Frontend Vs Backend: The Transparent Truth

User experience web development Developer life Tech stack Software architecture Invisible work

Backend Programming Frontend Databases Webdev

5 months ago 157,794 views 0 shares

Frontend Vs Backend: The Transparent Truth

frontend-memes, backend-memes, user-experience-memes, web-development-memes, developer-life-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

The harsh reality nobody talks about at standup meetings. Users don't see the complex backend infrastructure—they only interact with whatever pretty face you slap on it. Meanwhile, backend devs are just... there... holding everything together while some transparent layer gets all the credit. Ten years into my career and I'm still that backend guy, invisible yet essential, watching the UX folks get praised for adding a gradient button that took 15 minutes while my three-week database optimization goes completely unnoticed.

More Like This

Not Looking For Advice But Thanks

Backend Frontend

1 year ago 21.9K views 0 shares

notLookingForAdviceButThanks | web-memes, server-memes, c-memes, startup-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content hi.im.vijay o 6 42924 not looking for advice but I'm thinking of writing my own web server in C for my new startup 180 Q122 (2 5

Memory In A For Loop

Backend Programming Java Debugging

8 months ago 184.7K views 0 shares

Memory In A For Loop

Your RAM before and after string concatenation in a loop. Left side: Happy dev using StringBuilder to efficiently manage memory. Right side: The haunted face of someone who just watched their app crash because they used the + operator to concatenate strings 10,000 times in a loop. The difference between O(n) and O(n²) performance isn't just theoretical—it's written all over your face when production goes down.

Conversion tables in Interstellar

Backend Programming Python

3 years ago 76.8K views 0 shares

Conversion tables in Interstellar | software-memes, python-memes, c++-memes, version-memes, api-memes, perl-memes, tables-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content The software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C , and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame. Trivia in MovieDetails by tanisthemanis 1 4.9K 97 1d J TomboKing 1.1K EtuMeke 493 SlipperyJAMS 240 dexdin 129 zim555 116 1d 40,000 lines of C, eh? If I remember my conversion tables correctly, that's about 25 lines of python or 0.4 lines of perl.

Why Isitlikethis

Backend Javascript Programming Java Frontend

11 months ago 101.7K views 0 shares

whyIsitlikethis | programming-memes, javascript-memes, computer-memes, java-memes, web-memes, program-memes, twitter-memes, language-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content Computer programming Kat Maddox ctrIshifti v me: why isn't this working? normal languages: you screwed up over here me: oh thanks me: why isn't this working? javascript: me: please i'm begging you javascript: 9:40 AM Aug 18, 2020 Twitter Web App

I hate my college

Backend Programming

3 years ago 51.6K views 0 shares

I hate my college | code-memes, c-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content You joined college They teach C in first year They use Turbo C They make you write code on paper for practicals

Woe is a devs life

Backend Javascript Frontend Cloud

2 years ago 76.2K views 0 shares

Woe is a devs life | design-memes, backend-memes, frontend-memes, devs-memes, IT-memes, devops-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content Companies be like: Woe is me, such a lack of skilled programmers everywhere. Quick flood the market with skills we need! junior developer? 10 years experience. 8 years with random library. complete complex algorithms that has nothing to do with job duties. work weekends and overtime. be responsible for devOPs. design, frontend, backend, hosting, and reports 10 years experience 40k yr take it or leave it punk