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      <title>How a Wedding Dress Turned Into a Python Project (And Why Love Compiles Perfectly)</title>
      <dc:creator>mo moring</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/mo_moring_7ce2d024ecd887b/how-a-wedding-dress-turned-into-a-python-project-and-why-love-compiles-perfectly-572e</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;When I first saw my wedding dress, I didn’t think “romantic.”&lt;br&gt;
I thought, “This is definitely a Python inheritance problem.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You see, the dress was a Mermaid Style with Lace Overlay.&lt;br&gt;
To any normal bride, it’s elegance.&lt;br&gt;
To a Python developer, it’s a class extending another class:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;class BaseDress:&lt;br&gt;
    def fit(self): return "Elegant"&lt;br&gt;
class &lt;a href="https://myvow.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;MermaidDress&lt;/a&gt;(BaseDress):&lt;br&gt;
    def fit(self): return super().fit() + " + Dramatic"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That’s exactly how I felt — elegant, dramatic, and slightly overengineered.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Buying the dress was another story. I walked into the bridal store like:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;budget = 1000&lt;br&gt;
dress_price = 2500&lt;br&gt;
if dress_price &amp;gt; budget:&lt;br&gt;
    raise Exception("BudgetError: dress too expensive!")&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But then I tried it on, everything froze, and my internal interpreter crashed.&lt;br&gt;
Suddenly dress_price became irrelevant, like a forgotten variable.&lt;br&gt;
I was ready to commit long-term:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I_do = True&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;During alterations, the tailor asked, “How tight do you want this around the waist?”&lt;br&gt;
I told her, “As optimized as Python’s list comprehensions.”&lt;br&gt;
She didn’t laugh.&lt;br&gt;
Non-programmers rarely do.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The train on the dress was so long that I joked it must have been built using recursion:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;def fix_train(train):&lt;br&gt;
    if train.short_enough():&lt;br&gt;
        return train&lt;br&gt;
    return fix_train(train.trim())&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On the wedding day, I walked down the aisle thinking about garbage collection.&lt;br&gt;
Not the ceremony cleanup — actual memory management.&lt;br&gt;
I prayed none of my emotional memories would get deleted like unused variables.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But when my partner saw me, everything stopped.&lt;br&gt;
He looked at me like Python sees whitespace: critically but lovingly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In that moment, the algorithms in my head paused.&lt;br&gt;
No imports, no indentation errors, no debugging.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just the purest truth:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;def love(forever=True):&lt;br&gt;
    return forever&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And that’s how a bride in a wedding dress realized that Python, in its own structured, logical way, is actually romantic.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>python</category>
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      <title>👰💍 Wedding &amp; JavaScript/HTML Joke</title>
      <dc:creator>mo moring</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/mo_moring_7ce2d024ecd887b/wedding-javascripthtml-joke-476n</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;👰💍 Wedding &amp;amp; JavaScript/HTML Joke&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At the wedding ceremony, the couple exchanges vows:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Groom:&lt;br&gt;
“I promise to love you forever, just like const love = true; — it never changes.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://myvow.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Bride&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
“Then please don't act like JavaScript after the wedding…&lt;br&gt;
Where == looks equal, but only === is truly committed.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The priest sighs and says:&lt;br&gt;
“You two are just like HTML and CSS…&lt;br&gt;
written separately but MUST stick together!”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The guests laugh:&lt;br&gt;
“Let’s hope your marriage isn’t interpreted differently in every browser!”&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>javascript</category>
      <category>html</category>
      <category>joke</category>
      <category>ai</category>
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