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Tell me you're web developer without telling me you're a web developer.

Ben Halpern on February 16, 2022

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Sherry Day • Feb 16 '22

I open up inspect element in front of a friend and they think I'm hacking the matrix.

Eric Sundquist • Feb 22 '22

That's literally what the Missouri governor accused a journalist who exposed state teacher SSNs of doing...

Md fakih • Feb 21 '22

Hahahaha 😆

Not MyRealName • Feb 18 '22

🤣🥳

TheCsFreak🎭 • Feb 19 '22

so true🤣🤣

Justin Henry • Feb 16 '22

my phone sometimes is 404;
I'm 401'd when entering my house without a key;
my son is 403'd from being mean to others;
putting the toilet paper in backwards is 405'd;
my towel folding tends to 406 often;
if my son doesn't listen, he often gets a 503;
when asking for anything special, I tend to 302 to my wife;
at the end of the day, if all goes well, I'd say the day was pretty 200;

Chinara James • Feb 17 '22

This comment should be getting way more likes. Very funny. :D

Skyler Saville • Feb 17 '22

I love that I can totally understand this, when I know 99% of people wouldn’t have a clue. 🤣

metacollective • Feb 18 '22

Googling for what 405 & 406 are 😶

Valeria • Feb 16 '22

I use browser console as a calculator 😜

daniel • Feb 17 '22

hahahaha me 2

Radu-Alexandru B • Feb 19 '22

i did that too, until i figured out it's faster to assign ipython console as a macro with AutoHotKey (open cmd prompt and type automatically ipython to open python console).

pahosler • Feb 19 '22

$ echo "2 + 2"|bc

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Feb 16 '22

When I type l into the address bar of my browser it suggests localhost:8080

Robson Muniz • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I'm going to count until 3:
0, 1, 2, 3

Ben Halpern • Feb 16 '22

I'll go first.

Nothing drives me crazier than a website that has 4k pixel images downloading to display 100 pixel.

Andrew Bone • Feb 16 '22

AydySmith • Feb 16 '22

An error that changes = progress.

Andrew Bone • Feb 16 '22

When I access my router's portal and see JQueryUI I feel sad...

Alex Janke • Feb 22 '22

Which router? my Fritzbox runs on Vue

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Feb 16 '22

I use single finger "air quotes" when talking.

metacollective • Feb 16 '22

I start resizing the window to see what breaks 🙄

Posandu • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I cringe when I see a .php at the end of an URL

Sad but true

Jan Vlnas • Feb 16 '22

I don't buy Ajax cleaning products.

Carlo Gino Catapang • Feb 17 '22

Zikitel22 • Feb 16 '22

SImple

Chris Noring • Feb 16 '22

This comment is !important :)

Gajanan Patil • Feb 16 '22

Even worse when it's .jsp 🤢

metacollective • Feb 16 '22

What about '.cfm' ... eeks!

Ryan Kuruppu • Feb 17 '22

Y'all forgetting bout .html and .htm

Pascal Thormeier • Feb 16 '22

When you open my .bashrc you'll find this:

alias npr="nvm use ; npm run dev || npm run start || npm run serve"

Liviu Lupei • Feb 16 '22

"I hate Google, but I use Chrome."
"I have an opinion about everything."

Larson • Feb 17 '22

I don't know what I'm doing

Murtuzaali Surti • Feb 16 '22

works on my machine
localhost:3000 doesn't work

Posandu • Feb 16 '22

I use a forum called StackOverflow

Jon Randy 🎖️ • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I get enraged when a website tells me that email addresses containing + are not valid

Templar++ • Feb 17 '22 • Edited

What's wrong with .cfm @metacollective ? This shows you're dealing with an established app written at least two decades ago. Old but gold :)

PS: I know one of it's creators personally from high school.

metacollective • Feb 18 '22

I was a cf developer once 🤫

Templar++ • Feb 18 '22

Luckily I wasn't. I mean I dealt with CF every now and then and still do, but never was the only thing I do all day long.

metacollective • Feb 18 '22

CF paid my bills for 2 years

Shin Messiah • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I remember when png transparency became viable in Microsoft web browsers.

I remember when Active X controls were scriptable in Jscrpt (not javascript 😄).

I remember what Dreamweaver looked like before Adobe, before MX even. I also remember Cold Fusion.

Ian B • Feb 18 '22

A true veteran 😂

I remember putting some JS on a page I made when I was a kid to remove the grey background on transparent PNG's. I wonder if it still exists somewhere.

Marco Agas • Feb 17 '22

When someone says they flex at the gym and I think that grid can also be considered.

Poppins and Monteserrat now hurt to look at, there are other fonts out there you know!

Stock images everywhere, thanks Unsplash.

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Feb 16 '22

I had somehow never seen 418

Posandu • Feb 17 '22

Google has a sense of humor too
google.com/teapot

jrbirdmanOH • Feb 17 '22 • Edited

Google was not responsible. Once again you can thank Xerox Park for inventing GUIs and this wonderful piece of Pythonistic humor. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324

Samuel Collier • Feb 17 '22

"The sites with that "You need to subscribe to keep reading" message aren't a problem for me"

That's one of my favorites!

Gaurav • Feb 17 '22

I cant look at a website without judging its design/ux

Rick • Feb 18 '22

console.log('here!');

spoiler

console.log('here2');

console.log('here3');

console.log('here4');

skyridertk • Feb 17 '22

Ctrl + Shift + I

pahosler • Feb 19 '22

F12

Liviu Lupei • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I want to build everything with React and I don't care if it will take 6 months to build a landing page.

Marco Damaceno • Feb 16 '22

I write weird and colorful things on the computer.

Tyler V. • Feb 16 '22

I can answer the question "What browser are you using?" 😂

Stephanie Handsteiner • Feb 16 '22

“All of them“. :P

Angelo Verlain • Feb 20 '22

I used JavaScript when all we had was var.

Jonathan Baldie • Feb 19 '22

I have a $100 computer keyboard in my Amazon basket and I’m too chicken to enter checkout.
I spent an hour last weekend getting my Neovim setup just right.
I had to turn off an episode of a TV show when one of the characters “hacks” into a government server and “bypasses” a senior official’s “public firewall”.

Rico Robinson • Feb 24 '22

Get the Logitech G815, been using it since Christmas and it's fantastic

TheAwesomeGuy47 • Feb 17 '22

My teacher accidentally pressed inspect element. Everyone thought she was opening hacks except me. I was constantly correcting my classmates for the next few weeks.

This is actually a true story as well 😂

Ashley Sheridan • Feb 23 '22

My bits:

I have more than 5 browsers installed
I have a screen reader (NVDA) installed despite having no sight problems myself
I have several markdown editors, text editors, and IDEs installed, and they all get used
A fair amount of my Google searches are prefixed with 'mdn'
I know both how to write a regex and that I most likely shouldn't be writing any!
I'm very much aware to the minute when StackOverflow goes down

Waylon Walker • Feb 17 '22

I pop open dev tools and watch the network tab to find the real file location for minecraft mods, not the button that looks like a link, but just runs js.

Ben Sinclair • Feb 16 '22

Monospace all the things.

Nikhil • Feb 17 '22 • Edited

console.log("This part got executed!");

Runs the code and looks at the console hopelessly!

Gajanan Patil • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I use console tab to do calculations rather than calculator.

Peter Vivo • Feb 17 '22

react-troll

MasterMind • Feb 17 '22

holy shit I love this comment section

James Hickey • Feb 17 '22

I never know how to answer "So, what kind of work do you do?"

Dylan Lacey • Feb 21 '22

Any time someone mentions timezones I groan.

AndrewTrefethen • Feb 24 '22

I hate time zone calculations, when do we all move to UTC again?

Savvas Stephanides • Mar 17 '22 • Edited

If I see a photo of a computer, I have to zoom in to check what operating system and software they have currently running.
Sometimes I'll inspect element on a fancy website I'm visiting so that I can see what they used to build it.

Anshuman Bhardwaj • Feb 18 '22

form validations don't stop me from applying for a credit card

Adrian Matei • Feb 17 '22 • Edited

This is not bootstrap...

ratrateroo • Feb 17 '22

I always use stockoverflow but i dont have account on it. Am i that newbie programmer?😅

Yesh Rajawat • Feb 21 '22

I know how to center a div😁😁.

Matthew Atkins • Feb 17 '22

It’s strange when there isn’t a web inspector next to the site.

Pranav Karawale • Feb 21 '22

I deselect radio buttons from the browser devtools.

Billy Chan • Feb 17 '22

Access to XMLHttpRequest at '...' from origin '...' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: It does not have HTTP ok status.

:((

Dominik Prinzensteiner • Feb 19 '22

as a php dev, I am kinda offended, but at the same time i can relate

Timothy Foster • Feb 16 '22 • Edited

I can write in a dozen languages, but can't speak any of them.

edit: realized now it says web developer rather than just developer, but still a fun quip ( :

Flavio Wuensche • Mar 10 '22

Missed the 418 ref 🤔

sayCheese • Feb 17 '22

Things aren't always '#000' and '#fff'

waseyhasankhan • Feb 23 '22

People readily REACT on my point of VUE

Krishna Damaraju • Feb 18 '22

I hate internet explorer 🥊

Guillermo Prandi • Feb 20 '22

The whole generation of youngsters between 10 and 20 hates IE, programmers or not. Most of them because of Reddit threads, memes, etc. and it's the rad thing to do. The difference is programmers can explain why.

Krishna Damaraju • Feb 21 '22

I don't think many of them are worked on IE - What they express, is may not be hate. It could be an inferred opinion which fragile enough to change (based on the same reddit posts and memes). But only a dev who worked on it can say they hate it.