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Meme Monday

Ben Halpern on May 12, 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

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Anita Olsen

😅
I will refactor that code later today and other hilarious jokes you tell yourself

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Ben Halpern

lol

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Steven T.

hahahah really true

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The_Keizzmann😁🎹🎹💻

Stop hitting me with the truth

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Anita Olsen

Teehee 🤭

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Thaísa Vieira

It hurts

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Anita Olsen

I hope you are okay 🙂

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Michalis Papamichael

what's the title of volume I ?

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Anita Olsen

I have no idea.

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Besworks

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Ben Halpern

lolol

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Reid Burton

Css? Safari? Vendor prefixes?

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Besworks • Edited

Not what, but who...

front end dev bell curve

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Reid Burton

27 for my site.

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Massimo Artizzu

Steve Jobs, then.

No, really. The real mayhem began with the iPhone and its web capabilities. Like dealing with dozens of possible different resolutions, hardware resources and Internet Explorer issues, network performances and end-user demands wasn't enough, another thing came into play and changed everything once again.

It just happened, mind you. I don't really blame Steve Jobs.

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Keith Solomon • Edited

I’m currently rewriting our WP theme starter to get away from Sage and all its arbitrary nonsense…using pure PHP and HTML. The only dependency is going to be Tailwind, because the juniors would revolt if I took that away. 😂

Personally, I can take it or leave it. It does make some things easier, but I still write a lot of vanilla CSS…but I’ve been doing this since sliced images in a table was state of the art…

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Besworks

Here's a blast from the past (aka _archive/ancient/). Some cutting edge HTML 4.0 Transitional circa 1997. 4 layers deep of nested <FRAMESET> elements slicing up the UI. Still works great as long as I shrink the window down to 640x480ish.

ancient web app screenshot

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Massimo Artizzu

Great, the only dependency you're leaving is the one you should prevent your juniors to use...

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Keith Solomon

Eh, it’s not worth the fight at the moment. I’m trying to wean them off of it, but it gets the job done, and at the moment, that’s the most important thing.

And there’s a bit of “tabs vs spaces” in the argument for and against Tailwind…and it’s not an argument I feel the need to involve myself in.

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Keith Solomon

@besworks that reminds me…this is the oldest site I’ve built that’s still online…this was done in like 1996-1997 as far as I can remember. And it’s pretty much the way I left it when I left the company that built it originally…

recordsusa.com/

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Besworks

Nice! Classic.

I actually recreated the old image map behavior in a Custom Element.

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Keith Solomon

That’s very cool! If it didn’t need JavaScript, it would be perfect for a project one of our juniors is working on…restricted environment, crazy stupid platform, limited to pretty much html and minimal inline css. We can’t even upload images to the platform, we have to send everything that isn’t simple code to the client to upload.

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Reid Burton

I got one from 3 or 4 years old the password is "Uni" (case sensitive)

mycoolstuff.great-site.net

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Reid Burton

Hey, @besworks can you get me that code? Can you put the code in GitHub?

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Keith Solomon

That’s awesome! 🤘🤘

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

the backend-mindset of React devs?

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CitronBrick

Angular 2+ too. It has Jakarta EE concepts like dependency injection.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Front-end is easy once you accept that that 2% of users probably never cared about websites looking the exact way you intend them to and would probably be happier if you served them a plain, server-rendered HTML document.

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The_Keizzmann😁🎹🎹💻

See, this

This is something you tend to learn once you start building enterprise based applications that are only all about displaying data instead of so much beautification and compliance to excessive standards and new tech and design trends.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Front-end is easy if you put all your business logic in the back-end and back-end is easy if you put all the business logic in the front end.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

That's the one good argument for JS in the backend, together with duplicating presentation logic if you want to render in the front- and back-end.

But tbh at that point keeping both in sync becomes an even bigger problem than implementing the logic in the first place 🤭

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Anita Olsen

!!

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Anonymous

accessibility, safari, i'm tired =))))

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Accessibility is dead simple: write proper HTML and test it with an automated tool just in case. What makes it hard is the things that are already over-complicated in themselves.

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CitronBrick

Have people really forgotten Internet Explorer ?!

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Besworks • Edited

Not so much forgotten, more like repressed...
IEPTSD

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Alvaro Montoro

Today's comiCSS:

Grid with the same code written in different ways in CSS inside a 3x3 grid with D&D alignments: lawful, neutral, chaotic vs good, neutral, evil

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Ben Halpern

Always excellent meme template

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Neutral Evil is wrong though; that should be [class~="element1"] ;)

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webbureaucrat

This will live in my nightmares.

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Massimo Artizzu

Chaotic vile 💀

<a class="group inline-flex items-center gap-3 text-base/8 text-gray-600
  sm:text-sm/7 dark:text-gray-300 **:data-outline:stroke-gray-400
  dark:**:data-outline:stroke-gray-500 **:[svg]:first:size-5
  **:[svg]:first:sm:size-4 hover:text-gray-950
  hover:**:data-highlight:fill-gray-300 hover:**:data-outline:stroke-gray-950
  dark:hover:text-white dark:hover:**:data-highlight:fill-gray-600
  dark:hover:**:data-outline:stroke-white aria-[current]:font-semibold
  aria-[current]:text-gray-950 aria-[current]:**:data-highlight:fill-gray-300
  aria-[current]:**:data-outline:stroke-gray-950 dark:aria-[current]:text-white
  dark:aria-[current]:**:data-highlight:fill-gray-600
  dark:aria-[current]:**:data-outline:stroke-white">...</a>
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Austin Ewens

TIL @layer elements is a thing.

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Web Developer Hyper

I created a Meme generating MCP, and wrote a post on DEV Community.😊
Meme Monday lovers might like it? ↓↓
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/how-to-ma...
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Ben Halpern

Dangerous!

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for offering a fun Meme space every Monday!😄

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AmtrakGuy2

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Ben Halpern

hehe

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Dotallio

Meme Monday needs to be a global holiday at this point, I always come here for a good laugh!

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Ben Halpern

How’s Monday?

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Dotallio

When i get to it this week i'll let you know :)

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Ben Halpern

I always kick off meme monday by essentially pitching last week's cover and having them riff on it. I try to keep the prompt general enough that it could go in a different direction.

This time around we get one that's either the same joke but without a punchline, or the same joke but totally deadpan and hilarious. Not sure.

ML same/different

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Herrmer

Happy Monday

Happy monday

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Anita Olsen

Hahhah!

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Hemant

Ha ha happened to me !!

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Corentin Bettiol

This link is always in my bookmarks for a reason :D

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Glenn Trojan

Meme Monday yo!

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George Johnson

Obvious he's fake 'cos he's in sprint start position, no real techie would ever contemplate doing exercise over a 9 hour coding session!

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Sherry Day

meme monday

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

so true lol

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Dream

meme monday

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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas

I had an architect like that @ QAT. He ended up losing the account.

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Jessica Brown

meme monday

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Jason Burkes

meme monday

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HB_the_Pencil

This is why the Windows clipboard history is so indispensable :D

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Keith Solomon

As much as I love my MacBook as a dev machine, this one feature makes me want to use Windows…but Windows doesn’t have “Create folder from files”, which I use ALL the time, so it’s a push…

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HB_the_Pencil

Easy windows alternative:

1) Create new folder
2) ctrl+click on all files
3) Right-click and click "move to"

I mean, easy enough, right?...

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Keith Solomon

I mean, you’re not wrong, but on Mac I don’t have to make the folder myself or tell it to move the files…maybe (ok, not maybe… 🤣) I’m lazy, but the Mac way just seems easier…

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Ava Nichols

Oldie but goodie

programming memes

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Aaron Gibbs

meme monday

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BernerT

meme monday

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Tullis

meme monday

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Jerry Hargrive

meme monday

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BBM

meme monday

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Ansil Graves

meme monday

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Xavier Mac

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Hamm Gladius

meme monday

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

git push --force-with-lease origin feature_branch

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Sawyer Wolfe

meme monday

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Fred Functional

meme monday

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Richard Mirks

meme monday

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Charles Brown

meme monday

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Von Carter Griffen

meme monday

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Wassim Soltani

👀 anyone here guilty of doing this to us?

Meme with the caption

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Ethan Anderson

meme monday

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Tan Yong He

I made this meme as part of my first tech post about switching from Postman to Bruno — couldn't resist sharing it here too 😄

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If you're curious, here's the full article: dev.to/tanyonghe/ditching-postman-...

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ניר
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Parker Waiters

meme monday

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Massimo Artizzu

8:48 PM - Jan 21, 2023

3 minutes later

8:48 PM - Jan 21, 2023

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George Johnson

Time needed to go get a bottle so you can say to the other guys, "Hold my beer..."

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Dun

meme monday

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Ava Nichols

meme monday

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Galloway Developer

meme monday

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Christopher Wright

meme monday

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CitronBrick
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Paige Herman

meme monday

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Jance Jacobs

meme monday

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Ivan Isaac

meme monday

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Fraser Young

meme monday

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Nevo David

always gets me hyped seeing meme mondays pop off - you ever notice the best memes kinda just happen outta nowhere?

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Houssam Bourkane

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davinceleecode

😂😂😂

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Nathan Tarbert

meme monday always cracks me up, tbh the internet just feels better with running jokes. you think meme stuff actually helps a community stick together or does it just keep folks entertained for a bit?

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Dotallio

Meme Monday always lifts my mood, honestly. You ever felt a meme just hit way too close to home lately?

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Anita Olsen

Absolutely, and I have shared a few which do excactly that 😆

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Nathan Tarbert

Love Meme Monday - memes make my Mondays way less boring.

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Nathan Tarbert • Edited

A solid way to start the week :)

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kevin heidt

stop putting everything in us-east-1

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Nathan Tarbert

Gotta say, Meme Monday always makes my day better.

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Nathan Tarbert

Pretty cool way to start the week tbh

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MilesWK

First time meme monday had 100+ comments?!

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Ben Halpern

Not the first ever, but we're on a roll this week 😄.

I think we'll break the old record because I'm not sure we ever got much more than exactly 100.

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Nathan Tarbert

love meme mondays so much tbh - gotta ask though, you ever worry the jokes cross a line or is it all just part of the fun

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Jude⚜

Real tough😂