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WebDev Post #5019 · source on Telegram

It works on my browser - here’s the localhost link, chaos ensues

Description

Three - panel meme using the elevator fight scene template. Panel 1 shows two suited men glaring, with the subtitle: "It runs fine on my browser." Panel 2 is split: on the left, another man replies, "Email me the link"; on the right, the first developer obliges with the literal text "http://localhost:3001" (the full string beginning with "http://localhost" is clearly visible). Panel 3 shows the entire group breaking into a fist-fight inside the elevator. The humor comes from the classic developer scenario where code only works in the author’s local environment and sharing a localhost URL makes collaboration impossible, highlighting environment parity and reproducibility issues in web development workflows

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Nothing snaps a senior stand-up into chaos faster than someone pasting “http://localhost:3001” in Slack - it’s basically a flare signaling the Twelve-Factor police to reopen the eternal “dev/prod parity” incident
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Nothing snaps a senior stand-up into chaos faster than someone pasting “http://localhost:3001” in Slack - it’s basically a flare signaling the Twelve-Factor police to reopen the eternal “dev/prod parity” incident

  2. Anonymous

    The same developer who sends localhost links is now architecting our distributed system's service discovery mechanism

  3. Anonymous

    The eternal optimism of a junior dev who thinks localhost is a globally routable address - right up there with believing 'it works on my machine' is a valid deployment strategy. At least they're not trying to commit node_modules to git... yet

  4. Anonymous

    Sending QA a localhost link is CAP theorem in practice: consistent and available to you, permanently partitioned from everyone else

  5. Anonymous

    Nothing exposes your DevOps maturity like a demo link that starts with http://localhost - instant chaos engineering without the tooling

  6. Anonymous

    Emailing a localhost link is the distributed systems equivalent of claiming CAP theorem consistency - works perfectly until anyone else tries to join the cluster

  7. @APT3M 3y

    use ngrok dude

  8. @Agent1378 3y

    Bober kurwa

    1. @RiedleroD 3y

      english please

      1. @Agent1378 3y

        Beaver bitch?😁

        1. @RiedleroD 3y

          lmao is that an actual phrase in polish?

          1. @Agent1378 3y

            https://youtube.com/shorts/5-hZZavBpLM?feature=share

      2. @pavloalpha 3y

        Hmm, just thinking. Is "I hate N word" means "I hate them" or "I hate this word"?

        1. @RiedleroD 3y

          depends on context I think

          1. @pavloalpha 3y

            I want slaves to be free You want slaves to be free We are not the same.

            1. @RiedleroD 3y

              if slaves were free, nobody would sell them anymore

              1. @pavloalpha 3y

                Ahh you didn't get the joke bro

                1. @RiedleroD 3y

                  no, you didn't get my joke

                  1. @pavloalpha 3y

                    So you have heard this joke before?

                    1. @RiedleroD 3y

                      yeah, I'm in memesta. They sent the joke like 4 times already

                  2. @pavloalpha 3y

                    When you wrote it I spelled it in my mind just like Gustavo

              2. @pavloalpha 3y

                Translate free to germ

  9. @trace_rt 3y

    Not working? Try 127.0.0.1

    1. @Horace4815162342 3y

      i tried This site can’t be reached

      1. @ghostgimli 3y

        Try add :80

        1. @Odinmylord 3y

          Bro, how did you know what I'm working on. It looks the same /s

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