Quickly checking whether a string needs escaping In software, we often represent strings by surrounding them with quotes ("). What happens if the string itself contains quotes? We then need to escape the string. For example, the quote character (") or the backlash character (\)

"But this time will be different!" Having been a programmer for pushing 50 years now, I've lived through multiple iterations of "Whizzy new software technology will make programmers obsolete!" This always turns out to be ludicrously wrong. It always turns out that the advantage

Client: I tried everything and my password is still not working Everything:

give her an oscar for this 😭😭😭

The power button issue on the new Mac mini is solved 👌 Now the entire Mac mini is the button

#funny #ai #vibecoding #agile #waterfall

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Mr Robot leaving the stove on and burning my house when AWS is down

The mega merge moment:

full stack developer in 2025 be like

What it's like to watch AI fix a bug

"you're a great engineer, so we're promoting you to a PM"

😅😂💔

“For the human makers of things, the incompletenesses and inconsistencies of our ideas become clear only during implementation.” (Brooks)

When an engineer designs the BBQ. 🍗🔥

Matt Pocock The entropy will move into the specifications. It's easy to make a mess there. And the rules of encapsulation, abstraction, and information hiding are very valuable there. We, programmers, have depended on the code to be the "real specification". We've, more or less, scoffed

“Make the models cheap to use” “Great, they all forgot how to code” “Now 10x the price”

Some people asked in DMs "why do you make so much software and why free?" It is simple: You change my life in the past 4 years. I can do whatever I want. And I want to make useful software for everyone. This is who I am. And this is my way to say thank you for all the

My wife asking me to get off the phone right after asking me to get off my computer.