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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

Today's comiCSS:

Ben Halpern • May 19

lol

Massimo Artizzu • May 19 • 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

^this

Ben Halpern • May 20

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

MilesWK • May 19

yes, The great purple/blue debate!

Alvaro Montoro • May 19

But it's blue!
—JS, definitely

MilesWK • May 19

yes. agreed. Frontend developers

Reid Burton • May 19

It doesn't matter guys.

Reid Burton • May 19

It's #7f5fa8

Reid Burton • May 19

I checked.

Alvaro Montoro • May 19

But did you check with JS? 😉

Reid Burton • May 19

JS does not see color.

Freddy Castro Ponce • May 19

Reid Burton • May 19

The registration page broke...

Anita Olsen • May 20

And the software with it.

Anita Olsen • May 19

Teehee 😋

Reid Burton • May 19 • 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

These are kind of amazing

Anita Olsen • May 19

They certainly look very green and very touchable nods

Anita Olsen • May 19

Oh woah, such things truly exist!

Reid Burton • May 19

I NEED THAT!

an • May 20

no cap frr

Anita Olsen • May 19

Woah, you need to touch grass too?

Ava Nichols • May 19

it me

Anita Olsen • May 19

Me as well 🤭

Tan Yong He • May 19 • 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

Fellow shrimps, make yourselves known!

Ben Halpern • May 19

me right now

HB_the_Pencil • May 20

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

Ben Halpern • May 20

🫨

AmtrakGuy2 • Sep 5

NOOOOOOO HOW DID YOU KNOW?! 😭😭😭

Etienne Tot • May 19

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

Massimo Artizzu • May 21

Nothing wrong, actually...

Source: xkcd

Reid Burton • May 22

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

Ben Halpern • May 22

What did I just click on?

Reid Burton • May 23

What do you mean?

Ben Halpern • May 21

Hehe

HB_the_Pencil • May 20

Because next time, it'll only take seconds--until you have to debug :P

Reid Burton • May 21

It took me 15 hours to write some code, that saves me rembering a two second task once a year.

Antoine Raymond • May 23

Are you referring to your code that renders the age based on the given date ? ^^

I just took a look to your website, that's impressive !

Reid Burton • May 23

Yes.

Besworks • May 19

MilesWK • May 19

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

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

Ben Halpern • May 20

Love this template

HB_the_Pencil • May 20

What about


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

Besworks • May 20

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.

Ben Halpern • May 20

This guy logics

Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli • May 21

Chaotic evil (JS edition)

switch(true)
{
  case condition:
    return A;
  default:
    return B;
}

Besworks • May 21

Definitely a better Chaotic Evil example than the one in the chart because that try/finally code is more like Chaotic Nonsense.

Tullis • May 19

Ben Halpern • May 19

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

Wassim Soltani • May 20

I'm done 😂

Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • May 19

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

Galloway Developer • May 19

Ben Halpern • May 20

This is where the placeholder is needed.

Christopher Wright • May 19

Sherry Day • May 19

Reid Burton • May 19

I NEED THAT STICKER!

fmerian • May 20

+1,000!!1

MilesWK • May 19

where can I buy one?!

Herb Wolfe • May 19

ThinkGeek used to have a similar one.

Aaron Gibbs • May 19

HB_the_Pencil • May 20

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

Louis Liu • May 20

😂

Sawyer Wolfe • May 19

Dun • May 19

Louis Liu • May 20

Xavier Mac • May 19

ElielSkillwell • May 21

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

BBM • May 19

Charles Brown • May 19

Besworks • May 19

Reid Burton • May 19

CURSE YOU any!!!

Jessica Brown • May 19

Hamm Gladius • May 19

Hemant • May 19

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

Ben Sinclair • May 20

This is a legitimately good explanation.

Jason Burkes • May 19

Ivan Isaac • May 19

Ansil Graves • May 19

MilesWK • May 19 • 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

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

Ben Sinclair • May 20

Too soon

Parker Waiters • May 19

Alvaro Montoro • May 19

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

Jerry Hargrive • May 19

Ava Nichols • May 19

Von Carter Griffen • May 19

Ethan Anderson • May 19

Jance Jacobs • May 19

BernerT • May 19

Richard Mirks • May 19

Reid Burton • May 19

Because swift's docs are horrid.

Fred Functional • May 19

Paige Herman • May 19

Dream • May 19

AmtrakGuy2 • May 19

GP • May 20

MilesWK • May 22

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

Nevo David • May 19

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

davinceleecode • May 21

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

Reid Burton • May 19

Dotallio • May 20

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?

Nathan Tarbert • May 19

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

Dexter Hale • May 20

It is fun reading them lol

Raziel Rodrigues • May 20

Always the same haha

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Sam Workstation • May 20

Anonymous • May 22

SUPER FUNNY