Branch Protection Won't Save Your API Keys

Ah, the eternal GitHub pronunciation debate has finally been settled by presidential decree! The pixel art podium has spoken: "It's pronounced 'JitHub'." Just imagine all those developers who've been saying "GitHub" with a hard G for years, suddenly questioning their entire existence. Next thing you know, they'll tell us SQL is actually pronounced "squirrel" and Python is "pie-thon." The best part? This is clearly a matter of national security, hence the flags. Nothing says "this pronunciation is non-negotiable" like a pixelated presidential address. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them with my pull requests.

The biblical apocalypse had four horsemen, but developers face their own nightmarish quartet! The first horseman, NullPointerException , strikes when you least expect it—trying to use an object that doesn't exist. The second, Segmentation Fault , is that memory-mangling monster that crashes your C/C++ program faster than you can say "core dump." Third comes Merge Conflict , turning your Git workflow into a battlefield of incompatible changes. But the most terrifying horseman? " It works on my machine "—the ghostly specter of environment-specific bugs that magically disappear during demos but return to haunt production. These four harbingers of doom have ended more coding sessions than caffeine crashes ever could!

OMG, the AUDACITY of this person! 💀 They're literally looking at a GitHub repository—you know, the ENTIRE SOURCE CODE—and still asking "where's the exe file?" Honey, GitHub isn't the Windows 95 CD-ROM your grandma installed Minesweeper from! It's like walking into a bakery, seeing all the ingredients and recipes on display, and asking "where's my cake?" YOU HAVE TO BAKE IT YOURSELF, SWEETIE! This is why developers drink...

The CS freshman starter pack is brutally accurate! They write "Hello World" once and suddenly have 4 programming languages on their LinkedIn. Their entire development environment consists of VS Code and GitKraken because the terminal is "scary." Their idea of deployment? Submitting assignments through Canvas. They'll spend hours hunting for that missing semicolon while sharing Boromir memes, and their entire personality revolves around the Minecraft-inspired "noob vs pro" dichotomy. The gatekeeping begins before they've even built anything substantial!

When your dating life and Git workflow become one and the same. First guy found a partner who can actually commit (unlike most of his ex-branches), then the reply takes it to the next level with "glad you two merged" - because why have separate repositories when you can join forces? The "I'll see myself out" is the perfect git push after dropping that pun. Finding love in the comments section of a bug report might be the most developer thing ever. Still better than meeting on Stack Overflow where they'd close your dating profile as "duplicate" or "too broad."

Ah, the Stockholm subway map - the perfect visual metaphor for what happens when you try to merge to main after just 4 hours of Git experience. That tangled mess of colored lines intersecting in chaotic ways? That's your branch history after you've discovered git rebase , git cherry-pick , and the dreaded git push --force all in the same afternoon. Trust me, kid. We've all been there. Your repo probably looks like someone dropped spaghetti on a circuit board. Just wait until you discover merge conflicts - that's when you'll really need this map to find the nearest bar.