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Even your dreams aren't safe from the crushing reality of cloud computing costs. Just when you think you can escape the existential dread of work, your brain decides to remind you about that VM you left running in AWS. Nothing says "professional developer" quite like waking up in a cold sweat calculating how many hours of compute time you've accidentally burned through while sleeping. Your wallet is crying, your manager is drafting an email, and somewhere Jeff Bezos just bought another yacht with your forgotten instance money.

The evolution of README files is getting out of hand! Starting with the basic README.md for normies, then leveling up to README.txt for the slightly cooler devs. But wait—README.pdf?! That's for those documentation wizards who want their formatting PERFECT. And README.mp4? That's galaxy-brain territory for devs who explain their code with ACTUAL VIDEOS! But the final form—Morse code on a telegraph machine—that's for the absolute legends who communicate in ways even Git can't track! Your commit messages may be bad, but at least you're not sending them via telegraph... yet! 😂

Ah, the sacred paradise of localhost - that magical realm where your code runs flawlessly before it meets the hellscape of production. The shirt perfectly captures the duality of a developer's existence: peaceful, tropical vibes on localhost where everything magically works, versus the fiery inferno of production where your perfectly functioning code suddenly decides to spontaneously combust. Nothing says "I understand pain" quite like gifting a developer a shirt that reminds them of the countless hours spent debugging code that worked perfectly fine on their machine. It's basically the programmer equivalent of "thoughts and prayers."

That moment when your code review turns into an interrogation session. "I see you've implemented this feature without documentation... interesting . Now, before I approve your PR, tell me what you thought about that React conference keynote? Didn't catch it? What a shame. Looks like this merge might take a while..." The dark side of open source maintainers that GitHub doesn't want you to see.

Elon's master plan for Twitter profitability is peak corporate strategy: Step 1: Make Twitter profitable (revolutionary concept) Step 2: Fire developers to cut costs (because who needs those pesky people who make things work?) Step 3: Introduce paid API plans (monetize everything!) Step 4: Completely forget to create your own subscription to said API (minor oversight) Nothing says "flawless execution" like charging for something you yourself can't figure out how to use. Classic billionaire move - break the stairs while climbing them.

Behold, the utopian future we'd have if Atlassian just let us use **bold text** and `code blocks` in Jira tickets instead of their prehistoric rich text editor! The sheer productivity boost from not having to click seventeen buttons just to format a simple list would've cured climate change, solved world hunger, and built flying cars by now. Instead, we're all wasting precious developer hours trying to make our bug reports look slightly less like ransom notes cut from newspapers. The greatest technological minds of our generation, defeated by the inability to paste a code snippet without it turning into hieroglyphics.