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Responsive Design, But It's A Cat

1 day ago 164.8K views 0 shares

When you set both width and height to 100% and your element decides to become a PERFECT CUBE OF CHAOS. This cat has literally achieved what every frontend dev fears—the dreaded aspect ratio nightmare where your carefully crafted design just... expands in ALL directions simultaneously. No max-width, no aspect-ratio property, no media queries to save you—just pure, unfiltered geometric horror. The cat's face says it all: "I have become the container, destroyer of layouts." This is what happens when you forget that 100% means 100% of the PARENT, and apparently this cat's parent was a Rubik's Cube. Someone call a CSS exorcist.

Last Warning Html

Frontend Webdev Programming

2 days ago 196.5K views 0 shares

You can insult them, mock them, call them every name in the book and they'll just shrug it off with that cool emoji energy. But the SECOND you dare suggest HTML is a programming language? Oh honey, now you've crossed the line. The gloves are OFF. The sunglasses are SHATTERED. Someone's about to catch hands over this markup vs. programming language debate that's been raging since the dawn of the internet. Because apparently calling someone ugly is forgivable, but calling HTML a programming language is a war crime punishable by immediate violence. The hierarchy of developer rage is truly something to behold.

Traumatic Responsive Design For FE Developers

Frontend Webdev Hardware Programming

3 days ago 357.8K views 0 shares

Traumatic Responsive Design For FE Developers

So someone decided to make a laptop shaped like a circle. Congrats, you just gave every frontend dev PTSD flashbacks. You know those media queries you spent weeks perfecting? The ones that handle desktop, tablet, mobile, and that one weird iPad orientation? Yeah, throw them all in the trash. This monstrosity requires you to calculate CSS for a circular viewport where the corners just... don't exist. Imagine trying to center a div when the screen itself is already centered in the most cursed way possible. Your flexbox is crying. Your grid layout just filed for unemployment. And don't even get me started on how you'd handle text overflow on the edges. The real kicker? Some PM will see this and ask "can we support this in our next sprint?" No, Karen. We cannot.

404 Shower Not Found!

Microsoft Webdev Programming Debugging

9 days ago 164.2K views 0 shares

When your personal hygiene goes offline and returns a 404 error. This shower curtain perfectly captures the developer lifestyle: even basic human necessities get the Internet Explorer treatment. The URL bar reading "http://www.shower.com" with that classic "Cannot find server" message is chef's kiss—because apparently bathing requires a stable internet connection now. The fact that it's styled as Internet Explorer makes it even better. Not only can you not find the shower, but you're also using the browser equivalent of a dial-up modem to search for it. "The page you are looking for is currently unavailable" hits different when you realize it's been three days since your last shower and your rubber duck is judging you. Pro tip: Have you tried clearing your cache? Or maybe just... stepping into the shower? The web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, but your coworkers are experiencing olfactory difficulties.

HTML Is Your Calm Friend, JavaScript Is Your Crazy Cousin

Javascript Webdev Debugging Frontend

11 days ago 198.8K views 0 shares

HTML Is Your Calm Friend, JavaScript Is Your Crazy Cousin

HTML just wants to chill on the seesaw with you, living its best static life. Then JavaScript shows up like that one friend who "just wants to help" and suddenly you're airborne, questioning all your life choices. HTML keeps things balanced and predictable—it's literally just markup, doing exactly what you tell it to do. But the moment JavaScript enters the chat, chaos ensues. Asynchronous callbacks, event bubbling, hoisting, closures... next thing you know, you're flying off into the void while JavaScript cheerfully waves goodbye. The progression from peaceful coexistence to absolute mayhem is basically every web developer's journey from "I'll just add a little interactivity" to "WHY IS UNDEFINED NOT A FUNCTION?!"

Always Happened To Me

Javascript Webdev StackOverflow Debugging Frontend

12 days ago 261.0K views 0 shares

You know you're in deep when you're rage-debugging at 2 AM, your app is throwing cryptic errors, and some genius on Stack Overflow casually drops "try npm install" like it's the answer to world peace. And the worst part? It actually works. Every. Single. Time. The transformation from angry Hulk to confused Hulk captures that exact moment when your ego realizes you just spent 3 hours debugging when all you needed was to reinstall your dependencies. The node_modules folder strikes again, silently corrupting itself while you questioned your entire career path. Pro tip: Delete node_modules, run npm install, and pretend like you knew that was the solution all along. Your team doesn't need to know about the existential crisis you just had.

Intuitive User Interface

Frontend Webdev Programming Testing

14 days ago 266.7K views 4 shares

When developers think they've achieved UX perfection by making something "simple and intuitive," but users somehow find a way to use it in the most spectacularly wrong manner possible. That teapot has a perfectly functional spout, yet here we are watching tea arc through the air like some kind of caffeinated fountain. The gap between developer intent and user behavior is wider than the Pacific Ocean. You can spend weeks perfecting the user flow, adding tooltips, writing documentation, and conducting usability tests... only to watch users confidently ignore every design decision you made and create their own chaos. Pro tip: If you ever want to test your UI, don't give it to other developers. Give it to your non-technical relatives and prepare for your soul to leave your body.

For That Modern Web Feeling

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

14 days ago 273.6K views 0 shares

Someone literally wrote 15 lines of JavaScript to make a page fade out. You know what else makes a page disappear? Closing the tab. Takes zero lines of code. But no, we need to set the page opacity to 30%, create a spinner element with inline styles that would make any CSS developer weep, position it dead center with transforms (because apparently flexbox is too mainstream), add a linear infinite rotation animation with hardcoded pixel dimensions, append it to the body, wait 750ms, then fade everything out and remove the spinner. All of this to simulate "loading" when the function literally does nothing except waste three-quarters of a second of the user's life. Modern web development is just adding spinners to make users think something important is happening. Spoiler: it's not. The best part? The setTimeout callback has an empty action() function. Chef's kiss. Peak web engineering right there.

I Have New Project That Requires JS

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

17 days ago 266.0K views 0 shares

You know how language learners are told to immerse themselves and talk to native speakers? Well, when you're learning JavaScript, the "natives" are a chaotic bunch of framework warriors who've been arguing about semicolons since 2009. Instead of helpful guidance, you get three different opinions on whether to use React, Vue, or Angular, a lecture about why you should've used TypeScript, and someone aggressively suggesting you rewrite everything in Rust. Good luck finding a coherent answer when one dev swears by callbacks, another worships promises, and the third has ascended to async/await enlightenment. Learning JS by talking to JS developers is like asking for directions and getting a philosophical debate about the nature of roads.

Fake It Until Always

Backend Webdev Programming Frontend

17 days ago 256.9K views 1 shares

Frontend devs: peacefully lifting their beautiful, well-styled baby in a sunny meadow while birds chirp and flowers bloom. Backend devs: desperately holding up the entire apocalyptic infrastructure while chaos erupts, buildings crumble, and demons spawn from the database connections. That baby? Yeah, it's trying to escape too. The frontend looks pristine because someone's gotta maintain the illusion that everything's fine. Meanwhile, the backend is out here juggling authentication failures, race conditions, memory leaks, and that one microservice that keeps timing out at 3 AM. But hey, as long as the button has a nice gradient and smooth hover animation, users will never know the backend is held together with duct tape and prayers. Fun fact: The average backend developer has memorized at least 47 different HTTP status codes and still somehow returns 500 for everything.

We All Dreamed About Making Our Own OS At Some Point…

Webdev Rust Hardware C++ Programming

21 days ago 311.2K views 0 shares

We All Dreamed About Making Our Own OS At Some Point…

The kid asks Santa for an OS built with HTML, and Santa's about to yeet them out the window. Classic misunderstanding of what an operating system actually is versus what HTML does. HTML is a markup language for structuring web content—it literally just tells browsers "hey, this is a heading, this is a paragraph, make this text bold." You can't build an OS with it any more than you could build a car engine out of Post-it notes. Building a real OS requires low-level languages like C, C++, or Rust, direct hardware interaction, memory management, process scheduling, and a whole lot of kernel-level wizardry. Meanwhile HTML is just sitting there like "I can make a div with rounded corners!" The gap between these two concepts is so vast that Santa's violent reaction is completely justified. Fun fact: Electron apps basically do wrap HTML/CSS/JS in what feels like a mini-OS footprint (looking at you, Slack and Discord eating 2GB of RAM), but that's still running on top of an actual operating system doing the heavy lifting.

UI Is Easy!

Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging

21 days ago 177.3K views 0 shares

Every designer creates these absolutely GORGEOUS mockups that look like they were blessed by the gods of aesthetics themselves—perfectly aligned, beautifully spaced, with colors that make your soul weep tears of joy. Then you, the poor developer, sit down to implement it and suddenly you're wrestling with CSS like it's a feral raccoon, margins are rebelling against you, that button refuses to center no matter HOW many Stack Overflow tabs you open, and somehow everything looks like it got hit by a truck made of misaligned divs. The gap between expectation and reality has never been more BRUTAL.

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