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Tell me you're web developer without telling me you're a web developer.

Ben Halpern on February 16, 2022

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Sherry Day

I open up inspect element in front of a friend and they think I'm hacking the matrix.

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Eric Sundquist

That's literally what the Missouri governor accused a journalist who exposed state teacher SSNs of doing...

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Md fakih

Hahahaha 😆

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TheCsFreak🎭

so true🤣🤣

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Anton Rhein

🤣🥳

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Justin Henry

my phone sometimes is 404;
I'm 401'd when entering my house without a key;
my son is 403'd from being mean to others;
putting the toilet paper in backwards is 405'd;
my towel folding tends to 406 often;
if my son doesn't listen, he often gets a 503;
when asking for anything special, I tend to 302 to my wife;
at the end of the day, if all goes well, I'd say the day was pretty 200;

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Chinara James

This comment should be getting way more likes. Very funny. :D

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metacollective

Googling for what 405 & 406 are 😶

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Skyler Saville

I love that I can totally understand this, when I know 99% of people wouldn’t have a clue. 🤣

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Valeria

I use browser console as a calculator 😜

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Daniel Camargo

hahahaha me 2

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pahosler

$ echo "2 + 2"|bc

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Radu-Alexandru B

i did that too, until i figured out it's faster to assign ipython console as a macro with AutoHotKey (open cmd prompt and type automatically ipython to open python console).

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Robson Muniz • Edited

I'm going to count until 3:
0, 1, 2, 3

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

When I type l into the address bar of my browser it suggests localhost:8080

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Ben Halpern

I'll go first.

Nothing drives me crazier than a website that has 4k pixel images downloading to display 100 pixel.

waiting

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Andrew Bone

fake slow loading image gif

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Posandu • Edited

I cringe when I see a .php at the end of an URL

Sad but true

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Andrew Bone

When I access my router's portal and see JQueryUI I feel sad...

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Alex Janke

Which router? my Fritzbox runs on Vue

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AydySmith

An error that changes = progress.

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Mike Talbot ⭐

I use single finger "air quotes" when talking.

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metacollective

I start resizing the window to see what breaks 🙄

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Jan Vlnas

I don't buy Ajax cleaning products.

 
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Gajanan Patil

Even worse when it's .jsp 🤢

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metacollective

What about '.cfm' ... eeks!

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Ryan Kuruppu

Y'all forgetting bout .html and .htm

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Carlo Gino Catapang

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Zikitel22

SImple

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Chris Noring

This comment is !important :)

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Pascal Thormeier

When you open my .bashrc you'll find this:

alias npr="nvm use ; npm run dev || npm run start || npm run serve"
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Liviu Lupei

"I hate Google, but I use Chrome."
"I have an opinion about everything."

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Larson

I don't know what I'm doing

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Murtuzaali Surti
  1. works on my machine
  2. localhost:3000 doesn't work
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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

I get enraged when a website tells me that email addresses containing + are not valid

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Shin Messiah • Edited

I remember when png transparency became viable in Microsoft web browsers.

I remember when Active X controls were scriptable in Jscrpt (not javascript 😄).

I remember what Dreamweaver looked like before Adobe, before MX even. I also remember Cold Fusion.

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Ian B

A true veteran 😂

I remember putting some JS on a page I made when I was a kid to remove the grey background on transparent PNG's. I wonder if it still exists somewhere.

 
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Templar++ • Edited

What's wrong with .cfm @metacollective ? This shows you're dealing with an established app written at least two decades ago. Old but gold :)

PS: I know one of it's creators personally from high school.

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metacollective

I was a cf developer once 🤫

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Templar++

Luckily I wasn't. I mean I dealt with CF every now and then and still do, but never was the only thing I do all day long.

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metacollective

CF paid my bills for 2 years

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Samuel Collier

"The sites with that "You need to subscribe to keep reading" message aren't a problem for me"

That's one of my favorites!

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Posandu

I use a forum called StackOverflow

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Marco Agas

When someone says they flex at the gym and I think that grid can also be considered.

Poppins and Monteserrat now hurt to look at, there are other fonts out there you know!

Stock images everywhere, thanks Unsplash.

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Rick
console.log('here!');
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spoiler
console.log('here2');
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console.log('here3');
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console.log('here4');
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skyridertk

Ctrl + Shift + I

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pahosler

F12

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Mike Talbot ⭐

I had somehow never seen 418

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Posandu

Google has a sense of humor too
google.com/teapot

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jrbirdmanOH • Edited

Google was not responsible. Once again you can thank Xerox Park for inventing GUIs and this wonderful piece of Pythonistic humor. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324

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Gaurav

I cant look at a website without judging its design/ux

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Marco Damaceno

I write weird and colorful things on the computer.

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Liviu Lupei • Edited

I want to build everything with React and I don't care if it will take 6 months to build a landing page.

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Jonathan Baldie
  • I have a $100 computer keyboard in my Amazon basket and I’m too chicken to enter checkout.
  • I spent an hour last weekend getting my Neovim setup just right.
  • I had to turn off an episode of a TV show when one of the characters “hacks” into a government server and “bypasses” a senior official’s “public firewall”.
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Rico Robinson

Get the Logitech G815, been using it since Christmas and it's fantastic

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Tyler V. (he/him)

I can answer the question "What browser are you using?" 😂

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Stephanie Handsteiner

“All of them“. :P

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Angelo Verlain

I used JavaScript when all we had was var.

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Ashley Sheridan

My bits:

  • I have more than 5 browsers installed
  • I have a screen reader (NVDA) installed despite having no sight problems myself
  • I have several markdown editors, text editors, and IDEs installed, and they all get used
  • A fair amount of my Google searches are prefixed with 'mdn'
  • I know both how to write a regex and that I most likely shouldn't be writing any!
  • I'm very much aware to the minute when StackOverflow goes down
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Ben Sinclair

Monospace all the things.

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Waylon Walker

I pop open dev tools and watch the network tab to find the real file location for minecraft mods, not the button that looks like a link, but just runs js.

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Nikhil • Edited
console.log("This part got executed!");
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Runs the code and looks at the console hopelessly!

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TheAwesomeGuy47

My teacher accidentally pressed inspect element. Everyone thought she was opening hacks except me. I was constantly correcting my classmates for the next few weeks.

This is actually a true story as well 😂

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Gajanan Patil • Edited

I use console tab to do calculations rather than calculator.

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MasterMind

holy shit I love this comment section

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James Hickey

I never know how to answer "So, what kind of work do you do?"

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Yesh Rajawat

I know how to center a div😁😁.

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Dylan Lacey

Any time someone mentions timezones I groan.

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AndrewTrefethen

I hate time zone calculations, when do we all move to UTC again?

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Matthew Atkins

It’s strange when there isn’t a web inspector next to the site.

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Billy Chan

Access to XMLHttpRequest at '...' from origin '...' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: It does not have HTTP ok status.

:((

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ratrateroo

I always use stockoverflow but i dont have account on it. Am i that newbie programmer?😅

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Anshuman Bhardwaj

form validations don't stop me from applying for a credit card

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Adrian Matei • Edited

This is not bootstrap...
bootstraps

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Pranav Karawale

I deselect radio buttons from the browser devtools.

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Savvas Stephanides • Edited
  • If I see a photo of a computer, I have to zoom in to check what operating system and software they have currently running.

  • Sometimes I'll inspect element on a fancy website I'm visiting so that I can see what they used to build it.

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Flavio Wuensche

Missed the 418 ref 🤔

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sayCheese

Things aren't always '#000' and '#fff'

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Krishna Damaraju

I hate internet explorer 🥊

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Guillermo Prandi

The whole generation of youngsters between 10 and 20 hates IE, programmers or not. Most of them because of Reddit threads, memes, etc. and it's the rad thing to do. The difference is programmers can explain why.

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Krishna Damaraju

I don't think many of them are worked on IE - What they express, is may not be hate. It could be an inferred opinion which fragile enough to change (based on the same reddit posts and memes). But only a dev who worked on it can say they hate it.

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Dominik Prinzensteiner

as a php dev, I am kinda offended, but at the same time i can relate

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Timothy Foster • Edited

I can write in a dozen languages, but can't speak any of them.

edit: realized now it says web developer rather than just developer, but still a fun quip ( :

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waseyhasankhan

People readily REACT on my point of VUE

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Page 404

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Joshua Ghali

I love the F12 button on my browser

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Anshuman Bhardwaj

I remove subscribe popups using devtools

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Ben Butler

I send customer service a dump of the console.

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Yogini Bende

I browse every website keeping developer tools open 🙃

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Iqmal Shamsul Bahari

Had a buddy of mine once said: "I don't do WordPress websites"

 
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Mahdi Khan

Wow! Did not know about that JavaScript disabling option.

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Mahdi Khan

“The sites with that "You need to subscribe to keep reading" message aren't a problem for me.”

How? Some websites does not show anything when overlay div is deleted.
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Zubair314

Without telling im a web developer just visit my site
Www.zubairweb.com

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SumantaWeb

i know a how to center a division on the internet

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Ido Schacham

Back in the day we created layouts with tables

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Ido Schacham

I regularly turn things off and on again

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Ido Schacham

I can save images even when they are not available for download via right click

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Ido Schacham

I can get rid of paywall popups

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Leonardo Furtado

I cry everyday on shower

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O. AlQudah

when I type s, the browser suggests stackoverflow.com

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O. AlQudah

Just look at my profile picture.

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Priscila Catão

I had a grasp of what 'recursive' means by googling it and getting the "Did you mean...?" recursive response!

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SNAC.IO
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Drew Ronsman

When I hear the name of programming library in a conversation. I chuckle.

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Joe

I paint websites

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Jen Chan

"It works on my machine"

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Johannes5

I'll name my children Ajax and Json

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Peter Witham

404 is not just on the floor :)

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IrregularityWasTaken

I like webstorm

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JoshLutrick

Googling my life away

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pahosler

!important

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Itachi Uchiha

F12

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coder-abdo

Don't forget to end the sentence with a semicolon

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Muhammad Nasir Khan

Say Hello to HTML5 Elements

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Peter Vivo
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Jagannath Krishna.P.A

My Saviour Stack Overflow

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Om Bhamare

I know what is 500

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Ali Kamalizade

I analyze every layout I see ("oh yeah, looks like 2-8-2 grid with 16px gap").

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dotHTM

I got my go-to username from the fact in this day and age, MS Word exports "as web page" as a file ending in ...

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Dan Goslen

I know what HATEOAS means

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Lucia Cerchie

My option+cmd+J buttons are wearing out.

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Joel

Coffee doesn't come to mind when you mention "java".
Ruby is not a rare gemstone.
Python is not just a snake.
"above the fold" has meaning to me.

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Lindsay Wardell

Oh, they're using Bootstrap on this site.

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Jay Jeckel

I think fundamental and common programming concepts are unique to web development.

I'm just taking the piss, but there are several examples of this in these very comments.

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Jorge Eψ=Ĥψ

"I'm a full stack developer"

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Nayden Gochev

count++

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Ibrahima Sow

It works on my machine.

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Javier Guerra

My mom asks me to fix her printer

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Suliman Munawar khan

404 Page Not Found 😊

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Michael Andreuzza

Can you fix my computer?

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Imam Ali Mustofa

I am writer that orchestrated data with flow and climax and become information.

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Dendi Handian

I can change text directly on browser and prank people.

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Pavan Kulkarni

If you 404 page , call me

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Alban

nc -l 80
Ooops 🤣

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Van Nguyen

Probably just show your website

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Thomas

I spend my day typing at a loud keyboard while drinking fussy coffee and wearing giant headphones.

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Luis Hernández

How do you center a div?

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ΛGΣΣK

I inspect page source when I visit a beautiful website!

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imsabir

I still says that its working on my system!! 😅😅

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Taufiq Abdullah

Please clear the cache