Deploy First, Pray Later

Remember when developers just... wrote code? Wild concept, I know. The tweet sarcastically points out how Zuckerberg built Facebook in 2005 without today's trendy tech stack buzzwords that junior devs think are mandatory for any project with more than 3 users. Back then, it was PHP, MySQL, and sheer determination—not Kubernetes clusters managing serverless functions with real-time edge replication while mining Bitcoin on the side. Next time your startup "needs" a microservice architecture to handle 12 users, remember: Facebook served millions with technology that would make modern architects clutch their mechanical keyboards in horror.

When your smart home security system is hosted on AWS but your door lock is still from the 1970s, that's what we call "unplanned redundancy." While tech bros panic during cloud outages, you're smugly inserting a metal key into an analog hole like some kind of digital caveman. Congratulations on your accidentally robust architecture.

Behold, the quintessential developer paradox! Crawling 25 miles through the desert to spend several hours automating a task that could be done manually in 5 minutes. It's like spending 4 hours writing a script to rename files when you could've just renamed them all in 10 minutes. But where's the intellectual challenge in that? The dopamine hit from automation is worth the dehydration, obviously. Remember: A true developer measures success not by time saved, but by how unnecessarily complex the solution was. If you're not overengineering, are you even engineering?

When GitHub Actions decides to take a coffee break, developers suddenly find themselves with a perfectly valid excuse to do absolutely nothing. The beauty of CI/CD dependency is that when it fails, your entire workflow grinds to a halt—and no manager can argue with "the pipeline is broken." It's the digital equivalent of "sorry, can't come to work, the roads are closed." The stick figure manager's immediate retreat from "get back to work" to "oh, carry on" perfectly captures that universal understanding that fighting the GitHub outage gods is futile. Modern development's greatest productivity hack: GitHub status page bookmarked for emergencies.

That unique mixture of concern and barely contained glee when production crashes and burns, but your code isn't the culprit. First panel: professional concern for the team. Second panel: desperately suppressing the urge to say "not my module" in the emergency Slack channel. The schadenfreude is palpable. Sure, you'll help debug... right after you finish that coffee you suddenly need.

OMG, the ABSOLUTE DRAMA of open source developers! 💅 These magnificent creatures single-handedly maintain packages that literally keep the ENTIRE INTERNET functioning while surviving on nothing but cold pizza and gratitude! The rest of us mortals are just gently cradling them through digital space like the fragile heroes they are. Without them, we'd all be coding our own JSON parsers like BARBARIANS! Next time your project has 47,392 dependencies, remember there's probably just ONE sleep-deprived saint maintaining half of them for free while you complain about that one missing feature!