I Don't Want To Compile With You Anymore

Ah yes, the sacred GitHub portfolio tour. "And here's my revolutionary weather app that checks if it's raining... and over here, my groundbreaking to-do list with exactly three commits." Nothing says "hire me" like 47 repositories of unfinished projects with names like "test123" and "new-framework-tutorial." The digital equivalent of showing off a hat collection, except the hats are all half-knitted and abandoned after watching the first 20 minutes of a YouTube tutorial.

The GitHub homepage - that magical dashboard you're forced to see before frantically typing "github.com/username/repo" in the URL bar. It's like having a waiting room filled with irrelevant notifications and activity feeds that you'll scroll through exactly once before realizing it's faster to just memorize every repo URL. The red lines crossing out the entire dashboard perfectly capture what every developer does mentally. We've all got our repositories list bookmarked anyway. GitHub could replace their homepage with a single search bar and nobody would even notice for months.

THE AUDACITY! Just when you're about to push that LIFE-CHANGING commit to save humanity, GitHub's rainbow unicorn of doom appears! 🦄 There you are, frantically refreshing like it'll magically fix itself, as if the unicorn will gallop away if you click hard enough. And that "contact us if the problem persists" suggestion? PLEASE! As if we're not going to try refreshing 47 more times before even CONSIDERING that option! The unicorn might as well be saying "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" while sipping tea and judging your life choices. Meanwhile, your deadline approaches and your will to live decreases with every rainbow-colored second!

The pinnacle of version control laziness: just add * to your .gitignore and call it a day. Why carefully select which files to ignore when you can ignore everything and manually add each file you want? It's like burning down your house to avoid cleaning it, then rebuilding one room at a time. Genius time-saving strategy until you need to git add -f 500 files. Works every time, 0% of the time.

Ah, the classic "fresh start" delusion. Developer sees their old project infested with bugs (those cute green gremlins), and thinks starting a new project will somehow magically solve everything. Then proceeds to literally copy-paste chunks of the old code—bugs and all—into the new project. The box even says "THIS SIDE UP" upside down because reading documentation was never our strong suit. Ten years of experience has taught me that no matter how clean the new repo looks, those bugs are just waiting for their chance to emerge... usually right before a demo to the client.

THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY OF OUR TIME! 🔥 Some developer thought it was a brilliant idea to hardcode their local desktop path into the CI/CD pipeline, and now the entire build is collapsing like my will to live on Monday mornings! Nothing says "I'm special" quite like using C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\project\ in production code. The rest of us are just sitting here, drowning in error messages, contemplating career changes while staring into the void. The betrayal! The audacity! I can literally feel my soul leaving my body with each failed build notification. And the worst part? We all know exactly who did it because WE'VE ALL DONE IT AT SOME POINT. 💀