The Facepalm Jar is here!

We've all been there, coding away at our workstations, squishing bugs when at some point, something very basic escapes us, and we are only reminded when the error appears.

Such rookie mistakes, or rather 'happy-accidents', happen to all of us, at all seniority levels. Hence, I thought to make a website (and API) where developers (et al) can proudly post their recent Facepalm moments!

We've all seen and used the Jean-Luc image/gif of him facepalming, or Sokka's red forehead after multiple continuous facepalms. Let this be a safe haven for our little accidents!

Inspired by the concept of a Swear-Jar, here is the Facepalm-Jar, or rather, in honour of the captain himself Jar-Luc!

Use instructions:

Via Browser:

Visit Jar-Luc, where you can use the form to post your Palmy, as we have come to name them, with a description of what made you slap yer face, and, if you are so inclined, your identity/pseudonym.

Via curl:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "description": "Forgot to migrate after creating a new model", "author": "Aristotle" }' https://jar-luc.herokuapp.com/api/v1/palmies

Or, with this handy-dandy function in your ~/.aliases file

facepalm(){
        curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "description": "'"$1"'", "author": "'"$2"'" }' https://jar-luc.herokuapp.com/api/v1/palmies
} 

And use it like so:

facepalm "your description content" "your name/pseudonym"

Rails app generated with lewagon/rails-templates, created by the Le Wagon team.