Syntax Highlighting: Hair Edition

Ah, the eternal cycle of library addiction! You find that shiny new package that solves all your problems (or so you think), and suddenly you're evangelizing it like you've discovered fire. Meanwhile, your codebase is already a digital hoarder's paradise with 1000 dependencies, and your coworkers are plotting your "accidental" deletion from the Git contributors list. The best part? Next week you'll be doing it all over again with another library because clearly, the solution to dependency hell is... more dependencies!

Content Saman Bemel Benrud samanbb Game developers: with enough if statements and while loops I can do literally anything. Web developers: I will use graph theory and a hand crafted functional state management framework to create this sign up form. 9:06 PM 19022021 Twitter Web App

Content ROME WASN'T BUILD IN A DAY AND NEITHER WAS MY HATE FOR CORS

The sacred commandment of software development! Homer grabbing that "IF IT WORKS, DON'T TOUCH IT" advice slip with the desperation of someone who's broken production at least five times this sprint. The allure of "FREE PROGRAMMING ADVICE" quickly transforms into the cold, hard reality that refactoring working code is like performing heart surgery on a marathon runner mid-race. The true wisdom in our field isn't writing clever algorithms—it's knowing when to back away from the keyboard and let sleeping code lie.

The truth bomb that launched a thousand uncomfortable laughs at a dev conference. Nothing says "modern web development" like creating 47MB of JavaScript dependencies to avoid writing display: flex; justify-content: center; . Meanwhile, the audience is divided between those nodding in agreement and those who just published their "Revolutionary CSS-in-JS Solution" on GitHub yesterday. The irony of someone presenting this while probably using a JS framework to power their slides is just *chef's kiss*.

That moment when your password requirements get so ridiculous you start screaming at your monitor. "8+ characters, uppercase, lowercase, number, special character, AND NOW AN EMOJI?!" Meanwhile your brain is just like "🙂🔫123AAAA!" because you've run out of creative password ideas. Next they'll want your blood type and a lock of hair from your firstborn.