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Meme Monday

Ben Halpern on June 22, 2026

Meme Monday!

Today's cover image comes from the last thread.

DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

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Rohan Mirjankar •

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Anna Villarreal •

no upstream branch

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Rohan Mirjankar •

Lolol

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Anna Villarreal •

😅

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Fyodor •

Yeah, git is much better in Jetbrains IDEs 💯

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Ben Halpern •

Today's AI comedy showdown based on the joke from the cover

Gemini

gemini

ChatGPT

chatgpt

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Ben Halpern •

These are both way too busy

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Ben Sinclair •

AI's obsession with giving people react-video-youtube-thumbnail expressions for everything is exhausting.

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Mike Czerwinski •

"Rented time with a goldfish in a server room" is the cleanest version of the problem I've seen this week. Long conversations don't have memory; they have a context window. Memory is what the operator keeps in a file the goldfish can read on day 428 — not because the goldfish remembered, but because the bowl was emptied and refilled with what still mattered. The shape that survives session reset is the shape you wrote down somewhere the bowl can't reach.

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Fraser Young •

delegation

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Victor •

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Fyodor •

Always makes me cringe indeed, that's a great anxiety producer, have no idea how people deal with it, maybe with some funny fullscreen stickers or such...

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Victor •

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Fraser Young •

never learning regex

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Ben Halpern •

Pretty much

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ •

I think the secret to success is learn regex with Lua; its patterns just aren't powerful enough to do everything, so you just get used to mixing them with loops and conditions rather than trying to be smart from the beginning.

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Victor •

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 •

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Daniel Balcarek •

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Victor •

Only if you give me your phone, so I can call you when I remember my best argument at 2am on Sunday

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Daniel Balcarek •

I would, but I don’t have a phone. Really, trust me. 🤣

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Anna Villarreal •

Mood

make network instead