It could be a great day but...

Content ME AFTER SEEING 10 ERRORS IN MY 20 LINES OF CODE: THE GUY WHO CODED THE COMPILER WITHOUT THE COMPILER: Shame

Content Virgin API Consumer JSON Fears HTML Limited to the what the API can do Has to identify himself even for read-only APIs API Provider takes away his endpoint 429 Too Many Requests Has to worry about quota Thinks that he is making his life easier begs his users for auth API keys data is 10 minutes behind has to verify his email, phone, driver's license, ssn, dna sample has to agree to Terms of Service and follow the the rules Tokens Chad third-party scraper follows no rules, doesn't agree to any terms of service Luminati scrapes so fast the backend crashes Se has no limitations can access any data he wancs entire industries are dedicated to stopping him website thinks his user agent is a phone Doesn't care about changes in policies Even Javascript can't stop him OR. pays laborers to solve captchas doesn't even have a phone number guests. can work anonymously parses HTML with regex MULLVAD SMSPVA 2Captcha his business is profitable Can do whatever he wants millions of engineer hours, still can't stop him from scraping promising career at high-frequency trading firm musc scrabes in his spare time

Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again" - tech support is just dating with more troubleshooting and less romance. Both involve hours of frustration, miscommunication, and ultimately walking away wondering why you bothered. At least with tech support, you can hang up without getting ghosted first.

Content MFW: User doesn't read error warning messages and comes to me to complain that my software doesn't work HMMMM

Content HOW STUPID THE ERROR IS TIME IT TAKES TO FIX ERRORS

Content How to do coding You write some code in the editor Then you try executing it. Fuck! You messed it all up, just like everything else you do. Your code is exactly like your life. A lot of bugs, unreadable... ... and no one loves you.