I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed

Boy, I recently had to look into the Java backend to figure out… something. I can’t remember.

It turns out that they needed to inject a bean into their class which was itself calling a factory, which according to documentation, instantiated three other classes just to make a fucking HTTP request! What’s worse, that clusterfuck of a (fairly standard) library required the base URL to be declared separately from the actual paths, and both the base URL needed to end with a slash, and each path must begin with one. Every reasonable programmer would assume that this is a mistake because the final path would end up with two slashes, but the library actually required that.

Meanwhile, frontend: fetch('url').then(r => r.json()).then(beHappy)

I’m not in a position to watch the video right now but… is this a The Killers joke?