Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!"....
Ben Halpern
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...but I can never remember what "this" refers to. 😭
It's an old tweet of mine 😄
Ben Halpern@bendhalpern
Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I can never remember what "this" refers to14:27 PM - 20 Mar 2015
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We elevated this the jokes tag today, follow if you like more content like this.
#jokes
plz post the lols
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Me today when @aspittel proposed the jokes tag
Yes, please.
The GIF is making me laugh more than the jokes LOL
this is me
This joke doesn’t seem ready, you sure it’s not a prototype?
I'm crying...🤣
:cries in arrow functions:
A good feeling about this I have.
(edited, less annoying gif)
Some jokes are all about context
Why did the developer had to quit her job?
Because she didn't get arrays. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
This is the first time I’ve wished to put a tag on a blacklist. 😕👨🏻🦳
I don’t follow any specific tags, just enjoy reading across all topics that people post.
If you follow a tag and then give it “negative weight” in your dashboard it will help hide this. We’ll have better blacklist tooling in the future
Didn’t know that, thanks!
Yeah, for anyone else that's curious: If you go to dev.to/dashboard/following and give a tag a number like
-100for weight, it will virtually never show up in your feed. The mechanic of first following and then negative is weird and we'll eventually make it more intuitive and discoverable.Can you call it z-index? Or is this a bad place for a css joke?
Hahaha!!
Now ... I'm throw up my laptop! 😆😆
"this" is a triumph.
I'm making a note here, huge success.
Jokes undergoing settings
Finally! This is the first tag I'm following.
Love the new tag! Can’t believe we didn’t have it yet.
Ha
Thanks for genuinely making my day.
Funny, that's how I feel when Not using JavaScript
=))))))))) took me 1 min to understand the joke =))))))))))
Sometimes?
I figured you were just going to stop at "throw up".
s/sometimes/often/g
It took me a while but I finally understood.
Humour required, definitely.
cannot find 'hands' of 'undefined'
So I guess Javascript writers unite by coordinating our "hands throwing" from across the globe!
It's window.
global was a mistake...