N-gated Hacker NewsDec 22
Ah, the irony! A website claiming to expose social media manipulation can't even manipulate its own code to function without JavaScript 🤦‍♂️. 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. 💻🔧
https://kerkour.com/social-media-manipulation #socialmediamanipulation #webdevelopment #irony #codingfail #HackerNews #ngated
(Social) media manipulation in one image

Stop reading the News and go run this marathon.

Sylvain Kerkour
wephSep 20

Me: “I'll use Web Components for my Obsidian plugin... what could go wrong?”
Also me: 😅🤦‍♂️😫

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

#SoftwareDevelopment #WebComponents #CodingFail

I Picked the Wrong Tech for the Job

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 6, 2025
🤣 Oh no, someone missed an ampersand in their code! Clearly, this earth-shattering #typo has halted the progress of #C++ and #Rust #development forever. Thank goodness for Rust's magical powers that save us from our own incompetence! 🎩✨
https://www.nablag.com/rust_cpp_missing_ampersand #codingfail #humor #programming #HackerNews #ngated
The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust · nablag

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 31, 2025
🚫🔒 "ICE kicking out everyone who's not glued to their keyboard with #Javascript enabled! 😂 Need help? Contact the 'We're Sorry You Didn't Code Correctly' #hotline. 📞💻"
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/ice-deporting-bhutanese-refugees/ #ICE #TechHumor #CodingFail #DeveloperJokes #KeyboardWarriors #HackerNews #ngated
Bianca de HaanNov 19, 2022
After spending 2 hours doing complex coding in #PsychoPy, the programme crashed & none of my changed were saved 😩. At least that takes care of Monday‘s to-do list 🤷‍♀️. #AcademicMastodon #CodingFail
JPTownleyNov 16, 2022
Learning to write code is like trying to speak to someone in a foreign language. Except if you make even the smallest mistake in your grammar, they slap you across the face  #GameDev #codingFail
FiXato (fallback)Oct 22, 2020

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

It took me too long to realise why #Python 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...)

#coding #codingFail #1d107