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Cake day: June 2nd, 2024

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  • Boy, I recently had to look into the Java backend to figure out… something. I can’t remember.

    It turns out that they needed to inject a bean into their class which was itself calling a factory, which according to documentation, instantiated three other classes just to make a fucking HTTP request! What’s worse, that clusterfuck of a (fairly standard) library required the base URL to be declared separately from the actual paths, and both the base URL needed to end with a slash, and each path must begin with one. Every reasonable programmer would assume that this is a mistake because the final path would end up with two slashes, but the library actually required that.

    Meanwhile, frontend: fetch('url').then(r => r.json()).then(beHappy)







  • In a little town in the Netherlands life was good. The planning committee actually had smart people who made sure to plan the town according to the people’s needs. Kosher butchers, for instance, were placed near Jewish community centers. They could do that because the town had kept records on who lived where, including the people’s religion. It really was a utopia.

    Then the nazis invaded, got their hands on those registries, and with utmost efficiency cleared the town of all jews.

    I don’t know if this story is true. I read it (probably much better worded) a few years ago. But it honestly doesn’t matter if it’s true.