So It Follows

The infinite screaming void of nested conditionals! This meme perfectly captures that moment when you inherit legacy code with 7+ levels of nested if-else statements. Each face gets progressively more horrified as the conditional logic deepens, just like your sanity drains with each tab of indentation. The "else if" chain stretching into infinity is basically the coding equivalent of Dante's circles of hell. And let's be honest, we've all written that one emergency fix at 2 AM that turned into an eldritch horror of branching logic that future-you will absolutely despise.

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of developers creating fake test data that's so outrageously unrealistic! 🙄 You know you've reached peak developer desperation when you're creating fictional 150-year-old users just to avoid those pesky validation errors! Heaven forbid we use NORMAL birth dates like June 1, 1970! No no no, we need someone born during the CIVIL WAR because that's TOTALLY inconspicuous in our database! The silent agreement among developers to create these ancient test users is the industry's darkest secret. It's like we're all running underground retirement homes for digital vampires born in 1873. DRAMATIC GASP!

Oh, the eternal cycle of hope and despair! You Google your bug, find a GitHub issue from 2017, and think "FINALLY! Someone else suffered through this nightmare and surely the devs have blessed us with a fix by now!" But NOPE. You scroll through four entire pages of people begging for a solution, only to find h4t0n dropped a comment last week asking "any progress on this?" and the silence is DEAFENING. The "GODDAMMIT" at the end? That's the sound of your soul leaving your body as you realize you're about to become comment number 247 asking the same question. Spoiler alert: there will be no progress. There never is. Welcome to open source, where issues from the Obama administration still haunt us. 💀

Content When the code compiled with O errors and O warnings I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING, BUT I KNOW I'M DOING IT REALLY, REALLY WELL.

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of universities thinking that scribbling some pathetic pseudocode on dead trees somehow transforms us into coding wizards! 💅 Honey, real programmers are out here battling runtime errors at 2AM, drowning in energy drinks, and questioning their life choices—not writing pretty little algorithms with a #2 pencil! The compiler doesn't care about your neat handwriting, KAREN! It's like trying to learn swimming by drawing water. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! Next they'll have us building websites by folding origami. I CANNOT EVEN! 😩

The brutal truth of modern software development in one devastating punchline. We've become so dependent on frameworks and libraries that we've forgotten the fundamental skills. Building a browser from scratch? Might as well ask us to build a rocket to Mars using only a paperclip and some chewing gum. What makes this extra spicy is that it's coming from an older-generation programmer who actually remembers when people did build things from scratch. Meanwhile, the rest of us are over here struggling when npm is down for 5 minutes. The future date (2025) is just the cherry on top of this existential crisis sundae. The knowledge gap isn't getting better—it's getting worse.