The Shame of Googling Basic PHP Syntax

Description

A six-panel comic strip from CommitStrip.com. In the first few panels, a developer is working at his desk when a colleague walks by and sees something shocking on his screen through the glass wall. The colleague enters, accusing the developer of looking at something in a private browser window. The developer, flustered, tries to pass it off as 'light pornography.' The colleague, feigning disgust, grabs the laptop to expose the truth. The final panel reveals the developer's screen: an incognito browser window with the search query 'How to get current date in PHP?'. The colleague exclaims, 'I knew it!', while the developer pleads, 'Wait, I can explain...'. The humor is rooted in developer culture, where using certain languages like PHP, or looking up incredibly basic syntax, can be a source of mock shame or embarrassment - so much so that being caught doing so is framed as worse than a more conventional private activity

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The real reason he used incognito is to avoid polluting his search history. Having to look up how to get the date in PHP is one thing, but getting targeted ads for 'Learn PHP in 21 Days' is a career-ending event

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The real reason he used incognito is to avoid polluting his search history. Having to look up how to get the date in PHP is one thing, but getting targeted ads for 'Learn PHP in 21 Days' is a career-ending event
Anonymous

I'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request
Anonymous

Twenty years in, still googling DateTime formats in incognito mode because explaining your browser history to IT is harder than explaining a distributed systems failure to the board
Anonymous

The real senior move isn't memorizing every date function across languages - it's knowing exactly which incognito tab to close first when someone walks by. We've all been there: 15 years of experience, architect-level title, and still Googling 'php get current date' because who can remember if it's date(), DateTime::now(), or some Composer package we installed three years ago. The private browsing window isn't for the search itself - it's to avoid the autocomplete betrayal during the next standup screen share
Anonymous

Incognito mode isn’t for NSFW - it’s for hiding the 20th time this week you’ve searched date formatting across five languages; seniority upgrades your tab count, not your L1 cache for API syntax
Anonymous

Incognito at work isn't for NSFW; it's for preserving the illusion that I remember whether it's date('c') or (new DateTime())->format('c')
Anonymous

Incognito mode: hiding 'how to $_GET' queries since nobody admits forgetting PHP basics after 15 YOE
@rusionj 5y

объясните питонисту
1. @Araalith 5y
  
  Да просто подожди пока напишут модуль с объяснением шутки, как это у вас принято.
  
  @alex_newguid 5y
  
  😂😂
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Пхаха
@average_meni_na_drugu_enjoyer 5y

So, how to get current date in PHP?
@Agent1378 5y

date('d.m.Y');
1. @ChappaChap 5y
  
  Lolz
2. @Flam_Su 5y
  
  date('c');
@firs_iln 5y

у нас его хотя бы напишут, не придется самому
@Flam_Su 5y

Короче точно также как и с страшем брате php - c++ )))