The Golden Rule Of User Interface Design

The perfect storm of tech startup dysfunction! Two muscular figures shake hands, representing the unholy alliance between "Engineers who can't code" and "Marketers who can't market" - creating the ultimate "Vibe Startup." It's like building a rocket ship where nobody knows aerospace engineering but everyone's really enthusiastic about space. These companies somehow raise millions on buzzwords and good energy alone. The codebase is just Stack Overflow snippets held together with hopes and prayers, while the marketing strategy consists entirely of posting motivational quotes on LinkedIn. But hey, the office has kombucha on tap and a ping-pong table, so obviously they're the next unicorn!

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Content Games C From sources across the web X00 Tic-tac-toe Rock paper scissors Counter-Strike

Content Me Realising I have to implement a complex feature from scratch Ber Writes the code within a day Bernie The code works perfectly in the first try Berni The code also covers edge cases Fit that I didn't even know existed

Product managers hold endless meetings about button colors and microinteractions while developers are out here wrestling with legacy codebases held together by duct tape and prayers. Your IDE crashes every 20 minutes, the build pipeline takes longer than a feature film, and the documentation was last updated when PHP 5 was still cool. But sure, let's spend another sprint optimizing the hover animation on that CTA button. Because nothing says "developer experience" like having to restart your local environment three times before lunch while using a framework with 47 breaking changes per minor version. DX is the forgotten stepchild of software development. Everyone wants their app to feel like butter, but nobody wants to invest in tooling that doesn't make developers want to fake their own death.

THE ABSOLUTE CHAOS of JavaScript frameworks! First you're learning Next.js and feeling all smart, then someone mentions Nest.js and your brain short-circuits. "Wait, did I hear that wrong?" NOPE! They're COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! And just when you've sorted those two out—BOOM—Nuxt.js crashes the party! By the fourth panel, your soul has left your body and you're questioning every life decision that led you to web development. The JavaScript ecosystem is basically a cruel practical joke where they just add and remove letters to frameworks to watch developers slowly lose their sanity! 🙃