The Dark Side Of W3

The job market for programmers in a nutshell! Everyone's turning down opportunities until someone mentions PHP, and suddenly there's a disturbance in the force. That desperate "for PHP" reveal is the programming equivalent of saying you need someone to clean portable toilets at a music festival. Suddenly the room goes silent, lightning strikes, and the only person left is that one dev who hasn't updated their resume since 2006. The rest of us would rather code on a typewriter than touch that legacy spaghetti monster.

British developers really do name their variables like they're ordering tea at a pub. The joke here is the delightfully British naming convention - using £name instead of the standard $name for PHP variables. Because why use dollar signs when you've got proper currency, innit? It's also accessing £_POST instead of $_POST , which is technically impossible in PHP but absolutely brilliant in spirit. The code won't run, but it'll fail with style and a stiff upper lip. Bonus points for the variable being called £name - because even your POST parameters deserve to be compensated in sterling.

Content Y Hacker News new threads past comments ask show jobs submit best 1. A "AI is dangerous", says CEO of Sigma Technologies (arxiv.org) 1678 points by Akronymus 5 days ago 874 comments 2. A Apple to invest 200 millions in PHP (techcrunch.com) 1371 points by topshelf 5 days ago 835 comments 3. A California bans Taco Tuesdays (forbes.com) 1229 points by etiam 4 days ago 470 comments 4. A Why I stopped using toilet paper (substack.com) 820 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago 729 comments 5. A Rust 4.3.2 released (rust-lang.org) 790 points by werner 3 days ago 157 comments 6. A Stop using compilers (medium.com) 750 points by dagurp 4 days ago 432 comments ProgrammerHumor.

Content Me ProdrammerHumor.io Random guy on stackoverflow asking the same stupid question

The food chain of programming languages in one perfect image. HTML swimming around thinking it's a big predator like Python, Java, JavaScript, and PHP, when really it's just a school of tiny fish pretending to be a shark. Classic Dunning-Kruger effect in code form – the markup language with the least actual programming capability somehow convinced itself it belongs with the apex predators. Sure buddy, you keep "developing" those static pages while the real languages handle the heavy lifting.

Content "You can't just copy-pase pseudocode into a program and expect it to work" that's where you're wrong kiddo python!