Friday Motivation: No Excuse Too Absurd

HTML quietly nestled among actual programming languages is the digital equivalent of a cat sneaking into bread loaf formation. It's just sitting there, hoping no one notices it doesn't belong in this lineup of compiled and interpreted languages. The cat's smug little face says it all: "Yes, I'm basically just markup, but I snuck into the programming party anyway and nobody can kick me out."

The eternal tech podcast dichotomy: hardcore engineer who lives in Vim vs. the polished host who hasn't touched code since jQuery was cool. Left side: Actually writes software that powers what you're watching on. Right side: Talks about software while secretly wondering if anyone will notice they forgot what a for-loop does. My favorite part? "Ran Doom on SMS Chipotle receipt" vs "1 peer-reviewed paper (removed by MIT)" is basically the two career paths available to CS graduates. The real punchline is we all know which one makes more money talking about programming than actually programming...

Content Python Wow. It's so comfortable, and cheap too. I think want this one 'Yeah, it's a popular model, but sitang in it makes you look lazy. Javascript Wow, so many features What does this one do? That button wi cause the chair to attack its owner Never touch it I'm not even sure why they put it in... This is one of our most comfortable chairs. but it works best if vou use it with the correct olatrorm. Java A lot of people who don't like the previous model prefer this one because it's platform independent. PHP That's a desk.. You can sit on it, can't you?

HTML snuggled between actual programming languages like a cat between loaves of bread is the most accurate thing I've seen all week. Just chilling there with its markup tags, no variables, no functions, no compiler... yet somehow still invited to all the dev conferences. It's like that friend who can't code but still gets included in all the technical discussions because they bring snacks. "What's that? You can't handle logic? It's fine, you make pretty buttons."

Content Tom Scott tomscott Working on code for a new project. 20:20 What I should do: learn the new state-of-the-art, figure out how to run this as a "serverless" system in The Cloud. What I'm actually doing: fixing up decade-old PHP code, because it works, I trust it, and I know how to fix it if it breaks. 97

Content Other Programmers PHP Programmer PHP isn't dead and makes 78 of the internet bro.