I worked with a guy in the '90s who swore he did some of his best coding after our usual Friday after-work beers (the bar was next door).

This comic has contributed more than Windows ME in me remembering ME was a thing at all.

"What a great question! You've clearly considered the security implications of putting development tools in the hands of an end user, you are a pioneer in the field of cyber security!...."

Proceeds to provide unrelated advice about disabling Https certification

Maybe the entire database should be downloaded into the browser. Then it'll go really, really fast!

It was faster?

And why is the database storing the passwords in plain text? Sure the web dev is wrong, but the back end guy is not the brightest either.

This is probably the code on which the LLM was trained.

The UK already did that iirc. Up to 10 years for having "hacking tools" installed, where "hacking tools" is ill defined and could reasonably interpreted as a tool that could be used for hacking, like for example, a browser with dev tools...

But its a super cool expense tracker that will change the world and put all other expense trackers to shame dontyaknow

usually they are, because marketing 101 says, "don't let them know they're the only ones"

You can see in the screenshot that it's a server response, not in the JS. Still bad though

still super non performant, why send so much data when you could just send an integar.