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Date Picker From The Ninth Circle Of UI Hell

Date Picker From The Ninth Circle Of UI Hell
Oh god, some frontend developer just had a stroke and created this monstrosity! Instead of a simple dropdown, they've split month names into three columns of syllables you have to piece together like a deranged puzzle. Want to select March? That's "m" + "a" + "rch". September? "sept" + "em" + "ber". And don't get me started on that default date - January 0, 1900. Perfect for when you need to book a time machine to visit the epoch time's slightly older brother. This is what happens when you ask for "innovative UI design" in a sprint planning meeting and someone takes it way too literally.

The Design Is Very Human

The Design Is Very Human
Ah yes, the pinnacle of UX design—listing every possible phone number in a dropdown instead of using a simple text input. Because why let users type when they can enjoy the thrill of scrolling through thousands of options? Nothing says "we value your time" like forcing you to hunt for your number like it's a needle in a digital haystack. The developer probably thought: "Text fields are so 2005, let's make users earn their form submission." This is what happens when you ask the backend dev to handle the frontend for "just one quick task."

The Immortal PHP: Web Development's Greatest Zombie

The Immortal PHP: Web Development's Greatest Zombie
THE ETERNAL ZOMBIE LANGUAGE THAT REFUSES TO DIE! 💀 For THREE DECADES developers have been screaming "PHP is dead!" while frantically pushing the next hot framework. ColdFusion! ASP.NET! Ruby on Rails! Django! NextJS! Each one supposedly hammering the final nail in PHP's coffin. Meanwhile, PHP is just sitting there, powering like 78% of the internet, sipping tea and planning its 30th birthday party. The ultimate comeback story! The cockroach of programming languages that survives every nuclear framework bomb dropped on it! And the irony? We're still typing

Front End Vs Back End: The Eternal Tech Divide

Front End Vs Back End: The Eternal Tech Divide
Backend developers drawing their own crude solutions with a pen, while frontend devs ride in on majestic white horses looking like wizards from fantasy epics. The irony? Backend code powers everything but looks like it was scribbled by a toddler, while frontend is just there to make users go "ooooh pretty buttons" while secretly being held together with duct tape and Stack Overflow answers. Let's be honest though—both sides think the other has it easy. Meanwhile, full-stack developers are just over here trying to be both at once, probably looking like Gandalf riding a horse with a crayon in hand.

The Dress That Launched A Thousand Git Commits

The Dress That Launched A Thousand Git Commits
Ah, the infamous dress that broke the internet in 2015. Some saw it as blue and black, others as white and gold. Now it's back to haunt frontend developers as a color scheme requirement. Nothing like having your CSS choices determined by an optical illusion that caused more family arguments than politics and religion combined. Just wait until the client asks why the website looks different on every device.

A Brief History Of Web Development

A Brief History Of Web Development
The tech world's most reliable constant isn't Moore's Law—it's our ability to prematurely declare PHP dead while it quietly powers half the internet. From ColdFusion (1995) to ASP.NET (2002) to Ruby on Rails (2004) to Django (2006) to NextJS (2018), we've spent three decades confidently announcing PHP's funeral while writing our revolutionary frameworks that will "definitely replace it this time." Yet here we are in 2025, celebrating PHP's 30th birthday. The language that refuses to die despite our best efforts. It's like that coworker who keeps surviving layoffs despite doing everything in Comic Sans.

First Time Using Electron

First Time Using Electron
Expectation: "Lightweight and performant, just the way I like it." *smiles in Mr. Incredible* Reality: *horrified face* as your "simple" app balloons from 25MB to a monstrous 739MB. Nothing says "modern web development" quite like shipping an entire Chrome browser with your calculator app. Your 2GB RAM laptop is sweating nervously in the corner while you explain to users that your "lightweight" app just needs a quick 800MB download. But hey, at least it's cross-platform!

Our Jobs Are Safe For Now

Our Jobs Are Safe For Now
Ah yes, the terrifying AI revolution that's going to replace us all... with a locally saved HTML file. Nothing says "cutting-edge web development" quite like sending someone a file path that only works on your machine. The future of tech is clearly C:\Users\ben\Downloads\index.html — accessible to literally no one but Ben. Sleep tight, fellow developers. The robots aren't coming for our jobs until they figure out what a web server is.

How Web Devs Be Discussing C++ Vs Rust

How Web Devs Be Discussing C++ Vs Rust
THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of web developers passionately debating C++ vs Rust while having ZERO experience with either! 😱 It's like watching someone argue about the best way to perform brain surgery after watching a 5-minute YouTube tutorial. "Well ACTUALLY, Rust's memory safety is superior" says the person whose entire coding experience is copying jQuery snippets from Stack Overflow. The philosophical debate rages on while their actual React app is still using 47 dependencies to center a div. Pure. Comedic. GENIUS.

PNG To SVG Converter: The Lazy Developer Edition

PNG To SVG Converter: The Lazy Developer Edition
The laziest SVG "conversion" known to mankind. Instead of actually converting the PNG to vector graphics, some genius just embedded the entire PNG image inside an SVG wrapper. It's like putting a hamburger inside a taco shell and calling it Mexican cuisine. The shocked cat perfectly captures how any self-respecting developer feels discovering this abomination in production code. Bonus points if this was done by the same person who puts all their CSS in a <style> tag at the bottom of each HTML file.

404 Room Not Found

404 Room Not Found
GASP! The absolute AUDACITY of these buildings! We've got rooms 403 and 405 staring us right in the face, but 404? NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! 💀 It's like the universe created the perfect real-life HTTP status code joke! For the uninitiated, 404 is the infamous error code that screams "PAGE NOT FOUND" when a website can't locate what you're desperately searching for. And here we are, searching for room 404 between 403 and 405, and it's LITERALLY NOT FOUND. The irony is so perfect it hurts my soul. Whoever designed this building deserves either a promotion or jail time - I haven't decided which!

Node Modules: The Backpack That Ate Your Hard Drive

Node Modules: The Backpack That Ate Your Hard Drive
Writing a tiny 50KB app in Node.js that somehow requires hauling around 12GB of node_modules is the modern equivalent of bringing a nuclear warhead to a knife fight. Nothing says "efficient development" like needing an extra hard drive just to store your dependencies. And yet we all just accept this madness like it's completely normal. "Yeah, I'm just importing this tiny utility that needs 237 other packages to calculate if a number is odd."