Yes They Do Exist (The Frontend Masochists)

Ah, the classic "read everything but build nothing" syndrome! This poor soul has gone down the documentation rabbit hole, consuming every tech manual from Java to Kubernetes without writing a single line of actual code. It's like studying the theory of swimming for years without ever getting wet. The tech stack resume is impressive enough to land a senior position, but ask them to print "Hello World" and suddenly they're experiencing an existential crisis. Reading documentation is like watching cooking shows - it doesn't make you a chef until you burn something in the kitchen a few times.

Frontend devs showing off their new project like: "Check out this sick bowl reveal!" *adds another div wrapper* Now it's a completely different bowl! Revolutionary UI/UX right there. Nothing says "I know what I'm doing" like nesting divs 17 layers deep until your DOM looks like a Russian doll family reunion. The browser's just silently weeping in the corner.

Content Does this page use Cookies? No, it doesn't. I just needed a place to rant about the European Cookie law. I mean, come on, did the politicians even understand how Cookies work? I hope they feel ashamed of how they introduced Cookie-popups to every single website, just when we figured out how to block ad popups. So, no, there are no Cookies on there.oughta.be - I just wanted to write that text above. What do you say? The privacy policy is exactly the one text nobody ever reads, so this rant is absolutely misplaced? Well, YOU are reading it right now, aren't you...

Remember when building a cross-platform desktop app seemed like a good idea? Just wrap an entire Chromium browser around your glorified calculator app, they said. It'll be fine, they said. Now every todo list app on your machine is basically running its own copy of Chrome, each one hogging more RAM than your entire OS did in 2010. Your 32GB of RAM? Gone. Your fans spinning up for a chat app? Normal. Your CPU crying because you opened Slack, VS Code, Discord, and Spotify at the same time? Just another Tuesday. The real kicker? RAM prices are skyrocketing because everyone's buying GPUs for AI training, so now you get to pay premium prices to run five instances of Chromium just to check your messages. What a time to be alive.

That moment when you're mentally preparing for a complex algorithm to finish processing, only to realize you've been staring at a "Press any key to continue" prompt for the last 5 minutes. Your CPU is just sitting there at 0.1% utilization while your brain is at 100% wondering why nothing's happening. The rubber duck debugging method works great until the duck is silently judging your inability to read simple instructions.

Forget revolutionary AI features or seamless integrations—the real MVP in software updates is when they finally fix that one tiny UI element that's been driving you insane for years. Nothing captures developer priorities quite like ignoring Atlassian's fancy "Intelligence" features while celebrating the notification bell icon finally being properly aligned. The cosmic satisfaction of seeing that crooked bell straightened is the kind of dopamine hit that no amount of "groundbreaking functionality" could ever provide. Developers don't want the future; they just want that one pixel to stop haunting their dreams.