The Average Git Rebase Experience

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of modern programming in one image! 😭 Once upon a time, coding legends casually CARVED ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEMS from raw binary—FOR FUN! Like majestic stallions galloping up a beautifully carved staircase. Meanwhile, today's developers (myself included) are basically that sad little toy horse, drowning in frameworks, Stack Overflow, Git issues, and caffeine, screaming "NOTHING WORKS" into the void while frantically copying code snippets. We've evolved from digital sculptors to digital BEGGARS. The audacity of us calling ourselves "programmers" while we're just gluing libraries together and praying!

The AUDACITY of Monday merges! First you're all confident, strutting around like you're God's gift to version control with your git commit -m "feature done mf" . Then BOOM! Reality slaps you in the face—87 DIFFERENT COMMITS between your branch and production?! THE HORROR! You desperately try git pull --rebase like it's some magical incantation that will save your pathetic developer soul. Those moments of sheer panic as Git does its thing... will your code survive this unholy ritual?! And then—SWEET MERCIFUL BYTES—it actually works! That relief when Git tells you it's successful is better than any drug known to mankind. You've survived another Monday merge. At least until next week, you beautiful disaster.

Left: disheveled cat looking like it just crawled out of a dumpster fire. Right: same cat in a tuxedo, ready for a black-tie gala. The transformation perfectly captures that moment when your code is an absolute disaster locally—held together with duct tape, print statements, and questionable variable names—but suddenly becomes a pristine, professional masterpiece the second you're ready to commit. Nothing says "I'm a professional developer" like frantically removing all instances of variable_name_wtf right before pushing.

When Git refuses your push, there's always the nuclear option. First, you try to be civilized. Then Git has the audacity to reject your code. So you reach for the --force flag - the coding equivalent of bringing a knife to a negotiation. Sure, it might obliterate your team's work, but hey, that commit message wasn't going to write itself. Remember kids, with great power comes absolutely zero responsibility and potentially several emergency meetings.

OMG the DRAMA in the design world vs. the absolute CHILL of programmer nation! 💅 Designers are over here having MELTDOWNS over similar ideas like it's the end of civilization, while programmers are just casually confessing grand theft code and nobody bats an eye! The second programmer is basically saying "Bold of you to assume I wrote this myself" because let's be REAL - we're all just copying from Stack Overflow and GitHub like it's a cosmic buffet of free code. The entire software industry is basically a giant game of digital hot potato where nobody knows who baked the original potato! Why reinvent the wheel when someone's already posted a perfectly good wheel on GitHub with an MIT license? *hair flip*

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!