Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition

Frameworks web development vue html css

Webdev Javascript Programming php Frontend

5 months ago 461,873 views 0 shares

Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition

frontend-memes, javascript-memes, frameworks-memes, web-development-memes, react-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

The ultimate hipster programmer manifesto has arrived! At the top, we have the "Reject modernity" squad featuring React, Tailwind, Vue, some hipster hamster, and TypeScript—basically everything recruiters won't stop messaging you about on LinkedIn. Meanwhile, the "Embrace tradition" crew is just chilling below with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Python—you know, the technologies that actually keep the internet from imploding. It's like choosing between a complicated pour-over coffee ritual versus just drinking the office coffee that somehow still works. Sure, the modern frameworks look impressive on your resume, but when the apocalypse comes, who do you think will still be able to make a website work? The person who can write vanilla JS or the one who needs 37 dependencies just to center a div?

More Like This

JavaScript Is Java

Webdev Javascript Programming Java Frontend

10 months ago 203.4K views 0 shares

JavaScript Is Java

Academic literature with the precision of a drunk dartboard player. Highlighting "JavaScript (or Java)" as if they're interchangeable? Sure, and a bicycle is just a motorcycle without the engine. This is the same energy as saying "HTML is my favorite programming language" at a developer conference and watching the room collectively twitch. The relationship between Java and JavaScript is approximately the same as that between car and carpet - they share four letters and absolutely nothing else. Next chapter: "Python - a reptile that writes code."

We Have IDE At Home

Webdev Microsoft Android Programming Frontend

2 months ago 332.1K views 0 shares

We Have IDE At Home

The dev community's collective eye-roll at Google's IDE announcements is practically a tradition at this point. The meme perfectly captures that moment when Google proudly announces their "revolutionary new IDE" only for it to be revealed as yet another VS Code fork with a Google logo slapped on it. It's like ordering a PlayStation 5 on Wish.com and getting a calculator with "PLAYSTETIAN" written in Sharpie. The disappointment is immeasurable and the developer's day is ruined. Meanwhile, Android Studio (based on IntelliJ) sits in the corner wondering why it doesn't count as a "real" IDE despite making developers' laptops sound like jet engines during Gradle builds.

The Cookie Consent Ambush

Webdev Security Javascript Frontend

4 months ago 322.7K views 0 shares

The Cookie Consent Ambush

The internet privacy battle in a nutshell. That sad little cookie complaining "no one accepts me anymore" is basically every tracking cookie since GDPR and privacy regulations kicked in. Meanwhile, we're all that naive adventurer saying "I accept you" without realizing we're being lured into a trap. Next thing you know, you've got fifty marketing emails, personalized ads for things you whispered about near your phone, and somehow Facebook knows you're pregnant before you do. Pro tip: That "Accept All" button might as well say "Please sell my soul to the data mining overlords." Just hit reject and move on with your life – unless you genuinely enjoy those eerily specific ads for things you Googled once three years ago.

CSS Gardening

Webdev Javascript Frontend

6 months ago 208.2K views 0 shares

CSS Gardening

Finally, a gardener who understands CSS! The tree has position: relative (it's staying put), the branches have display: none (they've been chopped off), and the leaves are position: absolute; bottom: 0px (stubbornly growing only at the base). It's what happens when you let a frontend developer loose with pruning shears. Nature doesn't stand a chance against someone who's spent years fighting with flexbox.

Thanks Community

Webdev Programming StackOverflow Debugging

8 months ago 199.0K views 0 shares

Thanks Community

The eternal cycle of developer hubris! First panel: "I'm gonna build this from scratch because libraries are for WEAKLINGS." Second panel: "Let me just quickly Google how to actually do this..." Third panel: *silent realization that this is way harder than expected* Fourth panel: *frantically copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers while questioning life choices* Nothing humbles you faster than attempting to reinvent the wheel only to discover the wheel requires calculus, physics, and three programming languages you don't know. And yet we keep doing it. Why? Because we're developers and pain is our love language.

The Devil Said, "Take This Glyph-Laden Grimoire And Try To Render It Cross-Platform"

Webdev MacOS Windows Programming Linux

9 months ago 316.7K views 1 shares

The Devil Said, "Take This Glyph-Laden Grimoire And Try To Render It Cross-Platform"

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute NIGHTMARE that is text encoding! Satan himself couldn't have devised a more exquisite torture than making developers deal with UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, and whatever unholy abominations lurk in legacy systems. One minute your strings are perfect, the next they're spewing �� like some possessed digital demon! And don't even get me STARTED on trying to render the same text across Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's like trying to translate ancient Sumerian while riding a unicycle through a hurricane. WHY can't we all just agree on ONE standard?! But nooooo, that would be TOO CONVENIENT for humanity!