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Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)

Public Administration Is Going Digital (Backwards)
Government agencies finally entering the digital age but making the worst possible tech choices? *Chef's kiss* Nothing says "we hired consultants from 2003" quite like rejecting clean, lightweight JSON in favor of bloated XML files that require a PhD to parse. The kind of decision that makes developers contemplate career changes to literally anything else. Fun fact: Some government systems still use COBOL, a language older than the moon landing. At this rate, they'll discover JSON around the same time we colonize Mars.

The Most Efficient XML Parser

The Most Efficient XML Parser
The ultimate XML parser isn't some fancy library—it's the Unix delete command. Why waste CPU cycles parsing XML when you can just rm it from existence? A truly elegant solution that runs in O(1) time and permanently resolves all XML validation errors. The only XML schema that matters is no XML at all.

Plane-ception: The SQL JSON Cargo Nightmare

Plane-ception: The SQL JSON Cargo Nightmare
Loading a plane into a cargo jet is about as efficient as storing JSON in SQL. Sure, it technically works, but it's like wearing formal shoes to the beach—you've completely missed the point. And your company does this with XML as nvarchar strings? That's taking inefficiency to an art form. It's like photocopying a painting, faxing the copy, then taking a picture of the fax with a flip phone. Seven years of database optimization techniques thrown out the window because someone in 2005 said "just make it work for the demo."

Why Is It Always You Two

Why Is It Always You Two
The classic Scooby-Doo unmasking scene but make it developer nightmare fuel ! 🕵️‍♂️ When you download what seems like a normal file but *gasp* it's actually a zip containing 500 XML files that will haunt your dreams! The file format equivalent of "And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling developers!" Nothing says "today's going to be a terrible day" quite like unmasking a seemingly innocent file only to discover it's actually a horrifying XML nightmare in disguise. Time to cancel all your plans and stock up on coffee! ☕☕☕

J Son: The Data Format That Broke The Internet

J Son: The Data Format That Broke The Internet
THE HORROR! You leave your API alone for FIVE MINUTES and return to find 1,525 posts about JSON?! The absolute TRAUMA of being a developer in 2023! Every time you check Twitter, there's another trending topic about data formats. Like, can we please just have ONE DAY without someone having an existential crisis over curly braces and key-value pairs?! The backend devs are screaming, the frontend devs are hyperventilating, and somewhere, an XML enthusiast is quietly sobbing in the corner.

Experience Knows When To Stop Reinventing The Wheel

Experience Knows When To Stop Reinventing The Wheel
Junior dev: *screaming in agony* "WE MUST CREATE AN ENTIRELY NEW FILE FORMAT FROM SCRATCH BECAUSE EFFICIENCY!!!" Senior dev: *calmly sips coffee* "Zipped XML. Next problem?" The evolution of problem-solving in tech is brutal. At some point you realize reinventing the wheel isn't impressive—it's just a waste of sprint points. The beard of wisdom knows that existing solutions usually work just fine, while the passionate newbie wants to build a nuclear-powered unicycle.

What Drove You To Madness?

What Drove You To Madness?
The asylum of programming sins is now accepting new patients! Left to right, we have the poor soul who thought regex was a sensible XML parsing solution (narrator: it wasn't), the delusional dev who reinvented the wheel with a custom date/time library (because clearly, humanity hasn't solved that problem in the last 50 years), and finally—the pièce de résistance—the screaming maniac who blindly copy-pasted AI-generated "fixes" straight into production. The padded walls of this code asylum are the only things keeping these developers from harming themselves or others with more terrible technical decisions.

I Just Double-Clicked And Chose Violence

I Just Double-Clicked And Chose Violence
The giant spoon of Visual Studio smacking you in the face when all you wanted was to check a tiny XML file. Nothing says "I just wanted to see what's inside" like having an entire IDE launched at Mach 5 just to view 10 lines of code. The real kicker? By the time VS loads, you could've written the entire file from memory, refactored it twice, and still had time for a coffee break.

The Data Cake Of Broken Dreams

The Data Cake Of Broken Dreams
Client: "Our data is very organized and clean!" Developer: *receives a pile of crumbled chocolate cupcakes with random file formats scattered around* The expectation vs. reality gap in data handoffs is the tech world's greatest practical joke. Clients envision their data as this adorable, well-groomed dog cake with perfect frosting roses, while developers get what looks like someone dropped the cake in a parking lot and then tried to fix it with a spatula and blind optimism. And of course, they've sprinkled in some Excel, XML, TXT, and PDF files because why use one consistent format when you can use four incompatible ones? Nothing says "professional data management" like a digital version of a dessert crime scene.

Inventor Of Bash Inventing Xml

inventorOfBashInventingXML | xml-memes, bash-memes, ML-memes, dependencies-memes, dependency-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content Lukas Eder lukaseder If the inventor of bash had invented also XML: dependencies dependency groupldorg.jooqdipuorg artifactldjoogditcafitra vonedneped seicnedneped

Why Cant We Have

whyCantWeHave | xml-memes, ML-memes, comment-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content 3 rules: -no wishing for death -no falling in love -no bring back dead people There are 4 rules I wish for single line comments in XML

I Dropped The Soap

iDroppedTheSoap | testing-memes, test-memes, xml-memes, scala-memes, api-memes, rest-memes, object-memes, ML-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
Content Testing SOAP API's 20 Years Ago "now that ive written custom xml object mappers for all these api endpoints i can finally ask my mom to get off the phone to send this SOAP request" Testing REST API's now "I press red green yellow buttons on swagger ui, redocly, scalar, postman etc"