Programming memes that really pass my integration tests

I once crashed a server with 16GB of RAM back in 2010 because I forgot to free memory in the search call

It’s amazing how often you come across the same basic problems just wrapped up inside fancier paradigms as a programmer

22307 passing tests in 681ms is something I think even non-programmers want

Deleting code (and everything still works) is one of the best feelings you can get

I use this one a lot at work when the monthly release starts ramping up and the other teams start creating merge conflicts for my team’s PRs

Java makes me sad

I once worked with someone who felt very strongly about self-documenting code. They learned the hard way that there is no such thing as self-documenting code.

A rite of passage. Made me very sad when the story of the junior dev who dropped a prod database got fired was circulating a year or so ago.

How to win Java friends as a Python dev

Had other devs do this a bunch of times and removed my team’s work in the process

Once had to debug an issue using nothing but try, catch and the PHP die() command. That was a fun time…

Instead these days you install 300MBs of node_modules to use a React component that wraps an animation library. I miss the old HTML that I cut my teeth on sometimes