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The dev job market in four emotional stages: 1. Mild confidence : "I know 6 languages? That's decent, right?" 2. Excited overconfidence : "30 GitHub projects?! I'm basically a 10x developer at this point!" 3. Nuclear meltdown mode : *Frantically scrolling LinkedIn* "Wait, they want 12 years experience in a 5-year-old framework?!" 4. Existential despair : *Staring into the void* "10,000 applicants... one position... my resume is probably being used as digital scratch paper." The tech hiring funnel: where your impostor syndrome gets validated by actual numbers.

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.

When you try to rebase your feature branch onto main but forget to resolve conflicts first. The pain is real! That moment when Git screams "CONFLICT (content):" and your beautiful code turns into a battlefield of <<<<<<< and >>>>>>> markers. Even basketball legends can't handle that kind of stress. Just like LeBron, we all need a moment to facepalm when our ambitious git operations go terribly wrong. Next time, maybe stick with a simple pull request and let someone else deal with the merge hell.

That innocent smile when you submit a PR at 4:59pm thinking it'll be merged before EOD. Meanwhile, the reviewer is holding all the +4 cards ready to hit you with "needs more tests," "fix formatting," "add comments," and the classic "why did you implement it this way?" Your weekend plans just got UNO'd.

The true emergency protocol every developer follows! When the building's on fire, priorities remain crystal clear: save your code first, then maybe consider saving yourself. Nothing says "dedicated programmer" like making sure those precious commits are safely pushed to remote before evacuating a burning building. The sad part? Some of us would genuinely consider this a reasonable checklist. Your flesh can heal, but that unsaved feature branch? Irreplaceable.

Ah, the classic "one-line commit to fame" pipeline! Nothing says "senior developer material" like fixing a typo in the README and immediately updating your LinkedIn with "Core Contributor at Major FOSS Project." The best part? That single docs update probably took 3 hours of fighting with the project's arcane contribution guidelines, two rejected PRs, and a heated discussion about Oxford commas in the issue tracker. But hey, that GitHub green square is worth its weight in gold during job interviews!