legacy debt hindsight, tragedy of the commons, ... oh why did we not think of the children, the future...
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
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He just read the chapter about == vs ===
I would have thought it was the excerpt explaining the differences between function foo() { … } and const foo = () => { … }
It's things like this that remind me we built the entire modern Internet on a 2 week hackathon project
Context please? I love stories of behind-the-scenes internet evolution...like how the first webcam was developed to track the status of a pot of coffee.
Hadn't heard this one.
All I really know is that JavaScript was developed in 10 days by a single person, other than that I don't know much about the history of the language
Sometimes i think we might have been better off with a browser based perl interpreter insured of JavaScript.
Why are we so clever?
Is this function casting or some shit?
No.. at such a young age too.. what’s next, null and undefined???
This one is not entirely terrible.
I thought parents didn’t do corporal punishment anymore?
Psychological torture isn't corporal
“Hello, CPS? We have a case of child endangerment over here. Please hurry”
To be fair, that was my reaction too that one time I had to work with it
JavaScript bad!
😂
Denial? In 2026?
BaD
Too bad I can't find it now, but one of the most hilarious random pictures from early 2000s that I ran into was picture of some little girl happily reading Applied Cryptography (2nd ed) by Bruce Schneier. (...probably because I was reading it around the same time, I think I still have it in some box or other)
But it has 15 fun projects!