Push Rejected By Evil Dragon Bureaucrats

Opening that GitHub repo after half a year feels like deep-sea archaeology. The code is some ancient artifact, buried under 3775.6 meters of mental context you've completely forgotten. You stare at your own comments thinking "What kind of sleep-deprived maniac wrote this?" before realizing it was you, at 2AM, fueled by energy drinks and misplaced confidence. The worst part? That brilliant architecture you were so proud of now looks like someone let a neural network write code after training it exclusively on Stack Overflow answers from 2011.

The eternal debugging cycle in its purest form! The smug Senior Dev asks how the intern fixed a bug, expecting some technical wizardry. The innocent intern proudly admits they just "commented the code" - literally removing the problematic code from execution. Tom's horrified reaction is EXACTLY how senior devs feel when they realize the codebase is now littered with /* TODO: Fix this later */ comments hiding broken functionality instead of actual fixes. The dreaded "it works if you don't run it" approach to software engineering that haunts code reviews everywhere!

The GitHub contribution graph: where your self-worth as a developer gets reduced to little green squares. We've got "Just a Developer" with their random sprinkles of productivity, "The Weekender" who only codes when normal people are partying, and "The Unrealistic Expectations" who apparently never sleeps, eats, or touches grass. Don't forget "Getting Ready to Search for a New Job" with that sudden burst of activity right before updating the resume. The "GitHub Wizard" trying to look consistently productive, "The Mondrian" creating actual art with their commits, and "The Cupid Shuffle" forming little hearts because... why code efficiently when you can make your contribution graph look pretty? Remember kids, quantity of commits ≠ quality of code. But try telling that to recruiters who think your GitHub activity is a personality test.

When a dev tweets "the energy i bring to the team" and it's just someone commenting "i'm merging it. fuck the tests" - that's peak chaotic developer energy right there! 🔥 And then that reply about test cases being "a sign of weakness"? Pure madness! This is that 3 AM deploy energy when you're running on nothing but energy drinks and blind confidence. Ship it and pray nothing breaks! Who needs sleep when you have the adrenaline rush of potentially breaking production?

Ah, the age-old tabs vs. spaces holy war has claimed another victim! Nothing turns a mild-mannered developer into a raging lunatic faster than someone running an autoformatter that converts their carefully crafted tab indentation into spaces (or vice versa). It's like watching someone rearrange your kitchen while insisting they're "helping." Sure, the code might work exactly the same afterward, but now it feels wrong on a spiritual level. And let's be honest - you'd rather rewrite the entire project from scratch than adapt to someone else's indentation style. The true mark of a senior developer isn't their algorithm knowledge or architecture skills—it's the intensity with which they'll defend their whitespace preferences to the death.

The ultimate dev hypocrisy journey! 🤣 Starts with Patrick boldly declaring "I WON'T USE C#. MICROSOFT IS EVIL" while sitting comfortably in his armchair of moral superiority. But then... the slippery slope begins! First TypeScript (also by Microsoft), then VSCode (Microsoft again!), then GitHub Copilot (guess who? MICROSOFT!), followed by npm package manager, LinkedIn (yep, Microsoft owns that too), and finally surrendering completely to GitHub (100% Microsoft-owned). It's the perfect representation of that developer who swears they'll never touch Microsoft products but ends up completely surrounded by them anyway. The cognitive dissonance is REAL! We're all just SpongeBob pretending we have principles while swimming in Microsoft's ocean! 💀