Good To Go

You start the "30 Days of JavaScript" challenge with such hope and optimism. "I'll finally master JS," you tell yourself. Fast forward to day 30, and you're a broken shell of a developer questioning every life choice that led you to this point. The callback hell, the prototype inheritance, the "this" keyword changing context like your ex changes their mind. JavaScript doesn't teach you code—it teaches you pain .

The quintessential junior developer experience captured in its purest form. Spending 4 hours in debugging purgatory, questioning your life choices and sanity, only to discover you never actually called the function you wrote. It's like building an entire rocket ship and wondering why it won't launch when you never pressed the ignition button. The instant transition from SpongeBob's rage-filled face to "Worked immediately" is the perfect representation of that unique mixture of relief and self-loathing that only programming can provide. The most authentic part? We've ALL been there... probably yesterday.

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Ah yes, the annual ritual of updating the copyright year—the one task that makes you feel like you've actually accomplished something in January. Four whole keystrokes of productivity! Sure, you haven't fixed that memory leak or refactored that spaghetti code, but dammit, the footer is legally compliant now. Some devs even automate it with new Date().getFullYear() but that would rob them of this profound sense of achievement. Nothing says "I'm contributing to the codebase" quite like changing a single digit while ignoring the 147 open tickets in Jira.