Programming jokes/one-liners found on CodePen

codepen_jokes.md

• A Pen is worth a thousand docs.
• Be the developer your linter thinks you are.
• How do you comfort a JavaScript bug? You console it!
• How would you React if I said I love Vue?
• If a groundhog inspects their Web Component, do they see their Shadow DOM?
• If you get tired, be like an AJAX request and REST.
• If you want to flex your skills and go off the grid, try coding a layout with float.
• Keep friends close and formatters closer.
• Keep the <main> thing the <main> thing.
• Knock knock! Race condition. Who's there?
• Learning 3D transforms in CSS requires a little perspective.
• Old programmers never die; they just lose some of their functions.
• Promise you'll await for me.
• Save your sass for CSS. Everywhere else, be kind.
• The best caches are like the best hugs. Warm.
• The Pen is mightier than the sword.
• There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
• There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
• Two CSS properties walk into a bar. A barstool in a completely different bar falls over.
• We would have called your functions earlier, but we were in a bind.
• We'd ask you for an infinite loop joke, but we'd never hear the end of it.
• We're stronger <u>nited than <div>ided.
• What did the colon say to the semicolon? Stop winking at me.
• What did the HTML say to the CSS? I like your style.
• What do you call a two-legged ghost cow? Boolean Beef.
• What's a functional programmer's favorite animal? A lamb, duh!
• Who's loopier? A fruit loop or a for loop?
• Why did the programmer quit her job? She didn't get arrays.
• 💕 I'm the CSS to your HTML.

codepen_jokes_scraper.py

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import sys


# https://stackoverflow.com/a/29988426/2203482
def uprint(*objects, sep=" ", end="\n", file=sys.stdout):
    enc = file.encoding
    if enc == "UTF-8":
        print(*objects, sep=sep, end=end, file=file)
    else:
        f = lambda obj: str(obj).encode(enc, errors="backslashreplace").decode(enc)
        print(*map(f, objects), sep=sep, end=end, file=file)


options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("disable-gpu")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
jokes = set()

try:
    driver.get("https://codepen.io/pen/")
    fails = 0
    while fails < 30:
        driver.refresh()
        loading_text_elem = driver.find_element(By.ID, "loading-text")
        len_before = len(jokes)
        joke = loading_text_elem.get_attribute("innerHTML").strip().replace("\n", " ")
        jokes.add(joke)
        if len(jokes) > len_before:
            uprint(joke)
            fails = 0
        else:
            fails += 1
finally:
    driver.quit()

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