True Crime: Type Safety Edition

Look at the date on that announcement: April 1, 2025. Someone clearly understands TypeScript so well they can time travel to make April Fool's jokes from the future. The "I understand how TS works and can parse dates" title is pure gold - because anyone who's spent more than 10 minutes with JavaScript date handling knows it's the programming equivalent of trying to solve a Rubik's cube underwater while wearing oven mitts. Next up: Vercel announces they're rewriting Next.js in COBOL for "performance reasons." I'll believe that one too if you catch me before my morning coffee.

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Professor: "It's semicolon; we will hardly use it." Fast forward two weeks and suddenly these freshmen are putting semicolons after every line of code like their grade depends on it. Nothing quite like the trauma of your first compiler error that could've been fixed with a simple ";". The irony is that after 10 years in the industry, I now use languages where semicolons are optional and I'm back to hardly using them. Full circle, baby.

The sacred knowledge has been bestowed upon us! The meme reveals the Unicode truth that semicolons (U+003B) and Greek question marks (U+037E) look identical but are completely different characters. This is the digital equivalent of identical twins with different SSNs. Somewhere right now, a developer is spending 3 hours debugging code because they accidentally copy-pasted a Greek question mark into their JavaScript. The compiler sees it as "Who is this mysterious Greek stranger in my code?" while the human eye sees a perfectly valid semicolon. The ultimate prank to pull on your coworker: replace random semicolons in their code with Greek question marks and watch chaos unfold. Pure evil. Use this forbidden knowledge responsibly!

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Oh. My. GOD. This is what happens when you put string concatenation in a job interview! 🤦‍♂️ The interviewer asks what '2' + '2' equals, expecting a proper mathematician to say 4. But our GENIUS candidate answers "22" because in most programming languages, adding two strings with plus signs just SMASHES them together! And what does the IT department do? HIRE THIS PERSON IMMEDIATELY! Because only a TRUE developer would see quotes and think "string concatenation" instead of math. The rest of humanity is just living in DENIAL!