Javascript Memes

When you finally get tired of uBlock Origin's corporate branding and decide to go open source with a more... organic solution. The latency is terrible and it blocks legitimate content 90% of the time, but at least it purrs when you pet it. Side effects include random keyboard inputs, deleted production code, and an inexplicable increase in mouse-related 404 errors. Still better than disabling JavaScript entirely though.

When you ask AI to migrate your icon library and it interprets "PersonAdd" as literally drawing a person and then adding... something? The icon looks like someone tried to describe what "adding a person" means to an alien who's never seen a human before. It's got a circle for a head and what appears to be a torso with arms doing the "I give up" shrug. The AI took the semantic meaning way too literally instead of just mapping the icon to its equivalent in the new set. Classic case of AI being confidently wrong – it technically created an icon that represents adding a person, just not in any way that's actually usable in a UI. Hope you weren't planning on shipping that to production anytime soon!

Nothing says "we have no idea what we actually need" quite like a job posting that requires 4 years of experience with React 16+ when React 16 came out like 6 years ago. But sure, let me just pull out my time machine and get 5 years of experience with every technology that's existed for 3 years. They want a full-stack unicorn who's mastered Java EE, Spring, Angular, React, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, AWS, and apparently has been using Git for 5 years like it's some kind of specialized skill. Brother, I've been using Git for 10 years and I still Google how to undo a commit. The real kicker? They probably want to pay you $75k for this "junior developer" position that requires the combined experience of an entire dev team. HR just copy-pasted every buzzword from the last decade into one listing and called it a day.

Someone took the alternate timeline where Latin never died and ran with it. We've got fac numeri() (make number), per (for), pro (while), mon() (presumably console.log but in Roman), and re (return). The variables are prefixed with # like they're trending topics in ancient Rome. Honestly, if JavaScript had been invented by the Romans, we'd probably still be debugging it in 2024. Some things transcend language barriers—like writing a function that nobody will understand six months from now. At least with Latin you have the excuse that it's a dead language. What's JavaScript's excuse?

The generational wealth gap summarized in one devastating image. Parents in their 30s: buying houses, starting families, living the American Dream. You in your 30s: surrounded by every programming language known to humanity, desperately asking ChatGPT to debug your life choices. The transformation from confident human to unhinged creature really captures the essence of learning your 47th framework this year while rent keeps going up. Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Kotlin, Swift, Go, Lua, and whatever those other logos are—you've mastered them all, yet somehow house.value still returns undefined . Your parents bought property with a handshake and a steady job. You? You're fluent in 15 languages and still can't afford a down payment. At least ChatGPT understands your pain, even if it can't fix the housing market.

You know that feeling when you discover some bleeding-edge framework on GitHub with 47 stars, zero documentation, and a README that just says "WIP"? And suddenly React feels like ancient technology from the Paleolithic era? Yeah, your manager just crushed that dream faster than a null pointer exception. The painful irony here is that the shiny new framework probably has terrible docs and a community consisting of three people arguing in GitHub issues, while React has literally millions of developers, Stack Overflow answers for every conceivable problem, and more npm packages than there are atoms in the universe. But nope, your brain sees "new" and goes full dopamine rush mode. That sad otter perfectly captures the internal screaming of every developer who's been forced to be... reasonable . Deep down you know your manager is right, but it still hurts to stay with the boring, stable, well-documented choice when there's experimental tech to break prod with.

HTML just wants to chill on the seesaw with you, living its best static life. Then JavaScript shows up like that one friend who "just wants to help" and suddenly you're airborne, questioning all your life choices. HTML keeps things balanced and predictable—it's literally just markup, doing exactly what you tell it to do. But the moment JavaScript enters the chat, chaos ensues. Asynchronous callbacks, event bubbling, hoisting, closures... next thing you know, you're flying off into the void while JavaScript cheerfully waves goodbye. The progression from peaceful coexistence to absolute mayhem is basically every web developer's journey from "I'll just add a little interactivity" to "WHY IS UNDEFINED NOT A FUNCTION?!"

You know you're in deep when you're rage-debugging at 2 AM, your app is throwing cryptic errors, and some genius on Stack Overflow casually drops "try npm install" like it's the answer to world peace. And the worst part? It actually works. Every. Single. Time. The transformation from angry Hulk to confused Hulk captures that exact moment when your ego realizes you just spent 3 hours debugging when all you needed was to reinstall your dependencies. The node_modules folder strikes again, silently corrupting itself while you questioned your entire career path. Pro tip: Delete node_modules, run npm install, and pretend like you knew that was the solution all along. Your team doesn't need to know about the existential crisis you just had.

You literally just declared a class. You haven't even written a constructor yet. But ESLint is already throwing hands like you committed a war crime against code quality. The audacity to complain about unused variables when the ink isn't even dry on your first line is peak linter energy. It's like having a backseat driver who starts screaming before you've even left the driveway. Yes, ESLint, I know it's unused—I just created it 0.2 seconds ago. Let me breathe. Let me live. Let me at least finish my thought before you judge my entire architectural decision. The best part? You're probably going to use it in the next line, but ESLint doesn't care about your future plans. It lives in the eternal now, where every unused declaration is a personal attack on its existence.

Someone literally wrote 15 lines of JavaScript to make a page fade out. You know what else makes a page disappear? Closing the tab. Takes zero lines of code. But no, we need to set the page opacity to 30%, create a spinner element with inline styles that would make any CSS developer weep, position it dead center with transforms (because apparently flexbox is too mainstream), add a linear infinite rotation animation with hardcoded pixel dimensions, append it to the body, wait 750ms, then fade everything out and remove the spinner. All of this to simulate "loading" when the function literally does nothing except waste three-quarters of a second of the user's life. Modern web development is just adding spinners to make users think something important is happening. Spoiler: it's not. The best part? The setTimeout callback has an empty action() function. Chef's kiss. Peak web engineering right there.

Congratulations, you've created a monster. What started as innocent sarcasm has now spiraled into a beautiful nightmare where your friend is writing code that looks like let numeroDeUsuarios = 42; while reading JavaScript documentation in English. The cognitive dissonance must be LEGENDARY. Imagine debugging sessions where half the codebase is in Spanish and the other half is whatever language autocomplete decided to vomit out that day. Stack Overflow answers? Useless. Error messages? In English. Variable names? ¡En español, amigo! Your friend has accidentally invented the most chaotic bilingual programming experience known to humanity. The real tragedy? He probably thinks he's doing it RIGHT because Duolingo gave him a little green owl of approval. Someone stop him before he starts naming functions obtenerDatosDelServidor() and wonders why his team wants to quit.