I can't imagine any worse decision than the one to make document.cookie accessed as the string format it's actually in.

One thing that's been pissing me off about browser devtools lately is that they hide certain requests, like 301s, pretending they didn't make it, but if I look at my Nginx log I see there was in fact a 301 sent. OMFG, I hate this, it has caused me many hours lost on debugging.

I just found out that Discord disables right click. FUCK DISCORD. Not like I can't still inspect element, it's just a lot fucking more inconvenient since I have to trudge through this mess of a DOM looking for it. Fuck whoever decided this was a good idea.

Seriously why on devrant does searching for a tag return some rants without the tag, but by people named after the tag. And sometimes just with people with *related* names (eg. PHP returning a bunch of non-PHP-tagged rants by some called Phlp or something). Seriously.

I have review-style pages where I use h1, h2, and h3 to indicate the magnitude of a point I'm making. I liked it. I recently changed my template so it's all wrapped in an <article>, and just today I noticed that my h1s appear as h2s. Firefox wouldn't tell me what was going on, but Chromium let me see the relevant styles from the user agent style sheet, and WTF, h1s inside <article> or a few other semantic tags get styled to look exactly like h2s. WTF?!? I want my h1s back! But I don't want to pollute my stylesheet, and there isn't a good way to either, since I shouldn't be hardcoding the size of an h1 without hardcoding all the header sizes.

I do not understand people who critique Python for using indentation to mark code blcoks. I've seen multiple posts being like "Uhh in Python a missing space breaks everything and it's so hard to find it". Yeah so hard when the interpreter throws a parse error and tells you exactly which line it's on. Let me go back to a bracefest language, misplace a brace halfway through the file, and get told there's a syntax error at the end, and spend a whole two minutes finding it.

I've heard a ton of negative opinion on PHP, which I've never used, so much that if what I've heard is true I wonder why anyone would use it. I asked on dev.to whether there are any real good design ideas going into PHP and got 5 responders. They were all to the effect of "PHP is great because PHP can make websites". I think that says something about the number of good design ideas going into PHP. I'm uncomfortable forming a strong opinion on a language I've never used, but I've never seen signs this bad.

Why are so many websites' TLS certs broken? This month I've come across at least four different websites with cert errors that I've tried to email the webmasters about. "Tried" - the fourth has only twitter as a contact point and "can't be messaged". None of the other three have been corrected, although I received responses from two claiming they'd look into it.

And that's not even counting the ones I've seen that I didn't care about enough to contact the webmaster.