For some reason the backend kept throwing errors when I tried to save a long string containing markdown. Initially I assumed I must be escaping things incorrectly but that all looked fine. Asked the backend guy to take a look.

Turned out that in order to count the number of words they were using a regex, which seems fine, unless you construct the regex out of my string and run that over the word count regex... 🤔

"Fix this legacy code"

Type coercion in JavaScript. I appreciate it's trying to help me out, but it'd be cool if it just told me I made a mistake.

Reinventing the wheel can be very valuable. Even if you don't create a better wheel, you'll learn a lot about how it works, which can really help you out in the long term.

The blank stares after explaining why a rant made you laugh out loud.

You understand more xkcd comics.

'So now you'll be able to program yourself a girlfriend?'

😭

We came across a bug that only manifested itself in Edge if, and only if, the developer console was closed. Which we only discovered once it went live since during testing we always had the console open to monitor things... D:

Funnily enough my initial experience with Java at uni dampened my enthusiasm for programming I had harboured as a kid. Discontinued the course and studied something else. Cue three years later; took an elective programming in C and some other coding subjects and fell in love with coding. Ended up writing code for my bachelor thesis, lots of free time coding, teaching the elective I had taken only a year before, and now it's my job and I love it. :)

Sending a request to link accounts.
Response: {
errorCode: 200009,
errorMessage: 'Accounts Linked'
}

Wait what? So I checked the docs and this is actually how it is supposed to work... >_<

Spending the day sending emails back and forth with your client because they can't be bothered to prepare a single overview of what properties the endpoint expects, and instead expect you to piece it together from 6 PDFs of which at least 2 contain contradicting information, another is outdated, and the last one seems to have been exported from word and is missing half the content.

Fun times!

That one trolling coworker that makes you appreciate the weekends that much more.

Official sample apps that are incomplete and lack documentation... T_T

Looking at some new dev tools I spotted this gem:

"If install fails, keep trying to install a few times."

Thanks for the tip!

Apple app signing and certificates: how do people even circumvent/hack these things? I'm hardly able to do it legit.