Be Kind To New Programmers

Ah, the sacred ritual of a programmer's firstborn uttering "Hello World!" instead of actual baby sounds. That parent's face in the last panel? That's the look of someone who knows their kid is destined for a lifetime of debugging other people's spaghetti code and explaining to clients why adding that "small feature" will take three weeks. The sunglasses are just *chef's kiss* - nothing says "future Stack Overflow dependent" like pixel shades. Congrats, you've created another soldier for the eternal war against syntax errors.

Content rProgrammerHumor u500DaysOfSummer 2h i.redd.it Ladies and Gentleman, the award for Developer of tue Year goes to: Elon Musk elonmusk Replying to pmarca A small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite. 12:27 PM 06 Mar 23 18.1K Views 4 15.1k 1273 Share rprogramminghorror uEclecticIndividual99 3h i.redd.it Twitter has accidentally blocked its own Web Service from accessing Twitter API. Which means that people trying to access Twitter from their browsers (web) won't be able to do so. https:twitter.com C 5 Incognito (2) "errors": "message": "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https:developer.twitter.comendocstwitter-api for more information", "code": 467111

Content When you copypaste the code marked as "solution" on Stack Overflow and it doesn't work (confused unga bunga)

Ah, the classic "fix" that would make security engineers have a collective aneurysm! Instead of updating code to use the recommended Object.assign() method, this genius just downgraded their Node version to make the deprecation warning disappear. It's like fixing a check engine light by removing the bulb. Problem solved... technically? The six people who thumbs-upped this solution are probably the same folks who "fix" memory leaks by rebooting their server every night.

Oh honey, you did NOT just ask about dynamically naming variables in a loop! 💀 The crowd went from "aww, cute newbie with a question" to "GET THE PITCHFORKS" faster than you can say "global variable." It's like walking into a vegan restaurant and asking for the best way to cook a steak! Dynamic variable names are programming's forbidden fruit - technically possible in some languages but will get you EXCOMMUNICATED from the developer community. Next time just sacrifice your firstborn code repository instead - it'll be less painful than facing that angry mob!

Someone said to make function names self-explanatory, and buddy took it literally . The irony is palpable as they create a function called "selfExplanatory" with increasingly chaotic casing and naming conventions, then ask "Am I doing it right?" Meanwhile, the only response is just an opening parenthesis - the universal symbol for "I've given up trying to explain this to you." Nothing says "I understand coding best practices" like completely missing the point while technically following instructions.