Be Like Terry

You know that feeling when you've been working on your feature branch for weeks while your colleague has been pushing commits to main like there's no tomorrow? Now it's time to merge and you're about to witness the most explosive reaction since someone discovered you could drop Mentos into Coke. The Mentos-Coke experiment is the perfect metaphor here: individually, both branches are perfectly fine. But when they meet after diverging for so long? Prepare for an eruption of merge conflicts that'll spray all over your terminal. Every file you touch has been touched by someone else. Every function you refactored has been refactored differently. Every comment you deleted has been expanded into a novel. Pro tip: Always rebase frequently to avoid turning your codebase into a science fair disaster. Or just accept your fate and grab some popcorn while git throws 847 conflict markers at you.

Ah, the classic solopreneur delusion! Why validate your idea with a simple landing page when you can disappear into the engineering rabbit hole instead? Nothing says "I'm a serious developer" quite like meticulously crafting a CI/CD pipeline for an app that literally nobody asked for and probably never will. The true entrepreneurial spirit: ignoring market validation in favor of building infrastructure that would impress your developer friends... if only they cared. But hey, at least you'll have the most robust deployment system for your zero users!

OH. MY. GOD. Witness the absolute PEAK of open source contribution! 💅 Our hero swoops in with the MOST revolutionary five-word commit of all time: "I'm not working on this. Closing." And then—PLOT TWIST—they mark it as COMPLETED! The AUDACITY! The EFFICIENCY! This is basically software development's equivalent of showing up to a house fire with a water gun, declaring "I'm not putting this out," and then collecting a firefighter medal. Pure. Chaotic. Genius. 🏆

The unholy trinity of "rapid development" is on full display! The tweet claims Git, JavaScript, and Microsoft BASIC were all created in under a week—which is hilariously wrong and the perfect setup for the three-headed dragon meme below. Two fierce dragon heads represent Git and BASIC—powerful tools that required significant development time. But that third head? JavaScript with its derpy eyes and tongue sticking out perfectly captures how JS was indeed cobbled together in 10 days by Brendan Eich in 1995. Fun fact: Linus Torvalds spent months creating Git after the BitKeeper controversy, and BASIC took significant development at Microsoft. Meanwhile, JavaScript—despite being slapped together in a mad rush to compete with Java—somehow powers most of the modern web. Proof that sometimes the derpy dragon wins!

The self-awareness is painful . Nothing unites software engineers quite like staring at someone else's code and muttering "what absolute maniac wrote this garbage?" only to run git blame and discover it was you 6 months ago. The sacred ritual of complaining about legacy code is practically in our job description at this point. At least electricians have actual wires to untangle - we're just untangling the fever dreams of caffeinated developers who thought variable names like temp1 , temp2 , and finalTempForReal were perfectly reasonable.

That feeling when your pull request finally gets approved after 47 code reviews, 18 requested changes, and 3 weeks of waiting... You're not just a developer anymore—you're royalty . Sitting on that throne of merged code, looking slightly uncomfortable because deep down you know your hastily added console.log() statements are still in there. The kingdom is yours until QA finds that edge case you totally forgot to test.