When Full Stack Was Just Web Development

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Electron is the JavaScript framework that thinks your 128GB of RAM is a personal challenge. The tweet shows task manager with memory usage at 95% with almost 80GB consumed by a single app. Chrome: "I'm the memory hog!" Electron: "Hold my node_modules folder." Nothing says "modern development" quite like needing server-grade hardware to run a glorified text editor. Eight years of optimization work and it still treats RAM like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Ah, the classic designer-turned-coder existential crisis. That moment when someone who's mastered the perfect drop shadow and pixel-perfect layouts suddenly faces the abyss of programming logic. They're staring into the void with those wide, terrified eyes because there's no Figma plugin for learning JavaScript. Trust me, I've seen this look on dozens of UI/UX folks over the years when they realize that "responsive" means more than just looking good on mobile. The learning curve isn't a curve at all—it's a damn cliff with sharks at the bottom.

Content My manager showing me the code I wrote that took the whole website down

Ah yes, Windows Search. The tool that shows you everything except what you're actually looking for. Type "netflix" and it'll helpfully suggest "netflix login," "netflix movies," "netflix app," and seventeen other variations while the actual Netflix app sits right there at the top wondering why it's being ignored like a middle child at a family reunion. It's like having a personal assistant who, when asked for your car keys, hands you a detailed inventory of every key-shaped object within a 5-mile radius.

The eternal frontend struggle in three acts: Act 1: Your website and performance are perfectly balanced on the seesaw. Life is good. Act 2: "Let me just add this tiny CSS library that saves three lines of code." *Balance shifts slightly* Act 3: *500KB later* Your website is now crushing performance into the stratosphere while the hand of fate (probably your project manager) reaches in to fix the disaster. And this, friends, is why we can't have nice things in web development. Those "lightweight" libraries are the gateway drug to bundle bloat.