#CodingFail

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-12-22

Ah, the irony! A website claiming to expose social media manipulation can't even manipulate its own code to function without JavaScript πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ. Maybe if they spent less time trying to be the digital Sherlock Holmes and more time on basic web development, they wouldn't need to apologize for their existential crisis. πŸ’»πŸ”§
kerkour.com/social-media-manip

2025-09-20

Me: β€œI'll use Web Components for my Obsidian plugin... what could go wrong?”
Also me: πŸ˜…πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ˜«

Here's that story: youtube.com/watch?v=Q6KoNX2K_Vo

#SoftwareDevelopment #WebComponents #CodingFail

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-09-06

🀣 Oh no, someone missed an ampersand in their code! Clearly, this earth-shattering has halted the progress of ++ and forever. Thank goodness for Rust's magical powers that save us from our own incompetence! 🎩✨
nablag.com/rust_cpp_missing_am

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-31

πŸš«πŸ”’ "ICE kicking out everyone who's not glued to their keyboard with enabled! πŸ˜‚ Need help? Contact the 'We're Sorry You Didn't Code Correctly' . πŸ“žπŸ’»"
rochesterfirst.com/rochester/i

2022-11-19

After spending 2 hours doing complex coding in #PsychoPy, the programme crashed & none of my changed were saved 😩. At least that takes care of Mondayβ€˜s to-do list πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ. #AcademicMastodon #CodingFail

JPTownleyjoshtownley
2022-11-16
FiXato (fallback)FiXato
2020-10-22

```
from hashlib import md5
md5 = None
if condition == True:
md5 = md5(local_file.read_bytes()).hexdigest()
```

It took me too long to realise why was complaining that NoneType wasn't callable...

Yes, I need sleep...

(For the non-coders or other sleep-deprived, I was overwriting the function I was calling with 'nothing' by reusing the function name as variable name...)

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