Backend All The Way

Ah, priorities in web development – where the clock icon shows the exact time down to the millisecond, but the API returns 404 when you breathe in its general direction. This is the perfect illustration of modern development: muscles for the frontend, atrophy for the backend. Spending 8 hours perfecting that subtle shadow animation while the authentication system is held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. The irony of having pixel-perfect UI while your server crashes if more than 3 people use it simultaneously is just *chef's kiss*.

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Content Become a Hipster Sell Stolen Ideas Invent C and UNIX Praised by Media as Jesus of Computing Ignored Without Steve Jobs February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) we would have: No Products No over expensive laptops Without Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 - October 12, 2011) we would have: No Windows No Unix No C No Programs A large setback in computing No Generic-text Languages. We would all read in Binary.. They died in the same year and the same month but it seems only few notice the death of Dennis Ritchie compared to Steve Jobs.