Who's Gonna Tell Him

The evolution from peasant-tier print statements to sophisticated log functions is the coding equivalent of putting on a tuxedo. Sure, both get the job done, but one makes you feel like you actually know what you're doing while hiding the fact that your debugging strategy is still "throw random text at the console until something makes sense." Fancy logging with timestamps and severity levels is just us pretending we're not still the same confused devs who started with print("here") and print("why god why") .

JavaScript's parseInt() function is like that one coworker who ignores all your emails until you add exactly seven zeroes after the decimal point. The function stubbornly returns 0 for every decimal value, until suddenly—at 0.0000005—it decides "Oh, I see a 5 now!" and returns 5. It's like watching someone squint harder and harder at tiny text until they finally give up and just read whatever letter they think they see. The floating point precision gods have spoken, and they've chosen chaos.

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JavaScript's type coercion strikes again! In JS, NaN (Not a Number) is technically categorized as a "number" type. Check it yourself with typeof NaN and watch your sanity slowly dissolve. It's like labeling a vegetarian restaurant "meat" because it's a food-related establishment. The wide-eyed shock on that cat's face perfectly represents every developer's reaction when discovering this cosmic joke buried in the language spec. The ECMAScript committee is probably still giggling about this one.

Ah, the archaeological expedition to decipher your own code from last month. That moment when you need Indiana Jones' skills just to understand what the hell you were thinking. "Why did I use a ternary operator inside a map function nested in a reduce?" The hieroglyphics might actually be easier to translate than whatever caffeine-fueled logic possessed you during that 3 AM coding session. The worst part? You probably left zero comments because "it was obvious" at the time. Congratulations, you've become your own worst legacy code maintainer.