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Meme Monday

Ben Halpern on May 19, 2025

Meme Monday!

Today's cover image comes from last week's thread.

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

Reminder: Every day is Meme Monday on DUMB DEV ✨

Alvaro Montoro • May 19 '25

Today's comiCSS:

Ben Halpern • May 19 '25

lol

Massimo Artizzu • May 19 '25 • Edited

For those wondering, it doesn't have to do with colors - at least, not with specific colors.

It has to do with privacy.

Alvaro Montoro • May 19 '25

^this

Ben Halpern • May 20 '25

That privacy dynamic is something I knew but never thought much about. It would make a really interesting article.

Freddy Castro Ponce • May 19 '25

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

The registration page broke...

Anita Olsen • May 20 '25

And the software with it.

Anita Olsen • May 19 '25

Teehee 😋

Reid Burton • May 19 '25 • Edited

I found a few keycaps on etsy:
One, two, three, four (plants are IN the keys), five (this one has "stress mushrooms")

Ben Halpern • May 19 '25

These are kind of amazing

Anita Olsen • May 19 '25

They certainly look very green and very touchable nods

Anita Olsen • May 19 '25

Oh woah, such things truly exist!

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

I NEED THAT!

Tan Yong He • May 19 '25 • Edited

Recently made this meme when writing a tech post about Evil Twin Attacks 😈

If you're curious, here's the full article!

Wassim Soltani • May 19 '25

Fellow shrimps, make yourselves known!

Ben Halpern • May 19 '25

me right now

HB_the_Pencil • May 20 '25

I hate to say that's me but that's me

Ben Halpern • May 20 '25

🫨

AmtrakGuy2 • Sep 5 '25

NOOOOOOO HOW DID YOU KNOW?! 😭😭😭

Etienne • May 19 '25

Why do it once manually when I can spend hours automating it?

Massimo Artizzu • May 21 '25

Nothing wrong, actually...

Source: xkcd

Reid Burton • May 22 '25

You see the thing with my age on my website, that's a react component I spent 16 hrs building.

Ben Halpern • May 22 '25

What did I just click on?

Reid Burton • May 23 '25

What do you mean?

Ben Halpern • May 21 '25

Hehe

Besworks • May 19 '25

MilesWK • May 19 '25

Python loops:

Good:

while True: 
  print('hello')

Kind of Good:

for x in range(0,9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999):
   print('hello')

Bad:

import threading
import time
import random
import itertools
from functools import reduce

class HelloOracle:
    def __init__(self):
        self.messages = ["h", "e", "l", "l", "o"]
        self.truth = self.conjure_eternity()

    def assemble_message(self):
        return reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, self.messages)

    def summon_keeper_of_cycles(self):
        class Keeper:
            def __init__(self):
                self.universe = itertools.cycle([True, True, True])
            def tick(self):
                return next(self.universe)
        return Keeper()

    def conjure_eternity(self):
        while True:
            yield self.assemble_message()

    def delay_of_the_sages(self):
        ancient_times = [0.001 * i for i in range(1, 4)]
        return random.choice(ancient_times)

    def unleash_forever(self):
        keeper = self.summon_keeper_of_cycles()
        chant = self.truth

        def recursive_awakening(depth=1):
            if not keeper.tick():
                return
            message = next(chant)
            print(message)
            time.sleep(self.delay_of_the_sages())
            threading.Thread(target=recursive_awakening, args=(depth + 1 if random.random() > 0.5 else 1,)).start()

        recursive_awakening()

class CosmicInitiator:
    def __init__(self):
        self.oracle = HelloOracle()

    def begin(self):
        self.oracle.unleash_forever()

def the_final_beginning():
    ritual = CosmicInitiator()
    ritual.begin()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    the_final_beginning()

ChatGPT made the last one

HB_the_Pencil • May 20 '25

Actually kinda cool. Probably doesn't work, but a good example of how to write convoluted code :D

Ben Halpern • May 20 '25

Love this template

HB_the_Pencil • May 20 '25

What about


if (condition === true) {
    return A;
}
else if (condition === false) {
    return B;
}

Besworks • May 20 '25

That would have to be Lawful Chaotic. Because it looks carefully defined, but it's missing the else statement to handle the case where condition is not boolean.

Tullis • May 19 '25

Ben Halpern • May 19 '25

Interesting outcome from this week's AI-generated take on the cover image joke

Wassim Soltani • May 20 '25

I'm done 😂

Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • May 19 '25

This is some good improvement for the really bad ones of past weeks, haha,

Galloway Developer • May 19 '25

Ben Halpern • May 20 '25

This is where the placeholder is needed.

Sherry Day • May 19 '25

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

I NEED THAT STICKER!

fmerian • May 20 '25

+1,000!!1

MilesWK • May 19 '25

where can I buy one?!

Herb Wolfe • May 19 '25

ThinkGeek used to have a similar one.

Christopher Wright • May 19 '25

Aaron Gibbs • May 19 '25

HB_the_Pencil • May 20 '25

me: "yeah, I study software development"

legit every friend: "so, can you hack someone's computer"

me: "no"

legit every other friend: "so, can you make me a video game"

me: "also no"

Fraser Young • May 19 '25

Louis Liu • May 20 '25

😂

Dun • May 19 '25

Louis Liu • May 20 '25

Sawyer Wolfe • May 19 '25

Xavier Mac • May 19 '25

ElielSkillwell • May 21 '25

This is the vibe coding that everyone talks about :D.

BBM • May 19 '25

Charles Brown • May 19 '25

Besworks • May 19 '25

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

CURSE YOU any!!!

Hamm Gladius • May 19 '25

Hemant • May 19 '25

Instead many companies don't know caching and just query DB for everything Ha ha !!

Ben Sinclair • May 20 '25

This is a legitimately good explanation.

Jessica Brown • May 19 '25

Jason Burkes • May 19 '25

Ivan Isaac • May 19 '25

Ansil Graves • May 19 '25

MilesWK • May 19 '25 • Edited

"I made this super cool project that I think will help a ton of people and is self-hosted by a raspberry pi in the garage and is a discord bot"

(That's me)

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

That's also my friend (gh) @man-o-valor

Ben Sinclair • May 20 '25

Too soon

Jerry Hargrive • May 19 '25

Ava Nichols • May 19 '25

Parker Waiters • May 19 '25

Alvaro Montoro • May 19 '25

I am in this picture and I don't like it.

Ethan Anderson • May 19 '25

Von Carter Griffen • May 19 '25

Jance Jacobs • May 19 '25

BernerT • May 19 '25

Richard Mirks • May 19 '25

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

Because swift's docs are horrid.

Fred Functional • May 19 '25

Dream • May 19 '25

Paige Herman • May 19 '25

AmtrakGuy2 • May 19 '25

GP • May 20 '25

MilesWK • May 22 '25

Get a really really bad car, and get "as any" as your license plate.

Reid Burton • May 19 '25

davinceleecode • May 21 '25

Oh it still works... then maybe next week will do 😅

Nevo David • May 19 '25

memes every monday, i kinda love that for us ngl - ever felt like memes actually make learning or dev work easier?

Raziel Rodrigues • May 20 '25

Always the same haha

Dotallio • May 20 '25

Love how Meme Monday brings out some of the funniest stuff here - already looking forward to seeing today's top meme! Anyone got a favorite from last week?

Dexter Hale • May 20 '25

It is fun reading them lol

Nathan Tarbert • May 19 '25

Always look forward to these - brings life to my Mondays every time

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Anonymous • May 22 '25

SUPER FUNNY

Sam Workstation • May 20 '25