Meme Monday
Ben Halpern

Ben Halpern @ben

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Meme Monday

Publish Date: Nov 25 '24
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Meme Monday!

Today's cover image comes from last week's thread.

DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.

Comments 61 total

  • Ben Halpern
    Ben HalpernNov 25, 2024

    Let's kick things off with this week's awful AI-generated meme
    php

    • Alvaro Montoro
      Alvaro MontoroNov 25, 2024

      You should share the prompt that you used to generate the AI meme. I think it would be interesting to see it every week too.

    • 𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️
      𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 27, 2024

      Is it just me, or is AI's understanding of a developer just either an angry white dude with apple hardware or a sleep-deprived white dude with apple hardware? xD

      It's starting to feel a bit like a pattern tbh.

  • Dun
    DunNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Ethan Anderson
    Ethan AndersonNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Fraser Young
    Fraser YoungNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Fred Functional
    Fred FunctionalNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Dream
    DreamNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Ansil Graves
    Ansil GravesNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Charles Brown
    Charles BrownNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

    • plutonium239
      plutonium239Dec 3, 2024

      Yes officer, right here, arrest this man.

  • Richard Mirks
    Richard MirksNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • BernerT
    BernerTNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

    • Massimo Artizzu
      Massimo ArtizzuNov 25, 2024

      Is it all under the rug in the form of a giant toy blob?

  • Sawyer Wolfe
    Sawyer WolfeNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

    • Massimo Artizzu
      Massimo ArtizzuNov 25, 2024

      Well, it is.
      But if I'm going to need snake_case to keep my code readable, I know there's something wrong.

  • BBM
    BBMNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Ava Nichols
    Ava NicholsNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Jerry Hargrive
    Jerry HargriveNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

    • Alois Sečkár
      Alois SečkárNov 26, 2024

      That will teach the maintainers to protect their branches

  • Sherry Day
    Sherry DayNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Jason Burkes
    Jason BurkesNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Parker Waiters
    Parker WaitersNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Aaron Gibbs
    Aaron GibbsNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

  • Christopher Wright
    Christopher WrightNov 25, 2024

    meme monday

    • Massimo Artizzu
      Massimo ArtizzuNov 25, 2024

      Wait, since the kitten is laughing in the first panel, are you saying that Java is a joke?

  • Oscar
    OscarNov 25, 2024

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  • Alvaro Montoro
    Alvaro MontoroNov 25, 2024

    Today's comiCSS cartoon:

    comic with 4 panels in a 2x2 grid. There are two characters, one of them has the tshirt off and shows a lot of muscles. The other one asks 'Wow, Dave! How did you get like that? You are a web developer!' Dave replies: 'every time I add a Tailwind class... I do one push-up'. In the last panel he adds 'I started with the tutorial yesterday, and have not finished my first page yet... please help...'

    Poking a little fun at Tailwind (again) in this cartoon inspired by Shen Comix's "That's him officer."

    • Best Codes
      Best CodesNov 26, 2024

      Imagine having to come up all the class names and CSS yourself, that would be a lot more lines…

      Plus, Tailwind is very efficient and minimal (especially when you run a build on it) and reliable.

      I like Fireship's video about it here:

      • Massimo Artizzu
        Massimo ArtizzuNov 27, 2024

        very efficient and minimal

        but

        requires reveral packages and plugins to run

        • Best Codes
          Best CodesNov 27, 2024

          It only requires them in development, hopefully you aren't serving sites to your users in development mode.
          If you do a build, no libs are needed in the build.

          • Massimo Artizzu
            Massimo ArtizzuNov 28, 2024

            If you do a build, you need libraries.

            Also, dev tools are left in the dirt.

            • Best Codes
              Best CodesNov 28, 2024

              You need libraries to do a build but no CSS libraries once a static build has been outputted (in Next.js and most cases where you use tailwind), since it just outputs a static CSS file.

              • Massimo Artizzu
                Massimo ArtizzuNov 29, 2024

                You don't get it: I don't want any dependencies, period. I don't want a build step, period.
                And even if I do have some dependencies and a build step, the last thing I want is to install 30 more only to deal with the ungodly mess that Tailwind generates. Now not only I have to write my styles in an arbirary new Tailwind-specific syntax that in some cases resembles nothing like CSS and more like Brainfuck, but I also have to keep ## packages updated just to use a new CSS feature that my current Tailwind version doesn't support. To me it's flat-out insane. Not even having a baseline design token is a winning point for me, because for that I could use something much lighter like Open Props that doesn't impose a new organizational colonization of my codebase.
                The only case that Tailwind is barely sustainable for me is for quick scrap html pages that I could throw in the bin right afterwards, and even in that case there are better alternatives. In all other cases, I have ZERO incentives to use a library like Tailwind, which not only is a disaster, but also disastrous in the sense that's actively making a mess out of codebases, and making developers think they can style while they're actually doing worse than those you couldn't add two numbers together without jQuery (back in the day) or React.
                I read around of people asking how to solve a styling problem with Tailwind without realizing that the same problem has been solved by plain CSS for decades with what should be considered common knowledge. So no, I don't fall for the usual "If you like it, use it; if you don't like it, don't use it", and I'm taking a much more active role in this and try to convince everyone that Tailwind and similar atomic/utility CSS frameworks are a terrible idea all around.
                The title of the video you linked should be "Tailwind is the worst." PERIOD, no ellipsis, because all the point he's trying to make are easily refutable and nowhere near to be compelling arguments. So no, don't think for a single second that you've brought valid arguments. Basically everyone that I know that actually know CSS, talk about CSS (as conference speakers), are passionate about styling and even have a role in shaping CSS' evolution, all have a very low consideration of Adam Wathan's sales pitch. And that's for a reason (multiple reasons, actually).

                • Best Codes
                  Best CodesNov 29, 2024

                  Well… I don't think I'm going to try to start addressing what you said, and if you don't like to use a framework that's fine, but you obviously don't understand of concept of a framework + libraries anyway…

                  • Massimo Artizzu
                    Massimo ArtizzuDec 2, 2024

                    Sure buddy, try to justify your frameworkism with whatever you "obviously" see in someone you don't know.

      • Alvaro Montoro
        Alvaro MontoroNov 27, 2024

        It's a joke. Don't take it too seriously.

        Tailwind works for you? Use it! CSS-in-JS works for you? Use it! Bulma works for you? Use it! This is not a competition. It may be for the library developers, but it shouldn't be for the Web developers that use those libraries.

        • Best Codes
          Best CodesNov 27, 2024

          I could already tell by your tone (“poking fun at tailwind”) that you were joking, and I also think that if you hate tailwind, it's fine anyway.
          But there's a lot of tailwind hate, and then it turns into “you use tailwind so you're a horrible developer!!!”, so I just wanted to make it clear. 🙂

          • Alvaro Montoro
            Alvaro MontoroNov 27, 2024

            I think the tailwind hate has more to do with the tailwind community than the product itself. Many of the people I've interacted with seemed to be against any other thing that was not tailwind, and they were very vocal about it, while very sensitive to criticism (even valid one). That last point is one of the reasons I make jokes about tailwind every now and then. I know it's petty 😳

            • Best Codes
              Best CodesNov 27, 2024

              I definitely don't think that tailwind is the only solution to styling (though it is a good one).
              I haven't seen tailwind people be mad, but I guess I'm not on social media enough (or maybe that's a good thing…)!

              Anyway, for me specifically, I don't care what the heck you use for styling as long as you don't force me to use it or explode when I criticize it. 🤭

    • Lukas Karsch
      Lukas KarschNov 26, 2024

      easy styling + im getting ripped in the process. 10/10

    • Ivan Pozderac
      Ivan PozderacNov 28, 2024

      This comment section is what each comment section looks like when someone mentions TWCSS.

      Its just a tool!

      that's it

  • Nabil Alamin
    Nabil AlaminNov 25, 2024

    how to tell someone is a dev:

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  • Bradston Henry
    Bradston HenryNov 26, 2024

    I don't know why but I laugh everytime I see this meme😂🤣😂

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  • Anmol Baranwal
    Anmol BaranwalNov 26, 2024

    Tried to make something using AI. It is definitely bad hehe.

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    • plutonium239
      plutonium239Dec 3, 2024

      We all have that one ethernet cable that plugs into the laptop's charging port itself

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