When Simple Tasks Meet Overengineering

Content Carla Notarobot CarlaNotarobot Boss: Where did you get this code? Me: Stack Overflow Boss: From the questions or the answers? 12:48 PM 123020 - Twitter Web App 48 Retweets 8 Quote Tweets 483 Likes

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute DELUSION of non-tech people thinking their programmer boyfriends are elite hackers who can destroy digital worlds! Meanwhile, the so-called "hacker boyfriend" is frantically Googling "how to declare variables in HTML" — which is LITERALLY like asking how to put water in a toaster! HTML doesn't even HAVE variables! It's a markup language! The boyfriend is so far from hacking anything he's basically trying to teach a potato to sing opera! 💀

Oh how the tables have turned! In the first panel, he's all calm about a sad movie while she's emotional. But when a runtime error hits? The man is DESTROYED while she's like "whatever, just another Tuesday in code land." The perfect role reversal that captures the soul-crushing moment when your code breaks for the 47th time today and you're left wondering why you didn't become a farmer instead. Runtime errors don't care about your feelings or your deadline—they just want to watch you suffer.

Content ME TRYING TO LEARN FLUTTER SO I CAN DEVELOP MOBILE APPS kollegekidd APPLE: YOU NEED A MAC TO EMULATE AN IOS DEVICE imgfip.com

Content Guide to software developer job advertisements work on cutting edge technology Do what everyone else is doing a fast-paced environment Your job will be constant firefighting must be a team player able to work with minimal supervision an Agile team a market leader rockstar developer we have an urgent need dynamic environment self-starter Must not question authority You'll be the one we blame when something goes wrong We have daily stand-ups Recently started making a profit You will work very long hours with impossible deadlines Our other rockstar just left and no one understands the code Our leadership keeps changing priorities We have no process Perseveres through regular death marches passionate

You: "My app works on all platforms!" Reality: Someone's trying to run your code on their Samsung smart fridge and suddenly your medieval knight armor doesn't feel so impenetrable anymore. The eternal struggle of "write once, debug everywhere" continues. Your app might support Windows, Mac, and Linux, but there's always that one user with a toaster running Android 2.3 wondering why your UI looks like abstract art.