celebrated while everyone oohs and aahs at their pretty buttons and smooth animations. Meanwhile, backend devs are literally fighting for their LIVES in a post-apocalyptic hellscape with zombies, explosions, and general chaos everywhere. They're keeping the entire infrastructure from collapsing while frontend gets all the glory for making things look pretty. The backend dev is still somehow managing to hold it together while the world burns around them, dealing with database crashes, server fires, and API nightmares that nobody will ever see or appreciate. But sure, let's all clap for that CSS gradient. The accuracy is PAINFUL.

Shift Blame

Shift Blame
Someone built a tool that generates fake Cloudflare error pages so you can blame them when your code inevitably breaks. Because nothing says "professional developer" quite like gaslighting your users into thinking a billion-dollar CDN is responsible for your spaghetti code crashing. The tool literally mimics those iconic Cloudflare 5xx error pages—complete with the little cloud diagram showing where things went wrong. Now you can replace your default error pages with these beauties and watch users sympathetically nod while thinking "ah yes, Cloudflare strikes again" instead of "this website is garbage." It's the digital equivalent of pointing at someone else when you fart. Genius? Absolutely. Ethical? Well, let's just say your database queries timing out because you forgot to add indexes is now officially a "Cloudflare issue."

Going To The Supermarket Be Like

Going To The Supermarket Be Like
When you've spent enough time dealing with HTTP status codes, you start seeing them everywhere. Slot 404 is empty? Of course it is—resource not found. Classic. The fact that 403 and 405 still have drinks just makes it funnier because your brain immediately goes "forbidden" and "method not allowed" instead of just thinking "oh, they're out of Sprite." You know you're too deep in the backend trenches when a missing soda bottle at the grocery store triggers your API debugging instincts. Normal people see an empty shelf. We see error codes. This is what happens when you've written too many REST APIs and not touched grass in a while.

This Sub In A Nutshell

This Sub In A Nutshell
The bell curve strikes again. You've got the newbies on the left who just discovered JavaScript's type coercion and think they've unlocked the secrets of the universe. On the right, the grizzled veterans who've seen enough production bugs to know that literally every language has its own special brand of chaos. And there in the middle? The vast majority who picked JavaScript as their punching bag because it's trendy to dunk on JS. Plot twist: they're using it in their day job anyway because the entire web runs on it. The real joke is that all programming languages are weird and quirky once you dig deep enough. JavaScript just has the audacity to do it in a browser where everyone can see.

Do You Guys Think Memory Efficiency Will Be A Trend Again

Do You Guys Think Memory Efficiency Will Be A Trend Again
Electron apps: where your simple to-do list needs 800MB of RAM because why optimize when you can just ship an entire Chromium browser with it? The developer confidently explains their revolutionary idea while someone from a timeline where RAM actually costs money arrives to stop this madness. But modern devs don't care—memory is cheap and abundant, so let's just bundle V8, Node.js, and the kitchen sink for that calculator app. Meanwhile, embedded systems engineers are weeping in a corner with their 64KB constraints.

JS Gives Nightmares

JS Gives Nightmares
Someone asked what programming languages polyglots dream in, and the answer "JavaScript" got absolutely demolished with the most savage correction of all time. Because let's be real, nobody is out here having sweet dreams about type coercion, undefined is not a function, and the fact that [] + {} somehow equals "[object Object]" while {} + [] equals 0. JavaScript doesn't visit your dreams—it breaks into your subconscious at ungodly hours, whispers "NaN === NaN is false" in your ear, and leaves you questioning your entire existence. The language where adding an array to an object makes perfect sense to absolutely nobody, but here we are, building the entire internet with it anyway. Sweet dreams are made of these? More like cold sweats and existential dread.