Since April Fools is on the weekend, I had to modify this prank in the internal dev tooling to play on the surrounding weekdays.
Happy (early, on-time, or belated) April Fools!! 🥴🥴
Today I joined the time-honored tradition of software engineers pranking users on April Fools (in this case other software engineers).
Here’s a quick demo of how that went:
I can’t stand when people are biased towards Mario Kart and say it is the best Kart Racer to ever exist, but we have masterpieces like Crash Team Racing that exists, and they still think Mario Kart is better than CTR. If you have not played it, your opinion is not valid.
>be me
>"this React component kinda messy, lemme clean it up real quick"
>start refactoring
>need to refactor the thing that uses it
>then the thing that uses *that*
>accidentally rewriting the whole app
>it's day 4
>send help
Wanna know all the pain points your customers hit?
Go use your product and do everything the product guides you to do and nothing more. Dont fill in the blanks. Dont skip steps.
DeepSeek’s newest AI model is impressive—until it starts acting like the CCP’s PR officer. Watch as it censors itself on any mention of sensitive topics. 🧵👇 1/9
Scripture says: “I have been young and now I’m old yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken.”
After all these years serving you, the American people, I have not seen the righteous forsaken.
I love you all.
May you keep the faith.
And may God bless you all.
URLs are the best, and your default mindset should be to mutate them when users interact with your UI.
Supporting example: YouTube. If you click on a video from the "Popular" list, start watching, then press back, you'll be back on "Latest", which is pure agony.
Your runtime environment variables are not safe.
Just this code in an npm package would leak them to a malicious endpoint.
So, where should you store your secrets?
Kamala Harris and I are both gun owners.
We’re not going to take away your Second Amendment rights — we’re going to prevent your kids from getting shot at school.