Naming Your Child After Your Password

The worst security advice ever wrapped in a cute anime package! Hardcoding your API keys directly in your frontend JavaScript is like leaving your house keys under the doormat with a neon sign pointing to it. Any curious user can just pop open DevTools, check the Network tab or source code, and boom—free access to your services! That $20,000 AWS bill because someone found your S3 credentials and decided to mine crypto? That's just the universe teaching you about environment variables and backend authentication the hard way.

Behold, the ultimate security hack – using HTML tags as your actual password. Google says "mix letters, numbers, and symbols" and this genius just went full markup language. Technically, it does have all three requirements. The best part? Any decent security scanner would have an existential crisis trying to figure out if this is a password or just really aggressive formatting. Ten bucks says some poor backend developer is frantically patching this exploit as we speak.

When your "secure" one-factor authentication system literally displays the verification code in the same message asking for it. Nothing says "Fort Knox of cybersecurity" like putting the answer key right above the test! The person who implemented this probably also uses "password123" and thinks incognito mode is military-grade encryption. Security teams worldwide just collectively facepalmed so hard they broke their mechanical keyboards.

That awkward moment when IT forgets to revoke your Slack access after firing you, and now you're lurking in the shadows like Goku plotting his revenge. Time to watch your ex-coworkers panic when you drop the "I can see all your messages about the production server being down" bomb. Nothing says professional closure like witnessing your replacement struggle with the codebase you deliberately left undocumented. Digital ghost mode: ACTIVATED .

Oh sweet summer child, you thought building environments was your biggest problem? HAHAHA! First they hit you with "build dev and prod environments" and you're like "sure, no biggie." Then they SLAP you with "no RBAC permissions" and you start sweating. But the FINAL BOSS? Having to submit a ticket for EVERY. SINGLE. PERMISSION. It's like trying to cook dinner but needing written approval to use each ingredient! "Dear IT overlords, may I please, pretty please, have permission to do THE JOB YOU HIRED ME FOR?!" And the deadline is next week? NEXT WEEK?! *hysterical laughter dissolves into quiet sobbing*

Oh snap! Looks like someone just invented HTTPS😐 - the secure but emotionally neutral protocol! When your connection is encrypted but your server is going through some stuff. Security teams are thrilled while the emoji is clearly having an existential crisis. Trust me, this is what happens when developers try to make protocols more relatable but forget to update the emoji library. Your data is safe but your feelings? Not so much!