Updating My CV As We Speak

Nothing strikes fear into a developer's heart quite like asking colleagues to review code. The bear in this meme represents that senior dev who's been "too busy" to look at your PR for two weeks straight. The title "LGTM" (Looks Good To Me) is the holy grail response we all want but rarely get without 47 nitpicky comments about your variable naming conventions. The survival strategy works both in forests and open office plans - just ask someone who wants to avoid you to do something for you, and watch them magically disappear faster than documentation during a deadline crunch.

Ah, Git. The tool we all praise in public and curse in private. The first panel is that classic tech presentation where someone's overselling Git with buzzwords like "distributed graph theory tree model" – as if that helps anyone understand it. Then comes the brutal truth bomb: nobody actually understands Git. We just memorize arcane incantations, pray they work, and when they inevitably fail, we resort to the time-honored tradition of nuking the repo and starting fresh. Twenty years in the industry and I still sometimes find myself thinking "git add, git commit, git push" and if that doesn't work... well, there's always rm -rf and clone again. Some tools you use; Git uses you.

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!

The dark art of git push --force - when you're so done with merge conflicts that you just nuke the repository from orbit. That nervous look is the exact face you make when you realize Monday-you will have no idea what happened to everyone else's code. But hey, weekend beer isn't going to drink itself. Future tip: Add --force-with-lease to your arsenal. It's like having a safety on your repository destruction gun.

Someone opened a GitHub issue titled "Love #822" with the message "I need a gf" only to have it promptly closed as "not planned" by a contributor who replied "Sorry to hear that." Romance: the one feature request that even the most comprehensive project roadmap doesn't include. Trust me, I've been maintaining codebases longer than some of you have been alive, and relationships are the one dependency that never resolves cleanly.

Corporate espionage at its finest. Imagine hiring developers from your competitor only to discover they've been secretly committing garbage code to your repos. The anime facepalm perfectly captures that moment when you realize the "talent acquisition" was actually a Trojan horse operation. The Japanese "計画" (keikaku) in the title translates to "plan" - a nod to the classic anime meme "all according to keikaku," because nothing says strategic sabotage like unnecessarily using Japanese terms in your evil plotting.