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Meme Monday

Ben Halpern on May 26, 2025

Meme Monday!

Today's cover image comes from last week's thread.

DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.

Reminder: Every day is Meme Monday on DUMB DEV

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Besworks

debugging game

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Andrea Liliana Griffiths

EPIC lol

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Giraff

Very creative and true. Debugging is all in one.

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Ethan Anderson

meme monday

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Martin Call

Haha I just saw a similar one at a pub quiz yesterday -
caption was "Moving our data center to the cloud"
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Ben Halpern

AI's take on today's cover image joke

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Jance Jacobs

meme monday

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Alvaro Montoro

Today's comiCSS cartoon:

cartoon with CSS saying Many complain about how difficult I am, but I want to prove I'm easy and versatile. To show... The Many Faces of CSS (because changing styles is my thing). Vanilla: new CSS logo. nealoapolitan: yellow, brown and pink logo. Dark: logo that looks like batman. Kawaii: cute pinkish logo. 3D: logo with lights and shadows. Halloween: logo wearing a JS costume. Halloween 2: logo wearing a Tailwind mask. Vintage: the old CSS logo. Cubist: new CSS logo with multiple colors and all the letters in different spots

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Reid Burton

Why does everyone mock tailwind? It's a great toolset.

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Alvaro Montoro

Short answer (for this particular case): this is a comic about CSS, poking fun at Tailwind is almost a given. But it's all in good fun.

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Reid Burton

But why? It's a very great toolset for large projects.

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Alvaro Montoro

It is a little bit of many things. From a technical perspective, Tailwind has shortcomings (just like any other tool): steep learning curve, bloated HTML, readability and maintainability challenges, poor separation of concerns... But some of the reasons are not necessarily technical: its creators use some aggressive marketing and its community includes many obnoxious supporters who fail to see the tool's shortcomings and will defend Tailwind as the panacea for web styling, when it isn't. It's just a tool, like many others. Used correctly, it will be great; used poorly, it will be terrible... Just like any other tool.

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Reid Burton

Yea... I probably fall into that "use poorly" group by using it with clsx and scss.

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Massimo Artizzu

"Large projects" are probably the least fitting targets for Tailwind, where a possibly large variety of developers with different levels of experience will have to deal with that arbitrary layer language over CSS, intricate styling mechanisms are expressed in unstructured lists of strings, automated RUM reports are rendered incomprehensible ("83.2% of users clicked on [.list.of-36.css.'classes']"), most of Tailwind's alleged advantages don't matter and names and semantics are most important.

Tailwind makes us sloppy coders.

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Ben Sinclair

The goal behind Tailwind is almost exactly the opposite of the goal of CSS. It wants to combine style and content, so to make a change you need to edit all of your components individually. Its examples and "best-practice" rely on nesting a lot of junk elements, which ties into the stated aim of killing separation, and the solutions to the problems it introduces are effected with multiple additional build steps to get to the point where it's nearly as useful as CSS was in the first place.

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GP

Tailwind is for those who don't understand CSS/SASS.

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Reid Burton

I mainly use tailwind for styling, and I use scss (sass, but with css syntax) for complex styles that tailwind does not have classes for

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Peter Vivo

I mainly use tailwind for layout and responsivity. I don't spend my time to style.

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Anton Melnyk

It's really reverting notion of styles being separate from template (which is a good thing). It pollutes the markup and that's it. Modern CSS is so powerful and easier than before at the same time, that you don't really need any additional thing on top of it.

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Reid Burton

I would recommend the "tailwind fold" extension for vscode, but it doesn't play nice w/ clsx

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Anton Melnyk

Or I can just keep not using Tailwind :)

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AmtrakGuy2

Why is this actually accurate though? 🤣😂🤣

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Anita Olsen

Aw, I love the kawaii one :3

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BernerT

meme monday

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Mahmoud Harmouch

Stack Overflow answers are always Microhard.

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Massimo Artizzu

Now do ChatGPT.

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Stas Sultanov

This is the reason for the recent layoffs at Microsoft.

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Nikola Perišić

so real

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Stephen Renald

this is reality

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Anita Olsen

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GP

there, there...

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Anita Olsen

Hahah xD

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Nikola Perišić • Edited

happened to me actually xd

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Anita Olsen

hahaha!

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Stephen Renald

Remember those vids where the monitor goes flying out the windows?
Yup this is it!

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Anita Olsen • Edited

Certainly raises blood pressure and I have low blood pressure.

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diego

this gave me a good chuckle XD

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Jerry Hargrive

meme monday

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Galloway Developer

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Jason Burkes

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Von Carter Griffen

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Xavier Mac

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George Johnson

My daughter's boyfriend has just started his first tech job after college....I can smell fear! Mwhahaha!

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Antonio Trujillo Tapia

Been there haha it's a nightmare, but it ends

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Fred Functional

meme monday

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The_Keizzmann😁🎹🎹💻 • Edited

Oh man, he about to get more upset when he checks

console.log("Cat">"Dog")
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Ansil Graves

meme monday

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Keith Solomon

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Paige Herman

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Mahmoud Harmouch

vibe coding

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Nevo David

Always look forward to Meme Monday, honestly it just makes my day a bit better every time.

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Parker Waiters

meme monday

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MilesWK

Looks like XKCD comic...

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Massimo Artizzu

Because it is.

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Reid Burton

You know... if we go on strike, the entirety of the internet (and society as we know it) could collapse.

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MilesWK

Let's do it.

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Reid Burton

You know... AI is trained off of our code, so the less good code we publish, the slower AI becomes good.

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Richard Mirks

meme monday

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MilesWK

One thing TailwindCSS actually improved on.

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Massimo Artizzu

Nah. I've seen similar problems in Tailwind based projects.

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Ben Sinclair

You mean a wrapper that centres a div? There are about 20 ways of centring things that all work well and have for years, and I'm betting every framework out there works with at least one.

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Fraser Young

meme monday

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Christopher Wright

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George Johnson

Notice how on quiet days this is painfully true.

Well until that message pings up 10 mins before quitting time, "hey you got a sec, we have a problem", and you know you're going to be eating beans on toast for dinner around 11pm!

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BBM

meme monday

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Sawyer Wolfe

meme monday

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Keith Solomon

When our fridge died last year, we almost bought one...turns out the smallest one they make was 3" too wide for the existing opening. And I wasn't spending another $10k on top of $3k for the fridge to remodel the kitchen! 🤣

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Charles Brown

meme monday

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Tullis

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Michalis Papamichael

lol, The Vibe Coder should be called instead of iron man

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Ava Nichols

lol

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Aaron Gibbs

meme monday

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Wassim Soltani

Classic 😂

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Sherry Day

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Dun

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Jessica Brown

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AmtrakGuy2

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Dream

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Two of the things that make Lua superior to other languages ;)

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Hamm Gladius

meme monday

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Ava Nichols

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Anna Villarreal

Such accuracy.

vibe debugging

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Tan Yong He

Attack on Titan

From an article about Evil Twin Attacks!

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Alex P

We are going to this future

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Ivan Isaac

meme monday

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Rajkumar V
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Reid Burton

Wow... Google is the "pinnacle of all human knowledge" So how did they get this wrong:

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Script to open IE (windows only):

Set objExplorer = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    With objExplorer
            .ToolBar = 1
            .StatusBar = 1
            .Visible = 1
            .AddressBar = 1
    End With
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Save it as a .vbs file.

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Reid Burton

Seriously tho...

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davinceleecode

😂😂😂

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Rajkumar V
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Zane
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Pelo

Such creative MEMES that directly reflect the message you want to convey.

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Raziel Rodrigues

hahahaha

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Rajkumar V
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Ryan Hugh

When you fix one bug and your code evolves into a whole new species 🐛➡️🧬

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Arslan Riaz

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Dotallio

Love Meme Monday! What's the funniest dev meme you've seen lately?

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Manu Korir

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WHO SEES THAT VIBE CODING IS ACTUALLY COOL AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND REDUCES DEBUGGING ERRORS****
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Nathan Tarbert

meme monday’s always make my week a bit better ngl - you ever notice if these little inside jokes actually make teams stick together more, or am i just getting too sentimental about dumb stuff?