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Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!"....

Ben Halpern on July 03, 2019

...but I can never remember what "this" refers to. 😭 It's an old tweet of mine πŸ˜„ // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.g...
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Ben Halpern

Me today when @aspittel proposed the jokes tag

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Yes, please.

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John Paul Ada

The GIF is making me laugh more than the jokes LOL

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Ryland G

This joke doesn’t seem ready, you sure it’s not a prototype?

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Juneau Lim

I'm crying...🀣

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Matt Graham • Edited

:cries in arrow functions: This is a joke

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Ananya Neogi • Edited

Why did the developer had to quit her job?
Because she didn't get arrays. (β•―Β°β–‘Β°)β•―οΈ΅ ┻━┻

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Florian Rand • Edited

yoda
A good feeling about this I have.
(edited, less annoying gif)

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C.S. Rhymes

Some jokes are all about context

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Marko Anastasov

This is the first time I’ve wished to put a tag on a blacklist. πŸ˜•πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ¦³

I don’t follow any specific tags, just enjoy reading across all topics that people post.

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Ben Halpern

If you follow a tag and then give it β€œnegative weight” in your dashboard it will help hide this. We’ll have better blacklist tooling in the future

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Marko Anastasov

Didn’t know that, thanks!

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, for anyone else that's curious: If you go to dev.to/dashboard/following and give a tag a number like -100 for weight, it will virtually never show up in your feed. The mechanic of first following and then negative is weird and we'll eventually make it more intuitive and discoverable.

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Jennifer Bradford

Can you call it z-index? Or is this a bad place for a css joke?

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Carlos Caballero

Hahaha!!

Now ... I'm throw up my laptop! πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

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Nicky Meuleman

"this" is a triumph.

I'm making a note here, huge success.

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Chinweike Jude Obiejesi

Jokes undergoing settings

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Michiel Hendriks

Finally! This is the first tag I'm following.

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Jaimie Carter

Ha

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Mike Ekkel

Love the new tag! Can’t believe we didn’t have it yet.

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Daragh Byrne

s/sometimes/often/g

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Bruce Axtens

It took me a while but I finally understood.

Humour required, definitely.

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Sandro Volery

cannot find 'hands' of 'undefined'

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Thomas H Jones II

I figured you were just going to stop at "throw up".

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Dan Conn

Hahahaha! Awesome!

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Scott Palmer

Sometimes?

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Seanmclem

Funny, that's how I feel when Not using JavaScript

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Peyton McGinnis

Thanks for genuinely making my day.

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Sidney Yin

So I guess Javascript writers unite by coordinating our "hands throwing" from across the globe!

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Schnubb

It's window.
global was a mistake...