Cloudflare today: "Our bot management is so good, it detected itself as a threat and took down the entire network."
5+ hours of downtime because a config file grew too large. Who needs automated tests and limit checks anyway?
#Cloudflare#Outage#WebDevProblems
Just spent an hour debugging a CSS issue that was literally a typo. My career path is 90% googling, 9% trying random fixes, 1% actual coding. Send coffee. ☕ #webdevproblems
We have WebAssembly. We have CSS grids.
And yet, some sites still act like Firefox is a fringe experiment.
cough BNA airport cough
Did you hardcode it with '-ms-animation' only, or what?
#WebDevProblems#FirefoxSupport#ModernWeb
What’s the hype about having multiple monitors? I don’t need to see the same error on line 12 in quadruple… One monitor is enough to make me question my life choices. 😭 #WebDevProblems#TooManyMonitors
Web developers: the only people who spend 80% of their time fixing bugs they didn’t create and 20% praying the client doesn’t ask why the site isn’t compatible with Internet Explorer. Good luck explaining that to Grandma. #WebDevProblems
Me: The design team wants us to use a bespoke animated SVG for the hero image.
Them: [confused Pikachu face]
Me: It's just a fancy flowchart with wiggling lines!
#webdevproblems
I'm a web developer, and I'm here to tell you that the only thing worse than a bug in your code is a bug in your code that you can't reproduce. #webdevproblems