It's Always Safari

Content Aerospace eng PhD W (Aerospace eng Frontend webdev ON The REDoT

Content NAUHILIAN BUZZFEEb Are you going to sleep? Yes I am. Now shut up. We're bunch of webdevs who hate stackoverflow and rely on it, how come we're not trying to replace it? Proarammer-umor.

You spend years learning design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and architectural paradigms. You master REST, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven systems. You debate tabs vs spaces with religious fervor. Then one day you realize your entire career boils down to: take data from point A, send it to point B via HTTP. That's it. That's the whole job. Just fancy plumbing with extra steps and a lot of YAML files. The "always has been" meme format hits different when you realize the astronaut with the gun represents your senior dev who's been trying to tell you this for years while you were busy overengineering everything with 47 microservices.

Friend: "I love TypeScript!" Me: *shows them actual TypeScript code with VSCode extension development* Friend: *visible confusion* Turns out they just love the idea of type safety, not the existential crisis of configuring tsconfig.json and wrestling with extension APIs. It's like saying you love cooking but fainting at the sight of a raw chicken. The expectation vs. reality gap is wider than my monitor bezels.

Someone genuinely asked how hard it would be to hack NASA using CSS, and honestly, that's adorable. It's like asking if you can rob a bank with a paintbrush. Sure, you could make their website look *fabulous* with some gradient backgrounds and smooth transitions, but breaking into their systems? Not quite. The response is brutally accurate: the only thing you're hacking with CSS is the color scheme of their satellites. Maybe add some box-shadow to make them pop? Perhaps a nice hover effect when they orbit Earth? The fact that 197 people liked the original question is the real security vulnerability here. CSS is a styling language, folks. It makes things pretty. It's the makeup artist of the web, not the lockpick. But hey, if NASA's satellites suddenly start displaying in Comic Sans, we'll know who to blame.

Content Hey, do atheists go to hell? No How about web developers who force users to input dates using a calendar GUI instead of typing them Straight to hell. To the boiter room of hell All the way down. Good, good. That makes me happy.