We're Partly Humans Too

You know what's worse than bad UX? Deliberately malicious UX. Making users manually type dates in a date picker—one character at a time—is like forcing someone to assemble IKEA furniture with a spoon. Sure, it technically works, but you're actively choosing violence. Date pickers exist to save users from the nightmare of figuring out if it's MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD. But some developers look at that convenience and think "nah, let's make them click through a calendar widget just to enter their birthday from 1987." Bonus points if the picker defaults to the current year and they have to click the back arrow 37 times. The boiler room of hell is reserved for these folks, right next to the people who disable paste in password fields and make you click "I'm not a robot" three times.

Content dev: we have spent countless hours ensuring a consistent experience across all platforms user: 116 This does not work in the Nintendo 3DS browser. The change is not detected even though the input field contains the new string. Jul 3 13 at 11:30

Content When you google the error and stackoverflow isn't on the first page It was time for Thomas to leave. This error can't be fixed

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of this person flashing their laptop like it's some kind of developer status symbol! 💅 Look at that collection of framework and tool stickers - it's like they're screaming "I know ALL the technologies" while probably writing 'Hello World' in each one. Honey, collecting dev stickers is NOT the same as knowing how to code! It's the programming equivalent of putting band patches on your jacket when you can't even play the triangle. The modern tech peacocking ritual is COMPLETE! 🦚

Someone's install script had an extra space in the wrong place and decided to nuke the entire /usr directory instead of a subdirectory. You know, just a casual Tuesday where your script commits digital genocide on one of the most critical system directories. The best part? They had to reinstall their entire Linux system to recover. But hey, at least they reported the bug. The "Totally uncool dude!!!" and "Probably should do it quickly!!!" really captures that special mix of panic and passive-aggressive politeness you only get from someone who just watched their system evaporate. This is why we test scripts in VMs, kids. And why rm -rf with variables should come with a breathalyzer test.

Content CATALIN PIT catalinmpit Let me break it for you. Coding is: - 1 actually coding -40 debugging - 15 coffee breaks - 30 googling errors - 9 staring with your colleagues at the screen - 5 trying copypasted solutions from Stack Overflow