Age As A Primary Key: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Ah, the classic programmer date format joke. When normal humans talk about perfect dates, they're thinking candlelit dinners or beach walks. But our code-addicted friend here? His brain immediately jumps to ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD), the only date format that makes any logical sense in a world of chaotic MM/DD/YY vs DD/MM/YY debates. After 20 years of parsing date strings, you develop a special kind of trauma. I've literally broken up with databases over their date handling. And don't get me started on JavaScript's Date object... that relationship was toxic from day one.

Ah, the classic "fat controller" pattern! This code is the software architecture equivalent of saying "diet starts tomorrow" while ordering a triple cheeseburger. The controller is doing everything - handling requests, validating inputs, executing raw SQL queries, and formatting responses. It's like watching someone use a Swiss Army knife to build an entire house. The MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller) was specifically created to prevent this spaghetti nightmare, but some developers just can't resist putting all their business logic, database access, and error handling in one massive controller method. This is how tech debt babies are born!

That moment when you run a DELETE query without a WHERE clause and suddenly your database is having an existential crisis. Four million rows just vanished faster than my will to live during a production outage. Pour one out for all those database entries that never got to fulfill their destiny. They were just innocent bits and bytes with dreams of being queried someday. The real tragedy? The backup from last night is corrupted. Time to update that resume.

Oh. My. GOD! This is what passes for a "test suite setup" these days?! 🙄 The absolute AUDACITY of this engineer spinning up TWO ENTIRE DATABASES, Docker containers, and who knows what else just to run some tests! Meanwhile, the person's face says it all - that smug "I'm about to watch the world burn while this monstrosity takes 45 minutes to initialize" expression. The perfect representation of modern development where "simple unit tests" now require their own data center and probably three cloud providers on standby. And they wonder why the coffee machine is always empty!

Look, we've all been on that project where the tech stack is dead serious business... and then there's SQL. While the combat-ready languages are out there doing the heavy lifting with their compiled efficiency and type safety, SQL's just vibing in its clown outfit, joining tables and dropping databases with the same energy as someone who brought snacks to a SWAT raid. The irony? That colorful weirdo is probably the one keeping the whole operation running. Ten years of optimizing queries will do that to you.

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